02-04-2021, 04:48 PM
(02-04-2021, 11:00 AM)Coke6pk Wrote: THIS.
Political beliefs aside, there has been no country/party/leader that has tackled this pandemic perfectly. Everyone/where has had hurdles and struggles, some bigger than others.
I'm not a fan of Trudeau, and yes, he (and the rest of the government... he isn't single handily controlling this) could of done better... but he also could of done worse. Erin O'Toole, Jasmeet Singh and Annamie Paul (I had to Google that one) would of fucked this up too.
I had a huge hate-on for DoFo pre-COVID, but I respected the way he took the reins when the crisis started. I've swayed back to being less than impressed with him again.
All these politians are human, and hindsight is 20-20. We will look back years from now and be able to look under a microscope to judge their shortcomings... but this is something none of us have lived through, and a lot of decisions are made on informed guesses.
Not perfect, but some countries much better than others. Canada is sort of lower mid pack, but there are definitely countries that have done far worse. Greece for instance did relatively well. I think that countries which were scared of their health system not being able to cope actually went a lot harder and did better. (Greece has about two-thirds the population of Ontario and has a 7-day average of 826 vs Ontario's average of 1657; total cases for Ontario 277k, Greece 160k).
I think Kathleen Wynne would have done better but we don't really know that.