The COVID-19 pandemic

[jeffster]

And "best practices" were not yet generally agreed upon in early March. Yes, it turns out that Thunder Bay's choices were good and produced good results, but that was not yet known at that time. Otherwise you can be sure that many, many more regions, cities, provinces, states and countries would have done the same thing.

Well, I guess the right answer would be to look at all cities in Ontario that did things right, with a focus on Kingston, Thunder Bay and Hamilton, basically every region outside Toronto and Waterloo Region (and Peel Region I think did poorly too) and adopt those practices, and then look at where things went horribly wrong (mostly just Waterloo Region and to an extent, Peel and Toronto) and learn from that for the next time for when/if it happens again.

I guess for me, and my feelings being somewhat critical of our public health unit is simply based on my training with PPE. I had a lot of arguments with people who claimed PPE was more risky than it was safe. No argument from me regarding social distancing. But I really do hope we do better next time.