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What pisses me off is that a lot of people made a lot of painful sacrifices in the spring to get #onpoli #covid19 under control, only for the Government to squander our progress by ignoring Public Health, opening too much too soon and spending too little on mitigation. 1/
What pisses me off is that a lot of people made a lot of painful sacrifices in the spring to get #onpoli #covid19 under control, only for the Government to squander our progress by ignoring Public Health, opening too much too soon and spending too little on mitigation. 1/
In August, we were down to less than a thousand active cases, fewer than 100 new cases a day, and fewer than 40 people in hospital. Then, instead of stamping out community transmission altogether, the Ontario Government decided to just give up. 2/
As I write this today, we have 1,575 new cases, 11,721 active cases and 431 people in hospital. https://quandyfactory.com/covid
So what happened?
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So what happened?
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We reopened schools without adopting the SickKids recommendations on distancing and class size limits.
We reopened restaurants and bars and casinos and convention centres (while telling people they're not allowed to meet each other at home).
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We reopened restaurants and bars and casinos and convention centres (while telling people they're not allowed to meet each other at home).
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Our Provincial guideline for adopting restrictions is four times laxer than Public Health recommends. In the face of Toronto, Peel and Ottawa escalating rapidly into hotspots, the Province actually made the guidelines *even weaker*.
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We're nine months into the pandemic and we can't run 40,000 tests a day without getting backlogged.
Our contact tracing capacity is so limited that in 40% of new cases, we fail to discover the epidemiological source at all.
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Our contact tracing capacity is so limited that in 40% of new cases, we fail to discover the epidemiological source at all.
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Premier Ford can complain all he wants about individual "yahoos" not practicing emergency health measures, but it is his government that has lost control of this pandemic: an entirely predictable result of putting politics ahead of public health.
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As so many people have tried to warn, when you try to trade public health for the sake of the economy, you end up sacrificing both.
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