COVID already in the rear-view mirror for politicians—and we’re all potential roadkill

Quebec has suffered more deaths from COVID in the first six months of 2022 than the total for 2021—a pattern that mimics global trends. The World Health Organization reported last week that cases doubled in the previous six weeks. The pandemic is not over.

A pedestrian, pictured on May 15, 2020, on Bank Street in downtown Ottawa. The most reliable medical advice now—amid a daily diet of contradictions, counter-claims, and lame reassurances from politicians—is to get your third shot, if you are among the 52 per cent of Canadians who haven’t yet been boosted.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

July 25, 2022

CHELSEA, QUE.—We trusted the science, until it got complicated. We revered medical officers of health, like Dr. Bonnie Henry and Dr. Deena Hinshaw, until they seemingly discarded their usual caution and quietly disappeared from public view. We were assured that governments—provincial, federal, m...

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