Conrad Black: A path out of the coronavirus lockdown

National Post

That being the case, it is time to reevaluate Canada’s anti-coronavirus policy. As in many other activities, what happened in Canada has tracked events in the United States, especially as the Canadian media relentlessly repeats to the American anti-Trump media.

Indeed, while President Trump greeted the initial discussion of the coronavirus quite complacently, the U.S. media heightened public fear and amplified the absurd speculation at London’s Imperial College of Medicine that more than two million Americans could die from the coronavirus. A political jumping game began and Trump created a task force officially led by the vice president and which included several prominent epidemiologists and public health administrators. Democrats settled into the instant economic crisis with audible dreams of keeping Biden in his basement until Election Day and portraying Trump as the Herbert Hoover of this century’s Great Depression.

A virus that does not disappear in a critical situation with respect to the economy

Now, Canada again followed a parallel scenario, although its financial assistance plan was less generous and more complicated and has sparked noisier discontent noises than in the United States. And it is that the Democrats, after unsuccessfully trying to obtain many benefits for organized labor and non-economic ecological energy, accepted the package as a humanitarian agreement during the anticipated closure of several months. That being the case, as of this week, there are 26 million Americans who have been unemployed due to the public health crisis, in a workforce of almost 165 million, which enjoyed full employment a few months ago.

It has been indicated that Canada will presumably continue again. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has had his choice, but he has a minority government. There is a desperate economic crisis in Alberta without the coronavirus, as the oil industry is in dire straits and the pressure on the banking system will be considerable, in a country that has not had a major bank failure since 1923. It is clear that the Fear of the virus does not decrease spontaneously, however, unsustainable economic events will clear our minds. We can avoid a large increase in deaths as restrictions are lifted as long as the immunocompromised are protected and basic precautions are taken.

Canada has done well. The closure, here and elsewhere, can be justified, but its continuation cannot. It must be reversed, prudently and in accordance with local facts, and the vigilance of the elderly and the sick must be redoubled.

Source: Conrad Black | National Post

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