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Kate 14:20 on 2020-05-13 Permalink Reply  

• Benoit 15:28 on 2020-05-13 Permalink

  The article misses one important factor: Quebec’s “relâche” (March break) happened just at the wrong time, with hundreds of thousands of people returning, with the virus, from cruises and all-inclusive resorts, just as the pandemy was progressing silently all over the world.

• Ian 15:34 on 2020-05-13 Permalink

  Lots of European ski trips too, and all the Alpine countries were hotspots. If our March Break was a week later like pretty much everywhere else in North America, an important vector would have been eliminated.

• Meezly 17:19 on 2020-05-13 Permalink

  Indeed the March break gave us a bad start, and it was a glaring omission to us locals, but if the Montreal health system was more robust and the Legault government more competent, our infection rate could have been mitigated.
  Since early March, there have been so many other factors that made our city surge to a top COVID-19 epicentres. Yes, the wealthier people who traveled outside the country brought back the virus, but that’s since been old news. The virus has since spread to the more vulnerable and marginalized populations throughout the city.
  It is this latter part that I think this Guardian article was trying to shine a light on.

• Ian 11:27 on 2020-05-14 Permalink

  Well yes, but that it was the wealthy that were the early superspreaders and the poor who ultimately are suffering the most for it is worth considering.