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- Gerry Nicholls
- Gerry Nicholls is a communications consultant and writer who has been called a “political warrior” a “brilliant strategist” and one of the “canniest political observers in Canada.” He has worked as a consultant in both the United States and Canada and was formerly a senior officer in the National Citizens Coalition. A regular columnist with the Ottawa Hill Times, his work has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post and in the Sun Media chain; and he has appeared on countless TV and radio public affairs programs. He is the author of the book, Loyal to the Core, Harper, Me and the NCC.
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4 comments:
Being healthy and over fifty, I'm in a pretty low risk group so I personally haven't worried about it.
My wife is a senior exec in a major hospital, and in a position where she should know, so I asked her.
Basically, the response was, it couldn't be addressed any faster than it is, no amount of effort/money/divine intervention was going to get us a vaccine significantly sooner (+/- a few days), and there is little or nothing that can be done to ramp up distribution, because you would need to "steal" trained staff from clinical positions. The latter is the biggest problem with the delivery, that is, do we staff operating rooms, emergency wards etc. or pull those nurses off to accelerate the immunizations.
I suppose the provinces could have spent ridiculous amounts of money analyzing and creating a, 'you're first' line but they did have surveys that have obviously now, been proven to be inaccurate.
Hindsite is always most helpful, after the fact.
This was completely, an unpredictable public reaction and the panicked frenzy was created by the panicked frenzy.
Just ask the parents of the kids that got the first Cabbage Patch Kid or Xbox or Wii...... Get my drift? Mob mentality.
o/t Gerry,
but I'm sure you did not shed a tear (nor me) when Kevin Page indicated:
''..but the data he has received indicates the government may not be able to spend all the money it has set aside to stimulate the economy.
(He suggested that Ottawa should extend the deadline so stimulus can be delivered).
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/11/03/parliamentary-budget-officer-kevin-page-funding.html
What pandemic?
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