“China eats weird animals disease”

As jurisdictions across the country ponder tighter restrictions, an ER doctor in the Greater Toronto Area is stepping forward to call for a more balanced approach.

“The main message I want to get across is I want people to adhere to public health measures and try to do their part, but locking people up is not the answer,” says Dr. Gil Nimni, who works as an emergency physician in York Region, in an interview with the Sun.

Developments overseas have been totally ignored by the American press. And yet, since Election Day, the media have hewed to the “HCQ Bad” narrative.

Since most Americans who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will have to wait until spring—and cases are climbing—it is imperative that we focus on therapies to keep people out of the hospital and that we revisit the media-engineered saga of hydroxychloroquine.

Italy’s Council of State last week took a step in the right direction when it reversed the country’s July 22 ban on the off-label use of hydroxychloroquine. They issued this reversal following an appeal from a group of doctors seeking to use the anti-malarial drug for early outpatient treatment of COVID-19.

According to a headline in The American Conservative, it was “The Greatest Scandal Of Our Lifetime.”

How could you not want to read on? What could it be, this epic scandal? Russian “collusion”? “Spygate”? The Mueller probe? Hunter Biden’s influence peddling? The stolen election? Chinese spies? Watergate?

Rather disappointingly, it was none of these. R.J. Quinn, the article’s author, had instead picked out as “the greatest scandal of our lifetime” the decision by governments across the world to shut down much of their economies as a prophylactic against the coronavirus. He believes—and I agree with him—that the shutdowns produced catastrophic effects for millions of people that made the cure worse than the disease whose spread it was meant to prevent.

Ontario is reporting more than 2,300 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 27 more deaths as lockdown measures are set to be extended in some COVID-19 hot spots on Monday.

Provincial health officials recorded 2,357 new infections on Saturday, up from 2,290 reported the previous day.

Saturday marks the fifth day in a row that the province has recorded more than 2,000 new daily cases of the virus.

LILLEY: Prepare for dark news regarding lockdown on Monday

The two weeks to flatten the curve became months that have not ended, so is it any surprise that the four-week lockdown for Toronto and Peel has been extended?

Of course not.