Canadian doctors rebelled against quarantine

In a letter to the Quebec government published Sunday, a
group of 13 specialists made their demand clear: no more
curfew. “Will the government continue to pull Quebec apart
from the rest of Canada every winter by prohibiting the free
circulation of people when it gets dark?” the letter reads.
The letter was signed by a medley of specialists, ranging from
sociologists to legal experts.
 The authors of the letter argue that, based on data from 2020
and 2021, last year’s curfew did not play a significant role in
slowing the spread of COVID-19.
In 2021, the provincial government issued a curfew that began in
January - during the peak of the second wave - and ended in May.
During this time, the overall number of daily COVID cases
dropped considerably.
“Observational studies show that [the curfew] was useful in
preventing travel and gatherings at a time when the number of
cases in the general population remained high,” the Quebec health
ministry (MSSS) said in statement Friday.
But according to a study titled “CONNECT,” conducted by
Quebec’s public health institute (INSPQ), the degree of social
gatherings in the home remained relatively consistent both before
and after the curfew was put in place.
In November of 2020, for example, the average number of an
individual’s daily household contacts was 1.7. This number
increased slightly in December to 1.8, and fell back to 1.7 for
the months of January, February, and March.
Citing this data, the letter authors state that although the curfew
may be correlated with a decline in cases, it is not necessarily the
cause of this decline.
“The government has never demonstrated the efficiency of the
curfew. Instead, it carefully avoided discussing numbers, rather
using a confirmation bias sophism: the curfew worked because
the number of cases dwindled or less people went outside during
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