| The **Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table** is self-described as “a group of scientific experts and health system leaders who evaluate and report on emerging evidence relevant to the [[:COVID-19 pandemic]], to inform Ontario’s response.” They claim to integrate information from “existing scientific tables, Ontario’s universities and agencies, and the best global evidence.”((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved December 13, 2021, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/)) | The **Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table (OST)** is self-described as “a group of scientific experts and health system leaders who evaluate and report on emerging evidence relevant to the [[:COVID-19 pandemic]], to inform Ontario’s response.” They claim to integrate information from “existing scientific tables, Ontario’s universities and agencies, and the best global evidence.”((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved December 13, 2021, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/)) |
| Canadian news outlets and Ontario provincial, regional and municipal governments defer almost exclusively to the instructions and statements provided by the various working groups of the Table.((//Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table | News, Videos & Articles.// Global News; Corus Entertainment Inc. Retrieved January 6, 2022, from https://archive.ph/gzMxp)) The group is largely responsible for draconian and dangerous measures such as lockdowns, forced school and business closures, social distancing, mandatory mask-wearing, mass testing of the healthy, suppression of safe and effective medicines and healthy activities, and reckless mass-vaccination of adults and children.((Crawley, M. (2022, January 6). //As Omicron sweeps across Ontario, Doug Ford’s government braces for impact.// CBC News; CBC/Radio-Canada. https://archive.ph/j7cYn)) ((Behavioural Science Working Group. (2021, December 23). //Ask Ontario’s Science Table: Omicron Edition.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Slide-Deck_Ask-the-SAT_20211223-3.pdf)) | Canadian news outlets and Ontario provincial, regional and municipal governments defer almost exclusively to the instructions and statements provided by the various working groups of the Table.((//Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table | News, Videos & Articles.// Global News; Corus Entertainment Inc. Retrieved January 6, 2022, from https://archive.ph/gzMxp)) The group is largely responsible for draconian and dangerous measures such as lockdowns, forced school and business closures, social distancing, mandatory mask-wearing, mass testing of the healthy, suppression of safe and effective medicines and healthy activities, and reckless mass-vaccination of adults and children.((Crawley, M. (2022, January 6). //As Omicron sweeps across Ontario, Doug Ford’s government braces for impact.// CBC News; CBC/Radio-Canada. https://archive.ph/j7cYn)) ((Behavioural Science Working Group. (2021, December 23). //Ask Ontario’s Science Table: Omicron Edition.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Slide-Deck_Ask-the-SAT_20211223-3.pdf)) |
