Maybe that first wave a year ago was never going to be the end of the pandemic in Canada. After what we learned from the first wave, and with the time everyone had last summer to prepare, shouldn't we have managed the second wave better? You can't make deals with a virusBut an optimal public health response would be proactive and uncompromising in attacking the real problem — the virus. "A public health approach is marked by proactive, preventative action that can seem unreasonable," Furness said in an email this week. But the larger point might be that the case counts of the current moment and the second wave were not inevitable.

Source: CBC News April 02, 2021 08:00 UTC