COVID-19: Sunday update
Hundreds of people attended a wedding at a Westmount synagogue on March 12, and one of them, a Côte St-Luc resident, has since been rushed to hospital with COVID‑19. Now CSL has more cases of the virus and is asking for quarantine to be imposed.
Exo is reducing its train departures as of Monday because of lowered demand. Buses run by Exo will be rescheduled sometime next week.
(Remember when we all thought two weeks would do it?)
Justin Trudeau will be speaking at 11:15 Sunday, and François Legault at 1 p.m. – these are from the Journal’s latest developments page.
Bars are excluded from the federal support program and bar owners feel this is unfair. Is it fair to group bars with casinos, pawnshops, the sex industry and “businesses that incite any form of violence, hatred or discrimination”?
La Presse says a clinique sans rendez‑vous to test for the virus will be opening Monday under a heated marquee at St‑Urbain and de Maisonneuve. It’s to be drive-thru and walk-up and really be sans rendez-vous, unlike so many soi‑disant walk‑in clinics around town.
Alison Cummins 11:50 on 2020-03-22 Permalink
> (Remember when we all thought two weeks would do it?)
Nope. Not me. I started thinking in terms of months immediately. If we’re going to be holed up like Anne Frank for months, what do we need to put in place so that we can stay sane?
My thought was that groups of people who weren’t too popular could arrange to be social with eachother but not other people. But grownups have complicated lives and for most people I don’t think that works.
Chris 13:12 on 2020-03-22 Permalink
>Is it fair to group bars with casinos, pawnshops, the sex industry
Those are *all* legal businesses, i.e. operating with government permission already, and now it’s government forcing them closed. Outrageous.
>and “businesses that incite any form of violence, hatred or discrimination”?
“any form of violence”. ha! Says the federal government that sells weapons to Saudi Arabia.
Kate 09:00 on 2020-03-23 Permalink
Chris, the sex trade has to be in a legal gray area, and besides, by its very nature – unless it’s a booth with a partition (do those even exist any more in the internet era?) – brings people into dangerous proximity. I base this on a recent story about an erotic massage salon getting closed down in Rosemont, because it was “offering erotic services far beyond what its permit allows”. I don’t know what the terms of their permit were, but that little storefront was in and out of the news for awhile, because it’s in a mostly residential area and people were uncomfortable with it.