The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

Current 7-day Covid-19 cases per 100k

• City of Hamilton Public Health Services 739.8
• Toronto Public Health 683.2
• York Region Public Health 648.9
• Halton Region Public Health 628.3
• Porcupine Health Unit 576.5
• Eastern Ontario Health Unit 565.9
• Brant County Health Unit 548.3
• Lambton Public Health 530.7
• Ottawa Public Health 519.1
• Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health 516.6
• Durham Region Health Department 515.9
• Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health 512.0
• Middlesex-London Health Unit 499.7
• Peel Public Health 483.9

• Region of Waterloo Public Health and Emergency Services 478.3

• Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit 467.7
• Hastings Prince Edward Public Health 465.3
• Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District Health Unit 448.1
• Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit 430.4
• Niagara Region Public Health 417.8
• Peterborough Public Health 375.7
• Southwestern Public Health 352.7
• Grey Bruce Health Unit 340.2
• Public Health Sudbury & Districts 330.6
• Timiskaming Health Unit 318.1
• North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit 313.7
• Chatham-Kent Public Health 312.3
• Windsor-Essex County Health Unit 311.9
• Huron Perth Public Health 297.7
• Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit 294.8
• Northwestern Health Unit 287.4
• Algoma Public Health 277.9
• Renfrew County and District Health Unit 268.8
• Thunder Bay District Health Unit 211.4

• TOTAL ONTARIO 534.4

The "real" numbers are likely 2x or more higher than this.  I fully most everyone to be infected probably by February. Right now, the omicron appears to be the disease of little children and vaccinated adults.

If everyone is infected by February, we'll have tens of thousands die from preventable deaths because ERs and ORs will literally be empty of staff and doctors. It would be the single greatest self inflicted disaster of my lifetime.

And for bonus points, a solid 30% of the entire population would have long term chronic disabilities. This kind of thing could literally be a downfall event in some places on earth.

And for extra bonus points, with spread that extensive, there's a good chance new mutations would arise which would start the whole damn thing over again in March.

So yeah, I hope you're wrong...although frankly, we're not doing a damn thing to avert it.