Globe and Mail pulls back the curtain on the discussion/panic the gender neutral potato heads in Ottawa had over the canceling of our pandemic early warning system.
The internationally respected system was created to detect and monitor international health threats to help Canada and other countries respond faster and more effectively to a deadly outbreak. However, The Globe found that the operation’s alert system was silenced in early 2019 amid shifting government priorities.
During an exchange of early-morning e-mails on Aug. 13, advisers to the Prime Minister can be seen trying to figure out what went wrong with GPHIN, and whether the blame for its mishandling could be contained to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and decision makers within that department, without political ramifications for the government.
Follow the science, don’t follow the science, throw the science under the bus. It’s all the same these days. 🤷♂️