Why are provinces like Ontario not issuing official Covid-19 reports now?

[blackbird]

Covid 19 is still with us.  The question is why have provinces like Ontario pulled away from issuing updates on Covid-19 spread and statistics?  We still need to be aware of the possibility of catching it and be cautious on what we do.  The notion that the pandemic is over is pure fiction.  Television news reported this morning that there have been 107 deaths in Ontario in the past seven days due to Covid.  N.S. also reported a number of deaths.  But this information apparently is coming from other sources and the government is not being forthcoming.  They are changing their policies also about long-term care homes and creating a less safe environment.  It is the older people who are most effected by Covid and it puts their lives at risk.  Provincial governments already failed to protect old people earlier during the pandemic as well as they should have and thousands died as a result.

“The (Doug) Ford government has ceased regular reporting on the spread of COVID-19.  Public Health no longer publishes daily and weekly epidemiologic reports and it has become steadily more difficult to get accurate numbers,” the OHC statement says.

“Not only are the government and Public Health not reporting much of the data previously available, they have also cut testing and abandoned trace and isolation measures. Regardless, there is some data available and infectious disease specialists have taken up the challenge of identifying transmission of the virus using wastewater, serology and other evidence.”

Public in dark about COVID-19 spread: Ontario Health Coalition (msn.com)

The conclusion I draw from this is we who are most vulnerable must do what we can to protect ourselves.  Obviously the political leaders are not protecting us in the way they should.

I also know of a young man who caught Covid somehow and was told he should come to work as soon as possible.   He also started a course in a Vocational School in Winnipeg and because he lost eight days of school due to Covid, he was told he was going to lose 2% on his examination marks for every day he was not in class.  This could work out to a reduction in his marks by about 16% per examination.  This sounds unbelievable but it is a fact.  Is there any rational thinking in these vocational school administrators/instructors or whoever makes these kind of decisions?

Edited October 21, 2022 by blackbird

[eyeball]

55 minutes ago, blackbird said:

The conclusion I draw from this is we who are most vulnerable must do what we can to protect ourselves.  Obviously the political leaders are not protecting us in the way they should.

Yup. We're getting over it as society so...Don't worry though, the covidiots who always thought it was a nothingburger will keep things burning for years.

Hopefully our political leaders will start focusing on protecting us from climate change denialism but I'm not holding my breath given their incompetence at just about anything they do.  I actually think the smartest thing many politicians did during COVID was to recognize their limitations in the face of a truly in-our-face crisis and cede so much to experts who stepped in to 'save the day'.  I only wish they could do the same in the case of climate change.  Oh well, maybe it's just not in our face enough yet.

[ExFlyer]

The report is there, it is just a matter of the media not reporting it regularly or you do not look at it.

"The Ontario COVID-19 Data Tool provides epidemiological information on COVID-19 activity in Ontario to-date. Explore the most recent COVID-19 data including: daily and weekly case counts by hospitalizations and deaths, vaccine uptake by age, sex and public health unit, outbreaks and laboratory testing."

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/data-and-analysis/infectious-disease/covid-19-data-surveillance/covid-19-data-tool?tab=overview

[myata]

Right for some reason the scare propaganda pump in a temporary hiatus. Maybe because would look ridiculous and idiotic not to mention, paranoid with great majority of the world moved on? Fear cannot replace quality and smarts, when is it going to dawn already?

[West]

The numbers of vaxxed getting covid is probably embarrassing for them after they implement the bizarre mandates. 

[West]

On 10/21/2022 at 1:54 PM, eyeball said:

Yup. We're getting over it as society so...Don't worry though, the covidiots who always thought it was a nothingburger will keep things burning for years.

Hopefully our political leaders will start focusing on protecting us from climate change denialism but I'm not holding my breath given their incompetence at just about anything they do.  I actually think the smartest thing many politicians did during COVID was to recognize their limitations in the face of a truly in-our-face crisis and cede so much to experts who stepped in to 'save the day'.  I only wish they could do the same in the case of climate change.  Oh well, maybe it's just not in our face enough yet.

This is next on the "fake crisis" list but they need to wait for phase 2 of the great reset

[Moonbox]

On 10/21/2022 at 3:54 PM, eyeball said:

Hopefully our political leaders will start focusing on protecting us from climate change denialism but I'm not holding my breath given their incompetence at just about anything they do. 

If they actually treated it like a real problem that needed real solutions, rather than an opportunity to pander to their base or to make money, that would be wonderful.  

In Ontario we're still stinging from the Liberal's disastrous green power schemes, where McGuinty and Wynne threw billions at farmers and other special interests to generate insignificant amounts of power wind/solar at 2-4x the going rate for such projects in the rest of NA.  We can thank them for 8 years of Doug Ford (who hasn't been nearly as bad as I expected, I'll admit).