This mini-wave is not a surprise for Dr. Doug Manuel, a physician and senior scientist at The Ottawa Hospital, who like other health officials predicted the increased transmission as restrictions were lifted and the Omicron BA.2 subvariant picked up speed.
It's not a surprise for anyone; it's flu season.
Every single spike in Ontario has happened at the end of December and the end of March, because that's when we always get sick.
"Health Officials" aren't surprised because they specifically timed the lifting of restrictions to happen right before a predicted spike. That way everyone immediately panics and demands more restrictions.
For the same reason they never lift restrictions in the summer, when there are no cases: people would stop caring about their shit if there weren't a panic soon enough. They lift things in the fall, just as school starts and the weather gets cold or the spring, when the temperature fluctuates.
It's not a surprise for anyone; it's flu season.
Every single spike in Ontario has happened at the end of December and the end of March, because that's when we always get sick.
"Health Officials" aren't surprised because they specifically timed the lifting of restrictions to happen right before a predicted spike. That way everyone immediately panics and demands more restrictions.
For the same reason they never lift restrictions in the summer, when there are no cases: people would stop caring about their shit if there weren't a panic soon enough. They lift things in the fall, just as school starts and the weather gets cold or the spring, when the temperature fluctuates.
It's all fear.