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Kate 09:09 on 2021-10-24 Permalink Reply  

• DeWolf 12:39 on 2021-10-24 Permalink

  The government is just delaying the inevitable. It will need to end the prohibition on dancing at a certain point because otherwise we will be seeing more and more illegal dance parties with no health measures whatsoever. We have masks and we have a vaccine passport – a combination that has proven to be extremely effective at reducing the number of outbreaks. There’s a reason why cases and hospitalizations are declining right now when they were skyrocketing at this time last year.

  With the vaccine passport, we’ve opted for a harm-reduction approach rather than trying to eliminate all risk. At this point in the pandemic, with Delta as the main variant, elimination strategies are impossible, as the unsuccessful lockdowns in New Zealand and Australia have shown. (Melbourne just came out of lockdown after nearly three months, and cases are higher than they’ve ever been.) 89 percent of eligible Montrealers are fully vaccinated, 93 percent have at least one dose, the vaccine passport has been successful and the INSPQ’s research has shown that immunity here is not waning the way it is in countries that had a shorter dosing interval. It’s time to embrace the full potential of the harm-reduction system we’ve set up, otherwise people will begin to lose faith in it.

• Kate 13:21 on 2021-10-24 Permalink

  You just wanna dance, DeWolf?

• DeWolf 20:03 on 2021-10-24 Permalink

  I just wanna feel like I’m not living in a real-life version of Footloose!

  Also it’s particularly offensive that Toronto can dance while it’s still illegal in Montreal. Toronto!