Bruce Arthur writes that Doug Ford seems to be confused. When asked about Thanksgiving:
He said stick with 10 people, indicated he would do the same, denied he said it, said stick to your household without specifying what the household was, tweeted to clarify afterwards, deleted the tweet, and tried again. It still didn’t specify that his immediate household is two people, not 10.
Perhaps he's getting bad advice:
So who is giving him advice? CMOH Dr. David Williams, whose advice has often seemed wayward? Associate medical officer of health Dr. Barbara Yaffe, who said she hadn’t seen the worrisome Toronto neighbourhood positive test data reported by the Star until she read it in the paper, and which the federal health minister is now concerned about?
The numbers in Ontario are spiking -- as they are around the world:
But the seven-day average, with old cases excluded, is 601. Two weeks ago it was 386. The lineups and testing backlog muddy the waters. There is no way to look at the state of Ontario’s epidemic and say the curve is flattening. Not yet.
COVID fatigue has set in. And Doug Ford's confusion does nothing to stop the growth of that fatigue.
Image: toronto.ctvnews.ca
4 comments:
A failure of coherence at the top spreads chaos among the public. When a leader spreads inconsistent, contradictory and irreconcilable messages it invites others to adopt whatever interpretation best suits their biases. That is a horrible failure of leadership when it comes to a public health threat.
Ford's primary focus is the economy, Mound. When it's threatened, he gets week in the knees -- and he starts contradicting himself.
Too many in authority are desperate to return to the old normal.
Others realise the the new normal will have to be different.
No one I know of knows what the new normal is or could be!
Confusion abounds.
Between Covid and Trump the world has been changed forever.
Hence today's chaos.
Up is down and down is up.
TB
We live in a time when confusion reigns, TB. At the moment, things don't bode well for the future.
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