Evidence is my wheelhouse. But evidence is not the end all be all. It's important for court, but it's not important in other contexts: "In 2003 Ontario suffered through the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic which killed 44 and infected 330 others. The Province of

Ontario ordered a public inquiry into the matter which completed its work in December 2006. At p. 24 of The SARS Commission Executive Summary (Spring of Fear) ( https://collections.ola.org/mon/16000/268478.pdf), Justice Archie Campbell highlighted the “precautionary principle” as the guiding principle

for public health and the safety of workers:

Perhaps the most important lesson of SARS is the importance of the precautionary principle. SARS demonstrated over and over the importance of the principle that we cannot wait for scientific certainty before we take reasonable

steps to reduce risk. This principle should be adopted as a guiding principle throughout Ontario’s health, public health and worker safety systems.

If we do not learn this and other lessons of SARS, and if we do not make present governments fix the problems that remain, we

will leave a bitter legacy for those who died, those who fell ill and those who suffered so much. And we will pay a terrible price in the face of future outbreaks of virulent disease, whether in the form of foreseen outbreaks like flu pandemics or unforeseen ones, as SARS was."

Do not be fooled by people who say we need evidence before we proceed with making hard decisions. The precautionary principle is what great legal and scientific minds told us we need to abide. That is what we should be expecting from leadership in all aspects of society right now

This is a pandemic This is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill.