Back in March 2020, I thought that even though our politicians won't have the guts to do what China did, at least our health care system would be professional enough to mount a cogent response to the pandemic.
Turns out, our health care officials are just as much politicians as our parliamentarians.
It's comedic how the whole thing has played out. School was halted in March 2020, and cases steadily dropped over the weeks to low-hundreds per day over the summer. Schools opened again in September, and cases started climbing steadily until it hit a peak of 4000/day by Christmas. Then we closed schools for a few weeks, and the cases started dropping again. When it dropped to around 1000/day, they opened the schools again, and as if by magic, the cases started climbing again, and now we're at 2000+/day again.
This obvious correlation is COMPLETELY ignored in the media and by the government. They keep saying schools are safe. Every time a local school comes down with a confirmed case, they keep repeating that the risk of transmission is "still low".
Just in case anyone needs the obvious explained, COVID-19 is transmissible days before the first symptoms appear. People will only get tested if they have symptoms. COVID tests take days to receive results (I know, my in-laws had to take them to return to China). Schools only report a confirmed case after they get notified of the positive result, so by the time they send out those emails, the infected kid has had at least a week to infect other kids.
Now that I think about it, I seem to remember that back in December 2020, when cases were reaching 2000+/day (as it is now), the province also issued a lockdown but did not shut down schools. Then the "experts" were baffled as to why the cases weren't going down!
