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12 Apr, 16 tweets, 3 min read
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
Basically, I think the province finally realizes how bad this is, and is now so panicked that they might accidentally, in some cases, try the right thing
What information did the province suddenly receive yesterday that forced this move? Did they just read a month-old newspaper?
Doug Ford says his Friday comments about Ontario doing pretty well were specifically about vaccination. Well, judge for yourself
They don't have enough ICU nurses. It is a gigantic problem and from everything I am told, you can't just turn another type of nurse into an ICU nurse. Not possible.
There. Is. No. Plan. There is just panic.
It's not new, but in the last two weeks, the incompetence has been so relentlessly, ruthless exposed. And it's probably not the government that will pay for it.
Good point from @robferguson1: today was the day the government had hoped to open hair salons, barbershops, and tattoo parlours
Doug Ford is trying to blame everyone else for what his government did. That's where we're at.
Feb. 17: medical officers of health thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
Feb. 19: the association representing the 34 medical officers of health opposes the reopening plans. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
Feb. 26: Eileen de Villa says the next four weeks are the most dangerous of the pandemic. Dr. Peter Juni, the scientific director of the science table, agreed. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
I could keep adding, and adding, and adding to this. The province was warned, over and over, by the hospitals, the doctors, the nurses, the public health officials, the science table, and more, and Doug Ford trying to blame other people for this failure today was simply pathetic.
Here's another one. Before they started reopening.

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10 Apr
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/…
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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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