Thread by @downtownrob88

Not even the threshold of 14,000 C19 Ontario deaths surpassed on Sept 1, 2022 could stir the media, interest the denizens of Ford Nation or distract its perverse, bullheaded leader who, channelling his inner Trump, remains completely unwavering in his drive to turn the .../2

..lucrative segments of the health sector into a profit centre for the corporate community;

Abruptly dismantling the free-thinking 30-member Ontario Science Advisory Table amid a 14 C19 deaths/day crisis, Ford continues to relentlessly leverage, through his Health and LTC.../3

...ministers, a callous disregard for the dislocation of sick seniors, a distrust of public education through his education minister and a fear of science through his Chief Medical Officer of Health Kieran Moore;

Emerging Aug 31, 2022 to declare the end of the 5-day Covid.../4

..isolation period, CMOH Moore, confirming his allegiance to both Boss Ford and his $235,000 a year salary, had suspiciously gone underground while Ontario absorbed the news of the neutering of the independent Science Table;

Fielding questions from an equally neutered press.../5

..pack taking copious notes and throwing the occasional but ineffective dart, Moore, declining to even recommend boosters for those aged 18-59, literally ushered in Wave 8 by giving a thumbs-up to unmasked kids showing up at school after testing positive for Covid, provided.../6

.. their symptoms were "improving."

The upshot is the Science Table, immunocompromised students and those living in multi-generational homes are neither on the Mendacious Moore's radar nor a consideration in his pro-business agenda, 2.5 years into the health calamity of the.../7

..century;

While momentum builds for grassroots legal pressure as Ford's Ministry of Hoarding Federal Cash (and applying it with no strings attached) has captured the attention of the public and possibly Ottawa, class action certification is a lengthy and difficult process; /8

Impediments to Ford accountability include his own Bill 218, the Supporting Ontario's Recovery and Municipal Elections Act, 2020, which bars a cause of action that arises as result of an individual being infected with or exposed to COVID-19 ), "on or after March 17, 2020..." /9

"...as a result of an act or omission if the [politician or bureaucrat] acted or made a good faith effort to act in accordance with public health guidance," (from Moore et al.) relating to coronavirus. Such acts, "do not constitute gross negligence," says the Act's.../10

...explanatory note;

A further barricade is the wide-ranging omnibus Bill 161, the Smarter and Stronger Justice Act, which adds new certification tests for class action lawsuits. Plaintiffs will have to show a judge that their common issues “predominate” over their.../11

...individual issues, and that a class action is “superior” to other means of seeking justice;

The result is the 18% of eligible Ontario voters identifying as citizens of Ford Nation on June 2 have installed a dictator who will rule in their interest. Dishonest, opaque and.../12

..unaccountable, Ford and crew cherry-pick nonsense datapoints, blame HCWs for vacationing and contradict experts by saying everything is under control;

"There can be no dispute that the province's hospitals are under intense strain, and that access to health services for..."/13

"...all Ontarians is in serious jeopardy," the Ontario Health Coalition said, countering Ford in late August;

Ontario has the fewest hospital beds per capita of any province in Canada and ranks 3rd to last among OECD countries, but Ford is getting the desired soundbites../14

.. from CP24, that the federal government has to step up and provide more money to fix the healthcare crisis.

#CLUSTERFORD #onpoli

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