Commentary After a year of draconian measures meant to “flatten the curve” on the COVID-19 pandemic, last week Ontario Premier Doug Ford revealed that his province is worse off than ever before, with record numbers now in hospital with COVID-19. Did Ford respond by stepping back to rethink the strategy that levelled Ontario’s economy without improving the state of its health? Did he fire the incompetent public-health bureaucrats that only made things worse? Did he learn from the many jurisdictions around the world that are succeeding in managing the pandemic? No, Ford instead doubled down on his failed policies by locking down the province for another four weeks and, for good measure, by calling out the cops to intimidate anyone who might defy his stay-at-home orders. But the abject failure can’t all be chalked up to Ford. He inherited one of the industrialized world’s least capable health-care systems. According to …