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14 May, 5 tweets, 1 min read
This gets funnier and funnier and funnier and then you get to the note, and I’m going to need this to be made into a movie of some kind. Eugene Melnyk never stops. cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
I am still enjoying this almost as much as I would enjoy a Caribbean yacht trip in calm waters with a pleasant, non-malodorous captain
I bet Eugene brought his own captain’s hat on the trip
I think we need to commemorate this blessed event with a statue outside the Canadian Tire Centre of Eugene trying to order around a surly captain, and trying to grab the wheel
Thinking of @DownGoesBrown right now

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14 May
Open outdoor activities, with care. Close down indoor activities, more. If you want more summer, let’s speed up.
Pride was already cancelled: now Caribana, Taste of the Danforth, and more. The CNE is the one we might have saved, and maybe should have. It’s close to the point where everyone could get double vaccinated
I have written about this, and agree. Even if demand slacks off some, we should deal with the drivers of infection
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13 May
Ford just said "One thing threatens the summer, everyone hopes to have. And that's the weak and porous border measures that the federal government has kept in place." Nope, it would be reopening too fast.
This is so stupid. Public health restrictions, which were resisted by the province until it was nearly too late, are finally driving cases and hospitalizations down, despite the borders. A fourth wave will come if they are lifted too early.
"I just think a one-dose summer isn't good enough." Conservatives in this country, man.
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4 May
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
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4 May
For a government that tries to treat everything like a comms problem, they are very bad at comms
Just top-notch comms. I presume the ad campaign to blame the feds will be like the gas pump stickers, but on television
Still not as funny as the one where the MPP read neither the article, nor to the end of the headline
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4 May
All they have now is trying to blame other people
I am still thinking about this: turning a pandemic you utterly botched into an attack ad campaign. Just venal stuff
What a funny bit of timing!
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4 May
I wrote about NACI’s very, very bad day. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
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.
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