Bruce Arthur: ‘A punch in the stomach’: Doug Ford wants to extend Dr. David Williams, and epidemiologists are not happy
Ontario could have aimed higher. Instead it’s keeping the faith with a widely criticized chief medical officer of health.
Surprise surprise
The other side of the coin is becoming public knowledge now
(rem that *other* thread I posted about the Covid19 coverup and all the Covidiots denied?)
Turns out medical community is convinced that Doug Ford put a weak Yes Man into the core medical positions at start of the alleged pandemic
So um to the resident covidiots on the board; now that the medical community has started breaking those NDAs to speak out, are you still agreeing with all the nonsense that has been happening?
Some choice quotes:
(feel free to read entire article)
“I don’t think he’s useless,” said one highly respected member of the medical community, who requested anonymity because of connections to the provincial response. “He’s dangerous. He’s dangerous because he can’t communicate, and he doesn’t advocate for sound public health measures. If you flipped a coin you’d get it right more often than David.”
That’s the core of this. It’s not personal. It’s not even political. Many people in the medical community say Dr. Williams is a good man, and some whisper he is a more canny bureaucrat than he appears.
But as one doctor who has worked with Williams on the provincial response put it, “He’s a lovely guy, but … part of the story nobody is talking about is they were cutting public health. They chose (to retain and support) someone on purpose who wasn’t a great communicator. It wouldn’t have been advantageous having a strong health leader for what was being planned.” As one accomplished ex-colleague of Williams recalls, they would be sitting in meetings with him and the ex-colleague would think, what is he talking about?
The worse part is he is such a poor communicator that you can’t always discern how bad his ideas are. In March, Williams denied community transmission was ongoing, while ER doctors were telling you it was everywhere. He only acknowledged asymptomatic transmission in mid-April, long after it was clear that asymptomatic transmission was not just occurring but was significant. He didn’t ban shared staff between long-term-care homes until mid-April, three weeks after British Columbia did so. Ontario’s LTC death rates were four times those in B.C.
“This is one of those moments of the pandemic that’s like a punch in the stomach,” said the highly respected member of the medical community. “One of those moments that we know, this is going to hurt us.”
“It’s hard to imagine that Dr. Williams both understands the issues, and is honestly saying keep things as they are,” said Dr. Andrew Morris, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Toronto, and the medical director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Sinai-University Health Network, a couple weeks ago, when Williams defended the province’s restrictions framework. “I just find those two things impossible to reconcile. He either doesn’t believe the advice he’s giving, or he doesn’t understand the situation that we’re in.”
xref to the Cover Up thread where medical people were being gagged by NDAs from discussing the government & it's policies
