But nothing is simple in this complex world.
There’s a noisy faction that says, “How dare they try to force us to wear masks and social distance,” no matter that it might save their lives.
On one occasion, a protester outside Toronto City Hall, objecting to the wearing of masks, loudly proclaimed: “Is that the world we want to live in? … Is that the Canada we want to live in?”
Obviously, the key word here is “live”.
All of our human rights disappear if we’re not alive to enjoy them.
Medical masking can be traced back to the European plagues of the Middle Ages, caused by a resurgence of the Black Death bacteria that had been dormant for 300 years.
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It is well documented that Canada scooped up thousands of Japanese Canadians during World War II, confiscated their possessions and shipped them off to detention camps for the duration of the war.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King used the War Measures Act to facilitate the move, but as for the history of internment, the unjust treatment of Japanese Canadians is part of a larger and longer story.
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The War Measures Act was passed in August of 1914, not long after the declaration of World War I.