Even after two years of lockdowns, social distancing, masking, border closures, travel restrictions and other draconian measures, there are still some activist teachers, doctors and healthcare professionals who are not prepared to let COVID go.
Nothing has been more absurd than their reaction to the lifting of the mask mandates as of March 21 in Ontario. For the activists, letting go of their mask appears to be akin to giving up the pacifier or security blanket many had as a child.
You’d think they would have had enough of being forced to wear a cloth face-diaper that has been shown to have minimal efficacy when it comes to protecting the wearer from COVID. One wonders if their curious obsession with masks is rooted in fear, or after two years, they’ve simply become addicted to being told what to do.
In the case of activist doctors, I suspect they see their power and control slipping away as we put COVID behind us. Now that the pandemic is essentially over, they might actually have to go back to ministering to the sick rather than telling us all how to live our lives.
The same goes for some Ontario school boards, who have openly vowed to keep masks in place despite the Ford government dropping them.
Toronto District School Board (TDSB) trustees – forever driven by their loyalty to teachers unions – spent six (yes, six!) hours debating the mask mandate last Thursday evening before determining that maskless faces would tentatively be accepted when children return to school after March break…unless, they added, the Chief Medical Officer of Health gives them additional time.
No doubt they put in that caveat in a desperate attempt to appease the activist teachers and lefty parents who flooded social media just before March break last week, all of whom clutched their pearls in horror over the impending end to the diapering of all faces.
Lefty TDSB teacher Peter Hasek – who appears on Twitter with purple hair and the pronouns he, they – is under review by the TDSB for actually threatening to segregate unmasked students.
Others fans of the mask mandate sounded petulant.
You have to wonder how many of these shrieking teachers have jetted off for March break to some sunny clime where masks are non-existent.
Meanwhile, the woke trustees at the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board voted last week to defy the provincial edict and to keep the mask mandate in their schools until Apr. 15. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board will hold a special meeting Monday night to discuss extending their mask mandate as well.
It will be interesting to see what happens the first few days back at school in Ontario.
Make no mistake. It is anyone’s right to continue to wear masks after Mar. 21, just as it’s their right to shed those face diapers altogether. No one is making them take them off.
I fully recognize that the immunocompromised may still want protection, as will those in long-term care and retirement settings where so many COVID deaths occurred. But forcing young students to continue to wear masks after two long years is indicative of the political self-interest of activist teachers, teachers unions and other woke educators.
It should come as no surprise either that the activist teachers aren’t doing this for their students.
They only care about themselves.
