Breakenridge: Are we really going to learn anything useful from a pandemic inquiry?

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We’re still awaiting the formal announcement from the health minister, but it appears Alberta is poised to launch a formal investigation of its response to the…

Much like many of the public health decisions made by this government, it is a decision that will likely be criticized either way. Forgoing or delaying a review implies that they have something to hide, whereas any review that’s announced will be seen as being engineered to produce a favourable outcome.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.

We have various camps all firmly entrenched in their positions as to whether the government “got it right” when it came to COVID. So much of that assessment is inherently subjective, anyway. If we can’t even agree on what the right response is and was, or what the goal of the public health response ought to be in the first place, then it’s hard to envision any sort of process that will have widespread public assistance.

Even Kenney himself has conceded that mistakes were made, but it seems like we’re into the realm of the sort of accountability that involves voters, not judges or lawyers. It’s also fair to note that the one public inquiry launched by this government turned out to be a bit of a mess and ultimately a dud. Political motivation is a perilous starting point for this kind of exercise.

 

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Yes,absolutely. There needs to be accountability and justification for all actions. After all we're supposed to trust the science when we were supposed to be denied access to for 75 years. We've been pretending risk is the same for all, but people saw this data..

Nope

We will learn that there will be zero accountability for the vastly overpaid “medical professionals”, and these reports will never see the light of day.

Yep!

We already know what happened. Governments got it all wrong because they were just drug dealers for big pharma.

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