Ontario Liberals took to social media on Saturday to celebrate their de facto campaign launch in the ballroom of a downtown Toronto hotel. There were many photos of many smiling Liberals, all eager and determined to help leader Steven Del Duca show Premier Doug Ford the door. Surprisingly, however, very few of the Liberal faces were masked. Some who reacted online were downright outraged. Others, including this correspondent, were just confused.
Asking those in attendance to mask up would have been such an easy way to highlight a key distinction that the Liberals obviously want voters to perceive: They are the party that Follows the Science, while Ford’s Progressive Conservatives care only about pleasing their knuckle-dragging science-hating base. The Liberals very much want you to notice all the medical types they have recruited as candidates: geriatrician Nathan Stall, ER physician Adil Shamji and registered nurses Marjan Kasirlou and Tyler Watt. And yet … hardly any masks.
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