Kristi Ashcroft

Mom… book lover… minor hockey fan… follower of markets, economics and geopolitics… partial to ellipses.

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@FriedgeHNIC Why are the Leafs subjecting Samsonov to a media interview after that game? Everyone is talking about his mental state… and then they do this?

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@tferriss Qwirkle

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@getaroomcom Thank you -- we did indeed get to a satisfactory resolution. I want to thank the person I dealt with today, and wish I'd had this experience in the first place with your front-line customer service people so as not to have to resort to angry tweets!

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@getaroomcom So I booked two rooms 6 months ago, and want to cancel one within the cancellation window... and somehow that is outside your policy? Should serve as a warning to anyone thinking of using your service.

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@CNBC It would perhaps have been nice to refer to the woman in charge of the unit by name before the 8th paragraph (as opposed to John Foley’s wife).

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@McCormickProf I was just telling my 15-year-old about your classes last night… among my most memorable Princeton ('96) academic experiences… so belatedly, I’ll simply say thank you for the gift of those classes and the lasting lessons that come from rigorously challenging your own beliefs.

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@GTHLHockey Use more rapid tests, modify change room usage, but please keep the season going. The kids need to be active, socialize and compete. Let kids play according to the risk tolerance of their families. Shutting down and making people’s decisions for them is no longer the answer.

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@EliseStefanik Good lord. Please tell me Harvard called and asked for their degree back.

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

Apparently it pays to watch @MarkRober YouTube videos on how to win at carnival games by understanding the optical illusion at work!

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@markrmcqueen There were (are) SO many uses of rapid testing that, if properly implemented, could have changed the trajectory of the pandemic and associated lockdowns. These quarantine enforcement histrionics are just designed to deflect attention from their ineptitude. Sigh.

[Dr. Jennifer Kwan @jkwan_md]

With reports of Ontario #lockdown starting Christmas Eve, will this precious time be used to build up #TestTraceIsolate capacity, improve safety in schools/LTCs/workplaces, & ramp up vaccinations to ensure that this is the LAST wave?
#COVID19Ontario 🦠🌊🚫
https://t.co/rM5Y2joouf

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@fordnation Hmmm... not quite. We’re 10 months in and your only strategy is a lockdown. Not extensive testing or tracing, not better LTC conditions, not a public health campaign focused on realistic risk-mitigating behaviour, not an expansion of ICU beds. Failure.

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@JohnTory Stay home had its place in March/April to build hospital capacity and testing/tracing capability. When your only strategy — 10 months into this — is stay home, you have failed.

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

Federal and Provincial Governments: Use Rapid Tests to Bring Covid Under Control in Canada - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/oLJF9XQmpi via @CdnChange

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@markrmcqueen His part 3 of 4 video is also fuzzy math. 450K Biden only votes is only 0.3% of the total vote - and he doesn’t reveal Trump only votes. Not a stretch to think 0.3% of voters aren’t engaged enough to vote down ballot. GA #s could be people who voted Biden for pres and R senators.

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

@markrmcqueen His part 1 of 4 video on turnout was bad math - using registered voters as the denominator, not voting age population. Everything I’ve read on WI suggests turnout was actually less than ‘04 and w/in the range of other elections. So go in eyes wide open on this guy and his “stats”

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

What happens now?

The tumult continues with rapid news cycles reckoning about the future. We see recriminations and outrage, second-guessing and breathless prognosticating. What will the final vote totals be in the popular vote and in the uncalled states? 1/

[Kristi Ashcroft @Kristi_TO16]

I guess the definition of a monopoly is when you try to spend several thousand dollars in a store and they tell you to come back in 2 hours. Sigh. @Apple @AppleYorkdale