Commentary This month marked the anniversary of Canada’s COVID-19 confinements that were only supposed to last for a few weeks. That was 52 weeks ago. In many ways, fear became the pandemic. Different people drive the COVID-19 fear, but its principal generators are statisticians and the medical bureaucrats—the experts “advising” the politicians, who in turn display appearances of virtue, claiming to save lives. In competing for our attention, the media are a gigantic amplifier of COVID-19 fear. Along with life-saving claims, Canada’s chief public health officer has finally admitted to presiding over a massive failure in protecting the most vulnerable, who constitute the majority of those who died. Camouflaging the failure, authorities confine and restrict us all the more with the pretence of protecting us. Yet the vulnerable keep dying, and those at much less risk are confined in domestic violence situations, forcibly unemployed, forced to forgo treatment for chronic …