Commentary It seems the “shut up and mask” wall is finally crumbling on COVID. The usual suspects still say you need to cover up and quarantine outdoors after getting vaccinated. But it’s becoming reputable to ask questions that, frankly, ought to have been asked long ago. For instance, a long and worrying discussion in the May 20 National Post newspaper about the very direct health costs of the lockdown. Here I don’t mean of inactivity, extra eating, drinking, and above all isolation. I mean direct as in postponed surgeries. The Post quoted one Toronto “interventional cardiologist” (which if you find out what it is, you clearly have a problem requiring urgent attention) that he had “lost a lot of patients on the wait list.” If the lockdowns were entirely necessary to prevent mass COVID fatalities, it might be legitimate to put those excess deaths in the COVID column. But if we …