Here we go again!

Yup, we had Captain Doug at the microphone again today.

Friends, you know I hate to do this, but the Sciende…

Tsunami of cases…

A freight-train bearing down on us.

Ya. We know, Doug.

As near as I can tell, the only reason for this latest lockdown is we gotta try to save the healthcare system from collapse.

Excuse me, but when you have to shut down the economy to save the healthcare system, hasn’t it already collapsed?

You’d think a healthy healthcare system would be able to handle sick people, even when there’s an uptick in admissions. Instead, we’ve so starved healthcare of funding, there’s zero resilience left in the system.

Part of the problem, in addition to chronic under-funding, is where the money goes. 

I’ve been mightily impressed with how many national, provincial, regional, and local health authorities and experts we have in this country, all of them dipping into the public trough for very healthy six-number salaries, all of them available at a moment’s notice for a TV interview, and none of them every going anywhere near a patient.

Couldn’t we save a lot of taxpayer boodle by having one health system for the country? Health care seems to be very top-heavy, but there’s never enough money to properly compensate the PSWs changing the bandages and the diapers.

Anyway, it’s a done deal. Big Doug has done shut ‘er down at least for a couple weeks. 

Because there’s a tsunami of cases coming at us like a freight train, and we gotta man the battle stations…

Because we’re all in this together!