Here is a monster thread on ongoing outbreaks in Ontario, by facility. Why is this important? Well, it shows where things are not in control and (in a rational society) where Ontario's $12B could go. It's your call if Ontario is rational or not.

From largest to smallest:

Workplaces - 8514 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Long-term care homes - 4581 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Schools (both primary and secondary) - 4193 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Retirement homes - 2728 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Childcare - 2167 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Group home/supportive housing - 1556 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Hospitals - 1351 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Other/unknown - 884 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Other recreation - 849 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Bars/resto/nightclubs - 831 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Shelters - 490 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Recreational fitness - 489 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Congregate living, other - 474 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Correctional facilities - 146 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Higher education - 99 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Short-term accommodations - 91 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Personal service settings - 48 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Now -- a finer point on some of these numbers.

In workplaces ...

Farms - 199 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Food processing - 706 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Other (The numbers are all very high - guess shipping, warehouses, logistics?) - 6433

Medical/Health service - 359 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

Retail - 810 COVID infections from an active outbreaks

And in schools -

Elementary: 3040 COVID infections from an active outbreaks (1 location has 101 infections!)

Secondary: 931

Both: 222

The workplace with what looks at first glance, and which definitely has the highest number of infections associated with a single location is in the "other" category, at 164 infections.

Whatever is within this "other" is where I personally would be clamping down very hard.

All of this data is from Ontario's Open Data COVID dataset for ongoing outbreaks. I will be digging into the dataset on outbreaks (hopefully overall) later. But yeah, don't let them tell you that the pandemic is being driven by private gatherings.

AND FINALLY -- our biggest collective failure was to understand the pandemic through the lens of congregate settings, including workplaces. Instead, public health and politicians alike focused on the individual actions we can take to stop spread...

A massive survey of 300,000 people from BC's CDC found that 45% of British Columbians said they could not respect public health orders while at work.

Imagine we had designed public policy based around workplaces? All the bickering over schools ...

All the fear around closing small business, it would evaporate, and instead we'd be driven by public policy that would force industry slowdowns, pay people to stay home and keep large congregate workplace settings with fewer people in them.

It would have also meant universally smaller class sizes.

But alas. Journalists have not been as consistently critical as we need them to be and politicians gave gotten away with literal murder.

Hmm I guess this could have been even more monsterly.

Sorry for the cut-and-paste grammatical error.