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We know from documents recently released that the Ontario Government was advised last year to only open schools if students could distance (ie smaller classes), and rapid tests and proper tracing procedures were in place. It hid that advice and lied about it /2
Teachers sought scientific advice, through their unions, from Dr David Fisman. Good thing they did, given the governments lack of transparency and honesty. Now Ontario is attacking him: for giving professional advice to people who needed it and asked /3
Ontario should be saying #thankyoudavidfisman for providing his expertise and advice to help prevent transmission and save lives; instead, it attacks an expert who speaks truth - truth that it doesn't like and ignored/4
The fault lies with the Province for hiding the advice it got from its advisory group about school safety and the need for smaller classes, rapid testing and tracing. Thats a shocking dereliction of duty - it could have made schools safe and chose not to.
