Eastern Townships goes red
The Eastern Townships have been declared a red zone and although Montreal’s red zone status isn’t changing, Dr Drouin is hinting at loosening up some restrictions – which, to my mind, would blur the distinction of these zones and make it even harder for people to be clear what they’re supposed to be able to do safely.
Dr Drouin is said to be concerned with studies showing that we’re drinking more and consuming more cannabis as the restrictions continue.
dwgs 10:55 on 2020-11-12 Permalink
A lot of people I know, myself included, are chronically depressed these days. It’s not surprising that they’re self medicating.
JP 11:13 on 2020-11-12 Permalink
There is definitely a cloud, so to speak, that has set in….the last few days of nice weather were helpful in terms of sunshine and being able to be outdoors…
I used to go for daily walks right after work (working from home) but with the time change…it’s getting harder to do that while it’s still light out. I try to go in the middle of the day and make up for it later, but it’s not the same. I feel like I rush back for work.
And, while virtual connection is better than nothing, you’ll never convince me that it can replace real live interaction with other people. At least, not for me.
Nevertheless, I do understand why we’re doing this. I’m trying to make the best of it, but I know we all have varying challenges with it.
Mr.Chinaski 12:31 on 2020-11-12 Permalink
There’s like a 12-month wait just to see somebody for your mental health. no wonder alcool and cannabis is on the rise. I’d say some sort of weed is pretty good for small-levels of anxiety and depression.
At least there is a glimpse of hope in that there’s only 6 months left for all this…
Joey 12:51 on 2020-11-12 Permalink
If ever there were a year to ditch the fall time change, this was it.
@Mr.Chinaski six months is a very best-case scenario (unless you meant six months of winter)… I imagine we’ll have some vaccines administered by then, but probably not yours and mine.
Blork 13:16 on 2020-11-12 Permalink
While there has always been talk of dropping Daylight Savings Time, that would not be initiated by dropping the fall time change. Doing that would essentially move us out of the Eastern timezone and put us in the Central timezone, which is a much bigger deal.
Ending Daylight Savings Time means dropping the time change in the spring that moves us out of “regular” Eastern timezone and into “temporary modified Eastern timezone.” Removing that perennial “temporary modification” is not such a big deal, because it does not involve any permanent timezone shifts.
However, it also means the sun would set an hour earlier all summer and fall, and not just start setting earlier in November.
Mark Côté 13:53 on 2020-11-12 Permalink
I’m having a hard time parsing that last comment… we’d of course be dropping both clock changes; the question is (if we decided to do that next year), would we have one more change to move us to UTC-4, as we normally do in the spring, and stay there, or do we stay at UTC-5, where we are now.
Central time is UTC-6 in standard time and UTC-5 in daylight saving time. The only way we’d be on central time is if we *kept* on standard time, but the central time zone (assuming they ditched DST as well) stayed on daylight saving time.
In fact, the discussion in Ontario is about permanently moving to DST, that is, to UTC-4, as long as Quebec and New York followed suit.
Mr.Chinaski 14:18 on 2020-11-12 Permalink
Changing DST affects people really differently depending on where they are in the timezone. People in say, Sault-Ste-Marie (sunset : 17h06 today) have it really different from people in Sept-iles (sunset : 16h00 today). So you can’t please everybody evently.
Chris 19:53 on 2020-11-12 Permalink
Blork: I don’t think anyone is suggesting what you say, all the proposals are to *stay* on summer time.
EmilyG 23:23 on 2020-11-12 Permalink
I was sober for 6 years.
Was.
Then 2020 came.