Remember when Doug Ford said he’ll be dropping the vax passes by next Tuesday?
We should collectively be keeping an eye out on him backpedaling over that.
Let's be clear: He's not "dropping" the vax passes: they'll still exist and remain in place for the 'indefinite' (aka permanent) future. Heck, they've even said that businesses are allowed to keep using them and require them legally. Some shitty boutique movie theatres in Toronto are virtue signaling hard right now by announcing that they'll continue to require the vax passport.
The only thing he's "removing" is the mandate that requires the businesses to require and enforce the vax passport. Since the system still exists, he can undo the "removal" instantly with one announcement, so it's meaningless.
Also, if you want to see the writing on the wall, here's what the top "health official" for Ontario had to say in response to questions regarding when (if fucking ever) the mask mandate will end here:
"
If and when we transition"
These slimy Ontario fucks can't even say that they'll end the mask mandate, despite everywhere else in the world ending it. Why is the "Science" in Ontario always fucking different from the rest of the world?
Also, if any fellow Ontario people want to know how this will go (and how they've deliberately set this up to avoid ever having to remove the mask mandate), here you go:
They've stated that they "anticipated
a review of the mask mandate will be done in the second or third week of March"
Not that it will be lifted then, that they will "review" it at that point. Which means even if they can't finger fuck the public sentiment into panic (yet), they can push it out another 4-6 weeks (just like they did with the "lifting" of the vax pass).
Why is this important? Because any public health official knows what the seasonal respiratory infection pattern looks like. Here's the Flu infection pattern for 2012-2013 in Canada:
For reference, we are currently in week 8 of this year, and guess what week "the second week of March" is? Why, it's week 11 of course! It just so happens to be the week that infections will start slightly increasing again!
Now, let's look at the "COVID Infections" curve for this time period last year in 2021 for Ontario:
What do we see? We see a peak around the start of January (so, week 1-2), which then starts decreasing at a steady pace until March 8th 2021, when it starts increasing again (March 8th is week 10). It increases again until around April 16th (which is week 15-16), at which time it slowly starts decreasing until it basically goes down to nothing by June 25th (which is week 25).
So, the covid infection curve in 2021 matches the seasonal respiratory pattern perfectly. All the bullshit measures and lockdowns did nothing to change the curve at all. It just followed the pattern that winter respiratory infections always follow. Just look at how the timing and patterns between influenza in 2013 and COVID in 2021 match.
All measures are meaningless, and they've timed their decisions so that they can use the "RISING CASES!?!!" meme to justify not removing the mandates and re-imposing more on the retarded public. They did the same shit in 2021, 2022 will be no different.
I will bet any money that mask mandates will not be removed within the next 5 months (and strong money on them not being removed at all this year, if ever).
The natural increase of cases by mid-March will be used as the stick to beat us with "WE TOLD YOU VAX MANDATES WERE IMPORTANT, LOOK THE CASES ARE GOING UP AGAIN ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!", and they'll bring it back totally, and we might even get another April/May lockdown if enough Liberals shriek at Ford.
Then, we hit summer when the cases naturally plummet to nothing, Ford and the "Public health officials" claim the useless mandates were the reason why, and they say they'll "slowly lift restrictions out of an abundance of caution", and lift the mandates so slowly that we still haven't removed all of them by the Fall, and then cases naturally begin to rise again, and we repeat this pattern ad infinitum.
The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result, so I have no expectation for Ford to do anything sensible (he never has with mandates before), so this is how it will probably play out, for anyone that hasn't just moved on to being distracted by the Ukraine shit.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I unfortunately haven't been proven wrong yet.
