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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by cmrdporcupine on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:11AM (#24896329)
I guess that's the thing; the gov't is the one who made the decision to bring kids back fulltime, how incompetent do you have to be to not know there'd be a bump in testing demands?

Re: Waterloo region, I work at Google Waterloo, so although I don't live in KW (I'm in rural Flamborough) most of my coworkers do. I had one who showed up at 7am to get a test, lineups were around several blocks and they shut the whole thing down because people were getting rude. He then had to wait a bit and drive to Guelph. People were driving out from Toronto to London, Woodstock, etc. to get tests.

In our industry if we provisioned data centres or server instances like this, we'd be in a bit of trouble, no?

EDIT: FWIW I have a political leaning and bias towards a strong public sector and am a big believer in public service. I'm not one of those "government can't do anything right" and "less government is better" types. But I do think that several decades of "government can't do anything right" people being a dominant cultural and political force now means that government can no longer do anything right. We're losing our ability to act collectively :-(

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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by mikepurvis on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:39AM (#24896617)
Oh yeah, definitely. Can't help thinking of how much better things would likely be if we'd had a Horwath administration through this crisis. :(
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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by cmrdporcupine on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:48AM (#24897460)
I like Horwath but I think her admin would have faced insurmountable ideological opposition, the same way Rae did. And then the whole COVID response would have been framed in those terms, as a right-left politicization like it is in the US. At least now, with a right wing government administrating the COVID response, only the far lunatic right (cough Randy Hillier cough) has politicized it. For conservatives, it's "their guy" delivering the tough medicine, and they just blame Trudeau for anything they don't like, even things the feds have nothing to do with. While it hasn't been great the management of this situation is not _nearly_ as bad as it could be. Just look at Jason Kenney's gov't.
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