Thread by @bruce_arthur

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.

This was real-time analysis, by the way

https://twitter.com/bruce_arthur/status/1381977487295528963?s=20

Meanwhile, LA County is only now opening bars, with 54% of people at at least one dose, test positivity at 1%, cases at about 21 per 100K per week. Ontario reopened bars and more most placs in February at about 1,000 cases per day, or 48 per 100K per week

https://twitter.com/ArashMarkazi/status/1389585693995720705?s=20

Oh and at the time, 3.2% of Ontario was vaccinated, near enough. Ontario made its choice, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.

I'm honestly sorry to be a broken record on this, on all of this. But the truth of what happened matters, and people are trying to lie about it.

Helpful: a @fatimabsyed timeline on the third wave chatelaine.com/living/politic…

In the legislature, Doug Ford just used Roberta Place again as an example of cases brought in through the border, and that was true. And again, it happened in January, and was a warning. His government reopened the province in February.

Good column. The province, as Wherry notes, had responsibilities. It chucked them

https://twitter.com/aaronwherry/status/1390274329812815874

It’s so transparent. It’s the gas pump stickers except for the border. This isn’t a government so much as it’s a consulting company designed to slash regulations, reward donors, and pretend to care about anything else

https://twitter.com/cbcqueenspark/status/1390302984177922048

Oh, and yeah, this is true

https://twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1390308958276100096?s=20