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It's been exactly 1 month and 15 days since Doug Ford announced Ontario's new COVID framework. Yes, the one that ignored the government's own health experts and set thresholds 4X higher than recommended, and had restrictions that were too loose. 1/
@fordnation and @celliottability lied and said they talked to the province's modelling team when they released it, but the modelling team said they were never asked for input. Imagine the incompetence to create a framework and not ask for a projection of how it changes things. 2/
A few days later Shelley Deeks, a whistleblower with Public Health ON, raised alarms about thresholds and restrictions. Ford called her a liar and insisted he listened to medical experts. Deeks has since gone to work in NS where they listen to experts and have almost 0 cases. 3/
10 days after the launch of the framework, Ontario's modelling team (the one that was not consulted) gave a press conference projecting up to 7,000 cases a day by Christmas. 4/
Ford's response was to slightly adjust things. But he still set thresholds 60% higher than recommended, didn't increase restrictions, and had no thresholds/health measures associated w/ the Lockdown level so that Ford could do what he wanted w/o being beholden to the framework 5/
Excluded from the framework was any sort of paid sick leave for people being tested (and their family), something experts say is key to getting potential cases to stay home. The framework also called for 100K tests/day by Dec. It's Dec 18 and we haven't hit even 2/3 of that. 6/
Now, we've had 106 deaths and nearly 8,000 cases in the last 3 days. Hospitals are cancelling important surgeries, calling emergency meetings, and re-deploying staff to ICUs. LTC outbreaks are still widespread. This is why half-measures and wishful thinking are bad policy. /end
