Cover Up Is The New Job One For Canada's Health Officials

[Update: Ontario has declared a state of emergency. Premier Doug Ford also issued a Stay-at-Home Order, effective Thursday January 14 at 12:01 a.m. Under this order everyone must stay home & only go out for essential trips. If you're not sure if a trip is essential, it probably isn't.]

For those who still think the current health crisis in Canada is about Covid-19: Fooled You. The new instructions coming from our betters is that we must help them cover their butts after a year of truly horrific case management.

Lockdown/ curfew decisions made in Quebec and Ontario this past week made it clear that rescuing the geniuses who’ve created this Circle of ICU Hell is Job One. The real crisis is Clean Up On Aisle Three of health care resources. After that maybe they can get back to virus business.

We have detailed at length how health officials from the WHO to CDC to Health Canada  botched just about everything involved in managing the initial effects of the virus. Flipping on announced policy— from travel to masks to infection rates for children to intubation— these brilliant advisors managed to both confuse and petrify the populace.

But their pièce de resistance was the first lockdown. Meant to “flatten the curve” in heath care while halting transmission in its early days, it instead emptied out hospitals in search of Covid patients who never showed up. The summer was full of nurses furloughed, staff laid off and patients preferring to die at home.

While the public was still in a trusting mood the health experts kicked treatments for a range of conditions down the road to be treated later. Well, later is now. Contrary to messages from the Media Party, it’s not Covid-19 cramming today’s ICUs. Hospitals are instead stressed as they try to cope with people who should have been treated in April or May. (BC staging a provincial election in late 2020 didn’t help either.)

The Health® wizards want you to believe that, because a test done on admission showed that a patient dying of breast cancer or deep-vein thrombosis also had a shred of Covid-19 in their system, chalk them up as Covid-19 victims. This legerdemain has inflated the statistics regarding Covid-19 deaths and thrown all credibility into question. 

Try this comparison. Almost all men who live past 50 will experience prostate cancer. For some it’s fatal. The rest die with it, not of it. If we tagged the death of every man having prostate cancer the way we do those with #Covid-19 (but die of something else) it would seem a health catastrophe, too.  We didn’t do it for prostate, why do we do it for Covid?  

Or how about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s? Big Health and their media friends convinced the population that all sectors of society were at risk of death when in fact the outbreak was largely concentrated in intravenous drug users and the Gay community. Because AIDS advocates feared being stigmatized quarantines were rejected by politicians, and the virus spread through the blood system till drugs halted its progress.

With #Covid-19 officials decided to lock down the entire healthy who have little chance of transmitting. Why the difference in approaches?

To make things worse, the premiers of all parties and heath bureaucrats have simultaneously created a staffing shortage by keeping schools closed and overworking the remaining trained professionals. If you’re a front-line worker the government has left you with a choice of leaving your kids alone all day or booking off to care for them.

For a while it was easy for Woke media to blame Conservative premiers or Donald Trump for problems their political pals created. But by year’s end an impatient public largely disbelieved the increasingly desperate scare tactics of Big Medicine—police arresting people walking outdoors during Quebec’s curfew. Or bursting into homes during the Xmas holidays to apprehend families gathering for a meal. This is 10 percent virus, 90 percent compliance.

Making things worse, no one— outside the golden-parachute suit at St. Joe’s Hospital in Toronto— has had to take responsibility for any of these errors. The political bosses have washed their hands on demanding accountability. As we noted a few weeks ago, this pattern of incompetence has paradoxically endeared the sheeple of Canada to their jailers.  While docile Canadians go along to get along they all know they’ve been had by people touting lockdowns as antidotes to disaster.

Blind trust of health “experts” has a long and inglorious past. The best medical minds of the day in 1779 managed to turn George Washington’s sore throat into a fatal encounter, bleeding the poor man till they did what the British couldn’t do. Put Washington into the ground. “I die hard,” said America’s first president.

They did the same in 1881 to poor president James Garfield. In their clumsy attempts to extricate a non-fatal assassin’s bullet they either killed him with sepsis or ruptured his gall bladder, causing a long, painful death. In modern times, the best and brightest signed off on thalidomide, and cigarettes. During the Covid-19 panic we saw them go from promoting intubation to now admitting it killed people.

And now our modern-day Hippocratic champions and their media slappies have inflated a virus that created fewer than five percent of all expect 2020 deaths in Canada into a health bomb that is imploding society and crushing the economy. It’s clear the collateral damage will be worse than the virus. Meaning well doesn’t mean healing well.

But don’t tell Justin Trudeau, Doug Ford or François Legault who chase Covid-19 the way Ahab chased Moby Dick. Standing in the rubble of their work they implore citizens to forget the past, grab an oar once more to row society out of this man-made disaster.

When it comes to lockdowns, fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us. As we learned in 2020, accepted wisdom is not wisdom. Nor should it be accepted.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author of Cap In Hand is also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, his new book Personal Account with Tony Comper is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx