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Ford's Instructions: Stay Home
or maybe: Frickin' Infection - Stay Home!
"What could be clearer than that? Stay home." That was Doug Ford's reaction when people asked for more clarity concerning the new restrictions that were to take effect today on the last stroke of midnight. As if that weren't enough, apparently an emergency alert about the Stay-at-home order was broadcast to "smart" phones at around 10AM. I'm so glad I don't have one of those devices!
Okaaay... So is Ford himself going to be staying at home all the time? Well, no. How about the posties and the other delivery people? Again, no. Grocery store employees? No. Health care workers? Nope. And most of us would say "Thank goodness for that!"
What about recipients of the initial doses of vaccine? Ironically enough, it was precisely the most vulnerable folks, the residents of long term care homes, who could NOT get vaccinated because they WERE forced to stay home - and the vaccines (it was first thought) could not be moved out of the hospital they had been delivered to!
When asked some very specific questions like how the Government was defining "essential" he said it was impossible to define because essential varied from one situation to another, That's clear??
So Ford's Instructions (from me and other Ontario residents): Stop Hedging.
Later today I found the following:
https://files.ontario.ca/solgen-stay-at-home-order-2021-01-13.pdf
Now THAT's more like it! Who knew that a document written in standard legal and legislative style (in short, what many consider to be jargon) could be so much clearer than the supposedly straightforward popular language of our populist Premier?
or maybe: Frickin' Infection - Stay Home!
"What could be clearer than that? Stay home." That was Doug Ford's reaction when people asked for more clarity concerning the new restrictions that were to take effect today on the last stroke of midnight. As if that weren't enough, apparently an emergency alert about the Stay-at-home order was broadcast to "smart" phones at around 10AM. I'm so glad I don't have one of those devices!
Okaaay... So is Ford himself going to be staying at home all the time? Well, no. How about the posties and the other delivery people? Again, no. Grocery store employees? No. Health care workers? Nope. And most of us would say "Thank goodness for that!"
What about recipients of the initial doses of vaccine? Ironically enough, it was precisely the most vulnerable folks, the residents of long term care homes, who could NOT get vaccinated because they WERE forced to stay home - and the vaccines (it was first thought) could not be moved out of the hospital they had been delivered to!
When asked some very specific questions like how the Government was defining "essential" he said it was impossible to define because essential varied from one situation to another, That's clear??
So Ford's Instructions (from me and other Ontario residents): Stop Hedging.
Later today I found the following:
https://files.ontario.ca/solgen-stay-at-home-order-2021-01-13.pdf
Now THAT's more like it! Who knew that a document written in standard legal and legislative style (in short, what many consider to be jargon) could be so much clearer than the supposedly straightforward popular language of our populist Premier?
