There is not much information in this story, typical of all CBC and main-stream media reports on COVID-19 related matters. Rather than constantly giving vague warnings about complacency and the danger that COVID-19 poses, perhaps the CBC could provide us with the latest known facts about the virus?
It would be nice if the so-called "journalists" in our province and country could find the courage to do what they are supposed to do, and challenge our leaders with difficult questions, so that our governments can be held to account.
"Benefits assumed, harms ignored" is a recent report by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms that contains a list of reasonable questions that we need answers to. And I quote:
How many suicides are projected to take place as a result of the government having shut down much of our economy, forcing people into unemployment, bankruptcy, or poverty?
How many do you project will die because of the rise in depression, anxiety, alcoholism, other addictions and drug overdoses that the lockdown and associated unemployment and social isolation will cause, as the lockdown drags on for weeks or even months?
How many children and spouses do you project will be abused while couples and parents remain confined to their homes, in many cases unemployed, without their usual income and social connections?
How many children will be put in foster care because of domestic abuse, or loss of their parents’ ability to provide for them, or both?
How many isolated seniors are projected to become sick or die because they no longer receive regular visitors, such that nobody is able to take them to their own family doctor, or take them to an emergency unit at the hospital? How many will die at home, alone?
How many people are projected to die or to suffer permanent damage because their non-emergency (elective) surgery, their testing and their various treatments have been cancelled due to your singular focus on fighting COVID-19?
How many people are projected to suffer serious harm caused by lack of access to secondary health providers they regularly rely on, such asphysiotherapists, massage therapists, optometrists, chiropractors, osteopaths, podiatrists and dentists?
How many people are projected to die or suffer serious harm because they believe (correctly or incorrectly) that they cannot go see their doctor, or that they cannot check into emergency at the hospital?
How many children, confined to their homes while schools and playgrounds are closed and athletic and recreational activities are shut down, are projected to develop diabetes or other chronic health conditions?
How many people will develop psychiatric disorders caused by governments having eliminated social interaction at restaurants, pubs, churches, recreational facilities and community centres?
Have you or your staff researched any of these questions here above?
If yes to the foregoing question, have you created any models, estimates or projections in regard to any or all of these causes of illness, harm and death, in the same way that you have relied on models, estimates and projections in regard to COVID-19?