Montreal City Weblog

Kate 14:47 on 2021-11-03 Permalink Reply  

• jeather 15:22 on 2021-11-03 Permalink

  I “win”, but of course we all lost.

• Blork 16:36 on 2021-11-03 Permalink

  Well, it could be worse. While I don’t understand healthcare workers refusing to get vaccinated, but if they have to get tested three times a week to keep their jobs that’s a reasonable compromise I guess. And it might even have a side effect of normalizing testing. (There should be more testing all around, vaccinated or not. In particular, rapid testing.)

• jeather 16:41 on 2021-11-03 Permalink

  It would be nice to know if there are actual jobs in the system where you will have to be vaccinated — they say it might happen, etc etc, but I’d really love to hear if you can work in an oncology ward or a neonatal unit without a vaccine. But god forbid they actually share plans. (One article says that’s “too complicated” now.)

  They also say they will suspend anyone who refuses to be tested, but I’m not 100% they will even do that. I thought I saw somewhere that tests were paid for by the government, but had to be done on unpaid time, but I can’t find it again.

• walkerp 16:49 on 2021-11-03 Permalink

  Good call, Jeather. Let me know the charity.
  Depressing, indeed. We are all held hostage by a bunch of internet-brainwashed narcissists.

• Mark Côté 17:45 on 2021-11-03 Permalink

  They have already suspended some unvaccinated health workers who are refusing to get tested.

• jeather 18:28 on 2021-11-03 Permalink

  Assuming you have no objections to it, I like Animal Rescue Network. (If you do have objections to ARN, the Leukemia and Lymphoma society of Canada would be my second choice.)

  Really wish I had lost this bet — and honestly giving up entirely in less than 3 weeks was not what I would have bet on either.

• Kevin 21:21 on 2021-11-03 Permalink

  Everywhere else in North America the vast majority of employees threatening to quit over mandatory vaccinations have folded.
  34 NYC cops. A few dozen employees at hospitals throughout Toronto. 800 AC employees.

  But this demonstrates exactly how the CAQ operates: if enough people posting on Legault’s FB page kick up enough fuss over anything, they collapse.

• j2 00:58 on 2021-11-04 Permalink

  I saw Ford had folded before reading this and thought, “no surprise, at least we’re not living there”. Doh.

• JS 07:57 on 2021-11-04 Permalink

  Is there a way for people who require health services to weed out the quacks, charlatans, and witch doctors to find a real healthcare professional? I mean, if the anti-vaxxers are going to whine about being treated like Holocaust victims maybe they could be thrown a bone by requiring their phoney doctors and nurses to wear identifying badges.

• mare 09:29 on 2021-11-04 Permalink

  You can always refuse treatment and ask for another doctor/nurse/etc to help you. Hahaha, who am I kidding?

• walkerp 09:45 on 2021-11-04 Permalink

  @jeather too funny! That was the org I was going to choose had I won!

  At least some cats will get some kibbles for a bit longer!

• walkerp 09:48 on 2021-11-04 Permalink

  I tried to add an img source of the receipt, but it got swallowed up by wordpress (or more likely my html was bad), but to be official I made the donation “au nom de jeather qui a gagné le pari”. Stay healthy!

• jeather 10:45 on 2021-11-04 Permalink

  Oh, no worries, I was doing this on faith. Since you said you were choosing the same org, I donated in the name of “walkerp, who I wish had won the bet”.

• walkerp 11:20 on 2021-11-04 Permalink

  The cats win. And after we are all wiped out due to our stupidity may they reign in peace and remember us with slight contempt and fondness.

• Kate 14:57 on 2021-11-04 Permalink

  I’m pleased that a bet that happened on my blog has panned out to the benefit of local cats!

• jeather 18:05 on 2021-11-04 Permalink

  Should have asked that the money be used for vaccinating the cats.