{"id":1855,"date":"2020-04-10T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2020-04-10T08:50:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T08:50:48","slug":"who-is-dr-theresa-tam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"Who is Dr. Theresa Tam?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is Dr. Theresa Tam?<\/span> <\/span><\/h1>\n
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by\u00a0Kidist Paulos Asrat<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Armed for Work: Dr. Theresa Tam arrives at meeting determined to impose Chinese-style health measures upon Canadians.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nT<\/span>he official line is that she is the “Chief Public Health Officer<\/a>” of Canada. With this position, she has become, in effect, the Canadian official behind the government’s COVID-19 containment strategy. But who is Theresa Tam, really?\u00a0 How did she acquire such a powerful position, with the ability to close down a whole nation based on such inconsequential statistics of 3-4% cases, which even the 2018 flu virus, with double the cases, wasn\u2019t able to do?
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Teresa Tam Locks Down Canada<\/span><\/h3>\n


\nTam appears daily in the living room of Canadians reporting on the state of the virus on various television stations with her government colleagues, Minister of Health Patty Hajdu and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, telling Canadians to “practice physical distancing” to “fight” this “pandemic.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Initially<\/a>, Tam questioned the public health risks of the virus:<\/p>\n

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Right now, the cases are in China. Very few are exported. Yes, there\u2019s human-to-human transmission, but those are generally for close contacts…for the general public…the risk is low in Canada.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But all this changed by late March, and Tam told Canadians in her April 3 television update:
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There are now 11, 747 cases of COVID-19, including 152 deaths. Again this represents infections from previous exposures, and not what is happening right now. So our urge is that even if you\u2019re not hearing about cases in your community, it doesn\u2019t mean that there is no risk of exposure, and we must all consider that anyone could be infected and keep our two meter distance as the safest approach. [Tam\u2019s full presentation is available here<\/a>.] <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Her message now is that anyone, and everyone, could be infected. This was her rationale for assisting in the nation-wide emergency alert to Canadians that they \u201cStay Home; Restez a la Maison.\u201d
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\n\u201cSo, of course, we owe it to everyone to not put Canadians at risk, and to do all we can to stop the spread of COVID-19 right now,\u201d says Tam of her decision. Her prescription is to \u201cpractice social distancing, self-isolation, hand hygiene.” Her recommendations have indeed evolved into simplistic symbols<\/a>, the images for which bear a strong resemblance to public health information on avoiding the flu<\/a>, which are presented every year for the virus which, at its most lethal, killed 8,500 people in 2018. And the country has never shut down for fear of the flu.
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\nThe only item missing on the Corona-Checklist is \u201cGet Vaccinated.\u201d So far.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\nAnd from this information, a lockdown of dutiful, and guilt-ridden, Canadians became the reality. Across the country, dutiful citizens closed their shops, left jobs, shuttered schools and daycare centres, and stayed home, waiting for Tam\u2019s daily updates, to urge them to participate in the next battle tactic against their invisible enemy, who could be lurking anywhere.
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\nAnd they all obliged. Tam\u2019s draconian \u201cStay Home\/ Restez a la Maison\u201d ordinance could be the beginning of much stricter enforcements to come, based on her premise that \u201canyone could be infected,\u201d which means that we could all be infected.
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Mississauga\u2019s (Ontario) City Centre, with blocked off, empty parking lots, which are normally filled to capacity<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nAs the Chief Health Officer in Canada, Tam provides the data, the analyses, and the recommendations on health care and enforcement to the government. Prime Minister Trudeau, clearly following the advice of his Chief Public Health Officer, officially stated in\u00a0March 29<\/a>\u00a0during his daily update that:
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There are no plans to call in Canada\u2019s military to enforce quarantine or self-isolation measures amid COVID-19.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trudeau continues, with a hint of what might come for those who don\u2019t follow these regulations:
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The Canadian Armed Forces are there to help when Canada is in need…Right now we have not received any specific requests and there are no plans underway to have the army intervene.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\n\u201cAll Canadians must act now to reduce the spread,\u201d orders Tam in her\u00a0pre-taped video<\/a>, which has the air of an infomercial, appearing periodically on the CBC and CTV. And her emphatic \u201cnow\u201d has a clear subtext that there are serious consequences for those who don\u2019t help to \u201creduce the spread\u201d of this \u201cserious public health threat.\u201d
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\nSo here we are, in the midst of the “global health crisis.”
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So Who is Dr Theresa Tam?<\/span><\/h3>\n


\nWho is this woman now in charge of providing the “chief” medical information concerning Canada’s lockdown? Where did she come from? There is very little available on her biography, very little personal (and even professional) information on Tam. Somewhere there was a post that she was 55 years old, but I couldn’t find:
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