I had hoped that after the Canadian Armed Forces exposed that cockroaches, not COVID, were killing nursing homes residents, the Canadian and provincial governments would have bashfully called an immediate end to COVID-19 lockdowns.

Sadly, the police state lingers, as politicians gradually hand back our freedoms, piecemeal. Lord Sumption, a retired British senior judge, criticized the British government for such a “timid” approach to ending the lockdowns in a BBC interview:

“[Government officials] seem to me to have no real purpose in continuing the lockdown other than to spare themselves public criticism. Now, one does understand why politicians don’t want to be criticized. But it’s the mark of a statesman that you are prepared to stand up for the national interests and not simply run away before the public opinion; especially when you have, in a sense, created that public opinion yourself by frightening the daylights out of people over the last eight weeks and trying to persuade them that this a much more virulent epidemic than it actually is.” 

You can watch the entire BBC interview here.