Thread by @mynamesnotgordy

What I learnt on the Twitter whilst trying to ignore it all this week:

1. Ontario's Premier pops his head out from his self-isolation den, doesn't see his own shadow, predicts fourth wave for Ontario in six weeks.
2. Jason Kenney says Alberta experiences lockdowns differently.

3. Ford says people using airports to visit Ontario to go golfing, use playgrounds and camp on crown land and he's done his part now so the Feds need to step up.
4. Ontario's Auditor General says investigation reveals Ford government's iron ring around LTCs was used pool noodle.

5. Ford government changes stance after a year and votes for paid sick leave. Says Doug's two weeks of self-isolation taught them people need three days paid sick leave.
6. MPP Caroline Mulroney announces Ontario clamping down on stunt driving. That's it. That's the funny part.

7. Scheer says Canada's Big Five banks make more money than "Trudeau's bank". Scheer also outraged about Fed's IT Support department making less than Rogers and Bell.
8. O'Toole says if Canada had vaccines in December Conservative Premiers' pandemic bungling would've been okay.

9. Doug Ford holds second isolation press conference Friday. Staff sets up tent in gale-force winds. Tent blows away. Ford announces ban on all tenting activity in Ontario.
10. Doug Ford says Variants of Concern very concerning. Especially the ones from India. Because, you know.

11. Report reveals Ford's Chief of Staff knew Rod Phillips left country for five weeks over Christmas. Doug says he can't keep track of all 73/72/[insert guess] of his MPPs but does know they're all absolute rock stars.
12. Doug adds 'Hunkering Down' merit badge to The Jacket.

13. Ontario Premier closes playgrounds and parks after droving around his truck and seeing people there; then calls for Pearson and borders to be closed because a cabbie told him shenanigans were happening there too. Ford says more sciencey findings to be released soon.

14. Responding to Auditor General's scathing report on LTC pandemic management, LTC Minister Fullerton defends her inaction by saying she, "inherited a mess and she's only one person." No, seriously. The person running the ministry in charge of LTCs is only one person. It's hard.

15. Ford appoints former Minister of Health whose budget cuts contributed to Walkerton tragedy as new Chair for Greenbelt Council. Ford says he has no plan to touch the Greenbelt but he might help tidy it up a little with some nice orangey overhead lights and concrete accents.

16. Alberta breaks their case and ICU records on Thursday - celebrates by holding rodeo this weekend.
17. Jason Kenney says lockdowns don't work. Twelve hours later says they're necessary now. Doug Ford brags it typically only takes him 8 hours to reverse his moronic decisions.

18. Hundreds of anti-lockdown/anti-mask march in Toronto. Police escort protesters safely through city before racing across town to break up outdoor volleyball game.
19. OPP charge Randy Hillier for organizing anti-lockdown gathering near Ottawa. So, yeah, that's some nice news.

20. Trudeau government feels heat for removing a section of proposed Bill C-10 legislation which excluded user-generated content from CRTC oversight. Personally, I don't see the problem with user-generated content. In fact, I think some of it can be really quite delightful.

21. Registered on 12 pharmacy sites. More than a week of waiting, walked into a pharmacy, asked if they had any good AZ a guy could score and had her in me in 10 minutes.

No side effects either, except a chronic dizziness caused by Doug Ford's inefficacy.