Canada’s public health agency made a “tragic error” by grounding its COVID-19 response policies on coercion rather than persuasion, which was a key medical principle that had been thrown away during the pandemic, according to Dr. Richard Schabas.
Schabas, Ontario’s former chief medical officer of health, said on June 24 that the public health principle that he practiced for decades was “based on persuasion, not coercion,” and would hardly resort to legal powers in medical interventions.
Pointing to the government’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, he said it had backfired in that it intended to get more people to be vaccinated, but with its mandatory vaccine mandates, it had turned more people away in the long run….