Masks, vaccine passports and a lot more vaccinations: How Canada can avoid a punishing pandemic fourth wave

From coast to coast, Canada’s strategy for beating COVID-19 is being wound down, before the virus has been taken down. Combined with the rise of the ultra-infectious Delta variant, this is setting the stage for a fourth pandemic wave.

It’s clear what’s needed to prevent that. Yet Canadian governments, perhaps convinced that denial is the route to re-election, are to varying degrees declining to do what has to be done, or to say what needs to be said.

Canada is once again failing to prepare, and preparing to fail. Allow a recent social-media post from Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to illustrate.

On July 19, Mr. Kenney shared a video from the Calgary Stampede. He tweeted that this was the first major event “after the pandemic.”
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