Dear Editor:
During the last two years the ups and downs of the government have been at times frustrating and incomprehensible for the people of Ontario.
However, the pandemic is an unprecedented situation to deal with, so we have to sympathize and give our governments credit for doing the best job they can do under the circumstances.
But the latest move on the part of our premier, after having stated just a week or so before that we have a “tsunami” of cases and we must once again put the children’s schooling back on line, safe at home until the cases go down again. Okay. Good idea.
But then, with cases still rapidly on the rise, we are told that not only were our children and grandchildren going back to school on Jan. 17, but the case reports in our local paper every week (concerning schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, workplaces and other institutions), which teachers, parents, nurses and everyone else rely on to be educated on whether or not their schools, hospitals, long-term care homes and workplaces are a safe place to be in for six to eight hours a day, have been vetoed by the very man who said that there was a “tsunami” of cases, which there still are!
And, shockingly, if there are cases in a classroom, there will be no classroom closures!
But we will all be kept in the dark, because apparently, it has been decreed that it is none of our business.
We, the people in Ontario, have a right to know what is going on with this disease that is affecting all of us.
Christy Doraty,
Fergus