{"id":524841,"date":"2022-01-13T22:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=524841"},"modified":"2022-01-13T22:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:04:23","slug":"canada-virtually-no-benefit-saskatchewan-premier-says-covid-19-lockdowns-harm-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=524841","title":{"rendered":"CANADA &#8211; &#8216;Virtually no benefit&#8217;: Saskatchewan premier says COVID-19 lockdowns harm communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he will not impose additional measures to try to limit the spread of COVID-19 despite the province bracing for increased pressure on health care due to the Omicron variant.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lockdown policies can cause harm in our communities often with little or virtually no benefit,&#8221; Moe said during a briefing Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he&#8217;s not criticizing other provinces, but said Saskatchewan will take a different approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Lockdowns) cause economic harm by taking away jobs and removing family livelihoods. They have psychological harm by taking away social contact, most particularly for our youth, and they&#8217;re an infringement on the rights and freedoms that we have come to enjoy and value as Canadians,&#8221; Moe said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereminder.ca\/provincial-news\/virtually-no-benefit-saskatchewan-premier-says-covid-19-lockdowns-harm-communities-4946722\">https:\/\/www.thereminder.ca\/provincial-news\/virtually-no-benefit-saskatchewan-premier-says-covid-19-lockdowns-harm-communities-4946722<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he will not impose additional measures to try to limit the spread of COVID-19 despite the province bracing for increased pressure on health care due to the Omicron variant. &#8220;Lockdown policies can cause harm in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=524841\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}