A view of an empty Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, on March 12, 2020 Fear, which is usually unhelpful—a powerful emotion that stops us from thinking clearly and making sensible decisions—is the ally of public health officials trying to deal with this threat.
Our politicians and officials can only act insofar as they have public buy-in. In the case of the coronavirus—the biggest threat to global public health in many decades—that means that governments are likely under-reacting, acting more slowly than they should to keep us safe. The horrible thing about the disease when it gets ahead of public health officials in this way is what happens in the hospitals, where there are only so many respirators.
“We can be Hong Kong or we can be Italy,” says Dr. Fisman. “We have to choose one or the other. We don’t get to choose the status quo. The difficulty for the politicians is that if you shut things down now, and you achieve what you wanted to achieve, and it’s quiet, you are going to be excoriated for overreacting. People are going to say, you bastards, you cancelled the NHL season and my restaurant got no customers for a month.
There are many places in the world—Iraq, Syria and Iran, for instance—without strong enough public health systems to detect and contain outbreaks. People who have been in those countries are a threat, but it is impossible to stop them from travelling.
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and Trudeau has done SFA to close the borders...terrible leadership
lovebugdoug jkenney Have a good read. Pull your head out of the sand and tell your health minister to do the same ActNow CloseABSchools
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