Coronavirus Disaster Exposes Quebec's Dirty Little Secret

In the years preceding World War II, France, fearful of the rising and aggressive German military power built a massive line of fortifications along the German/French border, with a secondary and weaker defensive line along the Belgium border. The formidable concrete bunkers with its large protected cannons were seen as the ultimate deterrent to the German invasion. The Maginot Line was seen in France as a model of good planning and strategy, its massive cost justified if the wall could keep France safe.

Unfortunately, it did not.

The Germans simply went around the line, exploiting a weakness through the Ardennes forest in Belgium, completely outflanking the French, leading to a lightning-quick German victory.

And so it seems that the Quebec government's thorough and seemingly well-thought preparations in the face of the coming Wuhan coronavirus suffered from the same faulty logic employed by the French which is and was essentially barring the front door effectively, but leaving the back door open.

Perhaps it's understandable that with the lessons of the disastrous Italian response to the virus, where hospitals were suddenly overloaded, leading to massive numbers of deaths, Quebec decided to empty its hospitals by postponing elective surgeries and sending any long term senior patients to government-run nursing homes.
When the virus struck the government ordered everybody to shelter in place but failed utterly to seal off the nursing homes, with personnel transferring between institutions and snowbirds, fresh from Florida and family just off school break, where many travelled to Europe bringing the virus into the nursing homes with deadly effect.
And so our hospitals were ready and indeed are performing well, but the virus, like the German army, struck through the back door in these nursing facilities with deadly consequence, an attack the Quebec government never contemplated or even fathomed.

So much for the experts. 
And so it seems that all the king's horses and all the king's men cannot put our nursing homes together again!
Such is the result of a massive catastrophic planning failure.

I hate to say I told you so, but this lowly and lonely blogger warned of just this catastrophe in a post entitled The Government is Handling Covid-19 All Wrong...

How big is the disaster?
70% of all virus-related deaths in Quebec have occurred in the nursing homes, where the virus ripped through the vulnerable at an astonishing rate.
In fact, those healthy citizens under 60 years old who do catch the virus have a 99.%+ chance of recovering, while those over 60 years with health problems who get infected have an alarming fatality rate of between 20% and who knows what.
The government's policy of locking down the young and healthy seems overkill and is not necessary.
All the government had to do was tell seniors to lock down and to force senior residences to lock-down completely

But the virus has already spread to many of these homes and where it has, the consequences are and will be deadly.
Underpaid staff have also been struck by the illness, with other employees abandoning ship in the face of the onslaught. The remaining $15 an hour employees are expected to work 90 hours a week with no protective equipment. The current policy that those possibly exposed to the virus be self-isolated has to be thrown out the windows for these unfortunate workers. They are forced to work despite being exposed because their services are deemed crucial considering that there's nobody to replace them.
I am reminded of those emergency workers sent into the fray after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, deliberately exposed to deadly radiation because there was no other option. Those who fought the disaster without protection had their lives consciously sacrificed by the government.
Sound familiar?
One nursing home in Verdun actually locked the doors (twice) so that staff could not escape after their shift.

Premier Legault, channelling Donald Trump, complained that the nursing home situation is so bad because the previous government was to blame for the chronic under-funding.

At any rate, Quebec's disastrous nursing home situation is exacerbated by the high numbers of seniors populating these homes.

The dirty little secret is that Quebecers institutionalize the elderly at a rate three times that of Ontario. It seems that in Quebec bothersome mothers and fathers are shuffled off to be warehoused in these homes at an alarming rate.
It is a shameful dereliction of filial responsibility, a practice incited because of Quebec's cradle to grave government welfare state, where responsibility is shifted away from the individual.

I'll end with a story I watched on a French TV news channel, where a lady (somewhere in her fifties) was raging against the government about her mother.
It seems that her mother who lives alone in an apartment has cancer and is being treated on an outpatient basis. Because of the pandemic, those treatments have been postponed and worse, a government social worker who visits her and provides in-home care, several times a week has not been coming recently for reasons you can imagine.
The woman was distraught that her mother wasn't receiving the care she was due and that she and her five sisters are deathly afraid that mom will die alone in her lonely apartment.

REALLY????
Does anyone out there see a problem where six sisters cannot provide a modicum of care and support?
Not one in six or all six combined are prepared to financially support a private care worker to provide extra care.
Not one in six or all six combined are prepared to take her in or visit daily?
All this dereliction of family responsibility while haranguing the government for failing their mom. It's nothing short of disgusting.

Is this the Quebec reality that seniors are consigned to the trash heap by a society that abdicates all personal responsibility in favour of a government that is too incompetent to do the job anyway?

After the virus lays waste and empties our senior homes, perhaps we should consider what is right before filling them up again.

Montreal Island Coronavirus Report - Sun. Apr.12

I am tracking the coronavirus as pertains to the 14 cities and boroughs with significant Anglo and Allophone elements.
Each day I'll chart the number of cases where you can compare the progression in your town/borough.
I'll also track the weekly progression. Please note that the week resets each Sunday.


I'll also comment on the numbers, under the chart.
Today is the start of a new week .

You might be shocked, yet pleasantly surprised that the virus is spreading ever so slowly amidst thees towns and boroughs.

The 31 new cases is a remarkably low number considering that the combined number of inhabitants in the 14 jurisdictions above is 634,000.

Half of the above had a total increase of less than 2% with many registering no new cases.

Cote Saint-Luc and Hampstead, which started so poorly, now seem to have gained the upper hand with very, very few new cases appearing.

It's Soon Time to Re-Open Schools and Phase Out Social-Distancing

Dealing with the Wuhan virus long-term seems to be where we are going as health officials tell us that it isn't going away and that it probably will become a seasonal thing.

I wrote a piece a while back, describing the danger that the virus poses to the elderly and that prediction seems to have been borne out.
Read:

The Government is Handling Covid-19 All Wrong...

Premier Legault mentioned that 89% of the Wuhan virus deaths so far in Quebec are in the demographic age group of 70 and over. Most of the other deaths occur in victims with underlying ailments.
That means that just 17 deaths so far are in those younger than 70 years old and almost none in the under 40 years old demographic.

Quebecers have largely hunkered down and stayed home and it's reported in that regard we have done better than any other jurisdiction in North America.

And so today the propagation of the virus is largely restricted to senior residences where people are packed in like sardines and where tragically the virus propagated before the lockdown occurred.
The virus was brought into the homes by the children of these residents who visited after travelling abroad, mostly to Europe.

The cross-contamination occurred when employees worked in different residences and brought the virus from one infected residence to another. A perfect storm of contamination.

This sad state of affairs is what I warned about when I said that seniors and those vulnerable should be isolated completely. Alas, it was too late and the damage is now done.
Sadly many seniors will die and paradoxically while we've managed to insulate and protect the large part of society and the least vulnerable, seniors will bear the brunt of the deaths and there's not much we can do about it.
The die is cast.

But these deaths are misleading because they taint the numbers and lead us to believe that we are all in mortal danger which we are not.

The famous curve has been flattened, assuring that hospitals aren't overwhelmed because those seniors who die from the virus do so generally quickly and without burning up precious ER resources.

And so it's time to reopen society, bit by bit, all the time making sure our hospitals can cope.

In this respect, it's time to re-open up daycare and primary schools in order that children become harmlessly exposed thus creating a new generation of the immune. Unlike the famous measles parties of my generation, children suffer almost no symptoms and most don't even know they have the virus.
In just two or three weeks, 15% of our population will become immune.
The parents and teachers of these younger children are in a demographic age-group that should do well when they become infected from their children and will survive, although some will need hospitalization.

The next phase is to open high schools and universities where a slight less positive outcome will occur, but an outcome that our hospitals can deal with and with some inevitable deaths, but still very, very few.
A caveat to all this is that those in this demographic who have underlying health issues must still be isolated.

This phased re-opening of society is the necessary step to insure that the virus burns through society at a controllable rate, like a preventative fire lit to control a forest fire.

I don't think it is reasonable to close down society for the time it takes to find a cure or treatment, we cannot afford it both mentally and economically.

Within a month stores and restaurants should reopen with distancing rules still in place.
Factories and businesses should start up cautiously and life needs to return to a semblance of normalcy.

The only criterion that counts is whether our hospitals can keep up and so a staged re-opening of society should start, probably within two weeks.

We are going to have to face the reality that the virus is here to stay and getting those under 40 (which represents half the population and the most productive) exposed over a controllable period is preferable to hiding at home and delaying the inevitable.

Under this plan, half the population would be free of the virus within two or three months.

By the way, many of the health workers and front line workers are already coming back to work after having defeated the virus. Hospitals are now at a point where patients are being discharged to the point where the influx of new patients is manageable.

The virus spreading through the general population, excluding the elderly and those with underlying health conditions must continue in order for society to get back on its feet.

Only when the rest of society acquires herd immunity can the seniors be protected, so it's important to get on with it.

Once the elderly and the compromised are safely isolated as best we can, it's time for the rest of us to go out and mix and yes, get the virus.
Some will die, but some will die even if we delay.
It's counter-intuitive to re-open society, but necessary so that we can get over the hump.

Bold decisions need to be made and they need to be made soon.
Like a general sending his troops into battle full well understanding that some will die, our leaders must forge ahead bravely and face down the virus for the greater good.
Now is the time for fearless leadership.

How Justin Trudeau Lost the Virus War

Dr.Theresa Tam.. Responsible for Wuhan Virus Debacle

It isn't Justin Trudeau's fault that Canada was unprepared for the Wuhan virus, that dubious distinction falls on Canada's Health Agency and its remarkably unfit Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, Dr. Theresa Tam.

With a pandemic raging in China, our national health agency (along with other western nations) were lulled into a false sense of security by the World Health Organization which worked overtime to downplay the epidemic at China's behest.

It was a fatal mistake that is responsible for the utter unpreparedness of Canada.
That general unpreparedness and the refusal to close borders sooner than later directly led to the increase in Wuhan virus-infected individuals coming into Canada, unchecked, unverified and un-quarantined.

The proof that Trudeau was clueless about the potential danger is highlighted by the fact that his wife Sophie and his daughter travelled to London, England where she promptly caught the virus.
I cannot imagine that had Trudeau an inkling of the danger in Europe, he'd agree to such a trip.
It underlines what type of advice he must have been given by his experts over at Health Canada who failed to sound an alarm.

The fact that Trudeau is a globalist didn't help matters at all, surrounding himself with like-minded officials who parrotted the United Nations view of one-world

Trudeau lectured us like school children that unlike President Trump who ordered the border closed to Europe, Canada was confident that the drastic measure was unnecessary.
Here is a video I put together to forever remind us of the idiots who actually run Canada.

As we all know now, China obfuscated and outright lied about the pandemic in order to cover up the severity, silencing critics and controlling the message through it's mouthpiece the World Health Organization.
In relying on poisoned advice from the WHO, our federal officials made one wrong decision after another, leading us to where we are now.
The WHO is a politically-controlled United Nations agency that as the deputy Prime-Minister of Japan said should be renamed as the China Health Organization because of its total domination and control exercised by the Chinese Communist Party.

How tightly does China control the WHO?
Watch the deputy Prime Minister of Japan lay into the corrupted WHO.

To all you globalists still unconvinced at the idea that China really controls the World Health organization, watch this video by its deputy director Bruce Alyward, a Canadian who in an interview sang the praises of China. When faced with a pointed question about China he was so dumbfounded that he sat in stunned silence before hanging up on the interviewer. When the interviewer called back for clarification, he outright refused to give an answer.

 

And so let us get back to Dr. Theresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada.
How she qualified for the job is a mystery other than the fact that she checked all Justin Trudeau's boxes.
Female--- Minority--- Globalist.

Dr. Tam doesn't speak French at all and speaks English in a highly irritating accent. She speaks like a robotic automaton and is the antithesis of an official who should inspire confidence.
And no, her Chinese heritage is not an issue, it is her qualifications as a leader.
In news conferences, she defers questions asked in French to her deputy Dr. Howard Njoo, who speaks so poorly that it is nothing short of an embarrassment.
Although it is common practice to put a doctor in charge of health agencies, I'm not sure it's a good idea.
Doctors are generally one-dimensional with a narrow educational background and little patience for the hoi-polloi. The job of Chief Public Health Officer of Canada.is a political, not a medical position and should be filled by a good communicator and inspiring character, something that Doctor Tam is not.

Parroting the WHO globalist line of open borders and Chinese misinformation about the severity, Tam misled Canadians as to the danger of the Wuhan virus. She totally misjudged the situation largely because she trusted those who should never have been trusted and thus directly led to Canada's under-preparedness.
Read the idiotic pronouncements she made leading up and into the disaster.

January 20, 2020
“It is important to take this seriously and be vigilant and be prepared, but I don’t think there’s any reason for us to panic or be overly concerned,” Dr. Theresa Tam said Monday in a call with reporters.

January 26, 2020
 Tam said the risk of human-to-human contamination is minimal, even for those who may have shared a flight or been in the airport alongside the Toronto patient.
“People transmit when they’re in close contact, particularly prolonged contact,” she said. “It’s really family members travelling with the patient who are at the highest risk.”
I won't bore you with the myriad of examples where over and over again, she blindly quotes the Chinese propaganda line, seemingly unable to to accept the false narrative she was fed.

January 31, 2020
Dr. Theresa Tam, chief public health officer, reiterated Thursday that the chances of an outbreak in Canada remain low.

January 26, 2020
Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam said despite the fact the number of cases in China is increasing, the export to other countries remains low and the risk remains low in Canada.
Tam said the reported case Saturday was "not unexpected."
"The health system is on alert to detect potential cases and to respond promptly when they are confirmed," Tam said. "It shows that our systems are working."

January 27, 2020
“Right now the World Health Organization actually advises against any specific travel restrictions,” said Dr. Theresa Tam, the federal chief medical officer.

January 28, 2020
Canada’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Teresa Tam, underlined the message that the general risk to Canadians remains low.
“Canadians should not be concerned they can pick up the virus through casual contact such as walking through the airport,” she said.

February 10, 2020
"Of course we will be evaluating all these measures on an ongoing basis, but right now we believe that is the right balance in protecting the health of Canadians," said Tam, noting that Canada's approach is in line with the World Health Organization's guidelines related to "inappropriate restrictions to travel and trade."

February 10, 2020
The risk to Canadians from coronavirus “continues to be low,” according to Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam.

February 11, 2020
Addressing reporters on Monday, Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, reiterated there are no plans to adopt a U.S.-style travel ban from China.

“Of course we will be evaluating all these measures on an ongoing basis, but right now we believe (the existing measures have struck) the right balance in protecting the health of Canadians,” Tam said. 

Feb 21,2020
However, when asked about the border screening process, Canada's chief public health officer, Dr, Theresa Tam, told media Friday afternoon that public health’s “layered response” is working well.
“Right now. What we have in place has been working,” said Tam.

Now defenders are saying that her failure was repeated all over the western world in countries like Italy and Spain, but that's not exactly true with many countries, even those badly affected better-prepared because plans to fight the virus were made in anticipation. Germany is the finest example of a country well-prepared as well as Taiwan, Korea and Hong Kong.

I read with interest an article in the Montreal Gazette about a Chinese Montrealer who went to China to visit family in January. When she saw the state of affairs she cut her visit short, returned to Canada and placed herself in isolation.
She was so alarmed by what she saw and so fearful for the future that she wrote a letter to Health Canada and the Prime Minister warning of the danger.
Read: Quebec unprepared for coronavirus outbreak, says Montrealer back from China
You'd think that if one non-medical person could accurately foresee the grim future, somewhere in Health Canada, professionals would raise the alarm, but alas they did not.

Our Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, Dr. Theresa Tam must take responsibility for the utter and complete failure, a failure that is and will cost countless Canadians their lives.
We'd have been a lot better off with the above-mentioned Chinese Montrealer as head of the agency that is supposed to safeguard our health.

And so as the saying goes 'denial' is not a river in Egypt, it is a dangerous state of mind firmly implanted in Health Canada, much to the detriment of Canadians.

How many Canadians will die because of Dr. Theresa Tam's dangerously incompetent leadership remains to be seen, but there is more to this tragedy in that she hasn't been sacked and continues to offer her useless and dangerous advice.


Today Tam is telling us that wearing masks is useless, despite the fact that countries who have better faced down the virus all insist on masks in public.
She'll probably reverse herself on the subject in a matter of time.

 My best advice and probably that of the Chinese Montrealer who wrote to her warning of the danger is to ignore anything this foolish and dangerous WHO apologist has to say.

Montreal Jews Will Suffer for Covid-19 Arrogance

Emergency Testing Site in Cote Saint-Luc

I don't think that in my 1400 blog posts, I've ever had to write such a wrenching and personally distressing piece as what I'm about to pen here.

Although I'm not particularly religious, I do consider myself a Zionist and a member of the tribe in good standing.
I am the farthest thing from a self-loathing Jew, yet I cannot in good conscience stay silent in the face of the egregious and dangerously arrogant attitude of too many members of Montreal's Jewish community in regards to the current pandemic.

Because the non-Jewish community, especially the media  is reluctant to criticize us for fear of being branded antisemitic, that all too-often employed defence mechanism, the justifiable criticism over our community's behaviour had been muted.
And so it befalls me to say what isn't being said, that is that as a community we have acted shamefully, flippantly and selfishly thus endangering lives.

It is a sad fact that almost a third to forty percent of the coronavirus cases in Montreal are occurring in my Jewish community, largely because of the arrogance displayed by inconsiderate and selfish members who flouted the containment rules, both the spirit and the letter.

Now it is not a condemnation of the entire Jewish community, because it only takes a few idiots to cause havoc and mayhem and sadly in this respect, this tiny minority of scofflaws appear to be higher in our community, leading to the inevitable situation whereby we are seeing a disproportionate number of infected.
The idiots in our community who ignored and perhaps continue to ignore the containment rules actually transcends the Jewish subgroups and those who might be inclined to point the finger at one particular group, be it Sephardi, Ashkenazy, religious or ultra-religious are wrong.
We are all among the sinners.

Let us review some of the transgressions;

After sending out a message to close schools and limit gatherings the police were actually forced to dispatch cars to patrol ultra-religious schools in Outremont in order to force them to submit to distancing or closure rules.

Ha! Probably the closest these boys have ever been to a woman.

Here from a CBC story;

"Twenty young people stand on the doorstep of a synagogue in Outremont, in Montreal, a worrisome look.

Several police cars are circulating in the neighbourhood and one of them stopped here on Hutchison Street, at the corner of Saint-Viateur Street.

Two police officers try to chat with the young people in an effort to warn them to be careful during these pandemic times, the policewoman explains to us, returning to her car.

Community police will follow up, she added. Montreal police also had to intervene in a large Orthodox Jewish wedding in west Montreal earlier this week."

Côte-Saint-Luc adopted measures the day after this event to limit gatherings on its territory to 10 people or less, in particular because of the large number of places of worship found there.

For many very religious communities, social distancing may be more difficult to implement than for non-believers. 

If we stop praying, will God help us stop the virus? asked a Hasidic lady crossed in front of another synagogue in Outremont, which was still open on Monday, insisting that only prayer can save us. 

CBC {Fr}

While we'd expect the ultra-religious Jews to flout the rules, it is, in fact, their modus operandi, it is perhaps more disappointing that the mainstream community including the clergy are guilty of wilfully negligent behaviour.
At any rate, the virus is confirmed to be spreading in the Hassidic community with this announcement.

"Montreal's first confirmed COVID-19 death is a 67-year-old Hasidic man who showed symptoms Sunday night, ultimately succumbing to complications caused by the coronavirus Wednesday night."

This time of year represents the wedding season for Jews with many, many weddings scheduled.
Almost all of these celebrations were cancelled and put off, much to the bitter disappointment of the families involved, where plans and arrangements were made months and months in advance.
But the vast majority did the responsible thing and postponed the event or got married in a tiny ceremony.

Unfortunately not so for all. Several Jewish weddings did go on despite the limitations proposed by the government.

Weddings, especially Jewish weddings are the perfect storm for virus transmission with hundreds of guests, many from out of town all pressed closely together. The traditional Hora dance has a circle of strangers dancing hand in hand, coupled with hugging and kissing. Just one positive Covid-19 case among the hundreds of guests can lead to disaster and that is just what happened.

I'm not going to call out all the offenders, except for those who went public to defend their decision to hold these events.

Montreal's most prestigious synagogue held a huge wedding on the evening of March 12,  this after the morning's announcement by the Premier banning large gatherings of 250 people or more.

"Hundreds of people attended the wedding on March 12 at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim on Kensington Ave. The ceremony took place the same day Quebec Premier François Legault banned all gatherings of more than 250 people in the province to limit the spread of the coronavirus."   Link

The rabbi of the Westmount's Shar Hashmoyim defended himself and the synagogue;

“We simply did not have enough time to adjust,” Scheier said in his email to congregation members, a copy of which was obtained by the Montreal Gazette. “In fact, the celebration was just about to get underway — the bridal party was having photographs taken — when we learned” of the premier’s comments.

Bullshit, Mr. Rabbi...
The Premier made his announcement in the morning and at 11:30am, newspapers had already published his directive banning gatherings over 250 people.  Iheart radio, including Montreal's CJAD all covered the announcement at 11:27 am.
The announcement would have alarmed everyone involved in the wedding and to pretend that you didn't know about the announcement until it was too late in the afternoon is not credible.

COVID-19: Legault calls for cancellation of all events larger than 250 people

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Published Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:26AM EDT Last Updated Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:51PM EDT   LINK

In fact, every media outlet published or broadcast news of the banning of events of more than 250  people before lunch. The wedding went ahead that evening.

So Mr Rabbi, let us not pretend.
A decision was made to hold the event despite the interdiction, a decision that led to an elderly attendee catching the virus and bringing it back to her senior residence in Cote Saint-Luc where two other elderly residents have already caught the virus.
In fact, the same Westmount synagogue held another wedding on the weekend, swearing this time that there were no more than 250 people, including staff in attendance. How responsible!!

There were many other big weddings held, one downtown and one in the west end.

Here is another example of the utter contempt some had in the face of the ban.
This wedding which was obviously responsibly cancelled by the venue was downsized and moved to a kosher restaurant that didn't have any problem holding the event.

Read this Facebook post.

The restaurant defended itself by saying that it didn't break any law because its capacity was much larger.
But as I said before, with dancing, kissing and embracing the many diverse invitees that a Jewish wedding involves, the transmission of the virus is inevitable.
By the way, the comments under this post were devastating, reflecting the furious reaction of most Montreal Jews.

CSL Mayor bravely sounds ominous alarm

Cote Saint-Luc Mayor Mitchell Brownstein was so alarmed by the rampant disobedience in his town that he begged the Quebec government to put his city under lockdown.

"We just want to highlight the fact that we have a bad cocktail in Cote-St-Luc that is going to be explosive," he said. "It started already and because of the fact that so many gatherings have taken place over the last few weeks, we know it's going to not be great."

There's plenty of blame to go around with mostly superior-minded Askenazi Jews returning from Florida and other snowbird locations ignoring the 14-day isolation rule in too large numbers.

"Apartment and condominium dwellers email Côte-St-Luc Mayor Mitchell Brownstein or call him to inform him that there are snowbirds in their buildings just back from Florida or other warm climes who are circulating freely as if it were business as usual, seemingly oblivious to the fact that we are in the grip of a pandemic, that COVID-19 has affected nearly 220,000 people worldwide. 

Our callous disrespect as a community has not gone unnoticed, prompting this sad advisory;

"The province’s director of public health is urging Montrealers to stay out of the city’s west end, where the number of COVID-19 cases is growing.
“Try and minimize, if you’re not from that place, to go over there from other regions,” Horacio Arruda said at Premier François Legault’s daily briefing on the pandemic."

 The situation is so serious that the powers that be set up a special testing site located in the formerly-named Cavendish mall reflecting concern over the propagation of the virus in the area.

How bad the situation remains to be seen, but the propagation of the virus among Montreal's Jewish community has been enormously exacerbated because of the willful and derelict conduct by too many careless and arrogant individuals and too many religious institutions and clergy that thought themselves above the law, perhaps channelling the Hebrew National hot dog company's motto of  "Answering to a higher authority"

After this is over, there needs to be an accounting.

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