Latonya Williams Instagram – As the rest of our nation is opening up, Dr. Bonnie Henry has chosen to clamp down on yet another group of professionals with an upcoming mandate on all private sector Doctors, Nurses and Practitioners. How could the science be so vastly different? Well, it’s not. Dr. Henry was prudent enough to admit during a press conference that both science and politics have attributed to her decision. In order to tip the scales in the complete opposite direction from the other provinces, politics must have weighed heavily. Should unelected officials be allowed to make political decisions in a democratic nation? Are we trusting science? Or is it political science? The only way to prove that we truly are trusting science would be to now trust the ubiquitous amount of science and expert opinion that has emerged revealing that the mandates do nothing to protect us. If we don’t, we prove this was never about safety, but perceived safety. In stripping citizens of their rights in the name of perceived safety, we are no better than our forefathers who forced Indigenous people into residential schools, segregated Black people from society and locked up Japanese people in internment camps. All carefully orchestrated by our government under the guise of perceived safety. We all recently pledged to never again allow such brutal injustices to befall our nation. We are failing our first test.