Canada made pandemic playbooks — and we’re not following them https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/furey-canada-made-pandemic-playbooks-and-were-not-following-them

Canada’s pandemic preparedness guides predict a situation worse than what we’re now experiencing with COVID-19, and yet their worst case scenario restrictions are milder than the ones we currently have in place

One document anticipates 170% ICU capacity - which we have come nowhere near - and yet doesn’t come close to recommending shutting down society to deal with hospital capacity concerns

When it comes to businesses, Canada’s pandemic guidebooks tell businesses to prepare contingency plans to deal with workforce disruption due to employee illness. They don’t call for widespread closures.

“Never send healthy people home,” says Lt. Col. David Redman, the former head of Alberta’s emergency management system. “That’s a ridiculous concept.”

It’s maddening to read these plans and be reminded that things didn’t need to get as messed up as they did.