Items on the reopening
The Journal looks forward to the reopening: clothes will be sanitized after customers try them on; gyms will have new cleaning regimes. They found that most store managements don’t intend to require masks; the STM will be distributing masks starting Monday.
Metro finds that some aren’t happy with planned street closures and say they were never consulted.
Meanwhile, we’re getting mixed messages deluxe. Horacio Arruda says the situation in Montreal is still dicey, while Mylène Drouin says things are looking up.
Daniel 10:05 on 2020-05-22 Permalink
It’s hard to imagine a more contagion-friendly environment than a gym, despite their best efforts. Everyone in there for an hour or more, heavy-breathing and touching everything. I’ve been exercising at home for a couple months now; I’m going to continue for many more months. It’s not great, but … other things that aren’t great include a pandemic and COVID-19. “¯\_(ツ)_/¯“
Tim S. 10:16 on 2020-05-22 Permalink
There’s a yoga studio at the end of my street, and with all sympathies to the employees I hope it never opens up again. It brought so much traffic to the street – giant SUVs at that – and the change in our neighbourhood street life has been so dramatic. The kids have been riding bikes/scooters/skateboards, the grown-ups have been jogging, we’ve been meeting neighbours (from a safe distance). I really want to keep it this way.