It's clear that very few did, possibly because people are seeing this lockdown as an enough amount of paranoid codswallop, irksome, burdensome and totally unnecessary:
We're told this lockdown is due to fear of overwhelming ICU capacity.
— Roman Baber (@Roman_Baber) April 1, 2021
But this morning in Toronto, aka Ontario's hot spot, ICU occupancy is 80%, same as the Provincial Occupancy Rate and 10% below the stated goal of <90%!
Why is @fordnation ruining millions of lives? #onpoli pic.twitter.com/olHNU1wUBq
But that still doesn't stop the brownshirts from their government-appointed ministry:
— Calgary Police (@CalgaryPolice) April 4, 2021
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A Catholic church has hit out at police for "brutally" exceeding their powers after officers shut down its Good Friday service in London.
The Metropolitan Police was called to a report of crowds of people queuing outside Christ the King church on Balham High Road in south London on Friday evening.
In a letter to parishioners on its website, the Polish Catholic church said police had "brutally exceeded their powers by issuing their warrant for no good reason" because "all government requirements were met".
The church said worshippers obeyed police orders, and the Met said no fixed penalty notices were issued.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “Officers attended and found a large number of people inside the church.
“Some people were not wearing masks and those present were clearly not socially distanced.
“We are particularly concerned about the risk of transmission of the Covid-19 virus as a result of large indoor gatherings at which people are not socially distanced and some are not wearing masks.
“As such, officers made the decision that it was not safe for that particular service to continue.
“Understanding the sensitivity of the situation, officers engaged with the priest outside the church and were invited inside to address the congregation.”
(Sidebar: let them try that with a mosque or a big box store or the House of Commons.)
The culturally ingrained anti-clericalism and disregard for days of observance are evidence that this sort of parochial tyranny is welcomed and encouraged in the West despite the handful of detractors who stand in the face of spitting.
No, Canadians haven't been patient; they've been weak:
We’ve been patient, too, during this same period over the vacillations in governments’ approaches, the multiple variations in what we should and should not do. At one point masks were useless, and only needed for professional health-care personnel. Then they were absolutely necessary. Likewise with this practice of “social distancing.” Early on it was casual, now a man is a pariah, even if alone and a block away from anyone else, if he is not wearing a mask. Some are even advising two. Others wear them while in their cars, on their own.
The early statements of the parameters of the pandemic were fuzzy or off. There was a perfectly tragic misreading — call it inability in the face of a “new” virus or incompetence in not seeing the obvious — of its potential impact on the elderly. COVID’s horrid impact in long-care homes went either unobserved or passed over without sufficient response for far, far too long. This was a situation when patience would normally explode into anger. But in the main, sadly, it did not.
Early on as well, the thought of putting an embargo on flights from outside the country was deplored. Airports were open, no checking on incoming passengers from any country. A year or so into the pandemic that has changed, and still no fever of outrage over a policy that certainly in hindsight, and actually even at the time, was extremely lax.
We were patient, too, with the obvious contradictions that governed aspects of lockdown. People could gather in superstores, but not in churches. My favourite came last summer when a friend observed you could go to a protest but not get a haircut. Even celebrated politicians showed up at protests at a time when they maintained it was not safe to go to Parliament.
Who held mass demonstrations against Ford's latest foul-up? Has the idiot boy been held to account yet? Have his movements been restricted?
This ends when we make it end. Repeating the same erroneous courses of action lead one to the conclusion that the leaders don't know what they are doing or that they know exactly what they are doing and that is to control the population for as long as it can.
(Sidebar: for anyone who thinks that the government is there for them and would never do a thing like that needs to live in North Korea.)
Also - refreshing:
The owner of a Vancouver restaurant is vowing to continue defying a provincial health order banning indoor dining for three weeks, despite being served with an individual order to close. ...
In the video, Matthews, who is unmasked and has an infant strapped to her chest, tells the inspectors she does not recognize their jurisdiction and that they are trespassing.
Diners at the packed restaurant then join into a chant of “Get out! Get out!” prompting the health officials to leave to cheers from the crowd.
Vancouver police referred questions to Vancouver Coastal Health and provincial officials.
Tienanmen Square those guys, coppers!
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Scientists have found evidence that some face masks that are on sale and being used by members of the general public are laced with toxic chemicals.
Preliminary tests have revealed traces of a variety of compounds which are heavily restricted for both health and environmental reasons.
This includes formaldehyde, a chemical known to cause watery eyes; a burning sensations in the eyes, nose, and throat; coughing; wheezing; and nausea. ...
The findings of these early studies come as the quality of masks used in Belgium and Canada has been called into question, with graphene and metal ion contamination.
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