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Heavy police presence at Church of God

January 31, 2021 | 8

Aylmer Police stopped a vehicle on Glencolin Line that had left Aylmer Church of God moments earlier on Sunday, Jan. 31. The church held in indoor service that morning, and several police cruisers were nearby or drove by frequently. More in the Feb. 3 edition of The Aylmer Express. (AE/Rob Perry)

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  • GL

    Their courage and conviction is admirable. These tickets will be overturned in court – a virus with a 99.9% survival rate doesn’t doesn’t satisfy section 1 of the Charter; therefore section 2 protects these peoples’ rights.

    • SaneGuy

      Hey look, it’s our resident epidemiologist, constitutionalist, and legal scholar, GL!

      A virus’ mortality rate isn’t a consideration under S1 of the charter (I’m glad you finally realised there is a section 1 of the Charter though. Took long enough).

      In a world where following the tenets of a 2000 year old book is considered freedom…oh, the irony.

      • Esra Ecaf

        Your name is very arrogant. Who are you to judge others? What proof do you have that God doesn’t exist? Whether you believe in God or not, what’s really at risk here is our freedom. To my knowledge not a single person from the Church of God has died from COVID.

        • SaneGuy

          Your name is very arrogant.

          It’s as arrogant as yours is edgy, which to say is not very much at all.

          Who are you to judge others?

          Who are you to question me? See how that works. You ask a question in a way that makes it look like the person you’re questioning has no moral or intellectual ground to stand on. It’s a classic tact.

          Let me know if having opinions is no longer acceptable in Canada.

          What proof do you have that God doesn’t exist?

          Whoaaaa there fella. I think we’re getting ahead of ourselves with this. I didn’t claim that God doesn’t exist. Mind you, finding proof that something doesn’t exist seems like an exercise in futility. That being said, my irony comment was definitely aimed at religious adherents who profess to know about or champion the concept of “freedom”.

          Whether you believe in God or not, what’s really at risk here is our freedom.

          You do understand that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is more than just Section 2, right?

          To my knowledge not a single person from the Church of God has died from COVID.

          How is that at all relevant?

          To my knowledge no one on the International Space station has died from COVID.

          To my knowledge no one at Studer’s Variety has died from COVID.

          To my knowledge, 61 people have died in a single nursing home in Barrie from COVID.

          So what are you saying here, bud? That it’s ok to pack a church or a space station because no one died from COIVD?

          What about thousands of Ontarians that have already succumbed to this disease, or the thousands of others that may suffer long-term from it? Surely had they just passed through the hallowed doors of the CoG they’d be alive today.

          Oh, well no one at the CoG died, so it’s all good.

          Makes total sense.

          I guess the one thing that is clear from your statement is that you may not have all the information you need about COVID, it’s transmissibility, and it’s affects on human biology. I would encourage you to seek out the readily available information that may help you arrive at more informed opinions.

          • Esra Ecaf

            So you have zero proof.

          • SaneGuy

            So you have zero proof.

            Zero proof of what? I have “zero proof” for a lot of things, so you have to be more specific.

          • GL

            transmissibility – you mean like the COVID joke of asymptomatic carriers. Wuhan study sampled 10 million people; found ZERO infection spread from asymptomatic carriers. Yet here we are – locked down – because of the myth of asymptomatic carriers. Never been true before for any virus, not true now. No reason to fear your neighbor, or any other healthy person #hugsnotmasks.

          • SaneGuy

            you mean like the COVID joke of asymptomatic carriers.

            It seems like you’re trying to suggest that people with a virus-borne disease, that don’t exhibit symptoms, can’t actually spread the disease? Is that really what you’re saying?

            And you have a study with a sample size of 10 million patients!? Please share it.

            I’m no expert, but Jesus man, even a quick search of Google invalidates your claim

            https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=asymptomatic+spread+COVID+19&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

            Happy reading.

            Never been true before for any virus, not true now.

            You ever get a staph infection? Most likely from an asymptomatic carrier.

            So your statement here – “Never been true before for any vitrus” – is complete hogwash, and betrays your ongoing (and what appears to be) willful ignorance of even just basic generalities here.

            Once again, if you just put in a modicum of effort, you’ll see that the opinions you’ve presented are bunk.