Dr. Schabas also supported MPP Roman Baber, who was kicked from the Ontario Conservative party after writing an open letter to ford in which he said that lockdowns were deadlier than COVID.
Dr. Richard Schabas, a former chief medical officer in Ontario who served as chief of staff at York Hospital during SARS, has written a letter to Premier Doug Ford criticizing his approach to Ontario's harsh lockdown restrictions.
Dr. Schabas also supported MPP Roman Baber, who was kicked from the Ontario Conservative party after writing an open letter to Ford in which he said that lockdowns were deadlier than COVID, according to The Toronto Sun.
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View on X"MPP Roman Baber sent you a public letter calling on your government to change course on COVID," wrote Dr. Schabas. "[He] made five key points and I believe he was correct on all five."
In Baber's letter, he notes that the COVID lockdown would cause "an avalanche of suicides, bankruptcies, divorces, and takes an immense toll on our children."
Dr. Schabas echoed the sentiments, writing "…there are significant costs to lockdowns – lost education, unemployment, social isolation, deteriorating mental health and compromised access to health care... We will be paying for lockdown – in lives and dollars for decades to come."
"Reasonable estimates of the infection fatality rate from Covid have been declining as we learn more," Dr. Schabas also wrote. "Models that predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths from COVID in Canada were badly wrong because they used incorrect, exaggerated inputs."
Ford has not responded to Schabas' letter at the time of publishing.
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