We had one finite period of time to try to knock COVID-19 down. We did not make the most of it — not by far
Toronto’s hipster community finds itself among the ranks of world-renowned COVID-iots, as the COVID-insufferably-self-righteous like to call them, thanks to a weekend get-together: Trinity-Bellwoods Park, in the city’s shabby-chic Queen West neighbourhood, was full of young men and women behaving scandalously.
In other words, this was always going to happen. So the time is long past when politicians like Ontario Premier Doug Ford or Toronto Mayor John Tory should be able to cluck their tongues or stamp their feet at such people and expect their constituents to nod along in solidarity. The feds have been abysmal since even before Day One, with Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam actively downplaying the threat. We shipped 16 tonnes of personal protective equipment to China with no viable plan to replace it. Whatever you think of travel bans as an anti-pandemic measure, the government undermined its own credibility by insisting they don’t work, then changing course 180 degrees over the course of a weekend.
On Monday, Ford said everyone who had been at Trinity-Bellwoods should get tested. He was contradicted by his own public-health officials. Meanwhile, the government’s online self-assessment tool says what it has always said: Don’t go get tested unless you’re referred by a doctor or a Telehealth agent. Hopeless.
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