I really worry about the continued individualizing - privatizing - of responsibility for rising numbers, instead of addressing systemic causes of spread: workplace transmission (manufacturing/wareshouses/construction) and lack of paid sick days.

This has been the Ford government’s approach since the beginning. It’s taken longer for some to notice - those who thought he did a good job in first wave, because he wasn’t as bad as Trump, because he initially appeared sober in his remarks. But this approach has been steady.

And now you can see, undeniably, what happens when your chief message is a folksy scold. When you won’t do the things that would create systemic change, preferring always to individualize - privatize - responsibility. Contrast to countries who make big social/economic moves.

We’ll get something that allows Ford to pretend to be tough - a curfew or some other kind of “theatre” as @shawnmicallef rightly calls it. But nothing that addresses the systems (inequality of various kinds) powering the spread.

https://twitter.com/drandrewb/status/1347587211039006720

Dakshana’s point is key: these problems are exacerbated by COVID but predate it. A systemic approach to fixing poverty and inequality and undervalued labour won’t be the approach of the Ford govt. They’ve shown us that; they show us that continuously. https://twitter.com/dakglobe/status/1347548263793250307