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Kate 11:13 on 2021-09-02 Permalink Reply  

• jeather 12:12 on 2021-09-02 Permalink

  Good thing we need a vaccine passport for everything except all retail stores, malls (except the food court), hair stylists, massage therapists, other spa treatments, etc.

• Bert 12:54 on 2021-09-02 Permalink

  You don’t need a passport if you don’t go out! Just saying.

• DeWolf 13:58 on 2021-09-02 Permalink

  The passport is required for activities and environments where people are unmasked, like eating in a restaurant or drinking in a bar. Retail stores, hair salons, museums etc. are places where masks are required at all times. Have there been any outbreaks linked to these masked environments?

• jeather 15:43 on 2021-09-02 Permalink

  I feel a lot more at risk in a hair salon or massage parlor or a driving lesson than at an amusement park or bowling alley.

• Mark Côté 16:04 on 2021-09-02 Permalink

  Almost all outbreaks come from work, school, and daycare (over 80% of current outbreaks in Quebec) according to Santé Quebec. “Autres établissements”, which I imagine encompasses everything from hair salons to bars to museums, account for only 4% (“activités and évènements” is another 11%, but I assume that doesn’t include regular patronizing of restaurants and such).

• MarcG 16:47 on 2021-09-02 Permalink

  What constitutes an outbreak? How are they traced? I doubt the government is organized enough to know that someone got covid from the person next to them at the hair salon.

• walkerp 17:02 on 2021-09-02 Permalink

  I don’t know the details, but my understanding is that the contract tracing in Montreal is quite sophisticated and one of the reasons we were able to tamp down the wave (I’ve lost count) in January. So I think they do have a pretty good idea where people are catching covid.

• DeWolf 18:20 on 2021-09-02 Permalink

  It’s not the government that tracks outbreaks, MarcG, it’s Santé Montréal.

• MarcG 20:02 on 2021-09-02 Permalink

  Isn’t Santé Montréal a government agency? And all of this data comes from them? https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-issues/a-z/2019-coronavirus/situation-coronavirus-in-quebec#c75434

• MarcG 20:31 on 2021-09-02 Permalink

  Anyway, my point was that it seems like a very difficult thing to track especially considering that you can have covid and be asymptomatic (and therefore probably not get tested).

• Mark Côté 12:17 on 2021-09-03 Permalink

  It’s definitely hard, but this is the only data we have. I’m no statistician but I figure even if some outbreaks are missed, it’s probably roughly indicative of how the virus is spreading…

  Also the group that monitors outbreaks has been doing this for 20 years.