Profit-based businesses kick back
Quebec’s manufacturing and construction associations are complaining that a stronger lockdown will be bad for business and airlines are complaining that they don’t wanna have to test returning Canadians for Covid.
This pandemic has brought the human race up smack against incontrovertible facts that can’t be negotiated with, and yet, being stupid primates, people keep trying to make deals. Maybe Donald Trump with his constant jiggling to make a deal really is the shining pinnacle of human nature after all.
Kevin 23:30 on 2021-01-05 Permalink
We are descended from the Golgafrinchams, so if only a third of us keep trying to make deals with entities that don’t bargain, we’ve come a long way.
Kate 00:08 on 2021-01-06 Permalink
Excuse me while I sanitize my phone.
Ephraim 10:09 on 2021-01-06 Permalink
Other countries have this COVID policy at airports. The airlines aren’t responsible, you are. Some of the airports actually have someone selling the service as well.
jeather 10:36 on 2021-01-06 Permalink
I was sympathetic to people caught away in March. This was unexpected etc etc. But now you need to expect that the rules might change and your flights might be cancelled and you might be unable to get home, and I’m sorry if you are going for a reason you consider essential, but that is the risk you are choosing to take, and I’m not sympathetic to people who get stuck.
GC 13:10 on 2021-01-06 Permalink
I feel the same way about those (politicians or otherwise) taking trips in the past couple of months and then apologizing for it. You might have gone away last March/April because you underestimated the scope of this. If you went away in November/December, however, you knew what you were doing. Maybe there was a good reason for the trip, but you still knew. Saying you made a “mistake” is just silly. You didn’t accidentally board a plane.