(LifeSiteNews) — A top doctor in Ontario has said that he is willing to recommend that mask mandates return if the province continues to see “an increase in hospitalizations” due to COVID-19.
Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore, said in a recent interview with Global News that he has no qualms about recommending the return of mask mandates to the province if hospital cases of COVID-19 continue to increase. He recommended that people mask up and receive their booster shot in order to avoid a strain on the health system.
“If there is any significant impact on our health system where we can’t care for Ontarians appropriately, I will absolutely have the conversation with government [around] whether we have to mandate masking for a set period of time,” he said.
Moore made these recommendations despite numerous studies raising the alarm on the effectiveness and safety of both masks and the COVID-19 shots. Coronavirus vaccine trials have never produced evidence that the vaccines stop infection or transmission, and, moreover, studies show that the vaccines can harm one’s health. Over 850,000 injuries from coronavirus shots reported to the U.S. government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System as of October 29, 2021. Masks have also been proven ineffective, as well as dangerous, by various studies.
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On Thursday, however, Moore said in an interview with CP24 News that Ontario has seen a spike in hospitalizations and numbers of people in intensive care over the last few weeks, and that masking and vaccination boosters will help to avoid this.
“Just this morning I saw 139 individuals in our intensive care unit,” he said. “So, I’m very happy that we’re announcing the release of the Pfizer bivalent vaccine.”
Moore also told interviewers that the province will be participating in an “aggressive communication strategy” with the federal government in order to promote this new vaccine across Ontario. He recommends that people who are susceptible to COVID-19 keep wearing masks to protect themselves.
“My recommendation would be: Anyone at risk to this virus continue to mask as you’re going indoors in at-risk public settings,” Moore said.
“If we see a significant impact on the health system, we will be making more and more recommendations of wearing masks to cut down the risk of all these viruses,” he continued.
Moore also said that he hoped Ontarians would take advantage of the widespread availability of booster shots in order to protect themselves and society against COVID-19, to avoid a strain on the medical system, and to “maintain protection” against COVID-19 throughout the oncoming winter.
“I’m sure all Ontarians want to help our healthcare workers who are working in difficult environments to minimize the impacts … on our health system,” he said.
“Thirty-thousand just yesterday came forward to get vaccinated. I’d love to see those numbers higher. We have the vaccine, we have vaccinators, we have capacity for roughly 80,000 individuals per day,” Moore said.
“We need to protect Ontarians against this virus,” he continued. “As we go indoors, we all have to maintain all those layers of protection but one of the most fundamental is staying boosted. These vaccines provide a great increase in our immune protection and will decrease our risk at an individual level and a community level of getting ill.”
In his interview with Global News, Moore said that the low number of those among the elderly population who have received their boosters in Ontario is “not acceptable.”
“Sixteen percent is absolutely not acceptable to me,” said Moore. ”The bivalent vaccine is excellent… at protecting against Omicron strains. We are so fortunate to have them in Ontario, accessible, and available, and free.”
However, the bivalent vaccines have had no human trials and have only been tested on mice.
“Covid’s not going away,” he told CP24. “It’s a formidable foe, and we need to maintain that wall of immunity to protect all Ontarians.”
However, Moore said back in January that Canadians need to “learn to live with COVID-19.”
“We have let our lives be controlled for the last two years in a significant amount of fear, and now we are going to have to change some of that thinking,” he said at the time.
Moore also has a previous track record of lying to Canadians about the number of people affected by the virus.