Low-level COVID jurisdictions risk becoming sanitary dictatorships
By: Rachel Marsden
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Here on far-left coast of Canada, there haven’t
been any deaths attributed to COVID-19 since June 5, at the time of this
writing. Yet, while hard-hit countries like France are now almost entirely back
to normal, despite a couple of dozen COVID deaths per day, places like this
westernmost province of Canada, which was mostly spared, are plagued with
officials who have clearly not developed the resilience, borne of real crisis,
to confidently return to normal despite the relatively low risk of doing so.
Instead, officials here are still pretending to be stage managing a nonexistent
crisis, while talking about its potential to arrive any time now.
The goal of “flattening the curve” has never been to have no new cases. That’s
an absurd concept, as no disease has a zero-infection rate, yet it seems to be
the objective now in places like this one that were minimally impacted. More
people kill themselves in any given year here than have died of COVID. The
record high number of 170 illicit drug overdoses in this Canadian province last
month alone is greater than all COVID deaths combined. In total, there have been
168 deaths from the disease here since counting began. Four sufferers are
currently in intensive care.
Arriving from France – a country where there are still between 20 and 30 COVID
deaths every day, over 800 cases in intensive care, and over 29,000 deaths — the
restrictions here are jarringly disproportionate to the impact of the virus in
that any limitations still exist at all. Even more shocking is the complacency
of the average citizen toward them. It might have something to do with the fact
that the Canadian federal government is paying people not to work for the
duration of the virus panic, to the tune of $2,000 per month for up to four
months – a measure that could be extended.
Like in much of Canada and elsewhere in the world, COVID deaths are
overwhelmingly among the elderly in care homes, but officials have people
brainwashed to think that it’s just as bad everywhere.
Many of us who were subjected to the two-month draconian lockdown in France,
including government authorization to even emerge from your apartment, pushed
back rhetorically on the government’s handling of the crisis. French
intelligence even detected the undercurrent and issued a memo one week into the
lockdown raising the fear of post-lockdown radicalization of social movements.
Fear of revolt pressured the government to answer the call and shore up its
resources so that it could contend with any potential resurgence of the virus
without having to send us back into a general lockdown. Today, France is more
confident and resilient than places like British Columbia and New Zealand, which
are touted for having zero deaths – and which now can’t seem to accept anything
less. Both seemingly willing to sacrifice the day-to-day lives of an entire
population out of fear that even one person may die. They’ve backed themselves
into a bubble that can’t be maintained forever.
By contrast, French President Emmanuel Macron expedited the country’s unlocking
back to near-normal last Sunday, after health experts had warned that an
unlocking that was too slow now risked being more harmful than any potential
health risk associated with it.
Today, French people are now freer than many Canadians because of citizens who
pushed back against encroaching sanitary fascism. And France is barely any worse
off now in terms of current COVID deaths, which have now plummeted everywhere in
the developed world.
Here, elected officials are taking a visible back seat to public health
officials, who are still give daily press conferences announcing no deaths — but
with a warning that the situation risks changing. Yeah, and a giant earthquake
also might cause the whole place to crumble into the Pacific Ocean tomorrow.
People can’t be forced to stop living their lives for fear of risk.
It’s time for the technocrats to fade back into the background and for elected
officials to do their jobs and open the place back up, already. The excuse given
for why people are limited to short appointments for the gym or swimming pool,
but are permitted to gather to protest en masse, is that neighboring regions
have more infections. So what? The death rate isn’t a problem anymore, so it’s
time to get back to normal. Not the Orwellian “new normal” nonsense — but the
old normal.
The whole idea of restrictions was to make sure that people could get an
intensive care bed if they needed one. Every country on earth has now had more
than three months to ensure that standard. It’s time to fully transfer risk
management over to the citizens to make their own decisions about how to live
their lives.
COPYRIGHT 2020 RACHEL MARSDEN