gabe
Senior Member
Good luck getting everyone to wear masks again.
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lenaitch
Senior Member
I'm starting to see more people wearing masks and I'm planning on starting to put one on in high-risk settings. I know a few people who have contracted Covid recently and the more I chat with people it surprises me the number of people who reveal they got it or know someone who did. I friend of mine is just getting over his 2nd bout.
Anecdotally, I am also seeing more masks out and about. I just finished with a nasty cold and have been wearing mine, because it isn’t always nice to share.
Bayer
Senior Member
Indeed, there are more people wearing them these days. I never stopped wearing an N95 indoors and I am never in a situation where I have to remove it, except for my MRI this afternoon at Toronto General - where there is currently an outbreak, of course, because there is no better place to catch an illness.
I attended a play at Stratford today. I would say about 20% of the audience was masked, bit there were bus loads of school kids so that may skew things.
gabe
Senior Member
Only in Florida....I'm mean Alberta.
Bayer
Senior Member
It is possible to disagree with people of good will, but politicians who spread misinformation and endanger kids are nothing but trash, and so are those who vote for them.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
I didn't know mandatory masking was in force when she was in school - how else could you explain her otherwise?
AoD
gabe
Senior Member
Alberta has some of the highest covid hospitalizations in Canada. These numbers will only get worse with an antivaxxer premier at the helm.
Memph
Active Member
Haven't Alberta's hospitalizations this year been comparable to Quebec's which had like the most extreme measures in the country?
Bayer
Senior Member
No extreme measures have been implemented in a long time, and people in Québec are generally more flippant about the whole thing (that's where I'm from, so I understand their mentality). Everything has been wide open for months. Yesterday, Québec even removed the requirement for people with COVID to self-isolate for 5 days, which is particularly questionable considering Québec has by far the highest year-to-date death toll per million in 2022 (592 compared to 317 in Ontario and 373 in Alberta), according to the same dashboard, which also predicts the total death toll for 2022 in Canada will surpass that of 2021 and 2020, and is already far beyond the 2020 YTD figure. But yeah, the pandemic's over!
lenaitch
Senior Member
If fatalities start ramping up, it will be another way that the French language is under siege in Quebec; it's speakers are dying!
gabe
Senior Member
The Quebecers are more concerned about people wearing hijabs and speaking English than covid.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
If only China was this aggressive in late 2019 and early 2020 instead of ignoring, concealing and obfuscating the first Covid outbreak. Imagine a Zero-Covid strategy in Dec 2019. We might have a million or more less Covid deaths across the world and a lot less disruption. It’s a bit late now for pandemic theatre.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Which is why so many of their snowbirds were sneaking back into Canada from the USA when infected, including breaking quarantine rules by stopping their RVs at Walmart on the way home.