Two young women were hit by a car (but see below in my comment) in a hit-and-run incident Saturday on Ste‑Catherine Street at Crescent. Yes, the street is pedestrianized. Evidently neither this nor the fact that he had just mowed two people down was enough to stop this driver.
Update: As indicated in comments, a suspect has been arrested.
Quite a crowd of suicidal maniacs rallied downtown Saturday to protest Quebec’s mask law.
In the video, funny to see people wearing Guy Fawkes masks…
“We want our liberty. We want the right to say yes to a vaccine. We want the right to decide. It’s our life, it’s our bodies, it’s up to us.”
All I can think of is this:
I don’t know why I try to embed images. Here’s the link:
https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/68567341/dont-you-hate-pants.jpg
Yeah sure protest The Man by buying a guy Fawkes mask and giving money to Time Warner through each purchase because they own the rights to the image. Hahaha
Don’t know if they are suicidal, but they certainly are troglodytes.
They aren’t suicidal, they are homicidal.
Masks don’t protect the wearer: they protect people around the wearer.
Kevin, I was reading yesterday how wearing a mask can protect the wearer to some extent. Apparently the sheer amount of virus particles inhaled affects us. If we get a heavy blast of virus from a carrier we can get seriously ill, but a mask can at least partly protect us from that. I’ll try to find the source for this.
Oh here we go. It’s a report on a paper, linked from a New Yorker item in which the writer was trying to figure out how she’d caught it. Study: Wearing a Mask Protects You From Severe COVID-19 Symptoms.
Kate
“To some extent” carries a lot of weight there 😉
Back when this started, it was because masked health care workers in China and Italy were getting sick that Public Health did not recommend masks.
Which led to the abuse and manipulation of the “everything is always planned” crowd.
Even I can’t protect myself in the short term wearing a mask, more community transmission just increases the chances that I will catch it in the long run. Plus, the chance of protecting others should be enough motivation.
To be fair, not all these people are claiming that masks are ineffective, should never be used, etc. Some are merely saying that they should not be forced by law to wear them.
>Plus, the chance of protecting others should be enough motivation.
It’s not in a million other instances. Driving a car 1) kills people by collisions 2) kills people by air pollution 3) kills people by climate change. So, the chance of protecting others should be enough motivation to not drive a car, right? No, humans don’t work that way. In fact, the arguments are similar: “it’s my right”, “freedom”, “liberty”, “independence”, etc.
(Global covid deaths are now at 720k, about halfway to global annual motor vehicle collision deaths. And we’re past halfway through the year, so it’s not even certain the former will pass the latter, though I think it will.)
And the headline has been updated to now read “thousands” and not just “hundreds” I guess.
Ugh.
None of this is about the effectiveness of masks. It’s totally about not wanting to wear masks, the reasoning is there to justify the not wanting to wear masks.
Because apparently their freedom is being taken away. *eyeroll*
If you want your freedom, stay at home, and wear a mask when you go out, and eventually everyone will have more freedom.
I don’t get it. The masks seem plainly liberatory to me. With them, I can leave the house and do and see normal-ish things. In April, though we were still mostly wearing scarves, people were cowering in their apartments, often alone and going for solitary walks just to stay sane. At that time, the French were being watched by cops and needed permits to leave their house for very short periods and I think China had actually welded shut doors of dwellings. Oh, those masks…such a burden. My goodness.
I feel so much more comfortable going out now that (nearly) everyone is wearing masks indoors. And lots of people wear them outside on crowded streets, too. I was walking down Ste-Catherine on Thursday and around half the people outdoors were wearing masks.
The problem is that people who refuse to wear masks aren’t doing so because it’s inconvenient or uncomfortable, they’re doing so because they believe in wacko conspiracy theories about Covid. It’s part of a much larger problem and I’m not sure what can be done about it.
I don’t own a car, Chris. You’re barking up the wrong tree.
It’s the only tree Chris knows.
The new bridge is being lit up in the colours of the Lebanese flag in solidarity with the beleaguered people of that country. 🇱🇧
The Gazette asked this week whether food courts will survive: Time Out Market is back, with distancing measures and only six concessions operating, and Le Cathcart and Le Central have also reopened with reduced seating.
JP Karwacki, who has to balance out writing about Montreal for Time Out with doing PR for Time Out on the same platform, tells about DJs and live bands scheduled at Time Out over the next few weeks.
They will survive if the landlords help them. Bailout levels of help.
If restaurants die in the food courts, which tenant will come and replace them at previous rents? None.
I would help every single tenant survive as long as I can.
The fact that tens off thousands of workers won’t come back downtown because of work from home suggests to me that no, food courts won’t survive.
I’ve gone to a couple local suburban malls. Food courts seems to be decently populated.
I don’t know if the trend to high end courts will survive, but the cheap stuff certainly has a future. Plenty of people don’t want to eat at home, and they’ll go wherever is available to do it.
Communal eating returned after the Black plague so it should be able to survive covid 19. We’ll see in what version, tho
I wonder how long it took, Uatu.
I was just reading a story about how they dealt with the plague in Tuscany:
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/tuscany-wine-windows-plague-coronavirus-pandemic
I was also reading about how the mask debate is also not new to this pandemic:
https://indianexpress.com/article/research/lessons-from-1918-spanish-flu-when-mask-laws-triggered-protests-in-us-6547350/lite/
A survey found that nobody in Laval wanted Île Gagnon to be developed into a hotel-spa extravaganza, so the project is stopped – for now. But it sounds like it may come back in a modified form.
I haven’t even seen notices of the extension of the city’s state of emergency over the last few weeks, but it continues, renewed August 8 for another five‑day block.
A car was driven into the front window of a jewelry store on Fleury early Saturday. Nobody was seriously hurt. As usual, TVA has the best photos. Nobody seems to suspect this of being a robbery, just a stupid driving mishap by possibly drunken 21‑year‑olds.
Several boroughs have now banned the conversion of plexes into single‑family dwellings. The numbers don’t support the theory that this will make a big dent in the housing shortage, but it does put a stop to a growing trend in some areas.
Max 19:18 on 2020-08-08 Permalink
I saw the aftermath of that this aft. Fucktard heading east on Ste-Cat got blocked by the concrete blocks at Peel, and decided to go around them on the north sidewalk forcing pedestrians out of his way. Then he headed south on Mansfield. About a half-dozen police cadets witnessed this so I’m hoping one of them had the presence of mind to jot down this asshole’s license plate.
Kate 19:39 on 2020-08-08 Permalink
This site even shows the vehicle and the plate! More details: “A temporary terrace […] was completely destroyed. A spokesman for Urgences-Sante […] said debris caused the injuries. ‘They were not hit by the car but by the debris from the tables and chairs.’ The destruction is almost a full city block in length.”
Max 20:20 on 2020-08-08 Permalink
Glad to read that the two ladies were only minorly damaged, thanks.
The CEEB updated their story to indicate an arrest has been made. So there’s that to be grateful for too.
Kate 22:43 on 2020-08-08 Permalink
Bravo, Max.