{"id":3398,"date":"2020-04-11T17:58:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T20:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2020-04-11T18:30:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:30:42","slug":"why-is-ms-hajdu-changing-the-coronavirus-timeline-facts-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/04\/11\/why-is-ms-hajdu-changing-the-coronavirus-timeline-facts-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Ms. Hajdu changing the coronavirus timeline facts now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In a CBC article entitled \u201cChris Hall: Hajdu says on COVID-19 Ottawa acted on ‘the best advice possible at the time<\/em>\u201d, we can hear an interview with our federal health Minister:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/chris-hall-hajdu-says-on-covid-19-ottawa-acted-on-the-best-advice-possible-at-the-time-1.5529340<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said that \u201cour first\ncase that came from Iran, if you remember was a game-changer because in fact Iran\nwas not even declaring any cases whatsoever\u2026, etc<\/em>.\u201d (2:48 to 3:29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she talked about \u201cour first case coming from Iran\u201d\nand \u201cIran was not declaring its cases\u201d (as reported verbatim above), we cannot\nhelp not to wonder the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, according to a CBC article on the coronavirus timeline, our first Canadian case was from Wuhan, China (not Iran). That was on January 25, 2020, according to CBC!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/canada-coronavirus-timeline-1.5482310<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who seems to be saying false claims here, Ms. Hajdu or\nthe earlier CBC article?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, let\u2019s assume it was Iran and not China. Had she read the international media well, she would have known that Lebanon declared its first case of coronavirus on February 21, 2020. It was a woman coming from Iran actually!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-health-lebanon-minister\/lebanon-confirms-first-case-of-coronavirus-two-more-suspected-idUSKBN20F225<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.lorientlejour.com\/article\/1207366\/le-liban-a-son-premier-cas-de-coronavirus-une-femme-venue-diran.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, the last time Bambi checked, Iran was still an Islamic dictatorship. Since when can we trust dictatorships? Ms. Hajdu should know better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why does she appear to be changing the coronavirus timeline facts after the facts? Perhaps Bambi misunderstood all this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Minister Hajdu said that she has \u201cconfidence on those public health officials working so closely on this issue since late December-Early January<\/em>\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whose public health officials is she talking about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese (or Iranian?), those from the WHO, or the federal\nCanadian ones ??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If any of the above, they have failed the Canadian public big time\u2026 Is she saying this, so we can eventually (post-pandemic) blame our public health experts only, and not her?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If she meant our provincial experts, they should be\ncommended from Day 1, as they seemed to have done what needs to be done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, mistakes may or did happen but at least they took\nthis problem MUCH more seriously than our federal government, MUCH faster, and\na more CONGRUENT way (e.g., our federal government tells us one thing about\nairports and the reality on the ground is another thing completely; Bambi has two-three\nposts on the topic).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they said they will lock-down long-term nursing homes,\nthey truly did so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they said they have a plan to do testing in those\nnursing homes, they seemed to have done so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they said, they will send their own public health officials to airports when Mr. Trudeau was refusing to close the borders, they truly did. Even NS did it (with a Liberal government on top of that!). Even Montreal Mayor Val\u00e9rie Plante did it too, hand in hand with Qu\u00e9bec government (she is usually close politically and ideologically speaking to Mr. Trudeau and Ms. Hajdu who used the term “global citizens” in her interview above). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will or did mistakes happen? Yes, sure\/sadly\u2026 but this is only human. It is bound to happen, despite any best efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, our provincial officials seem to be for real.\nThey work and they adjust and re-adjust. They do not rely on a media machinery\n(propaganda) to convince us of their efficacy. They just do their job. Thank\nyou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi wishes our current federal government would put\nthe same time and energy on their actual work than on their PR efforts, with\nthe complicity of some journalists (especially those who lost their last drop\nof critical sense, perhaps to keep their pay or sanity). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, what Ms. Hajdu is saying at the beginning of the interview to justify Canada’s response does not make any sense, at least to Bambi: “I can tell you we took the best advice possible at the time. Certainly we know countries that did other things and had worse outcomes. And other countries did yet other things with different outcomes<\/em>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We do not have to be a political genius to notice the pattern of how the virus has spread in other countries (even if the advice she said she was getting from epidemiology at the time said otherwise. What epidemiologists is she talking about, by the way? Who advises her, we would like to know, as citizens?). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada had several weeks to learn: (1) From Europe\n(France, Italy, etc.) and other countries (Iran, South Korea, Taiwan, even from\nLebanon, at least with citizen repatriating operations, much better than what Canada\nis doing\/not doing!); and (2) closer to home, from the United States\u2019 tragedy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada does not have any excuse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality is that the Canadian response sucked, especially at the beginning (and perhaps still now). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes, Mr. Trudeau et al. seem to repeat wise\nwords or words about actions said\/done by provinces or territories. He\/they\nappear clever and they take credit for this wisdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps some specific Minister or public servants are\nworking hard and efficiently, thanks to them. However, Ms. Hajdu does not seem\nto be one of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this being said thus far, Bambi stopped listening at\nthe tape at 3:36 minutes since its start. It is a waste of her time. If you\nhave time to kill during the pandemic and want to open your own eyes, please\nhelp yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as Bambi is concerned, how can she trust the judgment of a politician who spent 1.1 million to build\/renovate her office, when she was a Minister of Status of Women:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/status-of-women-minister-spent-1-1m-on-new-office-despite-internal-warning-1.3207174<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or when she heard her declare at a union meeting that \u201cMr.\nTrudeau is a great leader<\/em>\u201d (that was funny to hear\/watch). Does she truly believe\nit ??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.cpac.ca\/en\/programs\/headline-politics\/episodes\/64857393\/episode-still-from-media-server-38092\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can we take our politicians seriously when they\nsay things that are so far away from the reality? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On which planet do they live\u2026 or they think we do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi is not a political expert. However, she has some\ncommon and critical sense left in her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to her, Mr. Trudeau is not only a bad leader.\nHe may be the worst PM Canada has ever had, but that\u2019s her own opinion and you\ndo not have to agree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This does not mean that the official opposition is any\nbetter necessarily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What bothers her in life is pretentious folks. We can be pretentious, if we are competent. It may be slightly disturbing to her but not as much as the following scenario: When we have been incompetent, we should perhaps learn to become a bit more modest in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, what helps Mr. Trudeau\u2019s team perpetuating this\nnarrative in the media is that Canadians are passive by nature AND our media is\nfar from being financially (and thus, intellectually) independent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We do not find many journalists or the citizens who\npush our governments for action, as they do in other places (Bambi will name\nLebanon). They do not revolt or do not force their governments to act faster to\nprotect them. Lebanon is doing an excellent job in its fight against the\ncoronavirus. However, they have been a bit slow at first, also for political or\nideological reasons like Mr. Trudeau (Iran to Hezbollah is a bit like what China\nor Globalism is to Trudeau, if she may draw an analogy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the Hezbollah opened its eyes and changed even its ideology faster\/more efficiently than Mr. Trudeau et al. Let\u2019s give them the following credit, even if Bambi dislikes them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless she has missed this in the news, they did not\nchange the facts after the facts. They took responsibility for the criticisms\nof the population. They seem to have moved on to focus on fighting Covid-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, no, Ms. Hajdu and your boss Mr. Trudeau, you do\nnot have any excuse but to stop the political blahblahblah and focus on keeping\nus safe ONLY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a CBC article entitled \u201cChris Hall: Hajdu says on COVID-19 Ottawa acted on ‘the best advice possible at the time\u201d, we can hear an interview with our federal health Minister: https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/chris-hall-hajdu-says-on-covid-19-ottawa-acted-on-the-best-advice-possible-at-the-time-1.5529340 She said that […]<\/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\/3398"}],"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=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}