While we can take some comfort that the kind of madness that grips the United States is absent in Canada, we would be wrong to think there aren't seeds of it here:
Toronto police have arrested three participants in two separate anti-lockdown protests downtown Saturday afternoon, the same day the province saw 3,056 new COVID-19 cases and a record number of 420 patients in intensive care units.
Videos surfacing on social media show hundreds of protestors gathered at Nathan Phillips Square and Yonge-Dundas Square defying public health measures and denouncing the provincial stay-at-home mandate.
Below is one sample of the insensate crowd, mostly unmasked and gathered closely together to protest the abrogation of their 'freedom' to spread disease.
The rot from south of the Medicine Line is oozing north.
ReplyDeleteThat's what comes from having a very porous border, I guess, Toby.
DeleteI've heard that the US is expecting to record 500,000 Covid deaths by mid February. Biden's Covid czar says the US still hasn't finished the Christmas/New Years rush of cases. Los Angeles resembles nothing so much as a massive plague ward.
ReplyDeleteExperience proves that these anti-maskers, anti-lockdown types, by their sheer intransigence, cost lives. When are we going to treat them as accountable for it.
Would they mass in Nathan Phillips Square if they faced a mandatory six month stretch in one of our lovely Covid incubators, our jails? If we want to change their behaviour so they're not a menace to society, we have to impose effective penalties. The risk of minimal fines doesn't seem to be enough.
Clearly, Mound, the existing penalties are not enough. I suspect they doubt that they will even receive a fine. Time to bring down the hammer like they are starting to do with the 'untouchables' who were part of the Capitol insurrection, eh?
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