Anti-maskers hold demo at wrong house
Some bright anti-maskers had the idea on Sunday to protest outside a house in Westmount they believed to be the home of François Legault.
Legault doesn’t live in Westmount.
The Gazette talked to an academic who says too much media attention is given to anti-mask nutbars, lending them too much importance in the public mind.
Ephraim 10:41 on 2020-11-30 Permalink
And too little attention to the question of their education and the failure of our education system. That being said, government should be more forthcoming with calculations and R-factors and let people run their own spreadsheets with the progression to learn more from the current situation. It would also ruin much of their arguments, when the numbers and regressions are easy enough for the public to see.
Blork 11:45 on 2020-11-30 Permalink
Small point of distinction: there are anti-maskers and there are “anti-lockdowner.
The former are pretty much all idiots and nutbars, and the latter includes a wide range of people; from anti-maskers (it’s pretty much a given that anti-maskers are also anti-lockedowners) to people who think lockdowns are painting with too wide a brush and are not very effective while also creating other problem that are possibly more serious. That last point is debatable, but it’s a reasonable debate. (In brief, the idea is that it’s theoretically better to use masks and to engage in limited targeted lockdowns where outbreaks occur than to simply lock everything down and then suffer the increased suicides, mental health collapses, and economic ruin.)
I’m not arguing one way or the other on that; I’m just pointing it out. And I feel compelled to point it out because The Gazette’s “anti-masker” article uses a photo of people who are protesting lockdowns, not masks.
dhomas 18:45 on 2020-11-30 Permalink
They got the wrong place. That house was “François Legault Total Landscaping”.
Kate 23:09 on 2020-11-30 Permalink
Ha!
Blork, thanks for making that distinction.