Australia, New Zealand, the Atlantic provinces, Manitoba.......
Ford and his ministers are politicians, not specialists. When was the last time the Minster of Health (anywhere) had a doctorate in medicine or medical research? That's what the bureaucrats and advisors are for and I give Ford credit for seeking their opinions.
Who have been working from the exact same medical advice and implementing very similar policies? I smell a partisan motive in your differentiation.
He has been doing fine, but his cuts to health care and long term care will come back to haunt him.
Sure we have. The Feds have hired thousands of contact tracers to assist the provinces and Trudeau announced that Ontario was making use of them.
Testing is a red herring at this point. The virus has circulated thoroughly. There's nothing that testing will tell us that hospitalizations won't, only with greater relevance. Who needs a bunch of data about asymptomatic infections at this point? This will just have to run its course as we try to salvage the economy.
I agree that the conditions at some of these homes contributed to a catastrophe in that environment. I think these problems have been building for years now, pre-dating the current government. I don't believe that postponement of any inspections created the abysmal conditions in some of these homes in such a short time. It's fair to say that Ford hasn't done much yet to fix the problem. It's hard to know what the solution is. It comes down to a few really bad owners. People can cry "universal standards" all they want, but there will always be some bad operators to root out. You can also talk about making them all government homes, but: a) you'd have to drop a lot of cash to buy out existing owners, b) operating costs would go up, and c) the public would have to fund the ever expanding need for these homes as the demographics expand the upside down triangle of society. I don't think there is any easy answer in a time of stagnant government revenue with dismal economic prospects ahead.
I believe some has to go and most likely the Minister of long term care..if she didn’t know she should have known. Ford was submarined today and I’m sure he will be out for blood ��
Because there ain't none a'really a'happening.
It will tell us the danger to people in high risk groups who have been maintaining distancing and other precautions. The populist right leader of Ontario saying testing has been a failure should tell you something. It's also worth noting that antibody testing is some areas hit way harder than us have between 5 and 25% of the population having been exposed (and that ignores the supposed 50% false positives in those tests).
