NP View: The ‘Wuhan virus’ may not be it, but the next big pandemic is coming. Are we ready?

Here it comes. The next big pandemic. Not necessarily the “Wuhan virus.” But someday, from somewhere, another Spanish flu or worse. How ready are we?

Even in a far less mobile world, things like the “Plague of Justinian” or the Black Death wreaked havoc. And while the ghastly Ebola virus has periodically frightened us without going quite literally viral, something will, eventually. We are not immune and cannot be. But we can try to be prepared. In one sense we are “ready.

We also had the prime minister say “Obviously, we take very seriously this issue of the coronavirus.” But the press releases churning through the Parliamentary Press Gallery concern “the appointment of Marc Gold as Government Representative in the Senate” and “Motoneigistes disparus : le Bloc Québécois exprime sa solidarité” and “Minister Champagne concludes visit to Mali, continues on to Morocco” and “Liberals Must Put the Needs of Canadians Ahead of Big Airline Companies.

According to the CBC, of 163 acute-care hospitals in Ontario over half were more than 100 per cent full for at least 30 days in the first half of 2019. Nearly 40 hit 120 per cent at least once. And 40 were over 100 per cent the whole time. Add one pandemic and, experts say, we’ll have patients in tents in parking lots in mid-winter. Dying.

This is sensationalism that comes out every time there’s a new flu bug lol. Naturally, the immune compromised are going to be at risk.

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