Man refuses to wear a mask at Tim Horton’s
A customer captured on video a scene Saturday afternoon when a man refused to wear a mask inside a Tim Horton’s in Villeray, and workers called police. He’s been charged with obstructing police after refusing to leave peacefully on their request.
In general people here are supporting the mask law, but some doofs in the Beauce held a demonstration against it on Saturday. Evidently they don’t read the world news: we’ve had the largest single-day increase in Covid cases now, worldwide. Have they already forgotten how fast the virus spread from China to Iran to Italy and the whole world? The United States is seeing scary numbers, and they’re on our doorstep. We have evidence that, by taking a few simple measures, we’re keeping it at bay: this is no time to announce “the pandemic is over” because of what pandemic means: an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of people.
Raymond Lutz 22:13 on 2020-07-18 Permalink
And this: SARS-Cov-2 virions don’t need to be embedded in saliva droplets to stay infectious. At first (for few months), researchers hypothesized that large droplets (100-300 μm) were responsible for respiratory transmission (hence face shields and 2m distance). Though now we know <5μm micro-droplets (emitted during normal speech) eventually dry out (in a few seconds, depending RH) but virions keep floating in the air, for up to 16 hr (!) and maintain their integrity. Covid-19 is now considered an airborne disease: the infectious agent stay afloat and can travel long distance in favourable airflow. see “Persistence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in aerosol suspensions” referenced in this regularly updated covid page: https://nursesunions.ca/cfnu-research-summary-on-covid-19/
Kate 22:27 on 2020-07-18 Permalink
New Aaron Derfel twitter thread about a surge in cases among younger people in the Plateau. As FNoMTL observes, “we need to gauge horniness levels for the data to make any sense.”
Raymond Lutz, that’s not happy news.
Ephraim 16:47 on 2020-07-19 Permalink
Did anyone notice that the girlfriend who is filming starts to cough. In fact, you can hear a LOT of coughing in this video. If anything, listening to all the coughing in this video sort of proves the point in the other direction.
Dhomas 17:29 on 2020-07-19 Permalink
I think they may have actually sprayed the pepper spray, which is why people were coughing.
I think the girlfriend had a point. “Pour un masque!” He’s willing to get arrested and resist arrest for a goddamn mask. Was it worth it? Wouldn’t it be easier to just put on a mask?
MarcG 17:56 on 2020-07-19 Permalink
I assumed he was mentally ill in some capacity.
MarcG 17:59 on 2020-07-19 Permalink
You can hear the “pshhht” of the spray shortly after he holds it up to the guy’s face.
Ephraim 18:33 on 2020-07-19 Permalink
I look at mask wearing as a variation on Pascal’s wager. So, if it doesn’t really work, you’ve lost so infinitely little…