Governments have an obligation to provide the numbers (or estimates or predictions,where actual numbers are not available) of bankruptcies, insolvencies, and foreclosures that have resulted, and will result in future, because of the lockdown measures.They have an obligation to determine how many additional instances of stress, anxiety, and depression will result from ruined financial prospects, and the full medical and health impacts of these increases in stress, anxiety and depression.They are obliged to investigate fully how the increasing prevalence of stress, anxiety, and depression will result in more alcoholism, drug abuse, drug overdoses, suicides, spousal abuse and child abuse.
Unfortunately, it appears that no Canadian government at any level has yet given appropriately serious consideration to these consequences, or to the effects of cancelling surgeries, delaying cancer diagnoses,and other denials of access to needed healthcare
