Mon Jan 3, 2022 – 12:19 pm ESTMon Jan 3, 2022 – 12:20 pm EST
TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced what is effectively another lockdown for his citizens on Monday, including school closures and a prohibition on indoor dining at restaurants.
Progressive Conservative Ford, along with Health Minister Christine Elliott, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore, and Ontario Health CEO Matt Anderson, announced additional COVID measures for citizens despite already tightening restrictions and pushing a third experimental shot for all citizens over 18 in mid-December.
Included in the new measures is the closure of schools for “two weeks,” a mandatory work-from-home order for any occupation that does not require an in-person presence, the closure of all indoor dining, the closure of gyms, arts, and recreation facilities, and a 50 percent reduction in capacity for retail shops and churches.
While admitting that only “1 percent” of those who contract omicron require hospitalization, and when hospitalized patients typically leave the hospital after just “a few days,” Ford insists that these measures need to be implemented to bide time for the “all important booster shots” to take effect. Ford predicted that “hundreds of thousands” of cases are to be expected daily.
Ford and Elliot emphasized that the measures are “time limited” and “targeted.”
Regardless of the heavy-handed response by Canadian governments and the insistence on giving people
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