A couple of days ago, a new addendum appeared under the SaskHealth Covid daily case table.

I don’t know what may have prompted this, but it doesn’t matter. Here’s a screencap I used in a post on October 21st that clearly shows otherwise.

Look guys, I’m not your enemy here. Saskatchewan has had the least restrictive Covid policies in Canada throughout most of the pandemic, and most of us appreciate that.

But I cannot defend vaccine passports, just as I can’t defend absurdly illogical public policies that allow the infectious vaccinated into a restaurant while denying those who have recovered from Covid any public health status at all.

Coercive health policies that defy both the evidence and common sense, that create a caste system (they used to call that “two tier”) undermine confidence in the intellect of your department personnel. It moves the needle for the vaccine hesitant from “wary” to “hostile” and creates a strong disincentive for those who contract the virus to report it at all.

I said long ago that if you didn’t like the anti-maskers, just wait until the anti-testers get rolling. By employing shame and ostracization as leverage, SaskHealth has managed to push people to resist being tested when they’re ill.

What basis do I have to make such an assertion? Just the fact that there are more people within my immediate circle of friends who have had the virus and not been tested — than those who have.

Heckofajob there, Skippy.

Here’s the bottom line. If you’re using the force of law to suspend civil liberties and coerce a product into the arms of people who neither want nor need it — you had better be certain your product’s performance is damned near perfect.