City begs youth to respect rules
The city is asking young people to follow Covid rules, since private parties seem to be a major site of contagion. Experts are worried that the surge in infections in younger people will rebound again on older folks, whom we now know are much more vulnerable to its effects.
The Santa Claus parade has been cancelled – this, plus the recent announcement of universities continuing with distance learning after Christmas, are indications that projections don’t see the virus losing its grip anytime soon.
There were 799 new cases over the last 24 hours.
jeather 12:17 on 2020-09-29 Permalink
How do we know what is a major source of contagion? The only data we have, from that one day in Quebec, almost half the cases were from work. A lot of the new rules would be far more palatable if they gave more details about transmission instead of just the numbers.
walkerp 12:33 on 2020-09-29 Permalink
A scientist from McGill on CBC today reiterated that indoor private parties were the biggest source of the latest spread. That being said, I agree, it would really help us all better understand and modify our behaviour if we could see actual data. It may be that 70% is from private parites, but may also be that 5% comes from something we were doing and then we would maybe stop doing that.
On the flip side, I think most people do not pay attention at the same detail level, which is why you have to make big blanket policies. They are simple to follow and so most people will follow them. This is also what the scientist on the radio said.
jeather 12:44 on 2020-09-29 Permalink
I’ll follow the rules, but I’m not going to agree that I agree they are the right rules, especially not based on “some scientist said X on the radio”. Yes, I would trust actual scientists with data, but not politicians, even ones who are also scientists, not anymore.
I think restricting private gatherings is almost certainly the right move, but I don’t believe that keeping some businesses open, while closing libraries and allowing kids in school to go around maskless is sensible.
walkerp 14:21 on 2020-09-29 Permalink
One of the arguments Legault made is that a big factor is duration of time. Since people spend an average of 10 minutes (according to him) in a retail store, but two hours in a theatre, that is why it is okay to keep the former open and shut the latter.
Oo the libraries it does sound like at least one is still allowing for reserve and pickups. I hope that gets clarified.
But yes in general, I would like to see the data they have an how it connects to the decisions they are making.
Related, they just said they are going to approve the use of the federal tracing app. Install away those who haven’t already!