Doug Ford is concerned again, after modelling again showed his restrictions were insufficient, as they showed in November, when people told him his restrictions were insufficient, and as they showed in October, when people told him his restrictions were insufficient
Doug Ford blaming the feds for airport travel is a transparent attempt to deflect blame on himself; saying schools aren't a problem and then closing schools is an attempt to escape responsibility; saying he will never shy away from protecting Ontarians plainly isn't true.
This government has been warned about this for months, been told how to fix it for months, should have known how the virus spreads for months, and they have ignored it where convenient for short-term economic gain, and will continue to do so until the day after Christmas.
Nobody told Doug that Ontario is now ahead of BC, I guess. 
Doug Ford keeps repeating the same ham-handed defences: others are worse, we're doing things, health is my priority. Whether he's lying or just doesn't understand that isn't the case is a matter of debate, but not the most important one, I guess.
Doug Ford wants businesses to sell some stuff before Christmas, even though his scientific modelling shows an extra 45,000 cases could be added between now and Boxing Day without restrictions. By the way, the fed rent relief goes to 95% if you are closed for public health reasons
It's the same thing: short-term business gains while hoping the hospitals don't completely tip, fuelled in part by this magical idea that he's at the midpoint between anti-lockdown nuts and public health/epidemiologists. That's not the middle ground.
https://twitter.com/EdTubb/status/1341057067122122758?s=20
It's the same song, over and over, and has been the entire second wave. Choices are made, and consequences come after.
He says Ontario will be there for small businesses (while taking credit for a lot of federal money) without adding anything to paid sick leave, which municipalities and public health officials are asking for, or paying for isolation facilities for the working poor.
He's saying "I won't put the people of Ontario at risk just because the federal (government) doesn't want to do a test," after months of putting the people of Ontario at risk because he doesn't want to close businesses or extend paid sick leave or isolation. It's a joke.
Oh, and the province's request to the feds was to do testing at the airport so they could shorten quarantine times so they could drive the economy, for the record.
Doug Ford blaming the feds for the state of Ontario, bellowing he will take action if the feds don't, saying they are too slow, and then mentioning Covid hotels, which are funded by the feds because the province won't do it and hasn't for eight months, is very funny.
This didn't have to happen this way, but here we are. Only five more shopping days until lockdowns, everyone. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Adding to this: the addition of $42M in isolation money marks the first isolation money since the pandemic began, but also, here is what’s happening here, clear as day
https://twitter.com/McDevonMD/status/1341163303733764098
Look over there!
https://twitter.com/alexboutilier/status/1341210877840769024?s=20
So Doug Ford yelped about the airport and the feds and a hole in the roof in Ontario's Covid response yesterday. And some cases may indeed be coming in by travel! But here is Ontario's own graph on identified sources of transmission. That's travel there, at the bottom.
And using this line of attack — “Some politicians and pundits may be okay with body bags piling up on their front door steps but we are not" — when you have let the pandemic get to this level, with long-term care homes being hit again, is utterly shameless
https://twitter.com/l_stone/status/1341425726969548811?s=20
That is just jaw-dropping.
Ford announces he will spare no expense, seconds after saying secondary student parents can get $200 per child to buy a laptop
He's on this again. Blame deflection, again.
https://twitter.com/bruce_arthur/status/1341426591096815623?s=20
Talking about basic screening when you did your first asymptomatic testing in schools a couple weeks ago is one way to go, I guess.
The answer about how many additional cases in the time between now and the lockdown four days from now is 45,000 estimated extra cases. Ford said "we thought we'd give them another day or so," then pivoted to telling people you can stay at your cottages.
https://twitter.com/EdTubb/status/1341057067122122758?s=20
Yes, the province is finally spending some money on isolation, eight months into the pandemic. But no, the province will not extend paid sick leave, because they cut it the last time they had a chance anyway, and what if people got used to having it back?
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