In the light of what was announced on Tuesday January 12, 2021, there is still much confusion around what is really happening. As far as I can say at this point, people are being told to stay home, but that also has conditions to it. If you shopping, going to get medication, doctor's appointments, and a worker at a considered essential work place you can leave your residence. All stores whether they are essential or not can stay open until 20:00hr (8pm) and can not open earlier than 07:00hr. Added to this confusion is what is an essential construction sight? Another added confusion is who is suppose to stay home from work?
The reality is that people who are of low income (minimum wage) and often are only part time, have to choose going to work or not. If your only income is your job and it's of low income, means you are at the very edge of homelessness and/or welfare. Going to work may be the only choice you have so that you are surviving along with your family.
What the covid019 has done, is reveal how many people in Ontario are at the very edge of poverty. Meanwhile you have the NDP leader, along with Liberal leader, and Green Party leader demanding more restrictions while at the same time demanding the provincial government be willing to issue welfare/unemployment cheques to people in need, so they don't need to leave their homes. As good socialist parties as these are, the real demand is to lockdown the whole province.
Apparently there are further speeches to be made that will answer a lot of the questions created yesterday. The government will issue their orders, policies, and demands in controlling the population. The reality is that power has been put into the hands of the police services, by-law officers, and work place inspectors to carry out the orders of the province. The "reasonable and probable grounds" clause has been removed from the way people can be stopped and interrogated by enforcement officers. In other words, it is at the discretion of the officer to stop on demand any person they want to stop and question. What has been created is a police state, there is no other way go describe it.
It is interesting as well is that mayors and doctors in the hot spots are demanding a total lock down of everyone. Some have gone as far as demanding the government tell people they can't leave their homes for any reason, all businesses and factories to be closed. The entire province shut down with police stopping anyone driving on any road for any reason or leaving their homes. This kind of action is totally unacceptable and shows to the world that the chant "we are in this together" is totally a fallacy because such actions would create a situation where thousands of people would end up impoverished, placed on welfare, put out on the streets as homeless and massive suicides. It shows that only the rich and in a position of being well off, will be able to survive while the poor will become poorer and see that there is no way out of their engaged poverty. So when people say we are in this together, they mean that they are better off than you and you need to do die and lower the surplus population.
More is coming on this in the hopes to clarify what they the province is saying. We are not in this together and we are in the throws of being a police state.
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