This is #ldnont, which has an ICU. What happens when this is Owen Sound or Woodstock? Ontario's COVID community spread is now exponential in places that were not significantly affected earlier. #onpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/mlhu-posts-record-184-covid-cases-tuesday-and-4-more-deaths-1.5861761

There are a lot of people in this province who grudgingly have gone along with public health recommendations, but have spent the last 9 months thinking "this isn't really HERE, though."

What happens when it's HERE, everywhere, in numbers that can no longer be ignored?

This was inevitable, to be clear. That's how this virus works, and we have so much data on this it should not be a surprise to anyone. But the media ran fawning stories about how Grey Bruce had the virus on lock all summer. Uh, no. They just didn't have the explosion yet.

I grew up in the Bruce. When my 10yo brother was in a car accident, my mom and I followed his ambulance on a white-knuckle TWO HOUR drive to London (normally takes three, this was back in the day when you could just speed along at the ambulance's speed I guess?).

Rural Ontario cannot handle COVID outbreaks. They just cannot, and this government is ambling along pretending the out-to-lunch premier is our Dad? An abusive one, if you insist on the metaphor.