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Public Health officials and civil servants (including me) made a few big mistakes predicting and strategizing for pandemic.
*We severely underestimated the will and endurance of individual Canadians*. We expected you to succumb. To give up.
The opposite was true.
*We severely underestimated the will and endurance of individual Canadians*. We expected you to succumb. To give up.
The opposite was true.
I attended training workshops for different public employers over years. I was in the room during Ebola when PH leaders weighted the lessons for pandemic.
And we chatted offline informally.
Many experts, plus comms like me, assumed tolerance for controls would blow apart early.
And we chatted offline informally.
Many experts, plus comms like me, assumed tolerance for controls would blow apart early.
That masses would break orders bc we couldn't mentally and literally *adapt to so many shocks*.
We'd retreat. Into skepticism
indifference denial until 
into defiance
and near societal collapse
.
I think a lot expected pandemic to flow that way at least somewhat
We'd retreat. Into skepticism
indifference denial until into defiance and near societal collapse. I think a lot expected pandemic to flow that way at least somewhat
I think overall, the public health and civil servant health worlds didn't expect the public to absorb so much information as well as we did.
And most importantly, apply so much new learning to real life. We changed and adapted our lives, even on our own when necessary.
Rapidly.
And most importantly, apply so much new learning to real life. We changed and adapted our lives, even on our own when necessary.
Rapidly.
Not all of us.
But *most* Canadians did even if to varrying degrees.
The public was united not only in accepting the *science* scientists told us.
We not only grasped what Covid19 was.
*We were united by shared resolve to accept this crisis as our mission. Our human duty.*
But *most* Canadians did even if to varrying degrees.
The public was united not only in accepting the *science* scientists told us.
We not only grasped what Covid19 was.
*We were united by shared resolve to accept this crisis as our mission. Our human duty.*
