🧵 Ajax’s own MPP decided to take a non-essential trip outside of the country while our town moved from Red to Lockdown.
I don’t even know where to start on this. Rules for me and not for thee? Financial privilege in action? Getting away from the “plebs” in Ajax? #onpoli 1/x
#BREAKING; NEWSTALK 1010 has learned Ontario Finance Minister, Rod Philips, travelled outside of the country for a personal vacation despite @fordnation repeated pleas to stay home over the holidays. Minister Philips has released the following statement #onpoli pic.twitter.com/DlaOc1MZTq
— NEWSTALK1010 (@NEWSTALK1010) December 29, 2020
Yet you decided to leave Canada for a non-essential vacation during a global pandemic. #onpoli 6/x
Not flying around the world. #onpoli 8/x
Yes, all of it.
Ajax needs to take note of what their MPP did at the peak of the second wave of a deadly pandemic.
Leaders set priorities. Leaders get things done. @RodPhillips01 is not a leader. #onpoli 10/10 đź§µ
11/10 #onpoli https://t.co/ZAQ65eodTk
If Phillips left the country on Dec. 8...
— James Wattie (@jameswattie) December 29, 2020
Why is he pictured here 7 days later clearly not self-quarantining? https://t.co/bWUE7cuazB
12/10 #onpoli https://t.co/3HHMC7OUv2
Last weekend I stopped by @InspiredRO & Rossland Pharmasave to drop off some holiday treats to show our support for these amazing #Ajax businesses. Thank you for serving our community this year! pic.twitter.com/tUUOuFv8fW
— Rod Phillips (@RodPhillips01) December 18, 2020
Business owners are struggling because of #COVID19. I\u2019m glad I had the opportunity to check in with some of our local #Ajax businesses earlier this month to see how they are doing. Support is available. Please visit https://t.co/PsF17dNegX for details. pic.twitter.com/hvPKo372Wa
— Rod Phillips (@RodPhillips01) December 24, 2020
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Good. Fuck Rush Limbaugh, and let the celebration about his death be a reminder to the rest of the racists and bigots that we\u2019ll happily dance on your graves too.
— Chris Kluwe, Irredeemable Pudgy Nobody (@ChrisWarcraft) February 17, 2021
I've heard a lot of scientists claim these three - including most recently the chief advisor to the CDC, where the claim that most transmission doesn't happen within the walls of schools. There is strong evidence to rebut this claim. Let's look at
The science shows us that most disease transmission does not happen in the walls of the school, but it comes in from the community. So, CDC is advocating to get our K-5 students back in school at least in a hybrid mode with universal mask wearing and 6 ft of distancing. https://t.co/dfvJ2nl2s4
— Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH (@CDCDirector) February 14, 2021
Let's look at the trends of infection in different age groups in England first- as reported by the ONS. Being a random survey of infection in the community, this doesn't suffer from the biases of symptom-based testing, particularly important in children who are often asymptomatic
A few things to note:
1. The infection rates among primary & secondary school children closely follow school openings, closures & levels of attendance. E.g. We see a dip in infections following Oct half-term, followed by a rise after school reopening.
We see steep drops in both primary & secondary school groups after end of term (18th December), but these drops plateau out in primary school children, where attendance has been >20% after re-opening in January (by contrast with 2ndary schools where this is ~5%).