![]() ![]() ![]() The government's failure to provide evidence, after nearly a full year of violating the Charter freedoms of Albertans, is a disgrace. When the Alberta Government argued at a Macourt hearing that Pastor Coates should remain in jail for another eight weeks pending his trial in May, Crown prosecutor Karen Thorsrud presented no evidence that full churches pose any threat to public health. What became more apparent with time is the massive harm that lockdowns inflict: deaths from cancelled surgeries and delayed surgeries deaths from cancer because of delayed MRIs and CT scans deaths from drug overdoses and suicides unemployment poverty isolation and loneliness leading to stress, anxiety, and depression children told to live in fear, deprived of sports, recreation and healthy social interactions and massive new debt that our children and grandchildren must repay.īacked by science and called by God, Grace Life and its pastors have displayed the courage to hold full church services since July of 2020, in the face of weekly harassment and intimidation by Jason Kenney's ever-growing army of health inspectors. Further, once a virus is out and about, it cannot be stopped by destroying the economy, by forcing people to reduce their social interactions to a two-dimensional computer screen, or by closing houses of worship.Īs we progressed through 2020, the government restrictions on our freedom to move, travel, associate, assemble and worship made less and less sense. ![]() Twelve months later, the data and statistics from governments around the world tell us that COVID warrants only a small fraction of the fear we ascribe to it. Like most people, Pastor Coates and his church complied fully with health orders in March of 2020, when the world was terrorized by the fearmongering predictions of Neil Ferguson of Imperial College. Why not focus our efforts on protecting the vulnerable 10 percent, and do so without harming the physical, mental, emotional, social and financial well-being of the entire population? Moreover, Covid's survival rate is 99.7 percent, and this virus poses no threat to roughly 90 percent of people. Restricting the rights and freedoms of the entire population for 12 months (and counting), and preventing millions of people from earning a livelihood, has never been tried in human history as a way to beat a virus. We're told that government policies are "scientific" but when you ask to see the science, none is provided. I've repeatedly asked the Alberta government to produce the science that would support the notion that asymptomatic people are dangerous spreaders, but to no avail. This is confirmed by a separate, smaller meta-analysis. The politicians' belief in asymptomatic spread is unfounded.Ī meta-analysis of 54 studies from around the world, published by the National Library of Medicine found that within households (which lack the safeguards applied by restaurants, businesses and churches) symptomatic patients passed on the disease to household members in 18 percent of instances, while asymptomatic patients passed on the disease to household members in 0.7 percent of instances. Hence the laws mandating masks and prohibiting normal and healthy social interactions between people. Unless the Justice Centre secures his release from prison prior to trial, Pastor Coates will spend a total of eleven weeks in jail for a provincial infraction that is not punishable by jail time.Īre health orders scientific? The Alberta government–and governments around the world–continue to restrict our rights and freedoms based on their belief that healthy, asymptomatic people are significant spreaders of COVID. He was arrested in mid-February for failing to comply with Jason Kenney's unscientific and unconstitutional health orders that restrict the freedom of Pastor Coates and his Grace Life Church to worship God as God calls them to worship. As I write this column, Pastor James Coates is still in the Edmonton Remand Centre awaiting his trial on May 3-5. ![]()
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