Corrected by @edtubb: I'm glad @johntory pointed out 3% test positivity at a reasonable volume is where you tip into exponential growth. The province has been at *4.2, 5.0, 5.7* the last three days as a whole.
Dr. @epdevilla uses Section 22, which she has been told by city lawyers opens her to personal liability. Courage in the face of a virus many fail to confront, to protect the citizens of Toronto.
Indoor dining, meetings, event spaces, casinos, bingo halls, indoor fitness classes, all closed. Recommended that all social gatherings limited to household or one or two close friends.
28-day period. This is what the province should have done.
This really is genuine courage in the service of public health from @epdevilla and @JohnTory. This is what the moment demanded, and they are among the few in this province who have risen to the moment.
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The framework was always clearly designed to open businesses and keep them open over the public health of Ontarians, and it was a lie to say otherwise. Anyone who defends its highest thresholds should be held to account. Bravo to the people speaking on the record about it.
The people of Ontario should be livid. Doug Ford’s government chose to let hospitals be overrun, to let long-term care residents die, to let the virus run wild so people could go to restaurants and bars and whatever else. The mayors who lined up behind it deserve similar scorn.
There are so many good people working their guts out trying to protect the people of Ontario. That this government chose the easy path, the cheap path, the anti-science and anti-public health path, isn’t surprising. This should be remembered for a long time.
Their lawyers are probably giving them bad advice, and this could have happened earlier. But with the province leaving others to make the hard decisions, Toronto needed some courage, and Dr. Eileen de Villa and John Tory delivered. Somebody had to. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
On using a Section 22, by the way, I’ve spoken to three MOHs in the last few days and gotten three different interpretations. Many experts think Toronto’s lawyers are goofballs, but there is grey there among the people whose job it is to use them.
And on @JohnTory, he has often been a man of the status quo, of comfortable Toronto. He hasn’t had the bold vision on transit, on taxes, on a future for everyone. But this is the challenge of a lifetime, and the moment, and unlike other mayors I could name, he rose to it.
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.
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
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?
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.