Ford’s call to arms!

Vincent J. Curtis

16 Dec 21

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, announced a “call to arms!”  Ford wants to give booster vaccinations to 300,000 Ontarians a day.  With 15 million Ontarians, that would only take two months to accomplish, or about the length of time for a pandemic wave to crest and begin to decline all on its own.

Ford’s call to arms admitted inter alia that vaccinations are failing.  Two doses need a booster to protect people from infection.  Breakthrough infections are so common among the doubly vaccinated that they comprise the majority of active COVID cases in Ontario.  Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was so distrustful of her booster and mask protection that she didn’t attend the House to present her budget update after she was exposed to COVID positive people, and testing negative herself.  Boosters and masks are what Ford wants Ontarians to rely on.  Then, he demonstrates his true faith by imposes capacity limits!  Remember, all this is to protect the healthcare system.

Ford said nothing about therapeutics, those drugs that mitigate the symptoms of COVID after infection.  Presently, hospitalized healthcare is limited to hand-holding, though it will put a patient on ventilator if breathing help becomes necessary.  About Remdesivir, Regeneron, Merck’s new Mulnupiravir, what I call “Pfizermectin,” and other therapeutics nothing was said.

They have power, so that makes them dangerous.  But how seriously are we supposed to take political leadership that is so maifestly out of its league?

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