Colin Furness debunks the popular theory and explains how Covid-19 may be weakening our immune systems in the long run
Leaving the city made perfect sense during the pandemic. Then I was told to come back to the office
"I got DMs from several adult children of health care workers saying things like, 'My mom is working a shift on Saturday. I told her to look out for your signs' "
"Everybody’s exhausted. We’ve had people break down in tears in the middle of their shifts"
"No one’s life is on the line, and we get the satisfaction of sharing our creations with the world"
"I wanted to do what I could to ease the burden on the health care system"
"Because it's harder to see a physician, there are now serious gaps in health care, and a lot of patients are coming to us instead of their doctors"
"We're seeing younger and healthier patients who feel truly awful with Covid"
"We're running, we're short-staffed, there are children screaming and crying. It's chaotic"
"When I first heard about the return to virtual school, my first thought was—pardon my language—F the Ontario government"
He was on the verge of retirement when he accepted the top job. Multiple pandemic waves later—plus his own case of Covid—and he's still standing, and advocating for change
"I was skipping all of my lunches and breaks, and I still couldn't get everything done"
"How often do 10 to 12 people thank you in a meaningful way every hour?"
"Before we moved to Toronto, we'd only been here once, for 36 hours"
"We went from getting dozens of inquiries a day to nothing. We started thinking, 'What are we going to do? Is this the end of our business?'
