OCLA, today, released its report entitled: “Analysis of the scientific basis for Ontario, Canada’s mandatory face masking and physical distancing law, 2020“, by Denis Rancourt, PhD.
Here is the LINK to the full report.
The report is a detailed critical analysis of the Ontario Regulation 364/20: Rules for Areas in Stage 3, under the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19) Act, 2020, S.O. 2020, c. 17, regarding its lack of a scientific basis.
The author finds that the transmission mitigation provisions of Regulation 364/20 are arbitrary and nonsensical, in light of actual knowledge about transmission of viral respiratory diseases, including COVID-19. Given the evidence of harm from the measures themselves (shown in the Report), if Ontario was a science-based society, the government would apply the precautionary principle by immediately declaring a moratorium on all transmission-mitigation regulations, until policy-grade studies prove their worth in a rigorous harm-benefit appraisal framework.
