1. We didn't lose 22000 ppl to C-19. CAN had 13000 excess deaths in 2020. A significant number of those are in the low-risk C19 groups, meaning they are lockdown related deaths.
2. Total life years lost and economic damage from lockdowns were far more significant than if all efforts had been put into protecting the most vulnerable. A far less miserable, normal all-cause death year would have been achievable had pre-2020 strategies been used.
3. There is no correlation between Zero Covid & improved economic activity. FLA & SWE GDP and unemployment rates bounced back while NZ stagnates. The ship sailed on Covid Zero as soon as the virus became widespread on the NA continent. Continuing to discuss it is unproductive.
4. US to CAN is a false comparison. The US has far different demographics. Many blue states implemented the same type of measures at the same time as Canada (some more stringent) and achieved far worse results. The best performing large province in Canada has been light-touch BC.
5. David and his ilk's 15 minutes is thankfully almost up. Soon lockdown measures, masks and hysterical COI infested academics will be nothing but a painful memory and cautionary example of how not to manage a public health emergency.
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Ontario Science Table & Reopening/back to school framework: Supplied by McKinsey and Co cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
2/Ontario Science Table member double dips by supplying teachers unions with data to support keeping schools closed torontosun.com/news/provincia…
3/McKinsey/WEF/Gates affiliated think tank supplies OST with Covid Zero policy paper to guide ON pandemic response:
1/What is #CovidEquity? The U of T Institute for Pandemics (headed by @DFisman) offers some clues as to how (at least a portion) of the CAN academic health sciences sector envisions responding to C19 and future pandemics through an equity lens. dlsph.utoronto.ca/pandemics/
2/ The website's spendy splash page identifies U of T's ideological concerns in responding to pandemics: 1. Climate Change 2. SARS 3. Migration 4. Urbanization 5. Interdependence 6. Tech Disruption 7. Mistrust 8. Overburdened Health Systems
These are important issues, however...
3/I am old enough to remember when emergency management was apolitical and focused entirely on mitigating the emergency at hand, with a primary goal of getting to the recovery phase, while causing a minimum of disruption to the normal function of society along the way.
1/Question: Why is everyone connected with @UofT_dlsph so obsessed with getting kids to wear masks all-day (and now all summer)? Recklessly, they have not presented a risk analysis to evaluate potential harms. Here is another non-peer reviewed paper from Bassani.
2/We know that all-day masking of kids is not innocuous. Masks come with their own risks of poor health and psychological outcomes. I have seen first hand the impact that masks are having on non-verbal communication and socialization of kids and youth.
3/We also know that children and teachers (or councilors)
handle C19 well. LTC, the very elderly and those with end of life conditions should be the focus, not kids or young adult camp councilors.
1/@DrBonnieHenry@adriandix@bcedplan. All of the Zero Covid folks are jumping on this new non-peer reviewed paper to try to bully you into masking kids all day at school. Please show some leadership and stay the course.
2/This is a poorly constructed study, and if any of the people pushing it had actually read it, the statistical difference between mask/non mask is negligible at best (despite the fact that the data is likely cherry picked). Consider the Scandinavian countries experience instead.
3/Keep in mind this data was collected during the more deadly first wave.
1/I am sure that someone a lot smarter than me (and Dr. "just put some cortisone cream on it" Iannattone) can poke a million holes in the statement below and the non-peer reviewed study quoted. 1st, the charts indicate nearly no statistical difference between mask/no mask wearing