Noah Farber

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

Serious Question: Can someone please tell me what defacing Canadian hero Terry Fox’s statue AND defacing the Canadian flag with swastikas has to do with vaccine mandates?

[Noah Farber @Njfarber]

@arcandandrew I can picture @WendyIseman doing that for fun to get to her shifts!

[Howard Ovens @HowardOvens]

'A national tragedy': COVID-19 has exposed decades of underfunding, says doctor -@alandrummond2 telling it like it is as always! @CAEP_Docs https://t.co/jHYts3SwI5 via @CTVNews

[David Fisman @DFisman]

Perfect tweet

In the Ontario context I’d add: if you gave a damn about schools, you’d offset the increased contacts that occur with open schools by eliminating contacts in non-essential settings like malls

[Carolyn Ownbey, PhD @carolynownbey]

it’s recently been brought to my attention that most ppl don’t know what “elective surgery” means.

I have a brain tumor for which my neuro/oncology team is planning surgery within the next ~2 months.

This surgery is categorized as elective.

[Irfan Dhalla @IrfanDhalla]

In the discussion about hospital and health system capacity, it may be worth noting that there are roughly 4000 patients in Ontario hospitals waiting for long-term care, which could be provided either in the person’s home or in a facility.

[Michael Warner @drmwarner]

The @ongov is using HC system capacity as the reason to justify school closures, but our capacity will be no better on Jan 17.

Instead, the gov't should be frantically trying to make return to school safer to enable sustainable reopening irrespective of HC system capacity.

[Robyn Urback @RobynUrback]

Schools have already been closed in Ontario for two weeks and Omicron cases have exploded, so it's unclear what Ford thinks we will see in the next two weeks, and why anyone should believe it will just be two weeks

[Noah Farber @Njfarber]

Thank you ⁦@sproudfoot⁩ for capturing what so many of us are feeling. I am tired of hearing how resilient kids are. Our children in this province are not Ok! https://t.co/CDXkbOoVlT

[Mikal Skuterud @mikalskuterud]

Is anyone aware of an OECD jurisdiction that has closed schools for more days since March 2020 than Ontario? Why has Ontario been such an outlier in this regard? What explains it? Denmark is seeing more Covid hospitalizations and deaths currently, but opened all schools today.

[Yoni Freedhoff @YoniFreedhoff]

What's inexcusable regarding school closures is that we did not do all that we could to avoid them - both in terms of the schools themselves and vaccination mandates/class sizes/ventilation/proper masks/etc. and also in terms leaving the community wide open.

[Steven Del Duca @StevenDelDuca]

Doug Ford is shutting down schools but keeping shopping malls open. Failing to prevent this closure is a shameful betrayal of our kids. #onpoli

[Nathan Stall @NathanStall]

"Schools should be the first to open, and the last to close."

As of January 5th in #Ontario:

CLOSED: Schools

OPEN (with 50% capacity): malls, non-essential retail settings, personal care services, indoor weddings, and religious services and ceremonies.

[Ian Preyra @Preyratology]

If you’re a health care provider who limits in-person visits to those who can a provide negative COVID test, please rethink your policy.

Testing just isn’t readily available. It creates barriers to accessing care that will disproportionately affect the people who need you most.

[Noah Farber @Njfarber]

@ASP_Mark Best tweet ever

[Noah Farber @Njfarber]

Best advice I ever got in my career (from my dad GP for 30 years)...In medicine if you focus solely on making money you are going to be miserable. If you focus on caring for people you are going to have a wonderful career. Simple truth.

[Noah Farber @Njfarber]

@First10EM My kids have this book of 100 Why's. This and many, many of life's mysteries are covered in it. I think it should be essential reading for all adults. I keep learning new things

[Michael Warner @drmwarner]

I'm confused:
-All non-essential retail to open: but stay home
-School safety important: let's open non-essential retail
-VOCs spreading: let's increase opportunities for interaction and spread
-Care deficit in hospitals: let's make it harder for them to catch up

[Dan Rosenberg @danrosenbergnet]

If a doctor is negligent, ignores science, and the patient dies, it’s called “malpractice”

If a province ignores science and recklessly starts a 3rd wave of a pandemic, it’s called “finding a happy balance”

Welcome to Ontario!