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6 Nov, 7 tweets, 1 min read
Doug Ford doesn't want to shut down hospitals, he doesn't want lockdowns, so he's opening bars and restaurants. I honestly think he has no clue what is happening.
He knows William Osler is in real trouble. So why is he overruling Peel's medical officer of health?
This is the problem with this.
Honestly, this press conference is more evidence that Doug Ford doesn't know what is happening. Also, that Brian Lilley is an idiot
I have been writing for weeks that Ford misunderstands even the simple data: saying the curve is flattening but it isn't, saying it's down when it's up. But he doesn't understand the framework, either. He has no idea what he has done, other than keep businesses open.
He wants to avoid lockdowns so he has chucked the strategy for one that will hasten the march to lockdowns. Whoever is advising the Premier has some explaining to do, man.
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9 Nov
Dr. David Williams, asked about changing Ontario's framework, says a lot of things that mean nothing, and still clings to the fantasy that people will act exactly in accordance with his incomprehensible directions
David Williams just said, "if we continue to flatten." Flatten?
Williams just said, we have to do more, days after he approved a plan to do less. I don't know, man.
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8 Nov
So the story is they booked a press conference to fight for the President in the parking lot of a Northeast Philly landscaping company between a sex shop and a crematorium on purpose, eh
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever stop laughing at this. This is comedy beyond bounds. This is comedy that can power a star.
Just perfection, all the way.
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25 Sep
Canada is a nice little country where not long ago a guy drove from Winnipeg to Ottawa to storm the PM’s residence with guns, and where this troubled far-right guy is threatening the leader of a federal party the day after doing so to journalists. We may have to face some things.
We may have to face some things.
Facing some things
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25 Sep
Forget the shambolic rollout of a provincial plan, or that it’s arriving too late. The real question is whether the Ford government will wait too long to actually intervene, because it is trying to preserve short-term economic gains. thestar.com/amp/opinion/st…
Meanwhile, here is the competition’s interpretation, and also a relevant part of the letter signed by 38 health care leaders
Sigh
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23 Sep
A huge part of the population has been walled off in an alternative information universe and poisoned, and cheers on the end of democracy. Many right-wing pundits fantasize about of the murder of their enemies. The slide into autocracy is half done, and the civil war has begun
Armed militias are in the streets, the department of justice has been turned into a political weapon, the courts are being packed with loyalists, and government is purged of those who are not loyal enough. The right tried to criminalizes protest and legalizes vigilantes.
The President won’t commit to a peaceful transfer of power because he wants a Supreme Court Justice to rule in his favour when he doesn’t count the votes in the election. This is all happening in the open, and none of it shakes his popularity. America’s a long way down the path
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23 Sep
Doug Ford appears to be blaming Health Canada for not approving antigen saliva tests, in order to take pressure off his own failure to ramp up testing capacity in Ontario. The target was 50-75K per day. It hasn't happened yet.
There are also no hard numbers on how much 60 pharmacies offering appointment-only asymptomatic testing will affect testing lineups which, at one site, had people lining up at 2:30am last night
Spread over two days, Ontario's second-wave fall plan so far is a flu shot expansion and 60 pharmacies offering testing for asymptomatic people, by appointment only, with more to come. Does this feel like an incredibly robust and well-prepared plan? thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
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