{"id":2985,"date":"2020-03-24T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2020-03-24T20:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T23:58:01","slug":"urgent-words-of-wisdom-i-reiterated-to-justin-trudeau-that-the-top-priority-is-medical-equipment-especially-equipment-for-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/03\/24\/urgent-words-of-wisdom-i-reiterated-to-justin-trudeau-that-the-top-priority-is-medical-equipment-especially-equipment-for-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent words of wisdom: “I reiterated to Justin Trudeau that the top priority is medical equipment, especially equipment for testing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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These words came\nout of the mouth of Mr. Fran\u00e7ois Legault whose team has been doing an outstanding\njob from day 1 to try to contain the pandemic in Qu\u00e9bec. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi will say the exact same about his other provincial counterpart\u2019s, including us here in NB and our neighbouring provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, PEI is testing at the entrance of the Confederation bridge and NS did not hesitate to send its public health staff to its airport (a federal jurisdiction) to do the job of the feds. Now, this province has erected a checkpoint to control the entry to its border with NB and the rest of Canada (with exceptions, including healthcare workers, police officers, and cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/checkpoints-covid-19-borders-public-health-nova-scotia-1.5506621<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our province, everyone is working in collaboration: Current government (with the opposition in the same COVID-19 committee) and First nations. Furthermore, Bambi checked our Liberal MP\u2019s twitter, Mr. Dominic Leblanc, and it is full of helpful tweets from both federal and provincial sources. Thanks to everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/roundup-covid-19-coronavirus-1.5507804<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To come back\nto Qu\u00e9bec, the situation is worrisome like in Ontario and BC, along with other\nprovinces like Alberta. \u201cWe have to\nhave enough equipment for the forthcoming weeks to be able to test more,\n“said Mr. Legault on Tuesday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.journaldequebec.com\/2020\/03\/24\/en-directcovid-19-francois-legault-fait-le-point-sur-la-pandemie-au-quebec<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Mr. Trudeau listening? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Bambi\u2019s personal opinion, this issue is much more pressing then funding research to find a vaccine, test devices, and\/or especially to fund express research, evaluating discrimination\/racism in the middle of a pandemic: One of the funded studies by a researcher from York University (about $500K) is examining \u201cdiscrimination and Sinophobia (anti-Chinese sentiment) due to COVID-19 disease (formally 2019-nCoV)\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/institutes-health-research\/news\/2020\/03\/government-of-canada-invests-27m-in-coronavirus-research–details-of-the-funded-projects.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the above the priority in a deadly pandemic in its early stages? This\nis important work but, it would be perhaps more logical to have it conducted at\nthe end of an imminently potential tragedy, may God forbid (if we look at what\nhappened elsewhere, including our neighbours in the South). We will need every\npenny to fight this virus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Italy\u2019s North is known as having one of the best medical systems in the\nworld and yet it dived into hell! Are our Canada\u2019s healthcare systems, and is\nCanada\u2019s federal government, able to handle a pandemic? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only continuous collective efforts and\u2026 time will tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, according to Bambi\u2019s own observations and thoughts, our provinces\nkeep on doing better than our federal government, despite its improvement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These words came out of the mouth of Mr. Fran\u00e7ois Legault whose team has been doing an outstanding job from day 1 to try to contain the pandemic in Qu\u00e9bec. Bambi will say the exact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}