I 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!
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