Is Australia your ideal? But it seems to me that this is an example of complete disregard for standard human rights under the pretext of medical measures.
Yes, Canada should model after Australia for preparation of the next pandemic.
Public health measures absolutely adhere to Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, as evidenced by recent court ruling on challenge of mandatory quarantine hotels.
I believe everyone should have to right to live - if Canada achieves the death rate of Australia - 23,000 lives would have been saved, in additional to thousands and thousands who are spared the trauma of ICU admissions and hospitalization.
Why is Australia's lockdowns better than Canada's mediocre lockdowns?
If you implement proper lockdowns like Australia, it will only be short pain for 2 to 3 months. Then lockdowns are lifted and everything would be back to normal life (except traveling).
There is no prolonged lockdowns like Ontario - because flatten the curve does not work, and you can never lift lockdowns except this time we are lucky that we have vaccines.
I'm not even talking about the significant difficulty in getting access to medical care in cases of moderate complexity (atrial fibrillation, allergies, shortness of breath).
I have to disagree with that. Medical care has never stopped, lockdowns do not apply to healthcare and medical clinics. Unless you need elective surgery - that was the main problem area. OTOH, urgent surgeries and things like cancer treatment were business as usual.
If anything, minor things are more easily dealt with using virtual care.
And the ER has never closed to deal with any emergency problem.
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