
AboutAnything | Greg McComb
Up until a few weeks ago, Canada's Covid-19 pandemic was laser-focused on the medical side of things: daily counts of cases, hospitalizations and deaths
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were presented at government press conferences by senior medical officers, who often took center-stage. Many gained minor celebrity status. Busily toiling behind-the-scenes were teams of economists, statisticians and financial analysts who - quite unnoticed - published report-after-report on the state of the economy. Their consensus view early on: not very good, in fact, pretty horrible.
Voluntarily shutting down an economy - especially a well-performing economy...