Covid: New daily cases surge over 2000
Quebec’s got 2,386 new Covid cases in 24 hours on Wednesday.
And now Richard Martineau says he’s had enough of the pandemic and flirts with the idea that Omicron is “une façon de vendre plus de vaccins à nos gouvernements.” He draws back from going full conspirationniste by the end, but making a point like this, now, is to tickle a sleeping dragon.
Dr Mylène Drouin says we should cut down our interactions and avoid parties in the lead-up to Christmas. We can also expect tighter restrictions generally.
The federal government is advising against international travel.
H. John 18:43 on 2021-12-15 Permalink
I wish the government was doing more to remind people the virus is airborne.
Vaccine, absolutely; I’m lucky enough to have had the booster.
But distancing, hand washing, and masks need to be stressed more.
Santé QC should have already recommended moving from cloth masks to ones that provide better protection such as N95 or KN95.
While we’re nowhere near the UK, which had almost 80,000 new cases today, the QC government is sending extremely mixed messages at the worst time.
In the UK, Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, an epidemiologist, said:
“I’m afraid we have to be realistic that records will be broken a lot over the next few weeks”.
“What we’ve got is two epidemics on top of one another: an existing Delta epidemic roughly flat and a very rapidly growing omicron epidemic on top”
Chris 23:58 on 2021-12-15 Permalink
H. John, why do you feel hand washing should be stressed more, when, as you say, the virus is airborne?
I went to a cafe the other day, where, in 2020 style, they forced people to use sanitizer when entering, yet no one was wearing a mask (as is allowed). Seems backwards.