Roundup: A refusal to admit failure in the face of the third wave

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Ontario is once again going back into a four-week mockdown because the province walked right into the third wave of the pandemic, despite being warned repeatedly that they were headed for disaster, but they barrelled ahead anyway. And because the murderclowns who run this province want to keep things as confusing as possible for everyone, decided to brand this one a “shutdown” instead of a “lockdown” or a “stay at home” order.

But what remains galling is the fact that nobody wants to take responsibility for the current state of affairs. Most concerning is that the province’s chief medical officer of health insists that it hasn’t been a failure, because hey, the modelling said we’d be at five or six thousand cases a day if they didn’t make any interventions, and we’re only at 2000, so mission accomplished. No, seriously – that’s his argument. It’s utterly bonkers, and they’re getting away with it because all of Doug Ford’s folksy sing-song pronouncements keep blinding people to what is going on, and the bulk of the media in Queen’s Park is not going hard enough on him for it.

https://twitter.com/robert_hiltz/status/1377376033729511425

Of course, this isn’t simply confined to Ontario either. Alberta is seeing some its highest case numbers, and the variants are in full-blown community spread, and what does Jason Kenney do? Refuse to impose tougher measures, trot out his failed “personal responsibility” schtick, and blame the federal government for not making enough vaccines appear from thin air by way of magic. No, seriously. How people stand for it, I just don’t understand.

Good reads:

  • Another two million doses are due to arrive within days, and the government far exceeded their target for the procuring doses by the end of Q1.
  • Nearly 15 percent of adults in this country have received one dose of a vaccine.
  • The government is opening up public consultations on fixing Access to Information.
  • The head of procurement for the military says they are on track to sign a contract for new fighter jets next year.
  • There are concerns that the problem of sexual misconduct in our military could turn into a national security issue (though we are dealing with our issue – others aren’t).
  • Here is a recap and a timeline of the allegations against General Jonathan Vance.
  • A lawsuit by the BC Civil Liberties Association targets the RMCP Commissioner for dragging her feet in responding to the complaints commission’s interim reports.
  • Health Canada approved antibody therapy AbCellera to treat COVID patients; the federal government procured it; provinces have been sitting on those doses.
  • Two different national standards organizations are looking to develop certain national physical standards for long-term care facilities.
  • Kevin Carmichael recounts the consultations the Bank of Canada undertook when it comes to modernising their approach to monetary policy.
  • Heather Scoffield is concerned that the government’s post-pandemic stimulus is going to be unsustainable if they have no plans to raise taxes.
  • Matt Gurney roasts the Ontario government for its abject failure in doing anything to prevent the third wave from happening, when they knew it was coming.
  • Paul Wells contrasts Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plans with those the Liberals touted, and were subsequently panned by the Auditor General.

Programming note: I’m taking the full long weekend off, because I am exhausted and need the sleep. See you on the other side.

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2 thoughts on “Roundup: A refusal to admit failure in the face of the third wave”

  1. Why are we so upset over the fact that in our institutions, Armed forces, RCMP, and fire halls, just to name a very few that sexual violence among other forms exists when statistics show that fully half of women in society have been subject to these abuses from childhood through to maturity and beyond. It was reported by the press as far back as the sixties that when you observe two men walking together, odds are that one of them is an abuser. Women have bee existing like this forever. The world is ruled by men who are entitled by their physical size, testosterone and their luck at birth. They are born into a world that teaches them through religion that their god made women for them. These religions have successfully placed women beneath men regardless of the efforts of governments, mainly so-called democratic ones to raise women to equal status in those societies. These efforts fail because they cannot overcome the power of organized religion which continues to teach its dogma. Men rule and women bear the brunt. It is probably futile in the end to ask men to put aside a system that serves them so well. Why would they create a system that would undermine their god given rights?

  2. Have a good weekend Dale, enjoy some chocolate eggs and get some much-needed rest.

    The con premiers’ “mockdown” response might be the worst April Fool’s joke of them all. April, as the old saying goes, really is the cruelest month.

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