State of emergency continues

News media have given up on telling us that the urban agglomeration’s state of emergency has been renewed for another five-day block. I suppose some provision in the law determines that states of emergency lapse after 5 days if not renewed? In any case, the emergency has been in place, renewed every five days uninterruptedly since March 27, 2020.

What would they do if some other emergency came along, like an earthquake or a meteor strike? Is there a state of super-emergency available?

In other pandemic news, CTV points out that the Covid numbers we see over the next few days will decide whether this period of lockdown ends on January 11 or not. And we’ve yet to see the inevitable spike from holiday gatherings, so don’t get out your dancing shoes yet.

Update: Aaron Derfel’s Twitter thread about the current state of things, which includes a link to this Gazette op-ed by two doctors strongly in favour of a no-exceptions lockdown to break the chain of transmission.