It’s Just Bizarre That Some People Still Want COVID Measures…

Commentary by Anthony Furey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Let’s begin off with just a little pop quiz. Please learn this headline from CTV News and inform me the 12 months the story was printed: “Ontario will not require masks in schools this fall despite uptick in COVID cases.”

I’d prefer to assume that it’s from 2021, and that whereas folks have been nonetheless comparatively involved in regards to the virus, the federal government decided that it needs to be as much as mother and father whether or not or not their youngsters wore masks in school.

Alas, this isn’t true. Ontario nonetheless mandated masks at the moment.

OK, so it have to be fall of 2022 then? That sounds about proper, as a result of it’s true that there have been no masks mandates in Ontario colleges at that time and the vast majority of youngsters selected to not put on them.

It’s not from then, although. This is a information headline from simply the opposite day—September 2023. Why is that this thought-about information? Why is a media outlet even reporting about COVID and colleges proper now? Was the federal government even contemplating a masks mandate?

These have been all good questions that individuals requested on social media after the story went stay. The final one might be an important one, as a result of it will be very worrisome if the federal government was in actual fact contemplating such a mandate.

“As is the case with every jurisdiction in Canada, masks will not be required in Ontario schools,” Education Minister Stephen Lecce stated in an emailed assertion to CTV. He then went on to speak about air flow measures within the lecture rooms.

Lecce didn’t give a press convention on this problem. The ministry didn’t even ship out their very own press launch. While the story doesn’t spell this out, it looks as if the intrepid reporter randomly requested the Education Ministry this query out of the blue for the only objective of penning this story. The incontrovertible fact that Lecce’s assertion started with a nod to how nowhere else is doing this may in all probability be interpreted as a little bit of an eyeroll on the information outlet for even asking the query within the first place. Good.

It’s simply weird that some folks nonetheless need COVID measures proper now, and the sprinkling of stories tales at present cropping up appear to only play to that more and more small and oddball base.

A current Toronto Star story mentioned how small companies are nervous about having to doubtlessly face COVID restrictions this coming fall and winter. But the enterprise advocates they quoted have been simply responding to random hypothetical questions put to them. It’s not like there was any authorities official or credible medical voice who was saying such issues have been within the works. It’s a completely manufactured narrative at this level.

The unlucky half is that whereas most individuals gained’t even discover these tales and simply go about their day by day lives, there will probably be a small variety of folks needlessly alarmed and frightened by them.

Now I’m conscious that my merely penning this column is in some methods enjoying into the efforts of these voices attempting to get the COVID band again collectively once more. They clearly need folks speaking about it as a lot as attainable, even when it’s in opposition to them, simply to get the dialogue ramped up once more. The greatest response is basically simply to completely ignore them and the entire narrative.

One factor that we nonetheless haven’t acquired, although, is accountability in relation to those that have been so horribly mistaken. Last fall, some alleged consultants tried to say that the back-to-school season can be a catastrophe with out restrictions and kids would endure significantly from COVID. That didn’t in any respect come near occurring. So for those who have been an skilled earlier than you made such grandiose predictions—ones that got here with calls to limit the lives of youngsters—the consensus needs to be that you’re not an skilled. Instead, too many individuals have been inspired to say ridiculous issues and there was no follow-up to test in on how mistaken they have been.

The excellent news, nonetheless, is just about everybody has tuned out all of this noise by now.

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