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In Canada, provinces have jurisdiction over both healthcare and education. In my province of Ontario, some terrible things have happened in the past week. A thread. #onpoli #onted
1. Yesterday we recorded the highest-ever number of new COVID-19 cases in a single day, 4,401.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7752273/covid-19-ontario-cases-april-12-coronavirus/ #onpoli
https://globalnews.ca/news/7752273/covid-19-ontario-cases-april-12-coronavirus/ #onpoli
2. Our hospitals are bursting at the seams and critical care units are overwhelmed. To help ease the pressure, our children's hospital, for the first time, has had to open some of its ICU beds to adults. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/04/06/sickkids-hospitals-plans-to-open-eight-icu-beds-for-young-adults-with-covid-19-unprecedented-ceo-says.html #onpoli
3. Hospitals are in a state of emergency. New measures mean hospitals can transfer patients to different facilities, potentially far from home, without patients' consent. Elective surgeries have been cancelled in all but Northern Ontario. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-emergency-orders-hospitals-1.5982362 #onpoli
4. Our universities are suffering from years of neglect, and now Laurentian U has declared bankruptcy & discontinued 60+ programs (e.g. undergrad math, physics, philosophy, & geography). 80 faculty will lose jobs and 44 grad students will be affected. https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/mathematics-physics-music-among-dozens-of-program-cuts-at-laurentian-university-1.5384348
5. Elementary and secondary schools in Ontario are closed until further notice. https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-schools-closing-to-in-person-learning-indefinitely-as-covid-19-cases-soar-1.5383711 #onted #onpoli
6. I'm upset to find myself living in a province where things have gone so completely off the rails. The writing has been on the walls for weeks, months; years in the case of the university sector. All of this was anticipatable and should have been prevented. #onpoli #onted
/rant
/rant
A correction: yesterday’s record COVID-19 new case count was 4456, not 4401. Mea culpa.
