Bait and Switch

Vincent J. Curtis

14 Apr 20

The shutdown of Canada’s economy and the unconstitutional and unlawful imposition of quarantine measures on all Canadians were predicted on the belief that the coronavirus pandemic would overwhelm our health care system.  Now that we are at or past the peak of cases, the goal has switched.  We aren’t trying to save the health care system anymore, we are trying to “save lives” and eradicate the virus altogether by maintaining quarantine and other extreme mitigation measures.

By imposing measures to save the health care system and then changing the goal to “saving lives” and eradicating the virus, the public health experts and the politicians who slavishly follow them have engaged in a bait and switch.  The health care system is now ready to cope with the remains of the pandemic, but the economy and people remain under lockdown.  The question remains, why?

Life is not without risk, and the remains of the pandemic amount to nothing more than a seasonal flu, the risks of which we accept as an ordinary fact of life.

No government order can override our Charter Rights under Section 2(c) and (d)  to peaceful assembly and association.  No Quarantine Act can override those Rights either, and none grants the authority of government to quarantine healthy people, to say nothing of the vast mass of the people.

The public health officials have had their moment, and now they are starting to take advantage of it.  It is time for our elected politicians to take back their powers and end this unconstitutional, unlawful, and extreme mitigation measures immediately.
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