Bad planning left Canada short of PPE

Dear Editor:

Regarding the quality of personal protective equipment for health-care professionals, Dr. Sandy Buchman, president of the Canadian Medical Association, said we wouldn’t have had to worry if Canada had planned properly,

“This highlights a failure of government planning … If we had planned properly and monitored these provincial and federal supplies of the equipment, we wouldn’t be scrambling … We would be stockpiled and ready to go.”

With 26 nations in full pandemic bloom during the COVID-19 explosion, Canada donated 16 tonnes of PPE to China, stranding our own medical professionals and citizens.

Mexico’s former ambassador to Beijing told Global News that China was evidently hiding the extent of a pandemic that endangered the world while covertly securing low prices for PPE.

Still, our government succumbed to the will of China. Liberals delayed closing inbound flights from China as they pushed the Communists’ “no concern” false PR narrative and neglected for over two months, after flights from China into the U.S. were stopped, to require inbound passengers to be checked for COVID-19.

They denigrated concerned citizens who disagreed with their open border policy, especially during COVID-19. Factually, almost every PPE call they made was a miscalculation and later was reversed.

As our government sadly fuddled, China disallowed domestic flying to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in its own country, yet they spread the virus precipitously internationally.

Recently, team Trudeau committed our tax dollars to the Chinese military and Chinese company CanSino Biologics to conduct human clinical trials for its hopeful COVID-19 vaccine.

Our government left our nation dependent on China, a dictatorship that left the world with no supply of PPE — the nation that caused the pandemic, and, more damning, that instigated a cover-up that obliterated businesses and killed 332,000 people to date (over 6,000 Canadians).

To trust a communist regime is not brilliant. It is the same China that vowed to get rid of the “cancer” of independent thought in Hong Kong. People wrongly imprisoned or tortured by the Chinese regime for seeking democracy may not have the same admiration.

Garry Rayner, West Kelowna