Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe needs to lock down for 3 weeks: COVID-19 scientific advisory table

A three-week lockdown in certain regions of the province is necessary to blunt the explosive growth of the variants of concern, Ontario’s COVID-19 scientific advisory table says.

Dr. Peter Juni, the scientific director of the advisory table, believes Ontario could see between 2,500 to 5,000 new cases of COVID-19 per day in a few weeks, if the current trends continue.

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    1. Deco Labels & Tags is booming, providing North America with signage and stickers. Owned by Doug and Randy Ford. Too bad the cops do not enforce Conflict of Interest laws, just masking laws and social distancing laws – these animals should be in prison – the politicians, cops, and the mercenary general Rick Hillier.

  1. Yes it will only be just 3 weeks. Just as it all started a year ago when the government said, it’s only going to take 2 weeks to flatten the curve and we haven’t been able to get out from underneath the government’s personal sovereignty crushing boot. Our federal and provincial governments are following China’s lead at dictatorship.

    1. can you give a source of the “it’s only going to take 2 weeks to flatten the curve” you said here

    2. @Chompstomp It was only going to be two weeks to “flatten the curve”, meaning a two week lockdown, not designed to stop transmission, but to ostensibly slow the spread so that hospitals didn’t become “overwhelmed”.
      Fact.

    3. @Gail Florence death rates have been low and the recovery has been high which im glad it is, we need to start reopening and recovery the economy .

  2. What about chief Medical Officer of Health during SARS Dr. Schabas? He disagrees with lockdown measures. Would you listen to him Ford?

    1. I think they prefer to listen to the doctors who are for the lockdowns because they want to keep the control going.

  3. At this stage of the game, a European or Australian-style lockdown would NEVER work in Ontario. They tried to create this atmosphere with the Grey Zone in November and it was an abject failure. Target measures at known vectors of infection.

  4. Definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

    1. @Bartholomew tell that to ppl of relatives who die from cancer. and you want to lock down the world because of a cold? Stfu

  5. Its ok! ….in 9 more lockdowns we can colonize space!… no?..not working for me. What else you got! 😆

  6. “Two weeks to flatten the curve”

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    1. Deco Labels & Tags is booming, providing North America with signage and stickers. Owned by Doug and Randy Ford. Too bad the cops do not enforce Conflict of Interest laws, just masking laws and social distancing laws – these animals should be in prison – the politicians, cops, and the mercenary general Rick Hillier.

  7. This guy literally said we will not escape this with only vaccines. Then he says one more three week lockdown will be our last. I doubt it

  8. Time to just open everything up and carry one, Maybe look at Japan for once who didn’t shut down their economy and are already back to normal. But no lets keep screwing the dog over here and needlessly drag this out.

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