MPP Roman Baber has written a public letter to Premier Doug Ford, requesting an end to the draconian lockdown measures, claiming, quite reasonably, that that they are inflicting – and will continue do – far more harm, than any good. His evidence seems clear and he writes respectfully, that almost all the deaths are in long-term care homes of the aged, that most of the population is not at any significant risk, and that the draconian measures are crushing not just the economy, but people – with businesses shuttering, bankruptcies, depressions, divorces, suicides and suicidal thoughts, and very fraught and antagonistic relationship amongst the people, the police, and the politicians.

As an elected representative of the aforementioned ‘people’, Mr. Baber has full right, even the duty, to say what millions, if not the majority, are thinking.

But Ford obtusely refuses to listen, and in dictatorial fashion, has expelled Mr. Baber from the ‘Conservative’ Party, for ‘acting irresponsibly’ and ‘breaking party lines’, barring him from ever running again. Such is Ford’s version of free speech. We should admire and imitate Baber’s courage and forthrightness – might this be the act that turns the tide of tyranny?

Ford replied not with any reasoned defense, nor with any refutation of the numbers, but with the usual boilerplate, that seems to have convinced any number of Canadians dulled into obeisance: “I will not jeopardize a single Ontarian’s life by ignoring public health advice”. This, in a ‘public health system’ that murders unborn children, and now the sick and the elderly, by the thousands.

And the euphemism of ‘public health advice’ is not really advice, is it? Rather, it is taken as infallible dogma, more universal than the limited charism invoked by the Catholic Church on defined matters of revealed truth. And, unlike the Church, with its a priori councils and theologians before anything is defined, there is no debate, no dialogue, just decrees handed down from shadowy bureaucracies. The long shadow cast by Galileo – that math, numbers and data can explain and predict all of reality – still haunts us today. (We will have more to say on that, for it is more pertinent than most may be aware).

One can only imagine Ford and other politicians, as they sat, sweating and fearful, berated by unctuous, smooth-talking scientists, with their esoteric, even gnostic, terminology, armed with power point presentations showing doomsday graphs, spiked curves predicting death and mayhem – all crunched, munched and spewed out by algorithms and computers. Many such predictions have already been proven woefully wrong by magnitudes – as has happened with the ‘melting ice caps’ of global warming –  yet still they plod onwards in their futile and fatuous mission.

And what of it? Ford seems to miss – or deliberately ignore – the point of Baber’s letter, which is that the ‘public health advice’ Ford is following is jeopardizing many more ‘Ontarian’s lives’ than Covid, in ways that he and others refuse to see, for reasons that seem unclear and mystifying. Does Ford not recognize the idiocy and impossibility of his statement, and the human wreckage that will ensue? If his endgame is to reduce the risk of every Ontarian from an airborne virus to zero, then we there is no end to the game.

And ‘game’ it is not, for people’s lives and livelihoods, indeed, their very souls, are at stake, with the endless closure of businesses, schools, meetings, get-togethers, even of the smallest sort, and, most of all, churches and the Mass. All of them are all to some extent criminalized, with a deep and abiding fear, of other humans, the indoors, the outdoors, of invisible critters, of life itself, instilled into the hearts of even the very youngest. Strapping a mask onto first graders? Head for the hills, and homeschool all the way!

And all for what? That we might, maybe, possibly, prevent the deaths of some? And even that is highly uncertain, for there is overwhelming evidence that universal lockdowns don’t work. We may also ask, to take a more spiritual view, whether Ford and his like do not consider, even for a moment, that we may just have to endure the just punishment of God?

All this is a bitter fruit of what is wrong with our country, our culture, our very way of being. The loss of faith, of belief in God, the lack of any transcendent purpose to life, the atheism that has corrupted our society far more than any cancer or Covid, our unhinged fear of death, our clinging to shibboleths and talismans like masks and stay-at-home orders. For how long, O, Canada, onetime land of the the free and the brave?

They will have their day, for nature and truth eventually and always reassert themselves, and will win out in the end. Stay strong, dear reader, and stay as free as you might.

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