Treat us like adults and show us the Omicron plan
Good opinion piece, finally the press is catching on to the angst we are all feeling...
Chris Selley: Treat us like adults and show us the Omicron plan
Ontario still can't test its way out of a paper bag. What is Queen's Park going to do about it?
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“If it bleeds it leads” is a solid principle in journalism, unfortunately: Like it or not, generally speaking, good news just doesn’t get the same clicks as bad. Maybe it’s a bit different after nearly two solid years of pandemic, though. Month after month after month, Canadians have seen certain media outlets present experts’ worst-case scenarios as plausible outcomes, then watched as those outcomes fell miles short of occurring. Sometimes that was because individuals and governments took steps to avoid those worst-case scenarios; other times, the expert projections were simply miles off.
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If governments and bureaucrats and public-health experts desire ongoing compliance with their advice and orders, it would very much behoove them finally to treat us like adults, as opposed to primates who need to be terrified into compliance, and tell us where their heads are at vis-à-vis Omicron and what the plan is. And if there isn’t a plan, it would very much behoove them to make one and report back.
She hits a few more on-point arguments... a good read to start another year. :
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chr...e-omicron-plan
