As we enter a new year, it’s worth recalling a hard truth from the recent past.
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And the specific “protective” measures, implemented in service of those wrongheaded risk-assessments by our governments, were known losers. In fact, in 2019 — before COVID-19 — the World Health Organization published the aptly named “Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza.” To read it is to weep.From our newsroom to your inbox at noon, the latest headlines, stories, opinion and photos from the Toronto Sun.
So, in 2023 and beyond, to help governments in Canada with their credibility in future crises, the Trudeau government should create a robust independent COVID policy commission to produce truth, reconciliation and consequences. The next massive risk might actually be the apocalyptic threat COVID was imagined to be. If we’re to manage it better next time, we must learn from what we did wrong and ensure it can’t happen again.
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