The facts are undeniable: Tam was late at every step, focused on political correctness and lecturing when the virus could have been stopped, and seemed less informed of the risk than the general public and the MPs who were asking her questions.
Of course, this is obvious in the case of Patty Hadju, who has flailed around desperately and been weeks behind at every step. That said, it was perhaps expected, given that she has no medical experience and was thrust into a massive crisis.
Yet, in the case of Dr. Theresa Tam, the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, it’s simply inexplicable how badly she has handled this.
Tam, the supposed “expert,” was wrong on everything.
She was wrong on travel bans – something the Liberal government ended up imposing over a month later.
She was wrong on asymptomatic transmission, as it is now well-known that people can transmit the virus without feeling sick.
She was wrong on voluntary quarantine, as the lack of quarantines early on meant that cases in China became cases in Canada. After all, all of Canada’s cases started as imported cases from foreign travel. Now, many of our cases are from ‘community spread,’ but that community spread was seeded by the foreign travel in the first place.
The facts are undeniable: Tam was late at every step, focused on political correctness and lecturing when the virus could have been stopped, and seemed less informed of the risk than the general public and the MPs who were asking her questions.
Of course, this is obvious in the case of Patty Hadju, who has flailed around desperately and been weeks behind at every step. That said, it was perhaps expected, given that she has no medical experience and was thrust into a massive crisis.
Yet, in the case of Dr. Theresa Tam, the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, it’s simply inexplicable how badly she has handled this.