Toronto, Ontario
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Seems neither “progressive” nor “conservative” to remove a user fee that has no major impact on affordability/access and costs the government (who has seemed very concerned about spending throughout the pandemic) $1.1 Billion to do it.
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Cowards.
#BREAKING: Ontario will NOT mandate vaccines for healthcare workers, citing high vax rates & staffing concerns. "Having looked at the evidence, our govt has decided to maintain its flexible approach by leaving human resourcing decisions up to individual hospitals" - Premier Ford
Imagine if they said
“And it’d allow would-be doctors to bypass the med-school gauntlet of intimidation & reeducation”
American policy discourse on education is really In its own world.
Ending teacher licensure would enable school leaders to recruit & more fully leverage all available talent.
And it’d allow would-be teachers to bypass the ed-school gauntlet of intimidation & reeducation.
These are good things.
At @NRO. nationalreview.com/magazine/…
This seems entirely unnecessary.
The Ontario government has told the Star it will take a different approach than other provinces in developing its mobile app for COVID-19 vaccine certification, opting to build the program in house instead of contracting it out to a tech company. torstar.co/Fy3b50G5JrR
So they did it 40 days faster than I said they would. I guess that’s progress…?
At every stage of this pandemic this government have made the wrong decision…without fail. Absolutely zero foresight.
I give it 60 days before case rates are very high again and they are forced to do this like the rest of the (rational) world.
Health Min @celliottability rejects push for vaccine passports, says people can get proof of vax after second shot for employers or anyone else who wants to see it. Suggests a vaxx passport smartcard could be prone to fraud. Also says no to mandatory vaxx for health care workers.
This is a very bad mistake.
Ontario Solicitor General makes it clear: The Ford government won’t impose (her word) a proof of vaccination card on residents.
She says the vaccine receipt you received after your shots should be sufficient.
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One of the most unique things about Americans is a near complete inability to look at the experience of other countries and learn from it. This is a phenomenon that exists even among educated people
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The decision to extend stay-at-home is the right one. The idea that these goons can’t answer the question “what level do we need to get to vaccines/cases/Rt/% positivity to end the stay at home order” is embarrassing.
Premier Ford, Minister @celliottability, and Minister @SylviaJonesMPP make an announcement nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1yoJMAEom…
These are genuinely fantastic numbers and shows that vaccine hesitancy in Canada and the US may be completely different universes.
Over 50% of adults aged 18 and over in Ontario have received their first dose of the #COVID19 vaccine! news.ontario.ca/en/release/1…
Learn more about eligibility and where to get vaccinated at: covid-19.ontario.ca/ontarios….
ALT Image Text: 50% of Ontario adults have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
#thisisourshot
Should @fordnation extend the stay at home order (he should) we need to set some serious goals by the end of that period.
We have the supply for:
- 10M shots in arms in Ontario by June 3rd
- 80% of eligible pop 1 dose. 65% total pop.
- 90/75 in hotspots
Our situation is improving.
When establishing criteria for safe & sustainable reopening we should focus less on healthcare system capacity and more on ensuring people are protected from getting #COVID in the first place.
People need some light at the end of this tunnel motivation to help other navigate this mess of a vaccine booking system.
If we look to the UK, Israel etc this level of vax can change things in a bit way.
With the supply coming in we can do every second dose in June/July.
Maybe it’s recency bias but I genuinely believe Fullerton may be the worst cabinet minister in Canadian political history.
Quite the moment at Queen's Park today, when the Minister of Long-Term Care said she will "not be spoken to that way" after being asked to resign over the nearly 4,000 deaths in Ontario nursing homes during the pandemic.
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Feels necessary to share this again. This was from February 11th. This wave is likely the biggest policy failure of my lifetime.
@fordnation is a failure. Don’t let these people gaslight you saying that they did “everything they could”. They didn’t. People died.
COVID-19 modelling table:
▪️ 3rd wave possible b/c of variants
▪️ Stay at home order & aggressive vaccinations necessary
Ford government:
▪️ Ended the state of emergency
▪️ Lifting the stay at home order
▪️ Opening the economy (to a degree)
TVO's John Michael McGrath:
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