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7 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Huge move: vaccines to anybody over 18 in hot spot communities, workplaces, and more. This is overdue, and important.
Vaccination equity is one piece. Public health measures has to be the other.
I just hope a stay at home order that is again predicated on 'please stay home' works, two months after the last one was utterly squandered by a government that didn't think the third wave would be very bad.
If Doug really thinks this will be over in four weeks, I dunno, see you then
Important to note that whenever they talk about how hard hospitals are getting hit, this government chose that path, and they're still not doing enough to actually make cases drop, in all likelihood. All this is probably going to do is slow case growth.

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7 Apr
Doug Ford is pretending the ICUs are a surprise. That's garbage.
If Doug only found out that the variants were moving rapidly and the ICUs were filling up yesterday, then his advisors should resign, and he should follow. I mean, come the hell on.
And Dr. David Williams saying this — that we tried stuff, it just isn't good enough, as doctors in ICU will have to decide who lives and dies — is beyond parody.
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2 Feb
When he lost his leadership job, @brooksfallis was told the government was pressuring the hospital, and says Osler’s chief of staff told him Doug Ford had called the hospital CEO because Fallis was criticizing the governments’s pandemic response. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
The premier’s office denied it, and does it really sound like something Doug Ford would do? Here is my column from last week on @BrooksFallis , @DFisman, @NathanStall, @drmwarner and what looks like a concerted effort to discredit critics. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
And in this column, a highly placed hospital source in the GTA explains how the government can put financial pressure on hospitals. Fallis was told funding was potentially at risk: thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
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21 Dec 20
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.
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12 Nov 20
The framework was always clearly designed to open businesses and keep them open over the public health of Ontarians, and it was a lie to say otherwise. Anyone who defends its highest thresholds should be held to account. Bravo to the people speaking on the record about it.
The people of Ontario should be livid. Doug Ford’s government chose to let hospitals be overrun, to let long-term care residents die, to let the virus run wild so people could go to restaurants and bars and whatever else. The mayors who lined up behind it deserve similar scorn.
There are so many good people working their guts out trying to protect the people of Ontario. That this government chose the easy path, the cheap path, the anti-science and anti-public health path, isn’t surprising. This should be remembered for a long time.
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11 Nov 20
Their lawyers are probably giving them bad advice, and this could have happened earlier. But with the province leaving others to make the hard decisions, Toronto needed some courage, and Dr. Eileen de Villa and John Tory delivered. Somebody had to. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
On using a Section 22, by the way, I’ve spoken to three MOHs in the last few days and gotten three different interpretations. Many experts think Toronto’s lawyers are goofballs, but there is grey there among the people whose job it is to use them.
And on @johntory, he has often been a man of the status quo, of comfortable Toronto. He hasn’t had the bold vision on transit, on taxes, on a future for everyone. But this is the challenge of a lifetime, and the moment, and unlike other mayors I could name, he rose to it.
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10 Nov 20
Corrected by @edtubb: I'm glad @johntory pointed out 3% test positivity at a reasonable volume is where you tip into exponential growth. The province has been at *4.2, 5.0, 5.7* the last three days as a whole.
Dr. @epdevilla uses Section 22, which she has been told by city lawyers opens her to personal liability. Courage in the face of a virus many fail to confront, to protect the citizens of Toronto.
Indoor dining, meetings, event spaces, casinos, bingo halls, indoor fitness classes, all closed. Recommended that all social gatherings limited to household or one or two close friends.

28-day period. This is what the province should have done.
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