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To: Government of Ontario/ Government of Canada
Second Lockdown Needed
Its time for that open letter from doctors suggestions and modeling done from scientists and professors to become a public petition for our rights and safety that they are not protecting.
As a second wave of COVID-19 hits Ottawa, experts in the region are calling on the province to shut down activities again and bring the virus under control (it has been two weeks since this was said and it is spiraling out of control and our government is doing nothing to help the curb, just throwing money at a very evident problem which will helps some aspects but not solve others)
An open letter signed by nearly 40 doctors from across Ontario was released says Ontario must restrict non-essential businesses and activities that cause people to gather, such as dine-in restaurants and bars, gyms, theatres, nightclubs and churches. Raywat Deonandan, an epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa who wasn't part of the letter, agrees the province must act.
"Non-essential, entertainment types of things should close right now".
Robert Smith? (the question mark is part of his name) is a mathematician at the University of Ottawa who models infectious diseases.
He is calling for "draconian" thinking and a full-scale lockdown now, with greater travel restrictions than in the spring.
"You kind of have to be kind of ruthless," said Smith? on Wednesday.
Ontario faces a choice, he said, between long-term or short-term pain.
If it goes into lockdown for a few months, he said the province could bring numbers down to zero new infections.
In that situation, through testing and contact tracing, the province would have the chance to stamp out any outbreaks that pop up.
If we carry on as we have been he said infections will surge again and again, foiling contact tracers and making more people sick.
"We have lots of leaks and the more leaks you have, the more the chances are that something is going to slip through."
In May, CBC Ottawa published a story that included Smith? with the headline "Epidemiologists brace for 2nd wave of COVID-19 — and it may come in September."
In the future, both think Ontario should take a more aggressive approach to lockdowns and trend more conservative in reopening.
"I think what they should be doing is taking the worst case scenario, maybe taking a political risk and overreacting," said Deonandan, who holds out hope for a vaccine by 2021.
"People have to remember, this is not the rest of your lives. This is just for a number of months."
Not only are these the experts concerns but its concerns from majority of individuals that reside in this province. The government is playing with fire. Dont let us burn.
As a second wave of COVID-19 hits Ottawa, experts in the region are calling on the province to shut down activities again and bring the virus under control (it has been two weeks since this was said and it is spiraling out of control and our government is doing nothing to help the curb, just throwing money at a very evident problem which will helps some aspects but not solve others)
An open letter signed by nearly 40 doctors from across Ontario was released says Ontario must restrict non-essential businesses and activities that cause people to gather, such as dine-in restaurants and bars, gyms, theatres, nightclubs and churches. Raywat Deonandan, an epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa who wasn't part of the letter, agrees the province must act.
"Non-essential, entertainment types of things should close right now".
Robert Smith? (the question mark is part of his name) is a mathematician at the University of Ottawa who models infectious diseases.
He is calling for "draconian" thinking and a full-scale lockdown now, with greater travel restrictions than in the spring.
"You kind of have to be kind of ruthless," said Smith? on Wednesday.
Ontario faces a choice, he said, between long-term or short-term pain.
If it goes into lockdown for a few months, he said the province could bring numbers down to zero new infections.
In that situation, through testing and contact tracing, the province would have the chance to stamp out any outbreaks that pop up.
If we carry on as we have been he said infections will surge again and again, foiling contact tracers and making more people sick.
"We have lots of leaks and the more leaks you have, the more the chances are that something is going to slip through."
In May, CBC Ottawa published a story that included Smith? with the headline "Epidemiologists brace for 2nd wave of COVID-19 — and it may come in September."
In the future, both think Ontario should take a more aggressive approach to lockdowns and trend more conservative in reopening.
"I think what they should be doing is taking the worst case scenario, maybe taking a political risk and overreacting," said Deonandan, who holds out hope for a vaccine by 2021.
"People have to remember, this is not the rest of your lives. This is just for a number of months."
Not only are these the experts concerns but its concerns from majority of individuals that reside in this province. The government is playing with fire. Dont let us burn.
Why is this important?
For the health and satey of our children, our friends, our spouses, our parents, our elderly community and all citizens of our city and country.
Ontario(Canada) needs to reimplement lockdown measures. We locked down with less than a hundred cases a day - in ontario we are averaging over 600 with a record breaking number of 797 today. I would also like to remind the government that people that are asymptomatic are still carriers, refusing testing for asymptomatic people will not help curb the disease. You had time to get ahead of testing needs but haven't now people will suffer for your mistakes.
Lockdown this province please and prevent further spread of this disease. That's all you can do to curb the problem at this time.
Please sign this petition to show that we are wanting / needing a second lockdown.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5738201
Ontario(Canada) needs to reimplement lockdown measures. We locked down with less than a hundred cases a day - in ontario we are averaging over 600 with a record breaking number of 797 today. I would also like to remind the government that people that are asymptomatic are still carriers, refusing testing for asymptomatic people will not help curb the disease. You had time to get ahead of testing needs but haven't now people will suffer for your mistakes.
Lockdown this province please and prevent further spread of this disease. That's all you can do to curb the problem at this time.
Please sign this petition to show that we are wanting / needing a second lockdown.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5738201