Reason Impaired

Normand Mousseau is a Professor of Physics at l’Universite de Montreal and the author of Pandemie: Quand la raison tombe malade (Pandemic: When Reason Fall Ill), published in 2020. The book analyses through a scientific lens how the COVID event was badly mismanaged in several concurrent fields such as politics, media, bureaucracy and epidemiological science.

“… there's a problem among the civil servants. We don't want to take risks. We don't want to take responsibility. Those are the same civil servants who are in public health in Canada. So essentially, everybody is afraid of their own shadow.”