This is a very blunt thread, because I'm not mincing words. Not enough people died during the first wave of Covid. Or maybe it was the wrong people who died. An odd, dangerous sense of optimism emerged within our government. This is the only way I can explain a series of errors:

-LTC got no meaningful support
-testing capacity was neglected
-minimalist school plans were released too late
-economic re-opening was done ad hoc
-contradictory and confusing health directives
-MPPs routinely violating public health orders
-but still gearing up for re-election

Optimism is the worst drug you can give to someone who is incompetent. I'll bet the Ford inner circle felt a great rush when they saw new cases fall to 33 that one day. And look where we are now. Isolating again, with four educated men unable to explain how Thanksgiving works.

Doug Ford was so optimistic that he spread his August joy across the province on a road-trip that is going to have people talking for years. His enthusiasm was infectious, as it turns out. And just as his tour was winding down, the case counts were starting to rapidly rise.

The optimism of the incompetent. Smiling boyishly and eating potato chips, as the decision to expand testing capacity sits on someone's desk. The sheer banality of evil is never surprising, but it always disappoints.

Ontario got the Premier who did nothing, so more people died.