How our hospitals see Omicron
The pattern of Omicron admissions to our hospitals is laid out by Benjamin Shingler. It must be really something to remain staunchly anti-vax in view of simple numbers like these. Radio-Canada has a history of vaccine resistance over the years.
Urbania sent a writer to the Chrome hotel, now a refuge for homeless people with Covid. It was no holiday. (I’m annoyed the lede says it was -35 outside, though. It can’t have been. We haven’t gone nearly that low this winter.)
La Presse spent three days at the St Michael mission in the red-roofed church on President-Kennedy.
dhomas 10:05 on 2022-01-15 Permalink
They included the wind chill for that -35 number. However, a thermometer would not have shown that number (as stated in the article).
DeWolf 11:27 on 2022-01-15 Permalink
It’s a weird Canadian thing to inflate temperatures like this. Maybe people do it in the US, too, but I’ve never encountered it elsewhere.
walkerp 13:05 on 2022-01-15 Permalink
We only moved here in 2004, but it feels like this temperature inflation (and using windchill without being transparent about it) is a new phenomenon. Were they doing this in the last century? I wonder if is one more pernicious outcome of social media and the desperation for clicks. Since when is a decent snowfall a “winter storm warning”?