Singing, dancing to be permitted
Quebec has just announced that, as of November 15, it’s removing the mask mandate in high schools and permitting dancing and karaoke in bars. Quebec’s also withdrawing the recommendation to allow people to work from home where possible.
There were 490 new cases of Covid in Quebec on Tuesday and six more deaths, but that’s the cost of doing business.
jeather 15:59 on 2021-11-02 Permalink
Not going to mandate anything for schools, and an announcement will come soon about the HCW mandate, but very few new first doses were given since Oct 15. Dr Arruda “isn’t an expert” but thinks that outbreaks in schools are about contacts and not ventilation.
This bodes ill.
Kevin 18:31 on 2021-11-02 Permalink
Two schools closed today in the Townships.
steph 08:41 on 2021-11-03 Permalink
I don’t understand the WFH recommendation withdrawl. It reduces waste of time and resourses – why wouldn’t the government want this?
Kevin 09:48 on 2021-11-03 Permalink
@steph
Destination Centre-Ville and the Montreal Chamber of Commerce are going to lose a lot of influence as downtown businesses adapt to the new reality of remote work, and they have no good rationale about 300,000 people should resume commuting and return to the office (come for the slam poetry! murals! clowns!) so they’re barking for the status quo ante.
And when the provincial election campaign gets underway next year, it’s going to be terrible for the CAQ — which has made the economy one of their two main platforms — if hundreds of companies close or move out of downtown Montreal.
Kate 11:17 on 2021-11-03 Permalink
Kevin’s not kidding. The Chamber of Commerce is trying to lure people downtown, including with slam poetry – which they think will appeal to the young worker, although it feels very 1990s to me.