Bayer
Senior Member
Many dubious reopening decisions are being made around the world. France is a particularly egregious example, with only a third of the population having been vaccinated - I'll be watching the headlines in a couple of weeks. In the U.S., the CDC's decision to allow vaccinated people to go without masks in a country where so many people are hostile to the very idea of wearing one, and the resumption of mass gatherings while vaccinations are stalling, are very American in their individualistic stupidity - and I know Americans, I'm married to one. Then there is Sweden which, uncharacteristically, tried to give its people more "freedom" and ended up with a death rate 4 times that of Norway and Finland.We'll never escape lockdown with that mentality and we will continue to ignore the pain that these lockdowns cause. Imagine if the media focussed 100% of their energy to suicides and other deaths caused by unreasonable restrictions?
As for Ontario, I am less interested in anectodes about psychological distress than in the hundreds of people who are now hospitalized and incapable of breathing on their own, and the thousands of others who are sick and suffering. Among them is my business partner, with a serious case of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Now unable to urinate on his own, he's had a catheter 24 hours a day for 6 weeks because surgeries have been halted due to the colossal ineptitude of the Ontario government, whose restrictions were indeed unreasonable - because they weren't strict enough to begin with, or lifted too soon, thereby extending the pandemic and its consequences. The only solution is to crush COVID with serious restrictions and accelerated vaccinations.