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Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (nCoV-2019)

Arguably this could go in another thread. But I think it fits here:

The Medical Officer of Health, for Toronto, Ms. DeVilla has been granted the right to intervene in a court case in which 2 divorced parents are feuding over whether the children should be vaccinated (the mother is opposed).

The relevance to Covid is that public health arguments are being advanced around whether a Covid vaccine will be widely adopted; and the MoH contends the justice system has an obligation to gatekeep pseudo-science out of the decision making process.

I've been one to get give DeVilla a hard time for what I feel has been a mishandled Covid response with poor prioritization etc.

But I like her choice to intervene here.

nationalpost.com

Top Toronto health official wins rare intervenor status in court battle over vaccinating couple's children

The city’s medical officer of health has lawyers taking part in an appeal slated for September, after an earlier decision ruled it was better for the children…
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Also, let's look at today's Covid numbers. Some good news in there; though still some things to watch, and of course, anything other than zero cases, means work to do.

New Cases: 112 - 0.28% (new low)
Hospitalizations 115 (a reduction of 22, and new low)
ICU and ICU on Vent both up by 1 (wrong direction but not a big move) 31 and 22 respectively.
However, sadly, 9 people still lost their lives yesterday.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1283409332441415684

From Twitter thread linked above:

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AlvinofDiaspar said:
From CBC:


A few weeks ago:

www.blogto.com

Big crowd seen drinking outside bar on King West has Toronto fuming

While we know now that the global pandemic is here to stay for quite some time and public health officials continue to recommend that residents pra...
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Strip their licenses, shut the thing down.

AoD
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Any business openly ignoring public health by-laws should be put out of business.
 
Towered said:
Any business openly ignoring public health by-laws should be put out of business.
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...and business owners get no sympathy points for openly flouting health regulations.

Business owners are generally responsible for the well-being of their patrons.

The only time business owners are not responsible is if the patrons themselves agree to be responsible for themselves by signing a document.
 
For me the next shoe to drop once they get sensible mask policy sorted out is for public health to openly communicate where outbreaks are originating. I mean identifying individual businesses and residential buildings. This should not filter out here and there due to investigative reporting, it should be a vital cog in the Covid containment strategy.
 
^I'd love to hear the details of that one. The OPP are, in my extensive experience of being on the wrong end of the interaction, very professional and well-trained officers.

Meaning, the guy probably needed to be shot. Some people just need to get it the hard way....it's not police brutality, it's citizen stupidity.
 
I expect that after they followed him to his residence, he pulled out some guns and started shooting based on the reports of "loud bangs" from the neighbours
 
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