Our government is not going to get everything right. Programs of this magnitude are going to have holes and come to life cumbersomely and awkwardly. There is no way around that and no one could do it any better. There are going to be miss-steps and do-overs.

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There are going to be shortages of things and not everyone is going to get grabbed by the net the way they want. Our healthcare system is going to be stretched and strained and our economy shocked. We're going to have to rethink a lot of things when this is over.

And we're going to have to decide what sort of nation we are. We're either the kind that pulls together in a crisis, trusts the institutions and rows in the same direction, or the kind of nation in decline that splits into political camps.

We must not confuse appropriate opposition with using a crisis to undermine trust in the government, which is what the @CPC_HQ is doing.

It's very important that we listen to the advice of the experts in our federal government and that we follow their guidelines.

We'll have another election. We can choose new government. We will have endless retrospectives on this crisis and analysis of the government's performance.

But this is the government we have now and we should all want them to succeed, because Canadian lives depend upon it.

It would be most helpful if journalists worked to uplift us and inform us instead of using our fear and panic to drive a narrative that will only slow our recovery. There will be plenty of time for your theory on why something was wrong or how the government failed.

Right now we're scared. Not all of us are listening to the government's advice, not all believe they're trustworthy ... and that's going to cost actual lives. Every time you push out the niggling question about this or that issue from yesterday's news, you undermine faith.

There must be a way to balance oversight and the duty to inform with the duty to be a positive player in a public crisis. There must be a way to separate the useful right now criticisms and the ones that merely add to the public fear but can have no effect on outcome.

If the press and politicians can't step outside normal parameters in a time like this and adapt to the needs of the society they're serving, then I really do believe we're going to fail as a society. Our normal behaviour got us here. Maybe we need to reflect on its imperfection.

The government can't know how many people will die because the curve is ever changing. Any projection would be foolish and negligent to make - and why does that matter, exactly? We don't know what this will cost. We can't.

We don't know if every business will survive and we will make mistakes on how to keep everyone floating. We just will. A country is a complex organism with a lot of moving parts. I'm deeply disappointed in a political system that chooses to have no "greater good" mode.

These are unprecedented times which call for an unprecedented response and it seems to me that it's the same old, same old.

Apologies for the rant, I'm living the real life consequences of our method of "opposition" and it's been a wake up call.

Can't we be better than this?