You hear a lot from certain people trying to say the pandemic's third wave is because of travel. So I went to the Ontario government's data portal to see where the province's data shows cases are coming from.

You may be surprised (or not) to see it's not from travel... #onpoli

As you can see, over the past 90 days, travel has consistently been at the bottom as a source. https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/likely-source-infection

To see it a bit more clearly, let's pull out yesterday's data as an example. 12 cases were linked to travel. A fraction of cases linked to close contact, community spread, and outbreak setting. Outbreak setting, by the way, includes workplaces, plus schools and care homes.

Looking at where outbreaks are occurring, the answer is clear: workplaces. Workplaces are well ahead, followed by education and group/care home settings.

So with this data in mind, I will let you consider for yourselves why some are focused on travel and are ignoring the real issue of workplace spread.

Hint: It has to do with who is responsible for what.

And despite being 1% of cases, non-essential travel is banned, COVID tests before departure and on arrival are mandatory, hotel quarantine, 14-day quarantine.

If we want to get cases down in Ontario, we need to take the same kind of serious approach to making workplaces safer.

And while some seek to distract you about vaccines, the fact is, the vaccine failure narrative is embarrassingly out of date and continuing to promote it is malpractice. https://twitter.com/BogochIsaac/status/1385946482524758018?s=20

I'll leave you with a chart of the last 2 weeks COVID cases per capita by province.

We see wild variations, despite each province receiving the same per capita vaccine supply & having the same federal government.

Conclusion? Decisions made by provincial authorities matter.

Good Sunday morning. This thread has taken off. Let me address a misconception some seem to have with my intent.

1. I don't support non-essential travel. I support the international travel restrictions in place. I'm open to hearing realistic, constitutional further options.

2. I want to see cases gotten under control. It seems to me, given the prevalence of workplace spread, that we are not doing near enough in that area. We can, and I believe must, do more.

3. I get that it's easy to get angry about travel. About seeing others travelling when we

..have been isolating for more than a year. But I would me more accepting of critiques about travel from policy makers were they using the levers within their own authority to stop spread and make us safer. But they are demonstrably not. Hence, why I wrote this thread.