Dear Mayor Redekop, of the Town of Fort Erie ON I know that you care deeply about the health and lives of citizens. I trust that your concern is broad-based and comprehensive, and that your concern extends to preventing deaths and adverse health outcomes, regardless of their source or cause. As you know, the lockdowns and social isolation measures imposed by governments on citizens risk throwing millions of Canadians into unemployment, bankruptcy or poverty, and in many cases all three. Social isolation, combined with unemployment and poverty, predictably lead to numerous adverse health outcomes: depression, anxiety, alcoholism, other addictions, drug overdoses, mental illness, obesity and suicides. You are no doubt aware that the cancellation of non-emergency surgeries, as well as the fear that patients now have of going to the hospital to obtain help, are causing adverse health outcomes, and in some cases death. I trust that you have given very serious consideration to the number of lives that will be lost, as well as adverse health outcomes, as a result of the social isolation and economic devastation that government measures against COVID-19 are inflicting on citizens. I hereby request your candid and detailed response to the following questions: 1. How many suicides are projected to take place as a result of the government having shut down much of our economy, forcing people into unemployment, bankruptcy, or poverty? 2. How many do you project will die because of the rise in depression, anxiety, alcoholism, other addictions and drug overdoses that the lockdown and associated unemployment and social isolation will cause, as the lockdown drags on for weeks or even months? 3. How many children and spouses do you project will be abused while couples and parents remain confined to their homes, in many cases unemployed, without their usual income and social connections? 4. How many children will be put in foster care because of domestic abuse, or loss of their parents’ ability to provide for them, or both? 5. How many isolated seniors are projected to become sick or die because they no longer receive regular visitors, such that nobody is able to take them to their own family doctor, or take them to an emergency unit at the hospital? How many will die at home, alone? 6. How many people are projected to die or to suffer permanent damage because their non-emergency (elective) surgery, their testing and their various treatments have been cancelled due to your singular focus on fighting COVID-19? 7. How many people are projected to suffer serious harm caused by lack of access to secondary health providers they regularly rely on, such as physiotherapists, massage therapists, optometrists, chiropractors, osteopaths, podiatrists and dentists? 8. How many people are projected to die or suffer serious harm because they believe (correctly or incorrectly) that they cannot go see their doctor, or that they cannot check into emergency at the hospital? 9. How many children, confined to their homes while schools and playgrounds are closed and athletic and recreational activities are shut down, are projected to develop diabetes or other chronic health conditions? 10. How many people will develop psychiatric disorders caused by governments having eliminated social interaction at restaurants, pubs, churches, recreational facilities and community centres? 11. Have you or your staff researched any of these questions here above? If yes to the foregoing question, have you created any models, estimates or projections in regard to any or all of these causes of illness, harm and death, in the same way that you have relied on models, estimates and projections in regard to COVID-19? 12. If yes to the foregoing question, I request copies of those models, estimates and projections. If I receive no response to this letter, I will take that to mean that you and your staff have failed to calculate and consider the severe negative impact of the lockdown on the health and lives of citizens. I will have no choice but to conclude that no significant or meaningful research has been conducted on the crucial issues raised in this letter. I wish to remind you that your orders are violating citizens’ Charter freedoms to move, travel, assemble, associate and practice their faith. The onus is on government officials – not on citizens – to justify these violations of Charter-protected freedoms. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Derek Crane of Fort Erie
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