COVID-19 is Not Done With Us: Ford Nation Messes With Us More

[dewline]

The logic of Stephen Harper and Donald Trump is at work here. If you make sure that you can't look for it, you won't find it. If you don't find it, it doesn't exist as a problem. If it doesn't exist as a problem, it doesn't have to be solved.

Linking to tweets by GP and occasional CBC News commentator Dr. Iris Gorfinkel:

https://x.com/DrGorfinkel/status/1841225759681364201

https://x.com/DrGorfinkel/status/1841285113486671877

Comments

[thewayne]

I always remind people who say Covid is over that people still die of it. Dave, our roommate, had it for the third time a month or so ago. Somehow Russet and I avoided it. I'll be glad when he's no longer living with us as he works in a petri dish, i.e. public school.

[wint3rpear]

Oh fuck. :(

[blogcutter]

One bit of good news today (at least from my perspective). Apparently the wastewater monitoring program in Ottawa will continue through 2025:

https://ottawa.citynews.ca/2024/10/04/wastewater-virus-surveillance-coming-back-to-ottawa-heres-how/

No thanks to Ford Nation, of course, but still a positive step and maybe a sign that the Ottawa folks at least will sit up and take notice and take some appropriate measures.