Welcome to
Ron’s COVID-19 Page
Who We Are
This site shares the results of an ongoing personal project to better understand why the pandemic developed in such a damaging way in Canada, what other jurisdictions have done to better protect their citizens from those impacts and what we can collectively do to reduce the possible carnage from futures wave caused by this rapidly-evolving virus. It neither represents nor receives funding from any other person or organization. The sole purpose is to provide the latest and most meaningful data and insights related to the pandemic and its impact on our society in a readily accessible format. You will find many meaningful charts and analyses which provide context for the statistics summarized in the above table by clicking on the Global, Canada, Ontario and Kingston menus. For more details, see the About page.
Weekly Pandemic Update
December 28 to January 3
Sadly, I have quite literally nothing to report this week because not one of the official and unofficial statistical data sources upon which I base this blog and analysis have published their data in the past week. That is a discouraging reflection on current public health priorities given that the holiday season almost always includes the annual peak in new COVID and other respiratory viral infections. The official signal is “Move along folks, nothing to see here”. For the actual Canadian public who public servants are supposed to be serving, that means an information vacuum in terms of guidance on whether or it would be wise to wear masks in the most indoor social and shopping time of the year.