Are you worried about the economy if there's another knee jerk lockdown? Or are you worried about the actual COVID-19 cases? I' m actually curious, I'm not trying to be provocative.
I'm a people manager for an essential business. I only mention this because I have been monitoring COVID case numbers, and any information that has been made available regarding the pandemic, due to the fact that I'm responsible for my worker's health while they are at work. As pointed out in a previous 'COVID #' thread, the number of deaths are not trending the way they were in March, April and May. For instance, there has been chatter about the 'numbers going up' for a few week now, but across the country (from the info that I've seen) only 3 people died yesterday, all in Quebec.
I we use the framework that the government used during the first lockdown, the amount of deaths trailed about 7-14 days and the percentage was quite a bit higher than other respiratory illnesses. The cases and deaths were increasing exponentially, and the lockdown was called for so that the ICUs and hospitals were not over run. In this new 'resurgence' the deaths are not following. So much so that on the Ontario COVID page, the daily deaths do not even show up. Instead, they list total deaths broken down into different categories.
As other people have pointed out (and were quickly attacked) the amount of people being tested on a daily basis is much. much greater than at the beginning of COVID. Doug Ford himself would often comment about testing numbers in the spring. The target was 10,000, and the health units couldn't hit that target for quite some time. That means for all of the 'big number' days of the spring (500 plus cases) they were only testing around 7-9k people a day. Furthermore (taken directly from Doug Ford's words) the general public was not allowed to be tested. The testing was concentrated on LTC facilities, and in hospitals, on patients who had been admitted with COVID like symptoms. This meant the percentage of positives to tests was much higher. Today, they are testing 30,000 plus people a day, which means the actual percentages of positive cases is only around 1% per day. This context is often left out of news stories and scared-mom-posts on Facebook.
I definitely have strong feelings about COVID, but I've left them out of this post, as I don't want to be seen as a tinfoil hat guy. However, I would add the comment that in any situation if you are only looking at one POV, you are not serving yourself or getting the whole picture. There are plenty of scientists and doctors who have much less foreboding. These people are not crackpots, but well regarded doctors and professors. Ask yourself why are they not being quoted or being asked to write articles for mainstream media.
Personally, I having a hard time with my fellow citizens who are ready to give up, and feel that the second lockdown is inevitable.