Strict lockdowns work. Look at Israel, Poland, Austria or the Czech Republic. They locked down everything. Closed all schools, all non-essential services and shops, mandatory home office and so on. Israel had 9000 cases every day and they went down to about 200 to 300. Now they opened up and the cases rise again. Same goes for Poland. From 25 to 30k a day down to less than 5k. Austria, from 10k a day down to 2k. What doesn't work is the current patchwork lockdown, where some areas are open and some are not. And some businesses are open and some are not.
And mandatory vaccines
Not even the Liberals are talking about mandatory vaccines.
Hey, I know that your mother dropped you a couple of times on your head when you were little, but nowhere did I say I support strict lockdowns. I only said that strict lockdowns work to bring the numbers down. You can take a look at the numbers of countries that did a strict lockdown as pointed out above. Their numbers went down. Does Ontario have a strict lockdown? No. Peel and Toronto are locked down, but anyone can leave these regions and go shopping in a mall in the next town over.
And while in Canada the death toll isn't that high, it is higher in other countries. Sweden has the highest death rate since the Spanish flu in 1918.
Compared to 2019 or 2018 this year over 300,000 more Americans will die. You can blame Covid for it, you can blame more suicides for it or any other suffering.
Strict lockdowns work. Look at Israel, Poland, Austria or the Czech Republic. They locked down everything. Closed all schools, all non-essential services and shops, mandatory home office and so on. Israel had 9000 cases every day and they went down to about 200 to 300. Now they opened up and the cases rise again. Same goes for Poland. From 25 to 30k a day down to less than 5k. Austria, from 10k a day down to 2k. What doesn't work is the current patchwork lockdown, where some areas are open and some are not. And some businesses are open and some are not.
Not even the Liberals are talking about mandatory vaccines.
Hey, I know that your mother dropped you a couple of times on your head when you were little, but nowhere did I say I support strict lockdowns. I only said that strict lockdowns work to bring the numbers down. You can take a look at the numbers of countries that did a strict lockdown as pointed out above. Their numbers went down. Does Ontario have a strict lockdown? No. Peel and Toronto are locked down, but anyone can leave these regions and go shopping in a mall in the next town over.
And while in Canada the death toll isn't that high, it is higher in other countries. Sweden has the highest death rate since the Spanish flu in 1918.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-sweden-deadliest-november-spanish-flu.html
In England the access deaths are now over 65k compared to prior years:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-reports/mortality-surveillance/excess-mortality-in-england-latest.html
Here are the total deaths in the US per week since 2017.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Compared to 2019 or 2018 this year over 300,000 more Americans will die. You can blame Covid for it, you can blame more suicides for it or any other suffering.
You argue like a Liberal.