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7 Jan, 8 tweets, 7 min read
🧵Let's make it clear that caring about a child's physical health and wanting kids back in school is not a binary choice, and it should never be positioned that way. Kids need to be in school. We should also reduce their risk of infectious disease, now and always.

#onpoli #onted
Learning about children lost to #COVID19 is devastating, and will hit home hard for many of us. While children's risk is lower, this is a powerful reminder that risk is not absolute, and kids and the people they love need our protection, too.

#onpoli #onted #SafeReturn
For two years we've left the needs of children on the back burner. Their health, both physical and mental, and their education. Ontario has taken too much from our youngest people and they deserve better from us. We must move forward with their well-being in mind.

#onpoli #onted
Virtual learning is a tremendous burden for a lot of families, and a lot of kids are struggling. This isn't what's best for them and it's hard for us to see them suffer. January 17th is coming quickly and I hope the government is taking each day seriously. #WhereIsLecce?

#onted
Instability is really hard for kids. When we get kids back to classrooms, we shouldn't have to do this again. We must use this time to do everything we can to ensure we can keep schools open and let our educators and kids be where they thrive.

#onpoli #onted #SafeReturn
We can't wish this to happen - there's a lot of work to do. We need:
- improved ventilation
- better masks
- prioritized boosters for educators
- #COVIDVaccine added to ISPA
- sufficient #PaidSickDays
- updated screening guidance

#onpoli #onted #SaferSchools #SafeReturn
And we need stronger communications to help parents feel confident in their choices to vaccinate their kids. Read about the measures Ontario Liberals have been calling for since before #Omicron.

#onpoli #onted #SaferSchools #SafeReturn
@OntLiberal

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Our common goal is getting kids back to school and keeping them there. That will only happen if we do the hard work now to improve illness prevention measures in schools. Let's do what's right for our kids and the people who spend their lives with them.

#onpoli #onted

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4 Jan
🧵While we still haven't had our PCR results from Dec24 following a classroom exposure before the break, yesterday our asymptomatic kid tested + on a RAT before their planned 2nd doses.

I'm testing negative on RATs, but I'm unwell and all signs point to #Omicron.
#COVID19Ontario
With higher risk loved ones and front-line workers in our lives, we've always been more cautious with infectious disease - especially in the 5.5 years since losing Jude. With rising cases in mid-December we canceled all our holiday plans and started staying home. #Omicron
Grandparents watched from the driveway as the kids opened Christmas gifts. Groceries were picked up curbside. I'm so glad now that we didn't put our family and friends at risk, and so frustrated that we're here after all the care we've taken.

#Omicron #COVID19Ontario
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27 Dec 21
Keeping schools open without ensuring they're safe during a pandemic also takes a toll on kids' mental health - especially if the consequence is long-term impact on their health or the loss of a loved one.

We are not seeing enough done to ensure safe classrooms. #onpoli #onted
More than 10,000 Ontarians have died from #COVID19. More people that we know personally are currently sick with COVID than we've known throughout the pandemic to this point. It's everywhere and many can't access tests. We're facing a different challenge with #Omicron. #onpoli
#WhereIsDougFord with one week left until schools are expected to reopen? What measures are his government planning to implement to protect the health and learning of kids and educators across the province? Ontario is not prepared to face #Omicron in schools. #onpoli #onted
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24 May 21
An average of ~3500 Canadians die from the flu in a typical year.

That number sounds so small in the wake of #COVID19, but that's a lot of people lost to a preventable illness.

But this year all our illness prevention efforts wiped out the flu. Compare to previous years. 1/5
People over 65, kids under 5, pregnant women, and people with underlying health concerns are at greatest risk from the flu's most serious complications, but risk isn't absolute and perfectly healthy younger adults die from this preventable disease, too. 2/5

#ForJudeForEveryone
I don't know what the flu might look like in the next year or two, but my hope is that the lessons we've learned through the pandemic will carry forward and we'll do a better job protecting ourselves and each other. In all this devastation, we saved kids this year. 3/5
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23 May 21
I appreciate the interest and enthusiasm I'm seeing to find creative solutions for the remaining weeks of school. We advocated tirelessly for many of these options throughout the pandemic, and found they require a significant amount of planning and new resources.#onted #onpoli 1/
I'd love for my daughter to finish her final year at her school in-person with friends and educators who have seen her through these seven years. With four weeks left my hopes are now pinned on better when our kids return in September. #onted #onpoli 2/4
This school year never had to be this way. Our government chose not to prioritize the necessary steps to keep schools consistently, safely open. The way Ontario has experienced #COVID19 was preventable, and our kids have paid a high price. #onted #onpoli 3/4
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3 May 21
I'm tired of listening to our provincial government blame everyone but themselves. Teachers, unions, the opposition, Bob Rae(?). They've been in power for three years and the entire pandemic.

What do they feel they're responsible for? Is there a list they can provide? #onpoli
There are issues that are older than their govt. Absolutely.

That does not absolve them of responsibility to take action now.

We've seen them choose not to plan. Not to take proactive steps to reduce community transmission. To reopen too fast while building field hospitals.
They chose not to bring in the military to LTC during the second wave of the pandemic.

Why?

The situation continued to be desperate. Help was needed. How many people died? What did they not want exposed during the second wave?

Nothing changed, and we'd have seen it.
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3 May 21
They chose to try to control the appearance of the situation, rather than taking more care to make our classrooms safer. My kids returned to crowded classrooms next to empty ones, and the only ventilation strategy was open windows. #onpoli #onted

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.@sflecce's spokesperson continues to insist educators and opposition wanted schools closed all year.

This is simply untrue. As a parent I advocated tirelessly for a safe return to school where my kids thrive. The government didn't take school safety seriously. #onpoli #onted
Kids, educators, and families across Ontario deserved better than this. We saw through the gaslighting all year. We saw the government's flimsy measures fail us. We received the letters about cases and outbreaks in our schools. We isolated and pivoted and did our best. #onted
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