This wave of COVID-19 is coming for the 30-somethings — because politicians won’t protect them

“I always say we have the brightest, smartest people right here in Ontario,” Premier Doug Ford said at a news conference on Wednesday. It’s too bad he doesn’t listen to them. Because it’s a simple fact that the brightest, smartest people in the province — front-line physicians and epidemiologists for example — would want to lock it down right now, institute paid sick leave for Ontarians, and vaccinate younger essential workers. They’ve said as much recently and at various points in the pandemic. But there’s no time like the present to say it again, when highly contagious and more virulent variants of concern account for nearly 70 per cent of COVID-19 infections in the province.