Premier Ford and Advsiors Challenged to Scientific Debate
There is no scientific consensus behind Ontario's response to Covid-19.
A team of experts in the fields of clinical medicine, biology, immunology, virology, epidemiology, and infectious diseases has challenged Premier Ford and his pandemic response team, including the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. David Williams, to a public debate on Ontario’s past and ongoing response to Covid-19.
The signatories note the urgency of the request:
For over a year the Government of Ontario has used a blanket non-targeted and population-wide approach using measures that now appear to be, at best, arbitrary and worse capricious. These have led to unnecessary death of our seniors and collateral damage to our society’s mental health, deaths of despair, drug overdoses (intentional or not), alcoholism, suicidal ideation and worse.
The education of our children has been hurt beyond comprehension. Similarly, knowing that the school environment is often the 1st place where evidence for child abuse or certain illnesses are initially recognized the impact on the health of our children has been very damaging. The incidence of presentation to emergency departments of parents with injured children caused by child abuse has increased dramatically! And of course, the impact on our children’s education and development has been horrible.
Ontarians with severe illnesses, small businesses, and our economy have suffered immeasurable harms. In the interest of the 14.7 million people living in this Province, we want to provide all of them with a transparent discussion of the data, facts, and alternatives so we can all make an informed, collective decisions on how best to move forward with the interests of every demographic in mind.
The full announcement is included at the bottom of this article.
This is not the first time a group of scientists and doctors has suggested a better way forward for Ontario:
The idea for such a discussion is reminiscent of meetings between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the scientists behind the Great Barrington Declaration.
The same scientists who had advised DeSantis on his successful reopening of Florida had also taken part in a forum focused on Ontario on April 11, 2021. View it below or read a transcript here.
Florida is completely open and continues to prosper without witnessing a downturn in its Covid-19 situation - the state is actually doing better than most states with heavy lockdowns.
Many are suggesting that Premier Ford accept the request for a debate and host a debate between the signatories to the Ontario debate request and advisors on the Ontario Science Table (OST). Ford could use that as a starting point for abandoning the province’s ineffective months-long lockdown.
Read the full request here:
Love the idea but we are assuming that we live in a transparent society that respects our rights and freedoms. The reality is that the majority of Ontario residents don’t have a problem with these restrictions and the legacy media are pleading for stricter measures. Just listen to the pressers where the usual suspects carry the water for the OST. I speak to people daily and listen to their views without expressing mine and once I establish they are not just virtue signalling because they are concerned I may judge them, in most cases It is clear that they either have no clear understanding of our charter of rights and freedoms or if they do understand these rights, they are content to do as they are told and will not pushback. The politicians know this and the only way any of this changes is when the polls tell them enough of us are fed up. It is quite ironic that in a free society the media of all industries are calling for more restrictions on speech, freedom to assemble and travel. Stop for a minute and think about what kind of dystopian society we live in where the media call for stricter measures on our ability to express ourselves. Are we China or Cuba? These activists are expressing anger and frustration at our elected officials because they didn’t lock us down hard enough. They are not advocating for the hundreds of thousands of Ontario residents who have cancelled surgeries, diagnostic procedures, as well as shuttered businesses. We also know that suicides are up over 300% and fatal drug overdoses are up over 200% year over year. When was the last time you heard one of these activists ask about these issues? Wish I was more optimistic but Doug Ford and his cabinet are managing to the polls, have forgotten their core supporters who voted for them and lack the courage to push back. Over the last two weeks he has had ample opportunity to show courage like Gov. DeSantis but it is clearly not in the cards. Until more than 50% of Ontario residents and a Canadians wake up, we are at the mercy of these unelected health officials who have failed us over the last 14 months
They would never debate. That's a clue to the true nature of this pandemic. Have these health measures caused massive harms because of lack of debate?