Blessed by the Potato

Ontario hit 89 daily Covid deaths today. We could lockdown tonight, go full Wuhan and weld peoples’ doors shut, and it wouldn’t stop us from hitting 100/day by next week — those people already have the virus, it’s just taking time for them to get sick and die. [Though I’d be happy for the universe’s constant need to prove me wrong to kick in here and save a bunch of lives as this turns out to have been the peak]

Lags make it hard to manage things, especially when that management also involves really hard decisions. It’s hard to call for a lockdown when cases are barely into triple digits. But that’s when it has to happen when you only have a few hundred spare ICU beds in the province. Ah well, back to home schooling for at least a few weeks now, though I still don’t actually know what the plan is. Is it Covid-zero?

And of course this is also why we wanted to start curbing the growth in greenhouse gas emissions in the 90s… or now, I suppose.