Thread by @DonaldWelsh16

Ontario will, in short order, enable the next spectacle of vaccinating children against a virus they don't die from, which doesn't block infection/transmission and with a poor safety/efficacy record. It's all rather surreal. How did we get here and what's next. Let's consider. 1/

Canada's response to C19 has been a dismal failure, grounded on the idea that viral containment would eliminate spread while sterilizing vaccines and mass vaccination would eradicate. It's roots were puritanical, fact free and without evidential support. 2/

Contrast to Sweden's mitigation strategy which employed voluntary measures, light regulation, early treatment and targeted vaccination. It was a success and they are done; society was preserved, emotional drama minimized and death kept within historical norms. 3/

Sweden's strategy was built on well worn norms of public health, honed through decades of debate and careful thought. Canada's was founded on fear and utopian fantasies unhinged from standard scientific practice. 4/

Fear, utopian fantasies combined with wokism were the jet fuel powering every poorly conceived idea. Each failure increased public health's zealotry and that eventually gave way to the use of blind force. Large portions of the public have now lost trust in government. 5/

Ontario's C19 policy is in an advanced state of disrepair. It has accomplished little of substance and inflicted misery on the public. So what are the obstacles to change? Several, but the most important appears political. Who is going to "hold the bag" and get the blame. 6/

Responsibility should be squarely placed on those in public health, academia, and politics who peddled this evidence free response. Whether they will is an open question. This rambling
opinion piece by the Ontario Science Table suggests not. 7/

torontosun.com/news/provincia…

This shirking of responsibility and the ever present push to shift blame to "others" is a significant problem. How do realists enable positive, permanent change without accruing baggage others wish to dispatch and potentially derail a much needed recovery. 8/

A pickle indeed but perhaps opportunity lies within Ontario's respiratory virus season. Cases will rise in short order and those of puritanical belief will undoubtedly use that data to advance their unwarranted policies. Knee jerk reactions are hard to resist. 9/

But this dynamic changes on January 16 when Ontario's respiratory viral season historically peaks. From that point forward, cases naturally fall irrespective of policy. That flux point is where realists hold full power and can, if organized, rapidly effect change. 10/

It is this point that team apocalypse should be aggressively countered, pushed to accept responsibility, and then shown the door. Realists, if they push hard, could ensure that this province is never again exposed to these destructive policies. End.