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10 Apr, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Doug Ford said folks, try to be positive. Great, sure. Except it’s that kind of malignantly magical childlike thinking that got us here. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
No joke: an ORNGE helicopter just flew over my house.
Here is @Megan_Ogilvie’s story on the state of things. You should read this. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
As Megan reported, as I am hearing, we are creeping quickly towards something like modern wartime medicine, with patients stacked anywhere they can find space, with nontraditional staffing and treatment. It's bad. And this is still the start.
A week ago the number was 482. Two weeks ago it was 409. Case counts are still accelerating, and the expectation is the current measures will only slow case growth, not reduce cases. Health care meetings are desperate. Nightmare stuff
This was a choice.
Kingston is where Scarborough is sending ICU patients; Humber is sending them to London, which is currently about fifth in Ontario in cases per 100K, or Niagara, which is about sixth. Yesterday, Scarborough was maybe going to send one patient to Ottawa.
Keep an eye on new admissions, because they are accelerating

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12 Apr
Doug Ford says his government took decisive action last week, which was seven weeks late
"The problem is not in our schools, it is in our community." Well, how did that happen
So, schools back to virtual after the April break. This was utterly inevitable, and comes a day the minister of education wrote a letter to parents saying schools would be open unless public health units made the call
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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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7 Apr
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.
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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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