The social state of Quebec under alert
Jonathan Montpetit surveys the social state of Quebec, as people try to make sense of the red zone rules. It includes the nugget that the Legault government recorded a commercial for Quebec City’s Radio X (CHOI-FM) advising listeners to get information from trusted sources, but the station refused to air it.
jeather 13:57 on 2020-10-02 Permalink
“Use your common sense” is going to cause an awful lot of problems. This is how we got here.
“Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante suggested the anti-maskers march in a “potato field” instead.” That translates really poorly, I’m shocked they didn’t explain it.
MarcG 14:15 on 2020-10-02 Permalink
That potato field comment made me laugh but now it seems I’m missing the real joke – what’s the French twist?
Benoit 14:28 on 2020-10-02 Permalink
“Être dans les patates” means “to be clueless” or “to be wrong”.
jeather 14:28 on 2020-10-02 Permalink
“Dans les patates” means something like “way off track”.
MarcG 15:00 on 2020-10-02 Permalink
The full original quote seems to be “Je ne peux pas accepter qu’il y ait des manifestants antimasques qui viennent à Montréal. Là, on a été plus durement touchés! En plus, qu’ils veulent venir dans un quartier, dans le coin de Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension, où les gens sont le plus durement touchés. S’ils veulent aller manifester dans un champ de patates, c’est leur affaire!”. So it seems she meant it pretty literally, but with a wink to the expression?
EmilyG 23:33 on 2020-10-02 Permalink
Worth noting that Legault has also said that the law forbidding wearing religious symbols is “common sense.”
It seems to me that a lot of people use the term “common sense” to mean “something I agree with.”
Ephraim 08:49 on 2020-10-03 Permalink
Let’s start getting serious… there is a large group of people who don’t have any common sense anymore. They are anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, etc. So to heck with suggesting people use common sense… if they had common sense, they could put a damn mask on their face properly instead of being super spreaders with their nose out and the government relying on a minimum fine of $400 to convince them to wear it.
I was in the old 4 Brothers this week. Only 1 of the employees that I saw was wearing their masks properly. I won’t ever be back. Because if management can’t make them wear a mask properly to protect clients, I don’t want to think about how well they are doing with washing their hands, cleaning the store or cleaning the on-site kitchen.
JaneyB 09:50 on 2020-10-03 Permalink
Come to think of it, the idea of moving the anti-maskers outside the city and letting them march back and forth in a potato field is not a bad idea. I could get behind that.