McGill ghetto becomes Covid hotspot
Lots of students living in the McGill ghetto have tested positive for Covid.
The entire city is now an orange zone.
The health minister is asking everyone to cancel social plans for 28 days.
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walkerp 09:04 on 2020-09-26 Permalink
What are “social gatherings”? Does indoors and outdoors not make a difference? These guidelines are so vague.
Kate 09:18 on 2020-09-26 Permalink
This is what a CBC piece is saying on Saturday morning. The guidelines are way too vague.
I sat here Friday night listening to my neighbours whooping it up outside in the alley for a couple of hours. Not the first time they’ve done this over the last month. In earlier times, I always thought it was nice that my immediate neighbourhood was a convivial place where a lot of the households (families with kids around the same ages, which is one reason I don’t tend to give more than a friendly wave – I don’t really fit in, sociologically) are mutually sociable and supportive.
But last night, jeez. Half a dozen or more households, now? Without masks or distancing? Even outdoors, it felt like they were pushing a boundary.
Joey 10:03 on 2020-09-26 Permalink
Clearly we are overestimating what is meant by the term “bubbles.”
Joey 10:04 on 2020-09-26 Permalink
Or rather, what is understood, not meant.
Tim S. 10:25 on 2020-09-26 Permalink
Based on what’s happening in Europe, which seems to have been a couple of weeks ahead of us throughout this whole thing, I’m increasingly convinced that intermediate measures are useless, at least as proposed so far. Once exponential growth starts, the only instructions that people seem to be able to grasp, society-wide, is “stay home.” It’s why I think the school thing is more complicated than the government lets on. Regardless of whether kids actually transmit it, as long as schools are open it sends the message that everything’s normal. And on that note, my kids’ school just sent out instructions to make sure the students bring everything home with them each night.