I know why politicians tried to scare everyone when the pandemic arrived in the spring — but why are they still trying to scare us now?

TONIGHT I'll walk you through the latest COVID-19 statistics for Ontario, but it applies to pretty much every such list of statistics we're seeing:

Notice how the media only reports the "daily new cases." And note that the "total cases over time" is a useless statistic because it can never go down. It’s like saying: total number of Canadians who have a traffic accident over time.