A message from MaskBlocWR

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Elections are happening on February 27, 2025 Let's revisit the Ford Government's track record on COVID...
This timeline covers only a portion of the damage Doug Ford’s Government has done.
On graph of Ontario Wastewater data March 2022: End of mask mandates in most public settings, including schools, daycares, gyms, stores, restaurants, and offices (1) June 2022: End of mask mandates in public transit and healthcare settings. (2) August 2022: Elimination of mandatory five-day isolation rules for people with COVID-19. (3) September 2022: The Ontario Science table working group is disbanded. (4) November 2022: The Chief Medical Officer of Ontario requests the people maks indoors to help overwhelmed children;'s hospitals. (5) December 2022: 2022 was Canada's and Ontario's deadliest COVID year, and the year with the highest number of COVID hospitalizations.
March 2023: End of program that gave workers access to three paid sick days. (7) June 2023: End of free rapid tests in pharmacies and grocery stores. (8) August 2023: The Toronto Unity Health Rehabilitation Program for patients with Long COVID is shut down. (9) October 2023: The Ontario NDP introduce the Improve Air Quality for our Children Act. It has not gotten past first reading. (10) December 2023: There were 1199 emergency room closures in Ontario in 2023. ER closures were extremely rare before 2020. (11)
My additional comment: Note the change in the y-axis here. Previously (picture above) the wastewater data high point was 2.5. It got so prevalent in late 2023 that they increased it to 4.0.
May 2024: End of universal access to Paxlovid program that provided PCR testing and antiviral treatments. (12) June 2024: The Ontario government announces that it is cancelling its wastewater surveillance program, effective July 31, against expert advice, with no coordination with partners, and despite the fact that it was fully funded through the end of September. (13,14) September 2024: Free (government-paid) Covid rapid tests become increasingly difficult to find across Ontario. (15) October 2024: The Novavax Covid vaccine is unavailable in Canada, eliminating a useful option for people who are reactive to MRNA vaccines. (16) December 2024: 2024 is the worse year ever for Ontario ER closures. (17) January 2024: Ontario has the highest rates of COVID hospitalizations in the country. (18)
References (1) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid19-ontario-march-9-mask-mandates-1.6378148 (2) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-covid19-update-wednesday-june-8-2022-1.6481291 (3) https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/ontario-scraps-mandatory-five-day-isolation-rules-for-people-with-covid-19/ (4) https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/08/26/news/ontarios-covid-19-science-table-disband-schools-reopen (5) https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/14/ontario-masks-covid-health/ (6) https://www.thestar.com/news/analysis/why-in-ontario-and-in-canada-this-became-covid-s-deadliest-year/article_20721b6f-bae7-5c7e-a186-81a51f136247.html (7) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-end-paid-sick-days-ltc-measures-1.6787619 (8) https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/ontario-to-stop-free-covid-19-rapid-test-program-in-pharmacies-grocery-stores/ (9) https://rabble.ca/health/closing-of-toronto-long-covid-rehab-program-a-failure-to-support-patients/ (10) https://www.ontariondp.ca/news/ndp-mpps-pitch-solution-better-air-quality-schools-and-child-care-facilities# (11) https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/1199-emergency-room-closures-in-ontario-this-year-report/ (12) https://www.ontario.ca/document/ohip-infobulletins-2024/bulletin-240504-update-covid-19-antiviral-treatments (13) https://globalnews.ca/news/10654346/ontario-halts-wastewater-testing-covid-viruses/ (14) https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ontario-dropped-wastewater-testing-early-with-no-plan-for-feds-to-step-in-documents (15) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/covid19-rapid-tests-shortages-1.7341418 (16) https://globalnews.ca/news/10792064/novavax-vaccine-unavailable-canada/ (17) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/data-analysis-er-closures-three-years-2024-worst-year-for-scheduled-closures-1.7396789 (18) https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e24d2f326c6c2f0fae5f72c30ad319f94b2fc6a62a64ae6746a73f044ab3404c/MET4GQMTHRDG5FSZD262HL4LXU/Citations

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