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Comment on Ontario’s school reopening announcement turns into a gong show by McKinnon

McKinnon — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 04:12:12 +0000

In reply to Lizea Marshall. What if your a parent who has to go to work??? And you can’t be home? Ever think about those parents or do you just sit there all day praises yourself for the great work your doing at home daily?

Comment on Ontario’s school reopening announcement turns into a gong show by Nes

Nes — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 03:48:24 +0000

We’ve had these vaccines for over a year, given to hundreds of millions people, and we’ve had mRNA vaccines for a decade. Vaccines do not stay in your system. So, we do know the long term effects: there aren’t any, unless you count not dying of COVID.

Comment on Ontario’s school reopening announcement turns into a gong show by garrry

garrry — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 03:00:53 +0000

Hey Enzo, good article. It would be great, though, if you could rethink your use of the word “absenteeism”. In case you didn’t know, it means “repeatedly skipping work or school for no good reason,” which is not what students and teachers will be doing by following the protocols to keep themselves and others safe. Lecce and other Ford cronies are using this word regularly and incorrectly either inadvertently because they don’t understand how words work (quite likely) or purposefully to undermine teachers and the public school system (equally as likely). You may not be able to correct them (might be fun to try, though), but you can correct your article. Don’t fall into their language farce-hole.

Comment on Star Trek: Discovery is back, and it’s still phasering itself in the foot by Adam

Adam — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 02:12:48 +0000

In reply to Tim. Yes I agree exactly! The episodes have degenerated into non-stop lecturing on how to be sensitive. The plots seem like an afterthought.

Comment on Andrew Phung’s terrific Run by Norman Dumais

Norman Dumais — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:30:04 +0000

You make me proud, Andrew. From your humble beginnings in my drama class in junior high to your humble stardom on TV. Keep up the good work.
Your proud teacher,
Mr. Dumais

Comment on Ontario’s school reopening announcement turns into a gong show by Michael Nabert

Michael Nabert — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 21:54:13 +0000

They may be the future, but they’re clearly not a priority. Whether back in schools or learning remotely, governments are showing us how little they truly care about our children. Making social distancing in classrooms possible, better ventilation (3000 new air filters is less than one per entire school, when they should really be in every classroom), ensuring all staff have adequate N95 masks and so on would show actual effort. Meeting recommendations from Sick Kids hospital in the earlier stages of the pandemic would have cost only about a quarter of the pandemic funding they were already sitting on, but they were determined to show us that they just don’t care about kids enough to protect them.

https://sustainablesong.medium.com/whether-in-school-or-remote-learning-governments-abandon-kids-36a0b0e08cfe?sk=c95add40f2c7ffd7a37be6d664c1959f

Comment on Ontario’s school reopening announcement turns into a gong show by Harleys Angels Mom

Harleys Angels Mom — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:58:43 +0000

Why should the governments be catering to the pro-jabbers… Do you think your views are more worthy? Just because persons do not want to get a jab does not automatically make them anti-vaxxers. It makes them sensible and responsible. I agree with the Ontario chief medical officer of health when he stated: It’s a new vaccine,” he said. “We want more experience with it before we mandate it.” And he never should have backed down because he spoke the truth. Our children should be allowed to get back to being kids and not having to deal with being locked down and separated from other children. They should living out their childhood without worry… and parents who do not want to subject their children to a jab should have that choice.

Comment on Ontario’s school reopening announcement turns into a gong show by DW

DW — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:33:17 +0000

Ford, Lecce and Moore are completely useless! PPE and Vaccine clinics should have been in place last week… not a “promise” that we’re starting to work on it now (If the Feds don’t hamper us). Put the kids and education staff at high risk for a few days and then close down again… the Doug Ford story!

Comment on Schools set to reopen on Monday despite feared “collapse” of the hospital system by Kumar

Kumar — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:27:19 +0000

I totally understand where parents and Doctors are coming from. Mental Health and the loss of knowledge for these kids is terrible. But unfortunately we really can not open for in class if we do not protect the schools by locking down around them. In other words we need to not be opening business back up that have been able to work from home. We unfortunately should not have restaurants open right now,, because no one is taking any precautions when in them. For example I pickup food and was in for about 90 seconds. I had a good mask fitted correctly, and safety glasses on to protect myself. Half of the restaurant did not have food in front of them but also were not wearing masks as well. Ford and his people can never make a tough decision as has been pointed out in the article. We knew Omicron was going to savage us. We should have imposed restrictions before Christmas. We have had 2 years to figure things out. We do not have the orderlies that Quebec trained and hired early last year. We never had contact tracing. and finally we never upgraded the testing facilities to allow for more test to be run. In addition they the government has actually cut 1 billion from the school budget during a time when we need to get class sizes down to protect the kids and staff. Then all these big business guys somehow have no clue what it takes to order a major HVAC upgrade or change anything for a large commercial system. They thought that 3 months before school starts they can CLAIM to throw 500 million dollars at upgrading those system in the schools. Let us take an average school in the Toronto District School board. since this school is probably 50 years old. We will need to do two things to start. You need an engineering survey and design done for the new HVAC system. This can include new ducting along with the new system. The second is to do an asbestos survey and arrange for the abatement when you find it, and you will find it. Guess what. You can not have anyone in the building while the removal of asbestos is going on. Then you have to find a contractor who can do the new ducting runs, and get the ducts made, and installed. At the same time you need someone to make the units that will be replacing the old ones. You need plumbers, and electricians along with gas fitters to make all the connections and even run new ones. For a job on an average elementary school you are looking at 2 months worth of work going 24/7 minimum, The backlog on commercial installers would be about a six month wait. So how did they think they were going to upgrade schools by the start of classes last September?
Lastly did you know Ontario only had 100 Pediatric ICU beds? The seasonal flu usually stretches the ICU system for kids to capacity. Omicron is going to throw that out the window when our kids go back.
In conclusion, we can not afford to open schools at this time with how little protection we have given to the community to keep the spread to a minimum thereby protecting kids, the staff and their families in total.

Comment on Ontario’s school reopening announcement turns into a gong show by Hugh hillman

Hugh hillman — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:11:42 +0000

Not ALL public Ontario schools have had their ventilation systems improved, or had custodians cleaning more! In the rural areas there are students who either don’t have access to tech or access to internet…. When will the minister do something for ALL Ontario students who are having to use online learning?