TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — Ontario will not go through with the original plan to remove capacity limits in certain “higher-risk settings” despite already requiring them to enforce the province’s proof-of-vaccination system.
On Wednesday, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore, announced that the province is reneging on its promise to lift capacity limits on all remaining “higher-risk settings” such as wedding venues, night clubs, and event spaces, due to a purported jump in positive COVID cases. This announcement comes despite the affected venues already being forced to require proof of vaccination upon entry, and the province’s largest venues remaining exempt.
With the new rules, large sporting venues like the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Scotiabank arena, which seats 19,800 people (about the seating capacity of Madison Square Garden), will remain exempt from the capacity limit dictates, whereas nightclubs and wedding venues that normally service 10 times fewer people, will be capped due to “dancing” being considered a “higher-risk” activity.
“While Ontario has continued to make progress as a result of its safe and cautious approach to reopening, it is necessary to make this deliberate pause as we approach the winter holidays where more people will begin gathering indoors and where students will be returning to in-class learning in January after celebrating with friends and family,” said Moore. “Over the coming weeks and months, we need to stay the course on reaching those who have not yet been vaccinated, follow public health and workplace safety measures, and continue to remain vigilant in order to minimize the transmission of COVID-19 and keep our communities safe.”
After the announcement, many Ontarians took to social media to express their annoyance with the province’s flip-flopping. Many questioned why the largest venues are exempt, and why there is a vaccine passport system at all if it is not considered reliable enough to stop the spread of the virus.
“What about the 30,000 fans that want to watch sports? Will they be affected or just the small businesses again?” asked one Twitter user.
“BREAKING: Vaccine failure,” penned another.
Since the implementation of the province’s vaccine passport system in September, which requires citizens to provide paper or digital proof they have been “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19 to enter restaurants, bars, sporting venues, and fitness facilities, among others, many legal and medical professionals alike have rebuked the system as discriminatory and scientifically flawed.
Eight Canadian doctors wrote in an open letter in August, “You are inaccurately accused of being a factory for new SARS-CoV-2 variants, when in fact, according to leading scientists, your natural immune system generates immunity to multiple components of the virus. This will promote your protection against a vast range of viral variants and abrogates further spread to anyone else.”
“You are being told that you are now the problem and that the world cannot get back to normal unless you get vaccinated,” wrote the experts. “You are being viciously scapegoated by propaganda and pressured by others around you. Remember; there is nothing wrong with you.”
Currently, there has yet to be any evidence produced in clinical trials that proves vaccinated individuals cannot spread COVID, or that unvaccinated people pose more of a risk when it comes to transmitting the virus compared to vaccinated people.
In fact, Health Canada explicitly states, “Your vaccination status only changes your risk of catching COVID-19 and becoming ill. It doesn’t change your risk of exposure to the virus out in the community.”
Further, the list of officially recognized adverse events regarding the experimental shots has grown from severe anaphylactic reactions to include fatal thrombotic events, the inflammatory heart condition myocarditis, and neurologically disabling disease like Guillain Barré Syndrome, as well as thousands of recorded deaths and permanent disabilities.
According to Canadian constitutional rights lawyer Rocco Galati, who is leading a lawsuit against various levels of government over their so-called COVID measures including capacity limits and vaccine passports, these protocols are “illegal” under each citizens rights per Section 2, Section 7, and Section 15, of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“I have a constitutional right to not have a medical treatment forced on me,” said Galati. “Who decides [what medical treatments you have to take], you or the state? It has got to be you or else we’re back to Nazi Germany.”
“This is not a medical or health agenda, this is a political one. They want everybody vaccinated for whatever reason. Up until now, there has never been a problem with people exercising their choice.”