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The Arrogance Behind Lockdowns

The Arrogance Behind Lockdowns
An employee waits to inform guests of the closure of the village at Blue Mountain Resort in the Blue Mountains, Ont., on Dec. 26, 2020, the first day of the provincewide lockdown. The Canadian Press/Cole Burston
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If you’re finding the lockdown aggravating, allow me to assist. With the aggravation, I mean. By saying the capricious way the authorities keep ordering lockdowns means they think whatever we might have been doing until they stopped us wasn’t important anyway.

John Robson
John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
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