Oh, forget it!:
The group behind the Canadian Shield plan say it’s a third way, between what we’re doing now and the harsh Melbourne model.
While I agree that they have correctly diagnosed several problems with our current system, the prescription isn’t one I can get wholly behind.
The group smartly says we do need effective border controls, including testing of air travelers and proper quarantine methods. ...
(Sidebar: ahem ...)
Greenhill won’t say which businesses should be closed or which activities should be banned in any lockdown.
He sounds like a politician saying that “it depends.”
Proposals range from what many of us are dealing with now — closed gyms and restaurants — to shutting down construction sites and manufacturing.
“If that’s the case, be clear and give them compensation,” Greenhill says of businesses forced to close.
“It may be in certain places that you have to consider stay-in-place orders,” he said.
The plan is to invoke a harsh lockdown for four to six weeks, then gradually relax restrictions as cases fall by 17-25% per week until we reach a benchmark of one new case per day per one million of population.
How long that would take would vary greatly by province.
For Ontario and Alberta, that’s at least four to six months, while in Manitoba the effort would take two months, possibly more.
I don’t expect everything to open back up tomorrow, or for life to get back to normal any time soon.
Yet, I doubt many politicians have the desire to sell the public on this plan, of “just one more short lockdown” — and given the past week and how the political class has acted, I doubt very much the public wants to hear it.
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Justin is "sad" and "frustrated" because he is ineffective as a Chinese lackey and no one can believe he would actually put the brakes on the gravy train he started to ward off the deafening bleating of the ovine masses.
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Patty Hajdu is useless. Prove me wrong:
Health Minister Patricia Hajdu approved orders for 1,920,000 failed Covid-19 test kits without first finding out if they worked, according to internal records. A total 5,500 kits from Spartan Bioscience Inc. of Ottawa were initially delivered before regulators discovered the devices failed clinical trials: “Many businesses put up their hand and asked us what they can do.”
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In the mean time, people largely went about their business because no one really believes what the government drones on about anymore:
A new poll has found that 48 percent of Canadians saw friends and families outside of their households over the Christmas season.
The web poll by Leger saw responses from 1506 Canadians and 1003 Americans. 52 percent of those surveyed said they did not see anyone outside their household, while 34 percent say they only say people once, and 12 percent say they saw people more than once.
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The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) will be representing numerous Ontario pastors and church elders who have been charged for holding religious gatherings in contravention of the Reopening Ontario Act (ROA), according to a press release issued on Monday.
The JCCF will contest the charges on the basis the ROA violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by prohibiting people in Ontario to peacefully assemble for worship, as is their right.
The Charter is nothing but toilet paper but whatever. I guess you know what you are doing.
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