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Originally Posted by Bingo
There is money involved so they don't want a bubble. Leading up the tournament Omnicron wasn't a thing and it looked like the NHL etc seasons were working.
It came on fast and hard, and they had Alberta change the rules on them a week before the tournament started.
People can always make better decisions, but pretty much any organization/leader is desperately trying to find a line between 100% economics and 100% health and they are bound to not get it right.
Just so tired of the know it alls with hindsight.
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It’s not hindsight if a great many people
anticipated a huge Omicron surge over a month ago.
Omicron was already rampant in Europe in mid-November. At every stage of the pandemic, surges in Europe have been followed by surges in Canada 3-4 weeks later. Every time.
I don’t understand how this is a surprise to so many Canadians. It’s maybe understandable in the general public, whose internet seems to stop at the mid-Atlantic. But it’s inexcusable for authorities and planners. They have a window into Covid future just by checking into what’s happening in Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands. What they do with that information is a matter of judgement and balancing tradeoffs. But nobody in Canada who has been paying the least attention to Covid globally should have been surprised by Omicron.