If there's one thing we should learn from the last 2.5 years, it's how unscientific Canadian society has become.<p>Had even the basics of the scientific method been applied, and had our existing scientific knowledge been considered, none of the harm the country experienced would have happened.<p>There would have been no business/job/education/freedom-destroying lockdowns and other government-imposed restrictions.<p>There would have been no forced masking.<p>There would have been no coerced/forced medical procedures, and no "vaccine passports".<p>One truly disconcerting aspect of all of this is how the people who were screaming "trust the science" the loudest were typically the ones with the least scientific experience, and were the ones pushing for policies that had no scientific basis.
For the last year, vaccinated Canadians were about as likely to get infected in Canada as anywhere else.<p>I suspect I got Omicron BA.1 last January two months after my first booster, but didn't have a test kit. The symptoms were mild: sore throat and headache for a couple days.<p>The proffered rationale for border controls was to keep out new variants. The problem is that it takes a few weeks for researchers to identify a new variant by which time it's all over the place.<p>An NY Times article suggests that people with long covid are variant factories in that they give the virus more opportunities to produce variants.
That said the Delta variant seems to have been generated at the Kumbh Mela gathering of three million people :<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/30/kumbh-mela-how-a-superspreader-festival-seeded-covid-across-india" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/30/kumbh-mela-how...</a>