Crowds spotted at beach
A lot of people were spotted Saturday at Cap St-Jacques beach, having fun and totally ignoring the sanitary laws still in effect. TVA’s “autre plage bondée” refers to last week’s similar situation at Oka beach.
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John B 08:45 on 2021-05-23 Permalink
“Plage Fermée | Baignade Interdite” – why? It’s unrelated to the pandemic, but this attitude, where the government makes a beach, then says we can’t use it, while it is allowed to go swimming anywhere else along the river, really bothers me.
It’s a hot day, and there’s a beach. Why can’t we use it?
Karen 08:56 on 2021-05-23 Permalink
I fucking hate that lots of people are having fun in the outdoors. I’m happy that news outlets are reporting these merrymakers so that they may be shamed and ostracized for their malfeasance and never be able to love it down.
j2 09:47 on 2021-05-23 Permalink
It was a mistake to delay the enactment from the announcement, in that people are acting like it’s already true. But at least we now know what it will look like.
It will be interesting to see the mitigating effects of partial vaccination on the 4th wave.
Kate 09:48 on 2021-05-23 Permalink
John B, I presume it’s liability. The borough doesn’t want to fund a lifeguard, so they put up the sign so if anyone drowns, their ass is covered.
(Or would it be the city itself, given that this is one of its major parks? Either way.)
Karen, whoever you are, you’re flailing trying to make a point.
DeWolf 09:59 on 2021-05-23 Permalink
We had moral panic about outdoor activities last year, too, and yet the second wave started in September, not July.
MarcG 10:00 on 2021-05-23 Permalink
Is the law they’ve broken using a beach that’s closed or is there a covid-specific regulation? I don’t see anything on the Quebec government site about outdoor gatherings in public places. https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-issues/a-z/2019-coronavirus/progressive-regional-alert-and-intervention-system/map-of-covid-19-alert-levels-by-region
DeWolf 10:11 on 2021-05-23 Permalink
TVA makes it sound like there was a gathering of 300 people at the beach when that’s the total of number of people that were there. I see some rather large groups of people having BBQs and picnics, but nothing more than what’s been happening in every park. As Zeynep Tufekci has been pointing out for a year, scolding people for gathering outdoors is “anti-science, anti-safety.”
Joey 10:12 on 2021-05-23 Permalink
This is the nth awful terrible horrible gathering of young people outdoors without adequate distancing, with the same hand-wringing from the usual suspects. Has a single outbreak been linked to such a gathering? If not, can we please give it a rest?
Chris 13:33 on 2021-05-23 Permalink
Being outdoors is the best place to be. Half the county is vaccinated. The young are not at much risk. It’s been a long winter. I just can’t agree anymore with the people who still want things locked down tighter than a duck’s ass. There does seem to be a certain vocal segment of the population that loves scolding others though. It’s become security theatre, like toothpaste on an airplane. The places that are still washing doorknobs every 5 minutes also drive me nuts at this point.
Mark Côté 11:25 on 2021-05-24 Permalink
MarcG, it’s a ways down that page under the header “Sports and recreation” (recreation apparently including hanging out with people in public places).
MarcG 14:59 on 2021-05-24 Permalink
Thanks, that isn’t obvious enough.