I'm not saying COVID is gone or you shouldn't be cautious. I think it's vital people have the freedom to do what they think is right for their and their families' health. But doing the right thing requires valid information, and I'd hope by providing that, I help people.

COVID is going to surge again. The question is if we'll continue the trend to lower surges and a safer world, or will that reverse? I'll still be watching. I just hope people will accept good news as eagerly as they do bad. 2/2

@augieray While I disagree with what the extent of your conclusion seemed to be in the previous posts, I do want to stress I don't want you to stop your reporting and appreciate wholeheartedly that you report on wastewater data. My problem was not the data so much as what I'm hoping was merely a lack of clarification and acknowledgement that while there is a light at the end, we're not out of the woods yet.

It's entirely possible in hindsight I misinterpreted your posts as being a lot more callous than they actually were. In which case, my concern remains the potential for inadvertent supply of ammunition to people who think COVID was "over" as early as 2021 when we're only just now in late May 2026 getting evidence that we're maybe finally close to that point.

edited to fix a grammatical oddity and make my point clearer (hopefully)

@disorderlyf
People that thought COVID was over 5 years still believe it's over. They can't be convinced otherwise in my experience.

When /if its finally over, they will say "it was over in 2021" despite all the COVID related deaths and sickness since that time.
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In Canada, Covid is still cycling more than twice a year, overwhelming some hospitals, and killing off residents in LTC and retirement homes.
When, in retirement homes, there are breakouts multiple times a year, and an ambulance shows up 4 times a day instead of once or twice a week, it's very difficult to read your comment that it's surging less often and so is less of a threat., especially since it causes strokes, heart injury, and shortens the lives of the elderly .

@augieray

When you check the fed website, you are missing a lot of pertinent info like this warning for Ontario:

"Note: this province/territory has low population coverage. Please consider this coverage when interpreting the displayed graph."

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part two of my reply:

I think before you rely on sketchy stats from our provinces/ feds (that rely on provincial data) and speak about covid in our country, you need to educate yourself about our provincial conservative governments, how they are wilfully ignoring the impact of covid on our hospitals, have purposely underfunded and ended testing; and the political will to turn our healthcare over to American style system.

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