The ending of COVID-19 restrictions turns out to be pretty much what the “freedom” crowd demanded.
And the winner is … no, not Will Smith. Someone even less deserving – Tamara Lich and the folks from the trucker convoy.
Except that it hasn’t. And it’s absurd that the premier is trying to pass things off as fine when they’re not. Estimated infection levels are now almost equal to the Omicron peak in early January and hospitalizations across the province are up 40 percent this week. As a result, the same folks who frolicked in hot tubs and bouncy castles in front of the Parliament buildings for three never-ending weeks, bringing fear and misery to Ottawa residents, can now shop maskless in grocery stores right next to the rest of us. Freeeee-dom!
Ford has been playing a wily game of vaccine poker. After the free-roaming white-supremacist crowd took control of Ottawa, honking all night, attacking sniveling opponents of freedom who wore masks, and exhibiting a lack of toilet-training in front of the monument to Canada’s war dead, Ford termed the behavior “unacceptable” and “an occupation.”
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