A 16-year-old is in critical condition after getting stabbed in Pointe Claire Tuesday afternoon. Three other teenagers have been arrested.
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Kate
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Kate
Quebec’s cultural venues will be completely open by the end of this month, and everything else will be open by mid-March as we all, as Papa Legault says, learn to live with Covid.
Kevin
Bonnes nouvelles! Il y a de la place aux soins intensifs!
-Honest tweet from Legault
ted
Fauci and others have confirmed that we will all get omicron because it’s impossible to avoid. It’s mild, doesn’t get in the lungs and mostly people who have it are asymptomatic. The ICU is full of patients who test positive for omicron covid but omicron has no bearing on what’s ailing them. Some of those ICU patients who are incidentally infected with omicron will get very sick or even die or whatever illness landed them there. This offers a useful panic statistic for those who wish to misrespresent the situation as it will artificially and permanently keep a high number of people who “die with covid.”
Ephraim
People are dying from omicron. It’s a fact, not a myth. The majority of them are unvaccinated. You have more cases, because more people get it, therefore the numbers in hospital will be higher, even if most are asymptomatic, especially if they are vaccinated.
MarcG
Santé Quebec’s daily statisticsd indicate the number of people in ICU whose principal diagnosis is Covid – today for example is 134/178 (75%).
Chris
>The ICU is full of patients who test positive for omicron covid but omicron has no bearing on what’s ailing them.
That’s about 1/3 of them, 2/3 are admitted *for* covid.
>People are dying from omicron. … The majority of them are unvaccinated.
That’s an understatement. It’s more like 95%.
I can’t be bother to find links though.
Kate
56 new Covid deaths in Quebec over the last 24 hours.
Just saying.
dhomas
No data for Canada/Quebec, but interesting nonetheless:
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccinationChris
And does anyone think maintaining all these restrictions on society will convince the holdouts to get vaccinated and save their lives? If anything, I think I’d bet the opposite.
Ephraim
@Chris – I always find it amazing that we have people who are anti-vax, but not anti-ventilator
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Kate
In response to the SQDC’s intention to open a branch on Van Horne in the borough, Outremont has passed a bylaw banning the sale of cannabis completely within its borders.
Apparently residents were concerned that the branch would be near schools and daycares. I’m sure the SQDC had big plans to sell pot to three‑year‑olds.
steph
NIMBY a bit? Can’t the government shut down this by-law?
Kate
Someone would probably have to challenge it, no? I have a feeling the SQDC will simply put a branch just outside the border, as the SAQ has done.
Discussion here a few weeks ago about borough-specific bans.
DeWolf
Outremont’s new mayor is really focused on the big priorities!
There’s still no SQDC in Mile End, or the entire western part of the Plateau, so that seems like the logical choice.
carswell
The SQDC doesn’t open stores in communities that don’t want them. That’s been the rule from the start and there’s no indication of it changing any time soon, especially with the anti-pot CAQistes in power. Provincial legislation imposes a number of restrictions on store locations (tightened under Legault), most notably on the distance between the storefront and nearby “vulnerable” populations (educational institutions, daycare centres, etc.), which can make finding sites in the city a challenge, so nearby alternate locations, including in Mile End, may not be as numerous as you think. Also, the proposed Outremont location was within steps of a metro station; not true for anywhere in Mile-End.
In this morning’s soft-hitting Daybreak interview, mayor Desbois sounded quite open to the idea of an SAQ store in his borough. So, yes, it is a kind of NIMBYism. Outremont and other conservative bourgeois communities that have banned SQDC stores (TMR, VSL, etc.) still adhere to the belief that cannabis is evil and corrupting and that an SQDC store will attract a louche clientele who they want to keep far from their ‘hood.
Uatu
They don’t care because they probably get their pot via home delivery anyway
walkerp
I’m pretty pro-weed, but the wailing and gnashing of teeth over this issue in California is quite ridiculous. One of the cities in the SF Bay Area made the same decision and the pot lobby was freaking out. Talking about “marijuana deserts” and how the community would suffer. Consumer capitalism ruins everything.
I get Outremont’s concern. It starts with a weed store in their quartier and the next thing you know lawns get untended, unwashed cars left outside the garage, where does it end?
DavidH
I live one street over from a SQDC and right next to a park. In terms of littering, the effect of the SQDC is worst than the the McDonalds and the A&W combined. Everything is overpackaged and a lot of people don’t wait to get home to consume. I didn’t mind the SQDC at first, but I’m starting to.
walkerp
Yes DavidH, good point, the packaging at the SQDC is disgusting. Once again, the plastic lobby insinuates itself where it’s not needed, using security and safety fears, to get big government bids. So gross. Thanks for mentioning that.
Go black market people! Better quality and less waste.
carswell
Overpackaging is an acknowledged issue in the Canadian industry. The problem is not driven by the plastics industry but by federal legislation, which encourages/requires it, purportedly for safety reasons (packages must be tamper-proof, child-resistant, odourless, etc.). Secondary packaging (cardboard boxes housing the actual container, for example) will soon be eliminated and producers should be moving toward smaller, more easily recyclable, even glass and metal containers. All containers will still be opaque, hermetically sealed and soberly labelled though, at least until federal law changes..
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Kate
A vigil was held Monday to mark a year since the shooting death of 15‑year‑old Meriem Boundaoui in St‑Léonard. There have been no arrests.
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Kate
La Presse visits a 1925 triplex flat little changed since 1925.
In other news of old buildings, Heritage Montreal wants the old Fulford residence on Guy Street deemed a heritage building. I wouldn’t bet on this, since the lot must be considered a highly desirable location for a condo tower.
steph
I’m pretty sure that whole strip of the block is primed for a tower. Chez La Mère Michel is gone, B-B-Barns is gone… developers are handing out fat cheques.
DeWolf
The site is zoned for a maximum of four storeys so it can’t be redeveloped without jumping through major hoops. Any developer who wants to build a tower would need to apply for rezoning, which would trigger a public consultation and potentially a referendum. I’d say the chances of that happening to this particular building is close to zero.
Here’s the fiche de zonage if you’re curious: http://www1.ville.montreal.qc.ca/CartesInteractives/ville-marie/doc/VM_76.pdf
The real play here is from Concordia: they’re keen on assembling all those Guy Street properties for future expansion.
MarcG
Nitpicky, I know, but it’s actually a 5-plex (main floor + basement is one unit and 4 apartments on the upper floors).
Kate
MarcG, I guess I think of “triplex” generically as “one of those 1920s-era three-storey residential plexes” that are all over Montreal. I live in one myself – a slightly atypical one, since the ground floor has always been 2 separate flats, not a big landlord flat like the one in the story. But thanks for the correction.
DeWolf, now that you mention Concordia, I know you’re right. They’ve been very keen on turning that section of town into their bailiwick for awhile now. I wonder if there’s any chance they could use the Fulford house properly, as a high-end office space for their bigwigs, or some sort of university club/ceremonial spot in some fashion.
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Kate
La Presse has a big story Tuesday: the ARTM has brought out a report saying the REM de l’Est is poorly conceived, and the Caisse de dépôt says it can’t proceed with the project given the list of negatives presented.
Chantal Rouleau, responsable de la Métropole, insists the project will go ahead nonetheless, and is going to try to make the ARTM “redo its homework” so that the results come out in favour of the project. Mme Rouleau, that’s not how objective studies of transit needs work.
If anything, I’m mostly surprised that the Caisse is prepared to bow to the ARTM in this. It suggests that they may already have had their own serious doubts about the profitability of the project.
Kevin
I think the multiple waves of the pandemic in the 14 months since the REM de L’Est was proposed have sunk the project.
The STM is losing money, remote work is here to stay, tens of thousands of francophones have left the island… and it’s evident that the REM will do nothing but cannibalize existing transit users.
Add in the construction headache as we enter a generation with fewer workers, and there is no way anyone is starting to build this thing next year, let alone finish by 2029.Jonathan
O-M-G. Shit hit the fan.
Mme. Rouleau is roiling!! I can only imagine. But this report can really be our saving grace.
ant6n
Ha. Very interesting.
But one should be careful with some arguments. For example, it may be desired that a line serves many ppl who already take public transit – if it allows them to travel more quickly and comfortably. New metro users shouldn’t be only built to convert car users to transit, but to improve as many ppl’s lifes as possible. It may even make sense to cannibalize existing metro ridership — if it’s used to relieve over-crowding. But those aren’t really the objectives of the REM est.Daniel D
Anyone know if the REM est has / would have had a non-competitive clause like the one in the West? I.e. to removing bus routes to downtown to funnel passengers onto a single route?
DisgruntledGoat
I’m happy that some due diligence is being done on the project beyond the single stakeholder (Infra). I have been pro-REM in comments here but if the experts say it’s a bad idea *shrug*
That said, the East End is going to suck for transit for the foreseeable future then. I was hoping I could buy some kind of shoebox hovel near a plastic thermoforming plant and commute into downtown by 2030. Instead it will be some kind of hellish crammed bus trip like the Longueil to downtown route before the original REM.
The Integrated PIE-IX BRT Project might be finally getting up and running by Fall 2022, fucking hell! Originally tried in 1989. This is the speed of public transit planning and investment in this city since the late 80s. It’s shocking not not really looking promising.
Uatu
@daniel there’s a non compete on the south shore so it would probably be in the East as well
Faiz Imam
Stopping buses on the south shore makes complete sense, its quite normal to replace dozens of buses with a single high volume trunk line.
Even if they didn’t formalize it in a non compete contract(which I indeed find distasteful) good planning practice would be to terminate all buses at Panama anyways.
Wheras transit in eastern Montreal is totally integrated and complex, Theres really no way at all they could cut it up that wouldn’t be totally stupid.
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Kate
Shots were fired in the de Maisonneuve entrance to Peel metro Monday evening. No victims were found.
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Kate
Fare booth clerks in the metro no longer accept cash as of Monday, but you can still use cash in the machines.
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Kate
A new building for the Holocaust museum is to be created at at 3535 St‑Laurent, to be constructed on an existing parking lot. There’s some stuff here about “helping revitalize downtown” which makes no sense, but it’s clearly a relevant historic location for the institution, which has run out of space in its spot on Côte Ste‑Catherine.
Howard
So they are taking over the HQ of the Mural festival (ie contemporary art) to build a building commemorating the holocaust?
What are they going to do with the space left vacant on Côte-Sainte-Catherine? Fill it with street art?
Kate
The building on Côte Ste‑Catherine is an office building, it wasn’t purpose-built for a museum. It won’t be vacant for long.
I don’t know what you mean by HQ. The new building will be constructed on an empty lot that’s been used for parking. It’s too bad we’ll lose some art on the adjoining walls, but that’s the risk you take putting art on buildings beside an empty lot.
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Kate
So much of the news is taken up with Olympics stuff and occupation stuff Monday morning that the only bit of Montreal island news I’ve found is a brief report on a man who was caught after trying to steal a truck in Beaconsfield.
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Kate
Mayor Plante is asking for clearer government guidance on how soon we can begin to ignore the pandemic, so that the city remains culturally competitive. And of course the Chamber of Commerce wants to see us all back at the office, too.
JP
I get what you mean, Kate. I think the issue with “we need to learn to live with it” is that it can be interpreted in varying ways. I agree with it insofar as, for example, I think whoever can work from home should continue to do so until at least spring, when conditions propitious to virus-spreading shift. Others, including my boss, see it as “I’m bringing you back into the office next week.” People who think learning to live with it means going back to exactly how things were before covid are kidding themselves….that’s not learning to live with it…that’s something along the lines of “denial”, “head in the sand”, unrealistically optimistic.
That tweet cited in the article is offensive..sure wfh might not be great for some people’s mental health or even the economy…but it’s disingenuous to say it would help productivity. Please don’t insult people who have been working from home to keep things going and possibly putting in more hours than they otherwise would.
I really like what one of your commenters said not too long ago…something alone the lines of accepting that there will be bad months followed by good months, etc.
Am I expecting that things will get better? Yes, spring and summer will be good or great. Caution will be warranted in the fall…next winter…personally, I’m preparing for the same exact scenario as this year.
qatzelok
I remember – age 15 – staying home from school for two days because I had a zit on my nose. Finally, my mother told me I had to learn to “live with the zit.”
That zit is long gone. But those were a few very difficult days.
CE
Cool story.
dmdiem
Omicron changed the calculus. There’s a reason why countries around the world are dropping all restrictions. Compare areas that had high restrictions and those that had none. They’re all having the exact same omicron spike. Nothing is even slowing it down. Nothing.
But ok. Lets keep flashing passports proving that we’ve all been vaccinated against a variant that no longer even exists anymore.
Daniel
No longer exists? I missed that bulletin.
Kevin
Please show us the comparison @dmdiem, including which restrictions those regions had in place, and how they ended up performing compared to projections.
dmdiem
I’m not currently accepting homework assignments. Sorry. But if you’re genuinely curious, this has pretty much all the info you need:
nau
So your argument is simply that because there are spikes everywhere, no restrictions are warranted? That’s not very convincing. Unsurprising that you don’t want to bother providing anything resembling specific evidence for that. I looked at that website and compared Canada and the US on the Government Stringency Index and Cases per million people. Canada is 20 points more stringent than the US, and Canada’s Omicron spike peaks at half as many cases per million people as the States does.This suggests that restrictions do slow it down. Since you haven’t done even that much work to support your assertions, there’s currently no reason for anyone to pay any further attention to them.
dmdiem
We had a lower spike because we ran out of tests. It was literally all over the news.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8466314/covid-pcr-test-shortage-canada/
MarcG
Covid deaths per million is almost double in the US for the current wave.
nau
All that tells us is that Canada’s cases are likely undercounted. It in no way proves that Canada’s and the US’s spikes were the same and restrictions had no effect. You’re making a very strong claim and providing no substantial evidence, just gesturing at a website that only allows imperfect comparisons. It’s not convincing.
Mark
Official case counts are completely inaccurate nowadays, and I don’t think any government has the intention of restoring them. They are moot now.
Hospitalizations are better but even then there are the differences in because of covid versus with covid (and yes I know they both strain resources in that covid cases have to be quarantined regardless, but that’s not really relevant if we’re trying to get a sense of how seriously the pandemic is affect people’s health right now). A better measure would be “excess hospitalizations” (hospitalizations above pre-pandemic levels for a given week/month) but I don’t know that we have that data, sadly.
MarcG
The website dmdiem linked to has Excess Mortality stats and shows that the US has been much higher than Canada (35% vs 9% in the September wave) fairly consistently.
iesse
nau, do you have a paper bag handy to hyperventilate into?
nau
Sure, I’ve got some in the cupboard under the sink I can lend you if my comments are getting to you, Qatzelok (or whoever else it might be that’s using Q’s website but not Q’s forum name).
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Kate
Snow clearance began Sunday morning and is expected to wind up on Thursday.
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Kate
Montreal’s Uyghurs and their supporters held a protest Saturday calling for an Olympic boycott. Canada has declined to send a diplomatic detachment but did nothing to stop its athletes participating, which Le Devoir’s Godin skewers in one drawing. The Uyghurs know it’s too late to change that decision but are hoping people will boycott viewing the games.
Raymond Lutz
“The Uyghurs know”? Is this US allies founded ISIS all over again, but in China?
Inside the US-Backed World Uyghur Congress “[Consortium News] Ajit Singh reports on the right-wing regime change entity that poses as a grassroots human rights network while seeking to destabilize China.”
Nota: Consortium News is the agency of late Robert Parry, “a finalist for the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting[5] and received the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984 for his work with the Associated Press on Iran-Contra, where he broke the story that the Central Intelligence Agency had provided an assassination manual to the Nicaraguan Contras”
Uatu
The IOC is really to blame by making the Olympics so expensive and bloated that the only cities interested in hosting are in countries run by dictatorships and/or governments riddled with corruption.
Blork
Bit late for an Olympic boycott innit?
Kate
blork, they can still try to persuade people not to watch. It’s about all they can do.
DeWolf
Please, Raymond, spare us the MSS-funded ‘journalism’. Saying the Uyghurs are Islamic extremists who need to be protected from themselves is simple parroting China’s propaganda line. Ajit Singh works for a publication that doxxes human rights workers, which has led them to be detained, intimidated and in some cases physically harmed – which has affected people I know personally.
Kate
I had wondered about that, DeWolf, thank you. Usually I find Raymond’s contributions (especially on environmental issues) valuable, but this one…
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Kate
Cinemas, venues and places of worship will be reopening on Monday to 50% capacity. Children are being admitted to hospital at record rates, but what does that matter, if you can go to the movies?
jeather
I saw one movie in that brief pre-omicron period where things seemed better — and it was great — but I am not seeing another now, thanks. I would, as mentioned below, go to a museum if they had vaccine mandates, but they don’t; and anyways there are student groups there often.
Tim S.
I went to the Fine Arts on a weekday in November, with tickets by reservation only, and it was awesome – pretty empty, lots of time to look at whatever you wanted, no school groups. A very rare opportunity, really.
Tim S.
But I’m also OK waiting a few weeks for these things to reopen. Schools before bars and movies.
Chris
>Children are being admitted to hospital at record rates…
And their death rate literally rounds to 0.0%.
>Schools before bars and movies
That’s exactly what we did.
Tim S.
“Schools before bars and movies” is about priorities, not chronology, Chris.
And “my kid may not die, just get really sick” is not the compelling argument you think it is.
Thanks for reminding me of the dangers of mild optimism.Bryan
>>Children are being admitted to hospital at record rates…
>And their death rate literally rounds to 0.0%.These kinds of black and white statements are absurd. “You’re not dead? Then you’re fine. A child has to spend days or weeks in the hospital? To hell with them.”
I fully support health measures aimed at minimizing the time that children spend in hospitals.
ant6n
Based on personal observation, most parents with young kids would rather that daycares are open a much as possible. Being hunkered at home with a 2-year old is not good for either kids or parents.
dhomas
If I had to choose between my 3 year old being “hunkered at home” with me and being ill to the point of being hospitalized, I’ll choose the former, thankyouverymuch. My 3 year old is back at daycare today after a 2-week closure due to staff members catching COVID, and though I’m glad he’ll be socializing and playing again, I’m also very thankful he managed to avoid the virus.
Michael
Chris is right.
Vaccinated kids rarely end up in the hospital. And many of these hospitalizations are kids entering hospitals for unrelated treatments and test positive for covid.
The death rate for kids under 20 is 0%. Our response should mimic that fact.
Faiz Imam
I did some reading on infection rates at cinemas and live concert venues, and it seems like if it’s a situation where people are actually keeping their masks on, it’s actually quite safe.
Certainly compared to bars and restaurants, it’s not nearly as big a risk.
I think allowing lower risk activities to keep people happy is very important.
Joey
So the vaccination rate for kids aged 5-11 (who have been eligible for a first dose since early December) is at 64% and has plateaued (under 1,000 first doses administered per day for the last week). Let’s assume that (a) Pfizer gets approval for kids under five in the next few months and (b) vaccine hesitancy among parents of kids that age is equal to or greater than for slightly older kids. That means we’ll be well shy of the target 75% or whatever experts agree we need for herd immunity in classrooms and daycares. Which means we’ll continue to see “record rates” of children being admitted to hospitals, no? Not because there isn’t a safe, effective vaccine available to them, but because their parents have decided to forego it.
The case counts and hospitalizations will stay high enough to warrant public health restrictions but there’s no more forward momentum on the vaccination front. How do you make public policy in that context? Do you say, well, screw it, the unvaxxed have made their own beds and now they get to lay in them (ICU beds, in some cases)? What if that equilibrium overwhelms the hospital system? Do you make vaccination mandatory in schools and daycares, as well as workplaces, restaurants, shops, museums, movie theatres, etc? How much time, energy and lives are lost while the government dithers and hopes we don’t wind up in precisely this scenario?
Kevin
There is a lot of work that goes into separating dead from not dead in a children’s ICU.
For instance, when it comes to inserting an IV line, just finding a vein large enough for a needle can be a challenge.
But as long as you’re not inconvenienced, right?
Chris
>“Schools before bars and movies” is about priorities, not chronology, Chris.
Exactly. That’s why the chronology was in-line with the priorities.
>These kinds of black and white statements are absurd. “You’re not dead? Then you’re fine. A child has to spend days or weeks in the hospital? To hell with them.”
That is *not* the point. The point is that the sky is not falling. Sure, it’d be nice if no one ever got sick or died from anything, but that’s not how life on this planet works. Our measures need to be proportional to what’s going on. I assume we agree that our response should be different if 99% of kids were dying vs surviving, yes? Sadly, all kinds of things kill kids, but our responses are not as draconian for everything else.
If saving children’s lives is so important, our energies should be directed elsewhere.
Road traffic injuries are *the* leading cause of death for children in Canada. And your point about death being not the only measure applies here too, many are not killed, but “merely” maimed and hospitalized. Yet for some reason we don’t shut down society to save these children, nor do we ban cars. Why is that?>If I had to choose between my 3 year old being “hunkered at home” with me and being ill to the point of being hospitalized…
And you have that choice. No one has taken that choice away from you. Stay hunkered at home. But other peoples’ choices are being restricted by the government. Maybe you have a cushy “zoom job” but spare a thought for those made unemployed.
There are only bad choices here folks. It’s a question of which are less bad. Is it worth making many people unemployed, depressed, suicidal, etc. etc. vs 0.0% of children dying?
ant6n
Oh come on. My three year old just got the new Corona, it wasn’t even the worst sniffles he had this year, and it was done in less than a week. I had one of the earlier strains 1.5 years ago before vaccines and was sick for four weeks. A young kid getting Omicron today is very different from a grown up or older person catching one of the earlier strains unvaccinated. I don’t want to minimize the pandemic, but let’s not exaggerate the danger at this point to a mostly vaccinated population and to kids. Especially compared to being hunkered down and not being allowed to play with same-year-olds during endless lock downs.
Many of my friends got Omicron in the last month or two (many through daycares), because it is verrry infections. But for most it was actually relief, because the thing that most were worried about for so long turned out to be not so bad.
…I just hope after everyone caught Omicron, that Delta won’t come back.
dhomas
@ant6n that is some anecdotal evidence of I’ve ever seen it. Just because your 3-year old had a mild case, doesn’t mean all 3 year-olds will. Case in point, the hospitalization rate discussed in the article Kate linked.
It’s similar to those anti-vaxxers saying “most people only get mildly sick”, then later dying of COVID.Kevin
Covid ain’t chickenpox.
This is NOT a get it once and done disease.
ant6n
@dhomas
My anecdotes are merely a counterpoint to your anecdote. Because it appears some people struggle with numbers – in absolute numbers the current wave has something around 100x the infections, this thing is like everywhere, and of course kids will be affected more because they are vaccinated much less. Compared to that the hospitalizations seem low, in the hundreds for the whole province? And deaths are close to negligible. If the choice is between this and lockdowns – which ultimately only delay the hospitalizations, anyway, I think its not unreasonable to say that perhaps it’s better to forego more lockdowns for kids.Joey
There is a fundamental problem here – we have everything we need to achieve herd immunity, but we probably won’t get there (at least for a variant as contagious as Omicron) because not enough parents of young kids will get their children vaccinated and not enough adults will get their boosters, certainly not unless the vaccine passport is expanded dramatically and boosters are mandatory for being “adequately protected” (the fact that they still aren’t speaks volumes).
Assuming the dominant strain remains as virulent as Omicron, we’ll be stuck in this mess for Jeebus only knows how long. I guess the way forward is one of loosened restrictions that might have to tighten up on short notice if the hospital system verges on collapse again. But, otherwise, it feels like the consensus around taking drastic steps to containt the virus has basically evaporated. I’m not *advocating* for this, but I just don’t see any alternative.
Since we’re all trading in anecdotes, our family’s experience is exactly the same as ant6n’s – kiddo (double-vaxxed) tested positive with an extremely *extremely* **extremely** mild case of the sniffles, one parent tested negative and had a mild cold for a few days and the other parent tested negative and felt nothing. Attribute it to good luck and being up to date on vaccinations, but it seems like there are loads more stories like this one than the catastrophic tales of earlier in the pandemic.
Kevin
@ant6n
I know we’ve all become numb to the numbers, so:
Tuesday’s declaration from SanteQc: 56 dead and 2,380 in hospital, 178 in ICU.
1,827 people have died in Quebec since the year began.
It appears we hit peak deaths around Jan 28, and this peak – in terms of daily death counts- was the worst since the first wave of deaths in April/May 2020.
If the mild lockdown had been imposed two weeks before Christmas, instead of Legault saying people should have up to 20 in their homes, we probably wouldn’t have had a wave at all.
Tim S.
Slightly different question: does anyone know of a particularly kid-friendly vaccination centre? My youngest’s second dose is coming up, and the first was a bit of a disaster…
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Kate
The Centre des mémoires describes two figures of the belle époque in Montreal of whom I’d never heard: violinist Frantz Jéhin‑Prume and his wife, actress and mezzo‑soprano Rosita Del Vecchio. Wikipedia has a page on Jéhin‑Prume.
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