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8 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Omicron's coming, Delta's doing well, the science table shows that even optimistic scenarios could cancel surgeries, and the province isn't ... doing anything? Not true. But it's not doing much. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
🎶 sick of wri-ting these articles 🎶
Yeah, it’s time for a significant escalation in urgency on boosters, now.
I cited this. It's stunningly clear. If everybody eligible was vaccinated, we would have a much easier path preparing for Omicron.

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10 Dec
I fear this is going to develop faster than we can react to it: holiday parties, holiday travel, an exhausted populace that doesn't want to hear it, and isn't really being told anyway. Omicron will spread so fast, and unless it's strangely easy on the unvaccinated, it will hurt
That yellow line looks a lot like the Omicron line in other countries
Vaccination still protects against sever outcomes: that is the good news. But again, unless it is oddly weak against naive populations, this will spread so fast and find people who aren’t protected
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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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14 May
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
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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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