in Ontario, politically partisan scientists e.g. Fisman, Stall, vehemently criticize provincial vaccinations while singing hosannas to federal govt. Unscientifically, they never show comprehensive data (which isn't as transparent as desirable.) Here are administered and received.
2/ on April 5+- day or so, Ontario received catchup shipments for first quarter orders plus large shipment of slow moving AZ. Shipment in subsequent 3 weeks have been MUCH lower.
3/ Ontario received no/negligible vaccines for 3 key weeks in February during which, by coincidence or not, third wave got a foothold and had to lay off vaccine workers as no supply. Since then, distribution increased rapidly and exponentially. Last week reached 130K weekdays
4/ while one can snipe at both federal and provincial govts, on balance, I think that both have done a credible job of vaccine supply and distribution under difficult circumstances.
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Ontario did much better on COVID cases and deaths than ANY lower 48 US state and, AFAIK, any European nation, despite Canada getting vaccines late due to federal govt, not Ontario. Ford has handled crisis with dignity and deserves credit, not blame. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
2/ to show just how well Ontario has actually done, here are charts comparing daily New Cases and Deaths for Ontario relative to neighboring Michigan, Florida and, in Europe, France. Ontario has done much better. Similar with every other jurisdiction in lower 48 US and Europe.
3/ Ontario science advisory panel projected 100 deaths per day in March-April. Actual results are far lower than even the most optimistic projections, much better even than 97.5% percentile optimistic. Yet partisan Ontario media fails to credit Ford for this accomplishment.
as relentlessly partisan Ontario spew hate at Ontario government, let's re-examine actual results vs Science Table projections of Dec 20, 2020 at start of winter. They projected 7500-30000 cases by late January and increasing exponentially.
Looking back at dire projections of Dec 20, 2020, if Science Table would surely have said that our ultimate actuals were a hugely optimistic projection. And that reaching such an optimistic projection would be an accomplishment.
between December and now, Science Table has re-jigged the scale of their graphics so that the recent case increase looks much bigger than it appears against their original Dec 2020 projections which launched the present lockdown.
an excellent response to partisan and almost entirely unfounded criticism of Ontario vaccination program by prominent commenters @DFisman of U of Toronto, @NathanStall and Toronto Star. They whinge about "freezers" and supposedly chaotic vaccine distribution, fomenting hate.
2/ turns out that the slow-moving inventory, about which Fisman, Stall and TorStar whinge, is AstraZeneca, about which segments of medical community itself, in particular, regulators, have fomented doubt.
3/ turns out we have no Pfizer inventory other than that required to convert one weekly delivery into daily clinics. And that Moderna shipments erratic. We recently ran out.
Toronto has MLB team. In Canada, there are no mail-in ballots or ballot harvesting. Nearly all votes on one day, in person with ID. Votes are counted in front of scrutineers from each(all) parties. Does new MLB policy prevent Toronto from hosting future all-star game?
if Canada is required to allow US-style ballot harvesting and non-ID mail-in ballots in order to host a future all-star game, then count me out.
to be more precise, Canada does permit residents to apply for absentee ballots and submit such ballots by mail under restricted circumstances. Percentage is small. We do not have mass mailings of ballots to voter list or abuse of absentee ballots.
@realexmaple@FOOL_NELSON@shipwreckedcrew@wakeywakey16@Guccifer2Henry So it's probably not a 4-stage Pass The Telephone problem. However, Papadopoulos' ravings and whispering are easy enough to misunderstand under the best of circumstances, let alone when he was getting drunk with Erika. ( Base case is May 6 with Erika, not May 10 with Downer)
@realexmaple@FOOL_NELSON@shipwreckedcrew@wakeywakey16@Guccifer2Henry Consider the problems that arise with FBI 302s under relatively controlled circumstances. Erika wasn't taking notes; there was no transcript or recording. What are the chances that Erika mischaracterized Papadopoulos' nonsense in earliest report? Pretty high.
@FOOL_NELSON@shipwreckedcrew re Downer's evidence. The FBI EC opening Crossfire refers to Downer saying that Papadopoulos mentioned a "Russian offer to assist". In his public interviews, Downer has never mentioned or referred to this supposed "Russian offer". He evaded comment when asked directly on twitter
@FOOL_NELSON@shipwreckedcrew 2/ I think that there's a real and serious possibility that the language "Russian offer to assist" was an embellishment added somewhere in transmission from Erika to Downer to Dibble to Legat Boetig to FBI headquarters. Pass The Telephone.
Strzok and Pientka interviewed Downer and Thompson on Aug 2, but their 302/memorandum on interview remains concealed. Strzok spoke publicly on this interview last fall, but unfortunately his most explosive statement about interview