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Protestors who want the lock down lifted took to the bridges along Highway 401 in the Cobourg area on Sunday, January 24, 2021.
The event was called “Drive The Line” and its goal was to raise awareness about the lock down, the harm to human health, the economy as well as government over reach.
The site promoting the event stated, “we are NOT an anti-mask group. We do not encourage anit-mask posters as everyone is welcome, we encourage both masks and non-mask wearers. We are all affected by t his unlawful lockdown.”
From 11 a.m. until approximately 1 p.m. five protestors were on the Nagle Road, Division Street (County Road 45), Ontario Street and Burnham Street bridges waving Canadian flags, The Line flag and holding signs that read “no more lockdowns.”
Mars Barrick from the Municipality of Port Hope was on the Ontario Street bridge in Cobourg that is named after Captain Nichola Goddard who was killed in Afghanistan on May 16, 2006.
“We’re trying to raise awareness that a lot of us think the lockdown is not a good idea because it’s killing us in more ways than COVID is.”
“It’s destroying our children, it’s killing our old folks, it’s killing our businesses – all the other casualties of this are way beyond what any virus can do.”
Barrick said the economy should be opened up and “be a free Country again.”
“It’s becoming a police state – a dictatorship.”
For the people saying COVID-19 is killing many people and hospitals are filling, Barrick said, “I don’t think they are looking at all the information. They are taking what they are being told as gospel.”
Barrick said she gets her information by the statistics, the World Health Organization, the Ontario Government among others.
“We’re using our heads and listening to what people are saying online. There is a lot of garbage online, but there is a lot of good stuff online.”
“Some people are using their heads and they are critical thinking and I have a lot of friends I talk to a lot and we all research in different areas and we share information. Some of it rings true and some of it doesn’t.”
“There probably is a virus,” but she said according to statistics, “it’s 99-point-something percent over-come-able.”
Author: Pete Fisher
Has been a photojournalist for over 30-years and have been honoured to win numerous awards for photography and writing over the years. Best selling author for the book Highway of Heroes - True Patriot Love
