Ontario Premier Doug Ford is facing increasing pressure to compel at least some unvaccinated Ontarians to get their COVID-19 shots, and yet he remains adamantly opposed to mandatory vaccinations and vaccine passports. It’s a surprising stance for a leader who has frequently erred on the side of caution.
Ford is not taking the easiest path, which would be to give in to those who want to keep living in a world of perpetual pandemic hyper-caution. Instead, he’s taking an approach that’s more in keeping with the actual threat Ontario faces.
Ford is following the advice of Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore, who has explicitly said that the rising number of cases expected this fall is “not a cause for panic.” In Moore’s estimation, the province’s high vaccination rate will curb the virus’s numbers sufficiently to make the caseload manageable for the province’s hospitals. For the 72 per cent of the population aged 12 and up who are fully vaccinated, exposure to COVID is unlikely to lead to more than mild symptoms.
While the idea of ordering people to get vaccinated is apparently attractive to many, even without drastic measures, Ontario’s vaccination total continues to slowly climb. Thursday, the government reported nearly 50,000 additional doses had been administered the previous day.
The province is moving to a new, more mature phase of its management of the pandemic. Moore acknowledges that COVID-19 will be with us for some time, but says we need to learn to live with it. “We have no desire to cause unnecessary disruption to people’s everyday lives,” he said in an opinion piece this week.
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