The battlefield is still warm, following Canada’s war on the unvaccinated. The mandates have let up, and both sides stumble back into something that looks like the old normal — except that there is a fresh and present injury done to the people we tried to break. …

Feeling the fuzzies Our first lockdown was like a great war effort. It was the closest we’ve come to the home-front experience of the World Wars, when people set aside every selfish thought in favor of the collective wellbeing. We ground our lives to a halt in a powerful rebuke against an emerging…

My name is Susan Dunham, and I have been writing about the pandemic and its social effect since 2020. The following is my submission to the Public Order Emergency Commission: I did not attend the Ottawa protest, but as an unvaccinated Canadian, I was heartened that our country pulled off…

And That’s a Big Problem… This article was first published on Instagram on March 6 The canadian province of Ontario no longer requires restaurants, gyms, and public venues to screen customers for vaccination status. Nevertheless, many businesses proudly continue to demand proof that customers and guests are fully vaccinated. While…

The Dark Side of an Easy Ask This article was first published on Instagram on April 2, twelve days after Ontario lifted its mask mandate. Even though masking is no longer mandated in Ontario, some businesses choose still to enforce it, believing that the smallest safety benefit is worth the…

By Susan Dunham. IG:@susankaydunham There is a grave misconception that restrictions are ending because they did their job. After two long years, we finally coerced enough jabs, masked enough people, and closed enough businesses that the science is granting us a reprieve. But if the science deserves any credit, it’s…

Why we might have to drop the passports to keep our way of life — The cyclical torture of lockdown, release, then lockdown again has brought us to a breaking point that is more dangerous than any virus. Soon we’ll beg for any tyrannical measure that promises to free us from COVID once and for all. And there’ll be no going back. That proposition has already been made in the form of vaccine mandates. …

So much of the flip-flopping on safety policy in the last year — from early assurances that lockdowns, masks, and mandates don’t work, to promises that they do — has bred understandable cynicism among the best of us. But we know that as our experts have learned more about this…

After 18 months of lockdowns and restrictions, a vaccine passport looks like a welcome way out of captivity. New York mayor Bill de Blasio dangles it like a carrot, a literal “key to the city,” he calls it, that will restore all of the access and activity that makes life…