Thread by @downtownrob88

The Ghost of Health Ministers past made a visit to the Pink Palace at Queen's Park Aug 17, 2022, with MSM breaking news of former minister turned bean counter Christine Elliott's determination to seek Fordian efficiency by curtailing the volume of expensive but more sensitive../2

...PCR testing at provincial labs;

The mandate letter — signed by Elliott and sent on Oct. 1, 2021 — laid out government expectations for the agency for the year 2022-23. Trouble is the province was in the middle of Wave 4 at the time, which its own data indicates transpired../3

...between Aug 1 and Dec 14, 2021;

Faced with massive demand for the tests – but with an election 8 months away – the conniving premier and his soon-to-retire health boss then began placing limits on who qualified for PCR testing, resulting in significant savings for the .../4

... province — in line with the directive given to Ontario Health, the Crown super-agency Ford created in 2019 to consolidate various public health agencies;

PCR testing is ultimately restricted to high-risk individuals by Ford effective Dec 31, 2021. The move had the dual.../5

...purpose of cutting costs but also rendering daily Covid case counts meaningless as the election loomed in June of 2022;

Ford's choking off of access to the more accurate PCR test also turns problematic for Covid long haulers; without the precise test results in hand.../6

...claimants face coverage denials from insurance companies;

Mar 28, 2022, Ontario marks the fewest tests conducted, 6,243, since May 2020, as the PCR testing regime of Ford Nation succeeds in suppressing case numbers in advance of the June 2 vote;

While the public.../7

...scrambled for self-testing PCR kits retailing for $100, and Ford's allies in the private labs were quoting/gouging at $1,200/test in Feb 2021, Ford's $2.7B Covid Fund went untouched and untapped during that same period.

#CLUSTERFORD #onpoli

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