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Kate
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Kate
Although Santé Québec gave out no new numbers Friday, both CTV and TVA confidently report that Quebec has passed the 10,000 mark.
Blork
I have a bit of a pool running with some friends on when we’ll next see fewer than 1000 a day. In a very rare occurrence of optimism, I’m betting on the third week of January (based optimistically on the pattern we’ve seen in South Africa). That said, I will not be shocked if I’m way off.
Kate
Our demographics are different from South Africa’s, so I wouldn’t take it as a guide. And this is assuming no new variant pops up, either. But we’ll see.
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Kate
I bet François Legault is happy that Santé Québec will not be publishing any new Covid numbers on Friday, and not till December 28. After Thursday’s record 9,397 cases, Friday’s would be bound to break 10,000.
Is it really so impossible for Quebec to have one or two people collating the stats through the holidays?
jeather
Don’t be silly. Sure, doctors and nurses and pharmacists have to work, and daycare workers (for the kids of the previous), but politicians need time off because it’s been so much harder a year for them. (I’m assuming that the public servants have some kind of union that would make working over secular tree day difficult at best.)
Kate
I wonder how many of our politicians would have chosen to run for office had they known that Covid was coming like a tsunami. Plante did choose, but both Legault and Christian Dubé have been looking pretty haggard lately.
Jeff
He probably ordered it. He doesnt want his opposition to use an xmas covid spike against him.
jeather
I feel about zero sympathy for Legault, Dube, Roberge, Arruda. It might be less. Yes, sure, the pandemic has made their jobs — which, I note, they can primarily do safely, from home, which are well paid, which do not put them in contact with sick people — harder. But they’ve had a lot of chances to do better, and instead, after the initial fairly good strong response, and the quite good clicsante rollout, has been a disastrous set of leading via poll results. (I don’t actually think Trudeau has done a good job either.)
Tee Owe
@Jeather – can we name a politician anywhere who has done a good job Covid-wise? Ardern in NZ maybe? Not that your criticism of Legault Trudeau et al is not justified, just that none of them has done well.
Joey
@jeather the initial response was good? What about the CHSLDs? For that alone Arruda should have been replaced.
Tim S.
I will give them credit for following through with “schools being last to close, first to open” last year. I know there were complaints about the curfew and so on, but for my gang, keeping the kids in school was worth everything else, and not something that happened elsewhere. Mind you, more ventilation, earlier masking would have been nice too. And I think a lot of the credit probably goes to Montreal Sante Public for being really on top of contact tracing.
Raymond Lutz
Indeed, Tee Owe, our ‘governments’ have failed us, anywhere, globally. Covid-wise (with few exceptions) and more critically, climate wise. Moreover, they won’t admit it. And they won’t accept ANY criticism, like did Trudeau, blaming “the left” lately.
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Kate
Possibly useful notes on what’s open and closed over the holidays.
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Kate
An 18-year-old is in critical condition after getting shot at a house party in TMR early Friday.
Update: The stories have been updated to say the kid died. Homicide #36.
I found the year’s homicides listed on a site called Homicide Canada.
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