Anyway here is a CTV story about the border, which is actually the biggest legit complaint with the federal Liberals, because better quarantine hotels would have been great. And that said, it excuses nothing about what the provinces did toronto.ctvnews.ca/ford-really-pu…
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Just gonna go ahead and tweet this again: the borders could be better. Blaming Ontario's third wave on the borders is a joke. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
Same with vaccines, by the way. Not a single expert I've ever talked to agrees they could have stopped a third wave, because you can't vaccinate at an exponential rate. It was up to public health measures. Ontario trashed those, and was warned what would happen if they did.
One thing about the risk: if there is a ton of Covid around, the risks are vastly outweighed by the benefits, and Canada, unfortunately, has a pile of premiers who let the virus run to varying degrees lately. This is a good explainer of AstraZeneca’s risks and benefits:
I think NACI is in a tough spot, by the way. The data is moving around, and Health Canada already approved the vaccine, so risk messaging changes with all that.
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
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.