@fordnation & @celliottability
You have created a #CultureOfFear for the people of Ontario.
We know that variants and mutations are a normal and EXPECTED course for viruses - and does NOT increase their pathogenicity or mortality.
nature.com/articles/s4156…
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You have created a #CultureOfFear for the people of Ontario.
We know that variants and mutations are a normal and EXPECTED course for viruses - and does NOT increase their pathogenicity or mortality.
nature.com/articles/s4156…
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We know that there have been thousands or variants circulating for MANY months.
nextstrain.org/ncov/north-ame…
We know that the focus on variants started when the UK used a less-than-concerning academic article in the BMJ to justify their new draconian measures in mid-December.
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nextstrain.org/ncov/north-ame…
We know that the focus on variants started when the UK used a less-than-concerning academic article in the BMJ to justify their new draconian measures in mid-December.
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You did NOT need to jump on that bandwagon.
Creating fear of "variants" seems like a desperate last measure to keep the fear of the "pandemic" going and keep the attention away from the irreparable harm YOUR reaction to it has caused to our:
- mental health,
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Creating fear of "variants" seems like a desperate last measure to keep the fear of the "pandemic" going and keep the attention away from the irreparable harm YOUR reaction to it has caused to our:
- mental health,
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- our children's education and social development/milestones,
- the education and career prospects of our young adults,
- our economy,
- small businesses,
- the suffering of families who have lost everything to bankruptcy,
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- the education and career prospects of our young adults,
- our economy,
- small businesses,
- the suffering of families who have lost everything to bankruptcy,
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....and the decimation of anything that resembles a normal and resilient society capable of assessing and dealing any level of risk on their own.
Our children are at little to no risk of serious disease.
The vast majority of us are not either.
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Our children are at little to no risk of serious disease.
The vast majority of us are not either.
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The majority of morbidity and mortality is in Long-Term-Care (LTC) settings - and that's where your focus should have shifted many, many, months ago when we all realized this.
You have spent more on testing asymptomatic people than it would have cost to build...
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You have spent more on testing asymptomatic people than it would have cost to build...
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...entirely new hospitals with state-of-the-art critical care AND shore up the decades long deficiencies in LTC.
Instead you imposed unnecessary restrictions on the rest of society who are at low relative risk and left us just existing and not actually living.
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Instead you imposed unnecessary restrictions on the rest of society who are at low relative risk and left us just existing and not actually living.
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