The Covid tug-of-war continues
All year we’ve been pulled in two directions, and now it’s the feds throttling down international flights and banning cruise ships for another year, while Quebec gleefully prepares to reopen retail and hair salons next week and starts chivvying students back into CEGEPs and universities.
And we’re promised vaccinations, while news stories talk about reductions in vaccine availability, and while undertakers strain to cope with the number of excess deaths. Public health worries about the new virus variants, but François Legault seems determined to give the new viruses a chance.
Trash radio host Jeff Fillion (Quebec City and Twitter) tried to use a photo from Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital to “prove” that news stories about overwhelmed hospital facilities were all a lie. He’s been debunked.
fantomas 17:02 on 2021-02-04 Permalink
Good, I want an army of debunkers. Make that a public escouade! C’est le seul moyen de lutter contre la propagande et la désinformation (qu’elle provienne de milieux populaires ou qu’elle provienne des institutions). C’est sûr, les prétendus debunkers peuvent aussi être eux-mêmes des propagandistes (eg le site Décodex du journal français Le Monde)… qu’à cela ne tienne, eux-aussi seront démentis dans l’espace public!
Pour ce faire, il faut mettre fin à l’anonymat pour ces forums de debunkers. T’as une opinion? Tu affirmes quelque chose? Ça ne vaut RIEN si tu ne donnes pas tes sources et ça ne vaut RIEN si tu te caches derrière un pseudo. Qu’on rende les gens redevables et responsables de l’information qu’ils diffusent et des actions qu’ils incitent. MAIS qu’on ne les déplatte-forme pas comme Alex Jones, ou encore pire, qu’on ne les catégorisent pas comme terroristes s’ils “appartiennent” à un groupe aux idées nauséabondes! Sinon, demain c’est vous qu’ils viendront chercher.
Ant6n 17:39 on 2021-02-04 Permalink
This 2000$ fee to enter Canada for residents and citizens is excessive. I need to come back to Canada for family reasons, after having been abroad for more than a year, and i feel my right to enter the country is quite infringed.
Its the sort of rule meant to discourage tourism, but it will disproportionately affect immigrants, esp those who have been hunkering abroad.
JaneyB 19:18 on 2021-02-04 Permalink
Legault’s opening option for CEGEPs and universities is clearly insane.
Concordia has nixed this plan pure and simple. Faculty associations are not going to let their often older members walk into the imminent British variant storm which we know is already in the country. Also there are all the foreign students who are doing their courses from home due to travel restrictions and vulnerable family members etc. Not happening.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all the leaders could sing from the same hymnbook. Just a week ago we got the Feds to finally create Australian-style entry restrictions, now Legault is ready to party – but not at night. Ayoye.
dwgs 08:31 on 2021-02-05 Permalink
Meanwhile McGill is very gung ho on moving back to ‘normal’. Sigh.
Tim S. 10:47 on 2021-02-05 Permalink
JaneyB: I’ve been trying to compose my thoughts on this since the press conference, but can’t come up with anything better than “clearly insane.” I don’t get how the government has so little understanding of the functioning of institutions they supposedly run, starting with the fact that students don’t all have the same schedule.