Manitoba goes for the really stupid

Tougher Manitoba lockdown measures

Vincent J. Curtis

21 May 21

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is about to prove that he’s as stupid and as thuggish as he looks.  It is well documented in the scientific literature that lockdown measures have negligible effect on controlling the spread of the virus.  Pallister gave further proof of this by imposing lockdown measures on Manitoba at the beginning of the latest wave, and now finds that he has impose different measures in a so-far unavailing effort to slow the spread.

That doesn’t mean he’s going to lift the measures that have proven ineffective; oh no, he’s going to place restrictions on outdoors activities as well.  It is well-known that the virus is transmitted through the air.  Fresh air is the key to slowing the spread, by replacing contaminated indoors air with fresh outdoors air as an example.  Pallister seems to think that Manitoba’s fresh outdoors air is loaded with the virus.  He thinks the virus can accumulate in outdoors air, and to prevent the spread outdoors, he has to impose restrictions on outdoors activities.

As the April, 2021, modelling study by M.I.T. shows, the virus is transmitted by susceptible people breathing enough contaminated air, and air can only get sufficiently contaminated if trapped indoors.  Mask-wearing outdoors is absurd, and restricting outdoors activities is foolish – people should be outdoors breathing fresh air.

Throughout Canada, government authorities are fixated on thuggish lockdown measures because too many egos and reputations are at stake if they admitted they had been wrong all along.

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