Drivers aged 75-80 won’t be tested
Does the CAQ have numbers showing strong support from those between 75 and 80? Because that cohort will no longer need to take medical and vision exams to keep driving.
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carswell 15:19 on 2022-03-29 Permalink
What could possibly go wrong?
MarcG 15:23 on 2022-03-29 Permalink
They’re like a tobacco company trying to kill their clients.
carswell 16:38 on 2022-03-29 Permalink
FDA today: We authorize second COVID boosters for everyone age 50 and over.
Dr. Legault Puppet (I’m paraphrasing from CBC reports and interviews): People over 80 and senior home residents qualify for a second booster because it’s been four or months since the first for many of them and resistance declines with time. Also, everyone else will have to wait until next fall (13-15 months in my case) unless hospitals start to get overwhelmed. (Translation: if enough of you get sick, we might reconsider.) Oh, and we have no plans for reintroducing public health measures, including masking extensions, despite what experts say and despite the looming sixth wave.
Santé Québec/MSSSQ: Testing? We don’t need no testing.
It’s increasingly clear that Legault doesn’t care how many people die from preventable causes, get maimed in accidents or suffer long COVID if he thinks it will help him get re-elected.
That the opposition parties and the media aren’t all over this is disturbing to say the least.
bumper carz 16:39 on 2022-03-29 Permalink
With airbags and other safety devices in cars, you can basically drive into cement walls at top speed and walk away without a scratch.
The eye exam is irrelevant now. Just a make-work project for fake doctors.
MarcG 17:16 on 2022-03-29 Permalink
@carswell: The criteria for the 4th dose includes the immunocompromised. My wife has active Crohn’s disease and she’s been able to get in the door earlier because of it. When you show up to the clinic they ask “why do you qualify to get it early?” and she explains and they accept. Perhaps your situation is similar. Good luck. I’m still confused as to who exactly this policy is appealing to.
carswell 17:28 on 2022-03-29 Permalink
@MarcG – Yes and people on dialysis too. In late January, I went to the Park Ave. vax clinic, which was so unbusy, there was no wait and the staff were twiddling their thumbs. They agreed I needed a second booster and wanted to give me one but said their hands were tied until they have a ministerial order allowing it. As I was leaving, one of the managers came up to me and went through a checklist of qualifying conditions. They also said they could be audited by the ministry so I didn’t want to lie. I have high blood pressure and take medication that, last I heard, could slightly increase the risk of complications if I caught COVID (at least the earlier variants) but that’s not on their little list and I went home without a shot.
Ian 18:21 on 2022-03-29 Permalink
Haha “bumper cars” …qatzi, you forgot to unlink your URL 😀
Go ahead and drive a car into a cement wall at full speed. I double dog dare you.
To be fair 75 seems kind of arbitrary. Lots of people experience vision changes slowly in their late 30s through early 50s, slowly enough that they don’t realize they need glasses until one day they realize they can’t read signs at 50m after dark. I think a mandatory eye exam for drivers every 10 years would be a good idea.
Chris 21:04 on 2022-03-29 Permalink
>Legault doesn’t care how many people die from preventable causes, get maimed in accidents or suffer long COVID if he thinks it will help him get re-elected.
You seem to think decisions are free and easy and there are never tradeoffs. How many people can’t see a doctor because they’re too busy filling out stupid forms when the majority of 79 year olds are still fit to drive? Are you sure so it’s a win one way or the other? I’d wager on balance this decision will increase health and life.
>Oh, and we have no plans for reintroducing public health measures, including masking extensions…
If the government wants to maximize human health, there are much better things to do at this point than to focus on covid. There is better bang for the buck directing our energies at environmental issues for example.
Kevin 10:04 on 2022-03-30 Permalink
@Chris
The biggest reason you can’t see a family doctor is because the government bureaucracy has determined that Montreal has far too many family doctors.
That’s their reality and they’re sticking to it.