Covid clips du jour
The Université de Montréal is absolving professors of having to wear masks while lecturing.
The Lester B. Pearson board has taken it on itself to keep parents informed of Covid absences.
One of the first places to test wastewater for the Covid virus, Quebec stopped funding the research just as Omicron started to spread here. I can’t imagine this project used up so much research funding that it had to be shut down to save money. I don’t like feeling paranoid that the Quebec government found it desirable to surround the real evidence of contagion levels with a fog of ignorance, but the notion has been creeping up on me for awhile.
CTV reports on healthy children catching Covid.
Manon Massé is in the media Thursday with observations on how the ongoing pandemic is afflicting vulnerable people, especially with community organizations so short of staff. But some people are profiting by doing errands for the non-vaccinated.
Gyms plan to flout the law and open next week despite pandemic measures, and a huge convoy of trucks is converging on Ottawa, bellowing that they want freedom. I do not think these people know what freedom is. As Hegel said, freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Quebec’s new public health director, Luc Boileau, will be holding a presser at 3 pm.
Bob R 12:44 on 2022-01-27 Permalink
“I don’t like feeling….”
I cannot see any public-health directed argument to end wastewater sampling; it has helped in many other cities, and why it would have been stopped here, as a relatively inexpensive way to accurately monitor prevalence, I cannot see.
Dre 14:43 on 2022-01-27 Permalink
It strikes me that “a fog of ignorance” is an apt subtitle for the whole CAQ era.