The lesson that politicians never learn

Imagine a time of global confusion and worry, of a landscape that shifts daily under your feet, of political indecision in Canada and in a White House led by a president who changes his mind hour to hour. What is thought true on Tuesday isn't on Wednesday. Disinformation is everywhere, too, dividing people into angry camps. We are talking, of course, about the response five years ago to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries dithered over whether to ban flights from China, where the disease first broke out. The Public Health Agency of Canada told Canadians there was…