November 1, 2024
Doug Ford, in a COVID trap of his own making, needs more than desperation to get us out
The province has backed itself into a corner, and what has really been saved? It’s crunch time, as Ford put it, and he can try to blame anybody he likes, but we were never vaccinating our way out of this in January, and he knew. So now he’s desperate.
The province has backed itself into a corner, and what has really been saved? It’s crunch time, as Ford put it, and he can try to blame anybody he likes, but we were never vaccinating our way out of this in January, and he knew. So now he’s desperate.

Doug Ford sounded desperate. Desperate for people to listen, after he has signalled for so long that this isn’t all that serious, not really, go to work, go Christmas shopping. Desperate for COVID-19 vaccines, which while wonderful aren’t going to solve his problem. Desperate to blame somebody, anybody: the federal government, Ontarians who don’t stay home, long-term-care workers. It must be someone else’s fault.

This is what happens when you don’t listen, don’t change, don’t learn. This is what happens when Ontario slow-walks itself into looming hospital meltdowns, stone age lockdowns, long-term-care disaster. Doug Ford can blame anybody he likes. But more than anybody, this was up to him. It still is.

And still, casting blame wasn’t the most enraging part. Saying “all I need are vaccines,” when the federal government has clearly communicated delivery schedules and nobody ever thought we could vaccinate our way out of this in the first months of the year, wasn’t the most enraging part.

Saying “we are putting an iron ring,” in response to a Globe and Mail report on a long-term-care home where an LTC patient was found naked and alone, as long-term care is being decimated again: that was close to the most enraging part, if we’re being honest. This government was told that if community transmission was not controlled, LTC residents would die. And that’s happening now.

The most enraging part, though, was that Ford and his government were not ready to move, again.

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