Earlier this week, I suggested that the time is right to ditch the failed attempts to contain and manage COVID in favour of hard lockdowns in provinces where the virus threatens to overwhelm health systems.
It is fair to say, many readers did not agree. “This silly little virus is not Ebola,” was a typical response, if less scathing and profane than many.
Yet it’s clear that we are in a new, more destructive phase of the pandemic, and it’s equally evident that preventative measures in Canada’s largest provinces are not working.
On Thursday, Ontario reported a record number of new cases (3,519), new deaths (89) and COVID-related hospitalizations (1,472). The province has seen 200,000 cases since the pandemic started, but has taken just 47 days to add the latest 100,000.
Quebec’s numbers were equally dismal – another 2,500 cases – a trend that promoted Premier Francois Legault to introduce new restrictions on Wednesday, including an 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew for the next month.
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Published on January 9, 2021
Growing number of medical specialists oppose lockdowns
The way politicians and many in the mainstream media are pushing the COVID-1984 lockdowns, you would think every medical specialist in the world must favour of them. Far from true, thousands of medical scientists/practitioners are pushing back against the lockdowns.
The Canadian Medical Association Journal has just published a letter by five medical experts calling increased lockdowns “indefensible” due to the lack of proof that they work and the obvious societal harms they are causing.
https://opentheword.org/2021/01/09/growing-number-of-medical-specialists-oppose-lockdowns/