Mighty big of Mayor Bigger

Vincent J. Curtis

3 Feb 21 

RE: Sudbury Mayor wants checkpoints

You know you’re in the throes of frenzy and madness when mayors of small cities are calling to pull up the drawbridges.  Mayor Brian Bigger of Sudbury wants checkpoints placed along Highway 69 to prevent the non-essential diseased of Southern Ontario, and especially Toronto, from passing through, or worse, staying in, his beautiful city.  Highway 69 connects with the Trans-Canada Highway, Highway 17, in downtown Sudbury.  Sudbury is the “gateway to Ontario’s north” and Mayor Bigger wants the gate shut to the non-essentials of the south.  Mighty big of him!  Does that work both ways?  Can Northern Ontarians be prevented from travelling south to the big smoke?  If they do, can they be prevented from returning home?  No clarity on that from Mayor Bigger.

The second wave passed its peak on January 8, and case numbers and hospitalizations are in steep decline.  Cases are now at early November levels, and any danger of the health care system being overwhelmed is passed.  The excuses for the “temporary, one-time” shutdown and the house arrest orders from the Premier are gone.  The medical experts whose “knock your socks off” forecasts proved to be obsolete four days before they were presented, and Ontario will not have 20,000 cases per day by February 14^th, as they confidently predicted.  This was the second time the doctor-modellers proved to be disastrously wrong, and ought now to be counted among the boys who cried “wolf” too often.

Now the question becomes how long will the media be shilling COVID fear, start asking where the vaccines are, and begin observing civil rights violations?

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