Covid stories du jour
Hospitals are adding beds for Covid patients and the situation is described as tense.
Two thousand homeless people are to be vaccinated starting this week. This piece doesn’t mention which vaccine they will get. I imagine it’s wisest not to give out a two-part vaccine to people without a stable address or contact information. Meanwhile all residents and workers in CHSLDs will be vaccinated by the weekend, at least, the first dose.
The city is putting off property tax deadlines for 3 months, moving the March deadline to June, and the June to September.
Calls for police help fell by 40% on the first weekend of curfew. Make people stay home and, whaddya know, they stay out of trouble.
Joey 18:19 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
Both of the authorized vaccines are two-dose vaccines. I would assume the city will work with organizations that support the homeless population to implement some kind of tracking.
Kate 18:38 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
Ah. I thought the Moderna vaccine was a one-shot. Thanks, Joey.
Josh 19:18 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
Kate, I believe the Johnson and Johnson one that’s not yet approved is one-shot.
david226 20:11 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
“Calls for police help fell by 40% on the first weekend of curfew. Make people stay home and, whaddya know, they stay out of trouble.”
Kate, this is a highly racist, classist and imperialist statement you have made here, as it implies that there can be anything positive about the crushing oppression the police state is imposing upon people of color, the homeless, and the poor.
Bill Binns 20:16 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
Lol. Welcome to the “right” Kate. See how easy it is? Racist, classist AND imperialist!
david226 20:21 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
I would have added sexist too, but that’s a bridge too far when talking about Kate, even for a Jaggi.
vasi 21:36 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
At the pres -conference today, they said they have 500 doses for the homeless, and sounded very confused about where the number 2000 may have come from.
MarcG 21:51 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
It’s possible that a lot was happening behind closed doors rather than in public, and that people were afraid to flee outside, causing an underreporting of domestic violence and other like shittiness.
Kate 22:33 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
Jesus, I was only kidding around when I wrote that.
CE 22:04 on 2021-01-14 Permalink
Excellent contribution David. So clever and imaginative! Bravo!
david249 00:17 on 2021-01-15 Permalink
What can I say? The Jaggis of this town, who rail against all the people and systems that allow them to live these work-free lives, advance a goofy scam version of left politics (‘hey, none of us have to work, we’ll just get all the money from the greedy fat cats’), and traffic on this paranoid idea that pretty much everything is a system of oppression . . . what can you say except that it’s not first year at Concordia or UQAM anymore for most of the people reading this blog.
What’s the purpose of these jokers? What legitimate function do they serve? Speaking truth to power? Agitating for change to this oppressive society that’s so peaceful and prosperous that people from all over the world are desperate to get to it? If that’s it, well, the times have overrun the need for this sort of activism.
The real change we need is to make housing more affordable (involving radical changes to zoning, among other things), to adopt a pro-growth agenda so that we don’t have a fifth or quarter of people here getting government assistance and so that we can actually keep our industries competitive, and resolutely not to adopt this imported American nonsense where we start talking with southern US accents and talk about a different country as if it’s ours. We’re not Americans, full stop. Pretending that we are, in whatever context, is just victimhood.
Progressive in our context isn’t about claiming that it’s racist to have a Subway sandwich that’s got an Italian or Asian name, progressive in our context is about ensuring that the people living here can get good jobs, have low-ish taxes, get all the services they need, and live full and productive lives. That’s progressive.
So yeah, I appreciate your compliment on my contribution, even though I’m not particularly hopeful that you’re on board with my particular political project.
Michael Black 04:06 on 2021-01-15 Permalink
But Jaggi Singh is a loud mouth snook who throws himself against fences, and is famed for that.
He’s no thinker, he’s no leader. He has a position and it’s pretty immovable, and that posting reposted here is his position, the rest is leverage. Lots of words, some big, but nothing anyone else could have said.
But that doesn’t invalidate real concerns by others. If you see Nakuset as being the same as Jaggi Singh, then you can’t see nuance. It isn’t a cause for her, it’s life. She was torn from her family in the sixties scoop, I’ve seen her “legal” name, it’s shocking to see such a white name.
Your rant makes you sound incoherent.
I don’t know where “speak truth to power” fits in here. Bayard Rustin is credited with the phrase, on a Quaker paper. He sat out WWII in prison, organized the Journey of Reconciliation after the war, was a major organizer in pacifist and civil rights matters. And was Black, and needed to do those things because of it.
Daniel 10:46 on 2021-01-15 Permalink
The insufferable, pretentious twatwaffle strikes again.