By now you’ve seen plenty of covid charts. The case chart for Ontario can be terrifying:
What’s clear is that the rising number of cases in Ontario inevitably leads to more restrictions here - school closures, provincial border checkpoints, closed playgrounds, shuttered businesses.
And when the cases inevitably go down, we will be expected to thank our leaders for carefully guiding us through the storm with their careful decisions and surgical interventions.
However, what if the rise and fall of cases (or hospitalizations and deaths) had little to do with government restrictions and other heavy-handed policy measures?
Exhibit A: The three neighbours of Ontario, Michigan, and Western New York. Three different provinces/states that straddle an international border and have different policies and leaders - yet have case curves that all look rather similar in the timing of their peaks and troughs.
Ask yourself: Is this a coincidence? Were all three neighbours carefully coordinating their policies? Or were natural seasonal forces at play?
Would your answer be different if you were a politician or public health official in Ontario, Michigan, or New York?
Sorry In advance for the long post but I thought It might be constructed to share my 11 questions:
1/ why has the government never undertaken a comprehensive impact assessment before approving and re-approving highly instrusive and costly lockdowns?
2/ why has the provincial government approved a table of appointed experts to advice it on pandemic policy without one expert or advocate for children’s mental health? There are virologists, immunologists, health policy experts, an MBA and a geriatric psychiatrist but no children’s mental health experts. I asked this question to my MPP over two months ago and was told that the government has invested over $140 million in mental health
3/Further to question 2 and the table, why is there no little to no transparency around the table’s failed models and no debate with other world renowned specialists?
4/ Why has the government not been fast tracking safe, inexpensive and effective drugs like Ivermectin for early intervention when Ivermectin has shown excellent results in clinical trials in reducing the rate of hospitalization and death?
5/Why are you entertaining the idea of a vaccine passport when we know the vast majority of travellers run minimal risk from COVID 19?
6/ Are you familiar with the Nuremberg Code (1947) on permissible medical experiments and its protection of the right of patients to give informed consent to medical experiments? How is penalizing those who refuse an experimental vaccine compatible with this code?
7/So far regions with harsh lockdowns and universal masking policy are not avoiding spikes in cases, hospitalization and deaths and performing comparably or worse than jurisdictions who have not adopted these restrictions. Why have you made no changes to these policies in light of their abject failure?
8/ Why are you considering closing schools and subjecting children to mask mandates, social distancing and potentially being vaccinated when the evidence shows overwhelmingly that kids are not at risk and tend not be vectors of transmission to adults? Why do you wish to impose these needless and harmful risks to our children?
9/ what is the plan to deal with the hundreds of thousands of surgeries and diagnostic procedures postponed or cancelled during the pandemic? What is the cost in terms of dollars and lives lost due to missed/cancelled cancer screenings, undiagnosed and untreated heart disease etc?
10/why do you keep basing your COVID policies on case numbers when it is acknowledged by leading PCR experts that case numbers include many people who are no longer sick or are not contagious at all?
11/How can you possibly tell people under lockdown that “we are all in this together” when you know very well that government employees have a guaranteed income, while all small businesses, those who work in tourism, arts, entertainment and hospitality are seeing their livelihoods taken away?
I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised that not one of the activists er “journalists” acknowledge my email. After all these questions are not part of their narrative. Folks I believe the key to ending this train wreck is to influence or friends and family members who are accepting these ridiculous freedom infringing measures without nary a whimper to start demanding answers to these questions. This is the only way out I feel because this unelected health table holds all the cards
I have written my MPP and had a zoom call with her. The effort has been beyond futile. My MP’s office does not even answer the phone. Since the beginning of the pandemic her office phone goes straight to voicemail The office no longer returns my calls. Recently I sent an email to 15 prominent journalists - split equally between those who cover federal politics and those who cover provincial politics and the GTA news. In this email I ask 11 questions that I would appreciate they ask on behalf of the people they represent. Over the last 13 months, I have followed this debacle very closely and to my knowledge none of these questions have been asked. None of these journalists have even acknowledge my email. Should tell us everything we need to know