Thread by @Milhouse_Van_Ho

Important data to consider for Ontario before implementing another destructive lockdown (not that the last two have ever been fully lifted):

#No3rdLockdown #onpoli @fordnation @celliottability

1. ICUs aren't full. Ontario's largest city is at 80% (Green: below target of 90%)

2. ICUs aren't maxed out and have never been maxed out during covid. Additionally, most ICU patients don't have covid - there are other health matters that regularly drive people to the ICU. (And don't forget that lockdowns worsen human health.)

howsmyflattening.ca

3. No data suggesting that hospitals are under more pressure than in every other year due to flu and pneumonia.

kflaphi.ca/aces-pandemic-…

4. Covid hospitalizations seem to be substituting for annual influenza and pneumonia hospitalizations and following a seasonal pattern independent of government interventions.

https://twitter.com/Milhouse_Van_Ho/status/1377233710089650180?s=20

5. Ontario's hospital system is regularly overcrowded at this time of year. Blame the system and its leaders, not the people. How is locking down supposed to compensate for these political and administrative failures?

https://twitter.com/GovGone/status/1377019983167946753?s=20