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This isn't entirely true. If you check the numbers, the number of cases have steadily been going up over the last decade, which sharp rises especially the last few years. And until this year, this has only been an issue for a single month before all cases disappear for the year. But for the first time, not only are the cases several times our yearly average, but it's been going on for far longer than even last year.
We are in the middle of an outbreak, though admittedly mostly on a technical sense so far. But trends are a terrifying thing, since this year we have over 800 cases when last year it didn't reach 150, and we had a total of 16 cases for the four years before that, combined. This is across the entire nation, not just Ontario. This year alone, we have more than four times as many cases as we have the five years before it combined.
We have exceeded the greatest outbreak as far back as I can find data (about 30 years), and only the second time in that many years have we exceeded 250 cases in a single year, and we tripled that number.
This no COVID19, but this isn't something to simply ignore either.