The Harder The Restrictions; The Higher The Cases

For those of you who get your information outside government babblers and media shills, you know in the United States there's a trend showing where restrictions remain cases keep rising (ie New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania etc.) Massachusetts had 2300 cases today. Texas 2700. MA has nearly 7 million people. Texas 25 million. MA is restricted. Texas is open. I expect the trend to be the same for Georgia which opened April 7.

Quebec and Ontario are like blue states. Stubbornly restrictive and in the case of Quebec the most restrictive on the continent. What does it have to show for it? Nothing but rising cases since September. It hasn't really showed down except for a small period earlier this year. 

In fact, Quebec is obtusely doubling down on its measures in an effort to fend off variants. The government took out a sign in Montreal with the dictatorial tone "Respecter les consigne. Sans exceptions.' 

So much for exemptions. These sorts of bits of specious sanitary propaganda make mockery of Legault's claims of 'balancing mental health' with his political decrees. Remember, we're in a curfew not because of the virus but because of the lack of nurses largely thanks to years of mismanagement as well as to keep people distracted from the nursing home scandal.  

We see this time and again where charts show no measurable difference between lockdown and non-lockdown states. We've known this for months and has nothing to do with vaccinations. The coronavirus is seasonal and endemic so whatever measures in place will be redundant and counter-productive. And it will be the case with Quebec and Ontario. The virus will decide and so will the season to which it operates. 

Measures in low prevalent environments - especially when in an endemic environment - are only fodder for manipulative opportunists.

There's little doubt masks, curfews and social distancing have reached their usefulness (if it ever was) and are now exacerbating the problem. This is the case in Quebec. 

Masks in particular will prolong the pain.