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Editor,
Could somebody please explain to me why, during a pandemic, we give the power to make decisions about our health to politicians?
Look at Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. How many cases of COVID, how many hospitalizations, and how many deaths were due to poor decisions by premiers of those provinces? Far too many.
Medical officers of health train for years to understand the necessary steps to limit cases, to prevent our hospital system from being overrun and more importantly to prevent deaths. Yet, during COVID-19, the best advice by medical officers of health to politicians can be, and has been, overruled by premiers.
In future pandemics (and there will be more), we should seriously consider granting the power of decision making with regard to public health, exclusively to medical officers of health, not to premiers.
Ron Tadman
The Blue Mountains, ON
