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On Doug Ford, get-there-itis, and our COVID catastrophe

We had been doing well. Ontario handled the first wave of COVID-19 rather gracefully. Our neighbors to the south struggled, first in cities like New York during the spring of 2020, then in the sunbelt states in the summer, and then again during the so-called third-wave with the triple-threat of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. For most of this time, we retreated behind our smug Canadian confidence in good government. Times have changed. To put it mildly, the Rona is kicking our asses. Our American cousins are reveling in a bout of well-earned vaccine gluttony. We are clearly not. Ontario fielded well during most of the game, but now that we're in the seventh inning we are really finding it difficult to close this thing out. Quite simply, we took our eye off the ball and it's costing us the win. Unfortunately, the game is really the lives of our friends, family, and fellow citizens. We should have shut down sooner. We didn't. We should have listened to our medica...