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Image Credit - Global News[/caption]Opposing to get acclimatized to the new world with the obligatory order of wearing face masks in open space, people in Montreal began a protest on Saturday, September 12, 2020.
The spread of Covid-19 continues to engulf more parts of the world, striking in Canada badly. Quebec's report with the highest number of Covid-19 positive cases in the last week of September stuns the world. But the report doesn’t flinch Alexandre Laberge-Ayotte from his perspective.
Laberge-Ayotte and a handful of other protesters stood outside a Montreal subway station on Saturday, shouting “Liberty!” and waving Quebec flags in many ways to strengthen their purpose of protesting against the mandatory notice of wearing masks, and tried to do away with the law that's designed by the government state to fight the pandemic.
The league of protesters was small; with only two dozen objectors. Other protests have gathered greater impact with larger involvement. One week ago, thousands of protesters gathered in Montreal.
It is still unsure whether the anti-mask movements have a clear prospect, and the leaders are baffling to channel their motivation in the right way. They are challenged with the struggle to maintain clear messages and public trust, according to several experts who spoke with The Canadian Press.
Maya Goldenberg, an associate professor of philosophy at York University is working on medical beliefs and she thinks that anti-mask sentiment is likely a symbol of a larger uncertainty “of what the pandemic will do to us in the long term.”
“It becomes a thing to invest energy in, as a way to broadcast a sort of general discontent about how things are and how they might go,” Goldenberg said.
Laberge-Ayotte marks him as not anti-mask, but rather “pro-choice.”
He wants to stop the state of emergency, which he calls “disproportionate” to the situation. He doesn’t trust the numbers of COVID-19 positive cases presented by the government. He is not worried about the deaths from Coronavirus because he believes most cases are asymptomatic and the infection isn’t deadly enough.
For a fact, recent research shows that asymptomatic cases cause the spike of the Coronavirus infection about 40 to 45 percent. Asymptomatic people can spread the virus to other people for an extended period, “perhaps longer than 14 days,” according to the review published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Goldenberg believes that those who are disapproving with public health officials or scientists on the effectiveness of masks or vaccines actually doing it from “broader mistrust” of the system as a whole.
“I think you see with the masks, it’s sort of manifesting itself in terms of a broader discontent and a lack of faith or trust in those who … tell us what they think we should do,” Toby Fyfe, the president of the Ottawa-based Institute on Governance said.
Fyfe isn’t surprised to face the marvelous force of strife against the new rule of wearing a mask during a pandemic, saying that he remembers people to protest about seatbelt-wearing.
