Almost took the bus today but

[james_davis_nicoll]

I stepped on to see some old beardy without a mask hacking away and decided I'd rather have heat-stroke.

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[(Anonymous)]

The BA.4/BA.5 wave has been in progress for at least three weeks (that being when the growth in BA.4/BA.5 cases became greater than the fall in BA.2 cases) in the UK now; positive tests up 150%, but infection estimates from the surveillance program up by more.

[graydon]

Ontario seems to generally run three to five weeks behind the UK in these things.

Of course, the UK still has much better tracking; Ontario case numbers are working by inference at this point, and someone could quite readily assert that there's no scientific basis for doing anything.

[kraig]

My employer has, in fact, asserted exactly that.
The person my employer retains as president is, allegedly, a public health expert.

[graydon]

The general presumption of institutional competence is dead in a ditch somewhere, isn't it?

Its bones still clad in the tattered remnants of synthetic fibre garments and picked over by weasels whose offspring have become strangely terrible unnatural things.