The Canadian government has issued a series of alarming advisories urging employers and the public to prepare for a new and highly dangerous hypothetical virus that could, among other things, cause major supply chain disruptions leading to food and water shortages.
The government’s Centre for Occupational Health and Safety recently published a second edition of its Flu and Infectious Disease Outbreaks Business Continuity Plan Handbook, which provides advice and information to employers on what they should do to prepare for another allegedly dangerous “pandemic”.
The latest edition focuses in particular on a new “hypothetical virus” that could allegedly cause similar – or worse – disruption than covid-19. It claims that “based on trends from past pandemic flu, there may be a higher average number of illness and deaths in age groups different than what we typically see during annual flu seasons”.
It also says employers need to prepare for a scenario in which an outbreak results in large numbers of employees being forced to stay home from work.
“‘If there is a pandemic, how many people will be off work? It is impossible to determine with certainty. Estimates vary because no one will know for sure how ill the new virus will make people, how fast it will spread, or how many people will not go to work, until it happens”, it says.
“It is important to know that a pandemic will come in 2 or 3 waves about 3 to 9 months separating each outbreak. Each wave is expected to last approximately 6 to 8 weeks. A pandemic may last in these cycles for up to two years or more”, it is further argued.
Martial law imposed against protesters
As a result, the population must be prepared for disruptions in the form of reduced labor, supply chain problems, and changes in consumer demand and purchasing patterns. In addition, telecommunications, banking, water, gasoline, medicine, and food could be affected by the disruptions.
Notably, the alarmist Canadian calls come shortly after US “disease control experts,” including the infamous Anthony Fauci, once again advocated that the public start wearing face masks – citing alleged increases in covid cases.
Although during covid-19 it was essentially not the virus itself but the government’s political restrictions and lockdown policies that led to the widespread societal disruption, this is not problematized or focused on in the handbook.
When tens of thousands of citizens had had enough and protested against the country’s harsh corona policy, those in power chose to respond by introducing martial law and fighting the protesters instead of listening to them, something The Nordic Times has reported extensively on.
