That antibody study roughly indicated infections in the spring in Ontario were about 4 times higher then the actual confirmed cases. If true, the spring peak was really around 2400 cases per day. Test rationing and backlog will now drive cases back underground that would have been discovered...

I'm 100% with allengeorge on this one. Developing Downsview was and is a huge urban planning mistake; silly and shortsighted beyond comprehension. I would have bullied and spent to assemble as much of the land as possible. After absolutely emptying all funds and lying, cheating, bribing...

^That doesn't surprise me. My sister and two of her kids got tested (minor cold symptoms at a time prior to the change in school child symptom guidance). Her first child got a result after 24 hrs. Her result came in after 48 hrs. Her youngest child's result never came in. They're actively...

^I similarly wonder as I observe peoples behaviour in the City how it’s possible that Covid 19 has infected so few people. The only conclusion is that covid-19 is much less vigorous and contagious than it is in our imaginations. That said we need to appreciate that there is only so much that...

I think what we are seeing is a general rise in community infections and we are just better at identifying the rise this time around. It's still early so we will see how it goes. I'm very interested in the school and daycare numbers (apart from the fact that I have two kids in daycare). It's...

Much has changed though since the first March wave. That was the point in time that made me so angry because of the lack of leadership and utter mediocrity, glacial response, and inflexibility of our system and thinking. Since then however we have learned more and we are at a different stage...

The shelter near my office has a program where their clients help in neighbourhood clean up. I think it’s a nice program and a good idea. The amount of trash and mess created in the vicinity is endless. Your welcome Toronto by the way for the work I put in to deal with a small part of that...

AoD, we weren’t prepared and we haven’t done enough since but my point was people shouldn’t give up and at the same time we should openly accept the reality: There will be several more waves even after this one. After this wave it stands to reason there will be another in January 2021. There...

I can understand the frustration people have with the pandemic and pandemic measures but the reality (and my realism drives my wife crazy) is we just have to live with this now and just keep incrementally improving our covid-19 protocols personally, organizationally, and as a society. We are...

I think the Province should stop emphasizing the messaging of the “under-40” and number of health units “with less than” in their daily report. I’m not against the themes but the messaging is political in a leveraging-of-numerical-illiteracy way. Some health units have tiny populations so few...

Maybe I’m a selfish person but to be honest I really only care about American politics to the extent it informs how Canada should pivot. If it’s Trump fine, if it’s Biden fine but either or will create strategic advantages, opportunities, and threats to Canadian and by extension my interests.

I suspect the hypothesis that Covid-19 is mutating to become more contagious and less deadly is correct; however, based on the earlier strain 0.6-0.7 percent global average mortality estimate you’re still looking at 50 million global deaths absent intervention. I think it’s difficult at the...

We have enough data and experience now that everything happening is essentially predictable. We as people and our leadership cannot claim to be surprised. We are now consciously choosing the results. Any further crisis is a crisis of our own design. In a rare break from my criticism of...

In a Washington Post story about the Japanese experience the number one reason for wearing a mask cited by Japanese is “peer pressure” not for public health reasons. I’m making these numbers up to make a point but to emphasis my observation about how covid-19 appears to be relatively less...

For the record my daughter tested negative which I was like 95% certain about. This experience raises some interesting questions and observations: No one in my family has been sick since before march owing to social distancing. Assuming a 3-day lag between infection and symptom onset, some...

You don’t want the numbers to get out of control but I think we will find the second wave to be less than half as deadly as the first. Basic work and commerce should be maintained but we already know bars and nightclubs, banquet halls, places of worship etc. should be closed until further...

This thread has probably gone in many directions before but maybe on a Toronto-based website it’s best to stick to anecdotal interesting things about Chicago we may have experienced that counter the image of the place for people who have never been. Chicago is from my experience very American...

Wife is taking my eldest daughter for a Covid test today. She has mild cold-like symptoms contracted from her Montessori. Problem is you can’t send your child back for 14 days without a negative Covid test result. Let’s use that to do some back-of-envelop calculations for testing demand: If...

Dr. De Villa from a CTV news piece: “She said that there has also been a rise in workplace infections, including one restaurant in which four employees and two patrons tested positive and two other unspecified establishments where there were a combined 11 cases among staff and four among...

Thanks for the background information. It’s not like I’m unfamiliar with that kind of space having grown up in Caledon; however, it’s just the in—between-ness of it that struck me. Like basically a vast useless space made stranger by the fact it exists in a city of 3 million people. A number...