Since March of 2020, I personally have not felt the need to fear covid 19. There was so much confusion and concern back then. But the truth is that no one really new what was going on and choices were made based on what ‘could’ or ‘might’ happen. Countries wanted to be prepared for the worse case scenario.
So here we are now. Twelve months later we now are armed with facts. Countries can look at the data for the last year and see actual real numbers. Leaders, scientists and health officials should be looking at what has actually happened and adjust accordingly. But that is not what is happening.
Because I have not agreed with the mainstream narrative and have been asking questions, I have been accused of not believing in science. Not once have ever said the Coronavirus was not real. I think there is a virus that is making people sick and killing some of them. However, I strongly disagree with how countries around the world have dealt with this pandemic.
Countries around the globe have locked down. Forcing people to stay confined to their homes, closing small business’s, watching suicide rates climb. Basically, destroying the economy and the future for our children.
I make this comment and suddenly I don’t care about grandma. My response to that is often something like this. “I do care about the elderly. However, I wouldn’t want someone I love with dementia, alone, confused and scared dying alone in her nursing home.” We can argue this till we are blue in the face and that is not the intention of todays read.
Instead of questioning science, let’s look at the cold hard facts collected here in Canada from the last 12 months.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms released a quick and easy to understand post on March 19, 2021. The title is “Why we Fear Covid Too Much’. I guarantee that you can find the exact information for your home country on any government run statistics page. I have shared what I think is the important information. If you want to read the entire post CLICK HERE or please go to my youtube channel where I read the article in its entirety out loud.
“It is time that Canadians face the truth:
- Most of us aren’t going to get it.
- Most of us who do get it will get over it.
- It is easy to protect yourself.
According to an end-of-year statement from Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, there were 572,982 Canadians infected in 2020, or 1.5% of a 38.1 million population. Of those infected, 2.7% died. Nor were deaths random: More than 90% of Canada’s 15,472 Covid deaths were above the age of 70. Of all deaths, roughly 80% were in long-term care homes.
All deaths are tragic. We do not value one life over another, on the basis of age. However, the vulnerability of the elderly and infirm to the Covid virus, and their geographic concentration, point to a rather obvious mitigation strategy.
Rather than locking down healthy people everywhere, our efforts should be focused on protecting a relatively small population of unhealthy, and largely immobile people, in the readily accessible places where they live.
In Canada, after a year observing this, we continue to do the exact opposite.
But, elected and unelected government officials, assisted by media, have allowed a deep, corrosive and above all needless societal angst to take hold of Canadians. The level of fear is not justified by the facts and as anxiety, mental illness and depression soar, we are only now starting to understand how much harm they have caused.
We need instead to bring the drivers’ risk-calculation to everyday choices. And we need to bring Canadian society back to life, and start living again. Stress shortens lives as well.”
You might not agree with my opinions on all of this, but how can anyone argue with the facts. Governments and leaders all across the globe should be looking at this data and making changes to preserve our future and fix the mistakes they made because they didn’t have the proper information.
I am not saying to not take precautions. But I wholeheartedly feel that we need to fear Covid less and get on with living our lives.
