6/Do you really think that you will get out of this unscathed (politically and legally)? If you are not worried about #Nuremberg2021, you should be.
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1/Just in case you aren't keeping score...
Ontario Science Table & Reopening/back to school framework: Supplied by McKinsey and Co cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
2/Ontario Science Table member double dips by supplying teachers unions with data to support keeping schools closed torontosun.com/news/provincia…
3/McKinsey/WEF/Gates affiliated think tank supplies OST with Covid Zero policy paper to guide ON pandemic response:
1/What is #CovidEquity? The U of T Institute for Pandemics (headed by @DFisman) offers some clues as to how (at least a portion) of the CAN academic health sciences sector envisions responding to C19 and future pandemics through an equity lens. dlsph.utoronto.ca/pandemics/
2/ The website's spendy splash page identifies U of T's ideological concerns in responding to pandemics: 1. Climate Change 2. SARS 3. Migration 4. Urbanization 5. Interdependence 6. Tech Disruption 7. Mistrust 8. Overburdened Health Systems
These are important issues, however...
3/I am old enough to remember when emergency management was apolitical and focused entirely on mitigating the emergency at hand, with a primary goal of getting to the recovery phase, while causing a minimum of disruption to the normal function of society along the way.
1/Question: Why is everyone connected with @UofT_dlsph so obsessed with getting kids to wear masks all-day (and now all summer)? Recklessly, they have not presented a risk analysis to evaluate potential harms. Here is another non-peer reviewed paper from Bassani.
2/We know that all-day masking of kids is not innocuous. Masks come with their own risks of poor health and psychological outcomes. I have seen first hand the impact that masks are having on non-verbal communication and socialization of kids and youth.
3/We also know that children and teachers (or councilors)
handle C19 well. LTC, the very elderly and those with end of life conditions should be the focus, not kids or young adult camp councilors.
1/@DrBonnieHenry@adriandix@bcedplan. All of the Zero Covid folks are jumping on this new non-peer reviewed paper to try to bully you into masking kids all day at school. Please show some leadership and stay the course.
2/This is a poorly constructed study, and if any of the people pushing it had actually read it, the statistical difference between mask/non mask is negligible at best (despite the fact that the data is likely cherry picked). Consider the Scandinavian countries experience instead.
3/Keep in mind this data was collected during the more deadly first wave.
1/I am sure that someone a lot smarter than me (and Dr. "just put some cortisone cream on it" Iannattone) can poke a million holes in the statement below and the non-peer reviewed study quoted. 1st, the charts indicate nearly no statistical difference between mask/no mask wearing
1/@IrfanDhalla appears to have a couple of decades in health sciences education, but seemingly cannot interpret basic data, such as identifying where the C19 crisis is occurring and where it isn't. (Ottawa Health):
2/Reinforced by this age-stratification chart (Health Canada)
3/And this all-cause death data (Statistics Canada)
All-Cause deaths ON Jan-Aug 2019: 71035
All-Cause deaths ON Jan-Aug 2020: 70685 www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.…