Ontario Extends Stay-at-Home Order: The idiots in charge

Vincent J. Curtis

16 Apr 21

When a Canadian returns home from a well-earned sunny vacation, the Federal government obliges that individual to quarantine for fourteen days, regardless of a negative COVID test and whether or not the person has been vaccinated or has recovered from the disease.  Yes, it’s stupid, but never mind.

Fourteen days gives a person recently infected a ninety-five percent chance not just of developing symptoms but of actually recovering from an infection.  Hence, when the Ontario government imposes a four week stay-at-home order they are imposing a quarantine of double the necessary time upon a population that is already greater than 99.9 percent uninfected.  The extension of the stay-at-home order by a third quarantine period raises the question of whether the idiots in charge know what they’re doing, or if they are suffering from an acute lack of imagination and taking it out on us.

The verdict sides with both options.  In January, the Stanford University Medical Center released a scholarly study of lockdown measures around the world and concluded that they do nothing to slow the spread of the virus.  Ontario’s doctors are implicitly admitting that this is so because despite stay-at-home orders etc., the situation remains out of their control.  By now, you’d think that repeated failure might clue them in that their methods aren’t working, but that would be to admit they didn’t know what they were doing going back to March, 2020.

They can’t exempt the vaccinated and the recovered from controls.  And they can’t answer why.

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