COVID-19 updates en soirée
The city is extending the state of emergency again, till April 26.
Urbania took a metro ride, talks to other passengers and to bus drivers about the situation.
A taxpayers’ group says it wants Montreal’s councillors to take a cut in pay. I don’t agree, because if anything their jobs are probably harder under this compression.
Le Devoir claims that although the veterans’ hospital has only a few cases, it has been assigned a disproportionate number of military helpers.
The Gazette’s Aaron Derfel dissects the current numbers in this Twitter thread, and explains them.
walkerp 21:50 on 2020-04-22 Permalink
It just dawned on me with that excellent thread of Aaron Derfel, that what seems to be happening is that Quebec and especially Montreal’s shitty health care system is collapsing under the pressure of the coronavirus. It used to an ongoing common knowledge joke but now it’s not funny at all. We should have seen it coming, but let’s hope that in hindsight we will get some real reforms.
Kevin 22:45 on 2020-04-22 Permalink
There is a joke going around that the province’s bureaucrats don’t realize there’s an emergency.
I think they do know, they’re just not capable of doing any better because they have spent generations hiring incompetents.
Brett 23:32 on 2020-04-22 Permalink
It’s too late to do anything now. The elderly in the nursing homes are all dropping like flies. Expect carnage over the next week or two, followed by a sudden drop in new cases.
dwgs 07:39 on 2020-04-23 Permalink
Am I the only one who has no problem with the veteran’s hospital getting a disproportionate amount of help from military helpers?