What? What's going on? Oh wait, you're not in lockdown".
They don’t see or think of the other side enough to personally help out with others bills. I haven’t seen it.
As I've said before, there simply isn't enough money, public or private, to stop the personal devastation to countless families and their livelihoods. It's a tragedy of epic scale that is yet just another part of this Covid nightmare. That doesn't mean that those of us who are fortunate enough to still be employed aren't doing what we can to help - many of us are.
Well I landed on this crazy visual tonight. I am in lockdown, have been a couple of times throughout Covid. But areas surrounding Toronto proper are not.
I needed to see my sister for some pretty crucial reasons, plus some selfish ones.
I am so used to lockdown I literally saw a mall parking lot packed and went "What are all those cars doing there?
It literally took me a minute for my brain to compute. Unreal.
Anyway, the roads were full of cars, like a perpetual rush hour. Every parking lot was full of cars. Cars, cars and more cars.
It was almost like Daddy says you're grounded and they all snuck out.
I guess this is why our numbers are up. Sigh.
My sister thought it was a "just in case we are going to be put in lockdown too" free-for-all.
(And yes I added to the nonsense by travelling out there! But I still couldn't believe it.)
Am I correct that you live alone? Here our restrictions completely prohibit social contact with anyone outside our immediate household either indoors or out, in public or private settings. BUT people who live alone are permitted to designate two others as "essential personal contacts" and are able to meet with them (i.e. your sister). Is it the same in Ontario? I'm also curious about your comment regarding "travelling nonsense". What exactly did you mean? Is there a curfew or limited distances you can be away from your home? Did you do anything wrong?
Which is why government shouldn't just go around closing stuff "out of an abundance of caution". If the science isn't there to close outdoor dining, for example, the cost is just too high to move forward with it. There needs to be compelling evidence to justify it.
It's beyond true logic at this point. In Alberta for instance, we're just basically throwing every restriction at it and hoping something helps, while we look with trepidation to our countrymen in the large eastern provinces and see that nothing really does. One specific thing here that stands out is that at midnight tonight all hair salons will close indefinitely. Pure nonsense on the face of it - they reopened in July with extremely strict measures in place and by the government's own information not one single transmission in Alberta has been traced to a hair salon.
I know it's horrible and from everything being said Niagara where I am will be going into lockdown again soon. Yes it feels like they are throwing things at the wall and see what sticks. What they should be focusing on is getting people to stop having gatherings of any kind at home. That's where the majority of cases come from but I don't know how to enforce that.
I'm off today to get my last trim for god-knows-how-long and will be taking my stylist a huge cash tip, a bottle of wine and a little hamper of Christmas stuff. What a horrible way to head into the holidays.
We're doing that too - since two weeks ago we are under full prohibition of any in-home contact with anybody with an exception for essential/emergency services. And they are not playing - we've got snitch lines and daily news reports of people being ticketed (enforcement is under municipal by-law so not a criminal offence as of yet).
Its happening here too. People in Toronto and Peel, who are in lockdown, are still traveling to other parts of the province. The number of people from the GTA coming to Niagara on weekends is ridiculous. Then you have people in York and Windsor who start lockdown on Monday doing a bunch of non essential shopping before then.
Cuba has ways of snitching on it’s people to the government. It’s really not a good thing to start or have.
It's almost like these measures are punishment now for the whole for the actions of a minority that will never follow any rule.
I'm off today to get my last trim for god-knows-how-long and will be taking my stylist a huge cash tip, a bottle of wine and a little hamper of Christmas stuff. What a horrible way to head into the holidays.
If they could find a way to get people to limit their gatherings it would make things better.
I can see them going into lockdown soon. Niagara is probably going into red next week. Our numbers keep rising.
But it’s for the greater good, no?
Absolutely. But that still doesn't make it OK to punish business if it isn't actually making a difference.
If the gatherings are in people's homes that becomes an issue of how to do something. The general rule followers will likely follow the rules that say you can only have X amount of people in your bubble, etc. And to someone's observation how do you know that so and so isn't in your bubble (it comes out later after something has happened).
