Share this Story: Charles Lewis: Governments need to stop using COVID as an excuse to treat us like childrenCharles Lewis: Governments need to stop using COVID as an excuse to treat us like children What began as sensible safety has now reduced us to ignorant children who are incapable of looking after ourselves Photo by Tim Baines/PostmediaArticle content At the start of this pandemic, governments imposed many rules in the spirit of safety. Try refreshing your browser, or Charles Lewis: Governments need to stop using COVID as an excuse to treat us like children Back to video We now find ourselves living in a world where personal freedom must be given based on the whims of politicians. Article content In Toronto, where I live, we somehow became the most locked-down city in North America. Article content All this despite the fact that the chances of transmitting COVID outdoors in minuscule (less than 0.1 per cent, by one estimate). Article content A year into this, we — the good people of this country — know how to take care of ourselves.

Source: National Post May 20, 2021 09:45 UTC