Commentary Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says he wants the upcoming school year to be as normal as possible. If he’s serious, he needs to have a chat with his province’s new Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore. That’s because Ontario’s health officer has a peculiar understanding of what “normal” looks like. His predecessor, Dr. David Williams, was cautious, but Moore qualifies as uber-cautious. During a recent interview with CTV News, Moore suggested that students might still need to wear masks this fall. Interestingly, it wasn’t so much because of concerns about COVID-19, but about all the “other viruses” that students might catch at school. Specifically, he’s concerned about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). According to Moore, RSV mimics COVID symptoms and could be a problem since students were largely not exposed to it last year because of all the masking and distancing measures that were in place. Before …
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