Drug Fraud year-end shenanigans
Dec. 30th, 2020 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyI was listening to a really good Behind the Bastards episode about the Holocaust yesterday, and one thing they talked about was how even Germans who opposed the Nazis were passive because there was always one crisis or another and the pace of events and changes were just so overwhelming that they. Just. Stopped. I bet no one can relate to that feeling, right?
We're now getting shipments in of the Pfizer vaccine, but Ford, in his wisdom, appointed retired general Rick Hillier to head up distribution, rather than someone with competence or expertise or, better yet, both. Accordingly, Ontario is fourth last in provinces and territories to distribute the vaccine, having only used up 13% of our stock. The three territories behind us are the Northern ones where you can't actually ship the vaccine, so they didn't get any. So...we're number last, basically.
Meanwhile, the virus is rampaging through mainly the privatized long-term care homes, which no one could have predicted, except the Tories of course, who made it easier to open up a privatized long-term care homes and harder to sue one if they kill your grandmother.
If you read my locked posts, of course, you know about what they've been doing with the education system.
But look, that's all very depressing stuff. Let's see what else they've been up to lately, shall we?
Most of us in Ontario are under lockdown. They've finally closed the schools for a few weeks, even! We are not allowed to go anywhere without a mask, or see family or friends, or do anything fun at all. Of course we still need to work, especially those of us deemed essential. (Essential means you have to work or lose your job, not that you get extra hazard pay or get bumped up the queue for the vaccine.) Leaving the city, let alone the country, is out of the question. Basically, you must still perform the drudgery of life but you are banned from doing anything fun at all.
Unless, of course, you are Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips, whose personality disorder may stem in part from having one hell of a porno character name. Rod knows he isn't little people, and thus he and his family took a wee jaunt to St. Bart's for a nice holiday. He claimed not to know about that little lockdown thing, which is why he faked tweets to appear as if he was still in the country.
But that's not all! He faked them very badly.
See, when you cut the arts and culture, you end up not having people around you who, say, know things about continuity or costuming.
Granted, many of us do wear the same outfit for three days in a row, because we've given up on life. That does not appear to be what's happening here, though.
Let's talk about Cameron Montgomery. Cameron, you may recall, is the Ford crony who was awarded a plush $140,000/year job as chair of the EQAO. That's the corruption-riddled standardized math and literacy tests, some of which didn't even happen on account of the pandemic. The same job previously paid a $3500 honorarium, but I'm sure our buddy Cameron deserves 40x more taxpayer money over the previous person because he's that good.
For someone in charge of running the provincial literacy test, he certainly doesn't have much in the way of literacy skills himself, as he failed to read the many press releases that told Ontarians not to leave their homes, let alone the province.
Whoopsie daisy! He accidentally went on a nice skiing vacation with his friends.
Former Tory and perpetual nutjob Randy Hillier (no relation to the soldier inexplicably in charge of the vaccine rollout) is busy with his anti-mask crusade, delivering a big "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" via a multi-household superspreader event. Ain't no one gonna take away this man's freedom to wind up in the ICU!
But the winner of this shithead roundup—which, I should add, is a roundup of terrible things they've done in the last few days—is our old buddy Sammy Oosterhoff. Young buddy. You know, the fetal deputy to the Education Minister. He's the homeschooled 12-year-old, not the Goatfucker who's Minister of Ed. He's spent a lot of time campaigning against abortion, even though he's never learned how sexual intercourse, let alone pregnancy, work.
Given his rampant homophobia, I bet everyone will be surprised to learn that he's been accused of sexually assaulting another man in a washroom. Now, names are redacted and the report is uncomfirmed, but come on. Whomst've amongst us has ever heard a story of a homophobic politician accused of such things and had it not turn out to be true. The best case scenario is that like his boss Lecce, who has sexually assaulted both humans and barnyard animals, some slick PR dudes will be brought in to bury the story.
And yeah, I know this is small beans if you live in the US, but Canadians tend to think we're better than this, and we are not.
Meanwhile, Rwanda, with a comparable population to Ontario but far fewer resources, has managed to do a bang-up job containing covid. It is truly amazing the difference a competent government makes. Too bad ours is hellbent on getting us all killed.
Happy new year, everyone!
We're now getting shipments in of the Pfizer vaccine, but Ford, in his wisdom, appointed retired general Rick Hillier to head up distribution, rather than someone with competence or expertise or, better yet, both. Accordingly, Ontario is fourth last in provinces and territories to distribute the vaccine, having only used up 13% of our stock. The three territories behind us are the Northern ones where you can't actually ship the vaccine, so they didn't get any. So...we're number last, basically.
Meanwhile, the virus is rampaging through mainly the privatized long-term care homes, which no one could have predicted, except the Tories of course, who made it easier to open up a privatized long-term care homes and harder to sue one if they kill your grandmother.
If you read my locked posts, of course, you know about what they've been doing with the education system.
But look, that's all very depressing stuff. Let's see what else they've been up to lately, shall we?
Most of us in Ontario are under lockdown. They've finally closed the schools for a few weeks, even! We are not allowed to go anywhere without a mask, or see family or friends, or do anything fun at all. Of course we still need to work, especially those of us deemed essential. (Essential means you have to work or lose your job, not that you get extra hazard pay or get bumped up the queue for the vaccine.) Leaving the city, let alone the country, is out of the question. Basically, you must still perform the drudgery of life but you are banned from doing anything fun at all.
Unless, of course, you are Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips, whose personality disorder may stem in part from having one hell of a porno character name. Rod knows he isn't little people, and thus he and his family took a wee jaunt to St. Bart's for a nice holiday. He claimed not to know about that little lockdown thing, which is why he faked tweets to appear as if he was still in the country.
But that's not all! He faked them very badly.
See, when you cut the arts and culture, you end up not having people around you who, say, know things about continuity or costuming.
Granted, many of us do wear the same outfit for three days in a row, because we've given up on life. That does not appear to be what's happening here, though.
Let's talk about Cameron Montgomery. Cameron, you may recall, is the Ford crony who was awarded a plush $140,000/year job as chair of the EQAO. That's the corruption-riddled standardized math and literacy tests, some of which didn't even happen on account of the pandemic. The same job previously paid a $3500 honorarium, but I'm sure our buddy Cameron deserves 40x more taxpayer money over the previous person because he's that good.
For someone in charge of running the provincial literacy test, he certainly doesn't have much in the way of literacy skills himself, as he failed to read the many press releases that told Ontarians not to leave their homes, let alone the province.
Whoopsie daisy! He accidentally went on a nice skiing vacation with his friends.
Former Tory and perpetual nutjob Randy Hillier (no relation to the soldier inexplicably in charge of the vaccine rollout) is busy with his anti-mask crusade, delivering a big "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" via a multi-household superspreader event. Ain't no one gonna take away this man's freedom to wind up in the ICU!
But the winner of this shithead roundup—which, I should add, is a roundup of terrible things they've done in the last few days—is our old buddy Sammy Oosterhoff. Young buddy. You know, the fetal deputy to the Education Minister. He's the homeschooled 12-year-old, not the Goatfucker who's Minister of Ed. He's spent a lot of time campaigning against abortion, even though he's never learned how sexual intercourse, let alone pregnancy, work.
Given his rampant homophobia, I bet everyone will be surprised to learn that he's been accused of sexually assaulting another man in a washroom. Now, names are redacted and the report is uncomfirmed, but come on. Whomst've amongst us has ever heard a story of a homophobic politician accused of such things and had it not turn out to be true. The best case scenario is that like his boss Lecce, who has sexually assaulted both humans and barnyard animals, some slick PR dudes will be brought in to bury the story.
And yeah, I know this is small beans if you live in the US, but Canadians tend to think we're better than this, and we are not.
Meanwhile, Rwanda, with a comparable population to Ontario but far fewer resources, has managed to do a bang-up job containing covid. It is truly amazing the difference a competent government makes. Too bad ours is hellbent on getting us all killed.
Happy new year, everyone!
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Date: 2020-12-31 02:29 am (UTC)(I'm so far beyond frustrated. At least we have some vaccine distribution funding coming to states? But it's not here yet, and while we are getting shots on the tarmac we are not getting them into people, and until we get them into all the hospital staff and old folks, I don't get mine, and I really, really, selfishly, angrily, want to get vaccinated.)
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Date: 2020-12-31 06:27 am (UTC)Beat the Bastards indeed.
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Date: 2020-12-31 09:35 pm (UTC)Your kilometrage will vary, with cause. And, of course, neither of us lives in Wisconsin...
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Date: 2020-12-31 02:48 pm (UTC)(There's a LOT of discussion locally about whether we *should* consider the border to Gatineau closed, since it cuts Ottawans off from the biggest outdoor recreation space we have (Gatineau Park), and makes the Ontario-side NCC parks problematically crowded. It feels a lot like the "don't spend time in parks" rule from the spring: "Getting exercise/fresh air is considered an essential activity! So long as you don't do it anywhere NICE or with SPACE.")
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Date: 2020-12-31 03:03 pm (UTC)It's also just poor form. Many people lost their jobs, their health, their homes, and their lives due to the choices made by this government. I'm lucky in that I'm still employed and housed but my working conditions are miserable and dangerous (or were until recently). Meanwhile he got paid with taxpayer money to sit on his ass all year while we got lambasted by the public for wanting safe conditions for our kids. Rich people flaunting their ability to travel freely and expose their faces, as he's doing in this photo, is not cool and he deserves all the ridicule.
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Date: 2020-12-31 03:43 pm (UTC)(The chalet is closed. Masks required in all lineups, the only indoor access is washrooms, one household per lift chair. Obvs I have no idea who he went with.)
It just feels a bit weird here, because the border is closed, according to the government... but it's not, because tons of people have to cross the border daily for Official Essential Reasons like work, health care, vet care, caring for vulnerable people, etc. And locally the advice from city/public health seems to be that that's ok? So everyone's like "well, if we're allowed to cross for other Essential Activites, why is exercise the one Essential Activity that's discouraged?"
I know that CBC was trying & failing to get clarification before Christmas on whether the border was considered closed for people who worked cross-border, or had to cross for other essential reasons, and how that was supposed to work with the "you must quarantine for 14 days when you get back" thing. As far as I know the gov't still hasn't clarified.
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Date: 2020-12-31 04:21 pm (UTC)And no, they've never meaningfully enforced quarantine, but issuing guidelines about it that completely contradict each other sure doesn't encourage voluntary compliance.
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Date: 2020-12-31 09:40 pm (UTC)As for the Oosterhoff Accusation
Date: 2020-12-31 09:47 pm (UTC)Re: As for the Oosterhoff Accusation
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Date: 2021-01-01 06:33 pm (UTC)Sounds like your lockdown is stricter than ours, we're still allowed socially-distanced outdoor meetings with one person outside your household, even in the strictest category (which 3/4 of the country is in now). Though it has to be in a public space like a park, not on the streets, which I don't entirely get, like the air in parks disperses the virus better. We're in about the same place with schools, they're closing them for a couple of weeks, except they haven't gone for blended learning here, which means more crowded classrooms, but not quite such a huge workload increase for teachers. (But presumably more risk of death).
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