Alright, look (thread)...
For nearly an entire year now, in the eyes of several community members, Dr. Hirji has been simultaneously doing not enough and too much

Last week, he used powers he has as a Medical Officer of Health under the Health Protection and Promotion Act to
require restaurants to take extra measures to try to reduce the spread of the virus.

He did this after reviewing contact tracing data for Niagara and finding that a number of cases were because people were socializing in restaurants outside of their small bubbles
No one, including Dr. Hirji, who is in a decision-making position, has said the restaurants were being lax in following protocols. Quite the opposite, actually.

But Dr. Hirji used his powers to issue this Order in an effort to ensure community members are following rules put in
place by the province and to not go as far as Toronto and Peel and entirely shutdown restaurants, bars, gyms, etc.

All this to say that whether you agree with the Order or not, it is entirely inappropriate to subject Dr. Hirji - or ANYONE - to the abuse to which he has been
subjected.

Calls for his home address to be found and released to the public, calls for someone to "suck the life out of him," namecalling, etc. are ALL AWFUL AND INAPPROPRIATE and anyone engaging in this kind of behaviour should be ashamed of themselves
Dr. Hirji, like the rest of the staff I have the pleasure of dealing with, is doing the best he can in a situation none of us have ever dealt with before and which continues to change all the time

Be better, people

Have an argument to make? Make it. Reasonably. Considerately.
You have far more credibility if you can be kind and reasonable whilst making your case.
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