Instead of taking very obvious steps – such as giving the premiers the necessary money to buttress the shaky hospital system, and improving safety in Canada’s entirely mediocre long-term senior care homes – Trudeau opted for the vote-buying policy of sending out massive amounts of money to mainly healthy people who were arbitrarily deemed “non-essential workers.”
The sheer insanity of this decision cannot be overemphasized. Healthy people who were at almost no risk of dying from the virus were sent home to their basements, while the federal treasury was depleted to keep them there. This wasteful spending was taking place at the same time that common-sense steps – such as properly protecting the elderly in care homes, and fixing our weak hospital system, were largely ignored.
The highly political federal government decisions from that point set the tone for the increasingly radical and destructive policies made by every provincial premier after that point. The premiers took the indefensible decision to close schools, and then only to reopen them with radical “safety” measures, that severely hindered children’s educations. Even at the start of the pandemic, it was clear that children were no more at risk from this virus than they were from the usual flu virus that come and go every year. Why the premiers decided to close schools, when countries, such as Sweden and Japan, had already proven that such a step was entirely unnecessary, will be the subject of books for many years to come. Suffice it to say that it was totally unnecessary.
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