Embarrassing questions for Dr. Moore

Vincent J. Curtis

23 Dec 21

A clever questioner might ask Dr. Moore, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, questions like the following based upon his Dec 17^th pronouncement:

As we’ve known since March, 2020 and supported by Ontario’s COVID data, the population most vulnerable to COVID-19 are those over 70 years old.  Given that, how many people over 70 attend strip clubs after 11:00 p.m.?  If you don’t know, then there is no scientific basis for the early closure order, so was the closure order based upon personal moral abhorrence of strip clubs?

What is so magical about 11:00 p.m.?  Why not 9:30 p.m., or 2:00 a.m.?

Bars and restaurants were found empirically to contribute less than two percent to the spreading of cases.  What, then, is the rational basis for reducing capacity limits, ordering early closures, and being so intrusive as to limit numbers at a table?

How is it that the COVID virus gets transmitted so readily after 11:00 p.m., when the crowd size is usually smaller than before 11:00 p.m.?  What is the scientific basis for this conclusion?  How does the consumption of food and alcohol contribute to the spread of COVID after 11:00 p.m. but not before?

Why is it that attendees are allowed to stand and cheer at Leafs games, but nowhere else?

What is the rational basis for prohibiting the sale of food and drink at sporting events, concerts, cinemas and theatres, when even larger numbers of people congregate at the ticket takers and in the seating areas?

Where is your data to support your orders?

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The last was a derisive, rhetorical question.  That data doesn’t exist.  It’s all based on supposition and guesswork that began in the U.S., and, based on Dr. Scott Atlas’ new book, with Dr. Deborah Birx of the COVID task force, chaired by Vice President Mike Pence in particular.  In short, there is so scientific basis, no data, for Dr. Moore’s lockdown-ish orders of December 17^th.