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Too many in our public health community have spent the last year ignoring history and ground level reality, and embracing anodyne theory and jibberish models. Below is a small snapshot of what happens when you indulge in academic escapism. 1/
One observes a persistent rise in deaths in working age populations. Deaths of dispair, by self harm, just to name a few. And the response from our public health community? Its been to retreat further into anodyne theory and jibberish modeling. 2/
This is the tip of the iceberg and we know it. The economy is held together with bandaids, education is in shambles and people have lost their livelihoods and saving. And Canada's public health community egged it on, with little self reflection and a sense of entitlement. 3/
Medicine knows respiratory viruses, and it isn't a rubic's cube. We knew the populations to be affected, we had workable solutions and even "experts" ready to deploy. We threw it all away and adopted ideas straight out of the middle ages. 4/
We are in the midst of the largest social policy blunder in Canadian history. Its a reflection of an undisciplined and uncritical public health community. Trust has been destroyed and it will take a decade to recover from the mental and economic trauma. 5/
We have in Canada a window of opportunity to end this debacle. We could ride on the coat tails of seasonality, fix our serious testing problems, re-institute standard practices and vaccinate high risk populations with agents still in development but with informed consent. 6/
Lets us hope our public health community doesn't "botch" another opportunity. And when we get to this end point, this community should wisely extricate itself from this mess. Let competent people in the rest of society deal with the wreckage. End/
