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@jeffcliff I've been saying this almost since the beginning: if instead of funding lockdowns the federal government built a billion dollar medical facility in the top 200 cities in canada, not only would our medical system not be overloaded in the case of overwhelming covid numbers, we would have had an economic boom and probably have become a world superpower in the medical field.

Instead we give everyone a shitty vacation.

@jeffcliff understanding that it isn't my field, I think that you might be on to something. It's probably reasonably possible to put together a training package for treating specific ailments. You can take people who have proven aptitude in other fields, such as a lot of the chemistry and chemical engineering folks who have been struggling to find work and basically take their existing body of knowledge and transfer it to treating covid.

In general I just think they reacted in very weird ways. We've only known for 600 years how to keep an infectious disease in the country, and we didn't do those things. Instead we went down this completely different completely new route of putting a boot on everyone's neck and spending hundreds of billions of dollars on paychecks for people to stay home.