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(January 22, 2021)<\/p>\n

By: Rob Ferguson, CambridgeTimes.ca<\/p>\n

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Facing continued resistance to stay-at-home orders, Ontario is turning to comedy in a new social media campaign aimed at getting the message across \u2014 including a plea for young adults not to \u201chook up\u201d because of\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Doug Ford\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>government has enlisted comedian Rick Mercer in a\u00a0<\/span>video<\/span><\/a>\u00a0rant where he makes light of \u201cloopholes\u201d in the measures introduced a week ago and tries to douse the flames of passion by asking frisky twentysomethings to picture the premier in their bedrooms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cJust because you can buy pool noodles on sale at Walmart doesn\u2019t mean you had to,\u201d Mercer, who rose to fame on CBC\u2019s This Hour Has 22 Minutes, says in kicking off his appeal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNothing is stopping anyone from purposely slamming the car door on your hand, but we all avoid doing that because it\u2019s bad for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But critics said Ford needs to pay more attention to serious outbreaks in nursing homes with vaccines in unexpectedly short supply and repeated their calls for a return to the paid sick days he axed after taking power in 2018. The premier says a federal program is available for income support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWorkers need the security to isolate when they\u2019re sick or waiting for test results,\u201d said Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Residents in nursing homes are becoming infected at the rate of up to 1,500 a week, \u201cthe fastest escalation rate to date,\u201d and are dying at the rate of one an hour, said Natalie Mehra of the Ontario Health Coalition, pushing Ford to request a return of Canadian Armed Forces medical teams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cPick up the damn phone,\u201d Green Leader Mike Schreiner urged the premier.<\/p>\n

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Mercer turned his rant to the 18-29 age group, which is \u201ca challenge\u201d in terms of compliance with pandemic protocols given their higher infection levels, said Heritage, Tourism and Sport Minister Lisa MacLeod, who is overseeing the social media effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cDoug Ford is personally imploring you to not hook up. If you are, just imagine Doug Ford in the room just six feet away in a haz-mat suit and he\u2019s watching you,\u201d Mercer intones.<\/p>\n

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\u201cImagine the disappointment on his face.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The stay-at-home order came amid rising daily case levels that doubled from mid-December to mid-January, concerns that hospital intensive care units could soon be overwhelmed with half of them out of beds, and surveys showing at least one-third of Ontarians were ignoring lockdown advice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ford would not commit to lifting the order when it comes up for review around Feb. 11 but said he is pleased to see daily cases declining. The province reported 2,662 new infections Friday and the seven-day moving average fell to 2,703, its lowest point in 11 days after reaching a peak of 3,555.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt seems to be working because the numbers are coming down,\u201d he told Windsor radio station AM800 Friday morning, but cautioned \u201cthis is very fluid.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ontario health officials are concerned about the U.K. variant of COVID-19, which is 56 per cent more contagious and which British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Friday could also be more deadly than previously understood, according to a preliminary analysis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Until now, public health experts have said the strain is no more fatal than standard forms of the virus. Ontario has found 15 cases of the variant and fears more are lurking undetected, with spread potentially changing the trajectory of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ford\u00a0released his own video<\/a><\/span>\u00a0urging Ontarians to stay home and save lives in 22 languages, including French, Spanish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Tamil, Farsi, Italian, Cantonese, Punjabi and Arabic.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what language you speak \u2014 or in my case try to \u2014 all of us need to stay home,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n

Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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