![]() Flattening the curve at the outset was so our healthcare could get the fuck ready. However the mental health disaster is going to destroy a lot of lives. Lockdowns? I’ve got credit and cash flow and can buy the crap I need. Anti-maskers? no problem I can stay home. I can wait out the stupidity for a couple of years. Progressive types (in my mind “progressive” means biased towards increased government scope) are using covid as a trojan horse to push other agendas like government administered childcare, even more concessions to public sector unions, government takeover of long-term care, and most frightening of all, stimulus forever. The call for improved paid sick time also goes against the credibility arguement. ![]() If people took sick days everytime that had a headache, or runny nose or cough, they would be off half ot the time. The other problem is that covid, like colds and flus, has non-specific symptoms. Most public sector front-line staff already have extremely generous sick day entitlements and would rather use them to supplement vacation days. Targeted measures aimed at isolating people who are truely contageous would have been both effective and earned enough trust that the public may have been more receptive to other measures. The other problem is that politicians with their flip-flops and half measures, and the experts repeatedly crying wolf have lost credibility.ĭramatically better screening would have been the silver bullet. I’m done with the myopia of the media and the right-thinking Twitter types who think they can vote their way into a happy, covid-free future without vaccines or airport shutdowns, but also without any curtailing of liberties.Ī hard lock down may have worked if enacted in December, 2019 but once community spread became endemic, that option passed. So we’re stuck where we are – with skyrocketing covid cases in Ontario, BC, Alberta, and Quebec – the latter province of which has paid sick leave AND a harsh curfew. The federal and provincial governments seem awfully reluctant to anger the Air Canada Lounge types, as well as diverse populations with family members in other countries. Con or lib, half of the population will be against you anyway. You can’t eradicate covid by trying to be the savior and a friend to everyone – you’ve got to play the heavy. That means getting harsh on young people who don’t abide by the rules. And any politician that hopes to reverse the spread will have to do so at the risk of their re-election chances. But don’t stop there, because the virus won’t either.Ĭountries that smashed covid were serious about screening from the get-go. ![]() Sure, enact paid sick leave, if even as a temporary measure. Not when the country is constantly being re-seeded with ever more virulent strains of virus. Not when populations are tired and SO many just don’t care. Useful to many, yes, but not a silver bullet. It seems we can leave our airports wide open to every global hotspot for over a year, fail miserably on the vaccine front, and still expect a rapid covid turnaround – nay, an eradication of the virus! – by imposing one or two social policy hobby horses like paid sick leave. While the closure of playgrounds (which was part of Australia’s Covid Zero strategy) and roadside stops is extreme unlikely to move any needle on their own, it’s exhausting watching every Central Canada pundit and Twitter aficionado rebelling against any measure that might slightly disrupt a proper, upper-middle class life after months spent screaming “you’re not doing enough! Lock it down!” The point here is, we lack true leadership, and may never have it again. I weep for my grandchildren knowing what will unfold in their lifetime. Sadly, this kind of leadership always ends with untimely death. This statement by Mahatma Gandhi is the quintessential definition of true, pure, altruistic leadership, that inspired the likes of Dr. Again the press asked, ” so why do you have to go?” The man said”because I am their leader and I have to follow them”. They inquired as to why he had to leave and he said, ” I must leave now because my people are leaving”. The press asked him why and he responded, that he had to leave. He responded in a respectful and dignified manner, but soon brought the interview to an abrupt end. The press began asking him questions about a variety of things including politics. As a Professor and not a particularly smart of good one, I always enjoyed giving my lecture on leadership to my students.Ī long time ago, there was a man walking amongst a crowd, who received a surprise swarming by the press.
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