Why wear masks?
Emergency wards in Quebec are over capacity with cases of respiratory viruses – respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), flu and Covid together.
carswell, your guy who waved a finger at you over your mask – that man is deluded, and also a snob. Maybe he can stay safely isolated in his Outremont digs and not have to mix with the hoi polloi, but not everyone can do that. With so many bugs around, a mask still makes sense.
jeather 17:38 on 2023-12-04 Permalink
After failing to get people to believe the teachers are in the wrong for their strikes, they move to blame the nurses for this problem.
Ian 19:39 on 2023-12-04 Permalink
@Kate there are apartment blocks in Outremont too, some even cheaper than adjacent Mile End.
That said, I have noticed a lot of similarities in the type of people that wag fingers at others for wearing a mask.
It’s that they are assholes.
carswell 21:40 on 2023-12-04 Permalink
Point taken, Ian, but this guy was definitely not an apartment block resident. Looked like he had just ambled out of brunch at Leméac and, while dressed casually, was in Burberry-type rags that could easily have cost several thousands of dollars.
MarcG 10:54 on 2023-12-05 Permalink
My wife and I spent all of Sunday and Monday at the Royal Vic emerg and it’s not pretty. The halls are filled with people on stretchers and the waits are very long (11hrs to see a doctor on Sunday, around 8 yesterday when we were promised 2-3). Obviously this varies depending on your case but we weren’t there for a stubbed toe.
A nurse came over to the man we’d been sitting next to for a few hours and said “Hey what are you doing here, you’re supposed to be in the isolation room!”. Wish us and our N95s luck.
Ian 11:21 on 2023-12-05 Permalink
@carswell Leméac is overrated and Burberry is SO 2014. Clearly just an asshole 😉
@MarcG Yikes, good luck!