Thank you.
One of the other profound observations of the Campbell SARS report said:
That in any future infectious disease crisis, the precautionary principle guide the development, implementation and monitoring of worker safety procedures, guidelines, processes and systems.
Now many people are expressing that they think the reaction of the Public Health Agency of Canada may have been too slow and too cautious—too slow to close borders and impose travel restrictions, too slow to acknowledge community transmission, too slow to acknowledge asymptomatic transmissions, too slow to recommend the potential that masks may have in helping to reduce transmission. You identified as well that perhaps the agency was too slow in identifying potential airborne transmission.
What is your sense, Madame Lapointe? Are we fully displaying the precautionary principle, or do you think we are being too slow in getting ahead with measures that may help in slowing the spread of the virus?