Thread by @jdeq

I was up in the night filled with rage over the Toronto Sun trying to smear @DFisman for his advocacy for a safe learning environment for kids and a safe working environment for educators.
Some facts:
Fisman provided expert evidence in the OLRB hearing against the government. /1

The government was aware of that evidence in September.
His sworn statement is available publicly.
His statement was quoted in countless ETFO media releases throughout the fall.
His statement was quoted in a letter ETFO absent the Premier in the fall. /2

It is inconceivable that anyone in the government was unaware of this.
Frankly, anyone in the media who receives media releases off of the wire, has a computer, knows how to use a thing called the internet should have known of this.
/3

Someone from the government must have decided that Fisman needed to be a target and shared info with the Sun as a scoop.
The Sun, with its usual brand of grade 3 journalism did no research.
The Sun is increasingly a propaganda tool for the Ford Cons.
/4

It was observed by the wonderful @CityCynthia that there is a pattern of attacks on medical and scientific experts advocating for a better COVID19 response.
Cue my rage.
Attacking opposition in this way is something we see in authoritarian regimes.
/5

To see the Ford Cons using this strategy in Ontario should scare the hell out of all of us. There is no place for this in a democracy. This is the sort of behaviour that took the US down a dark path.

We should honour and respect scientific experts. We should listen to them./6

We already know from the documents gathered by the Star last week that Lecce & Ford ignored the advice they received from experts last summer. Yesterday’s attack on Fisman is another example of ignoring advice & attacking the messenger.

This government is dangerous and just go.

MUST go. Damn you Twitter and your lack of edit features.