Although the seventh wave sweeps through the community, a magical thought carried by a collective indifference surfs the murky waters of denial. For its part, the Legault government is on vacation from the pandemic and leaves its deputy minister the Dr Luc Boileau facing the new variants. The advantage for the latter is not having to be elected on October 3rd.
The hand washing of the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, has nothing to do with sanitary measures, because it is rather an electoral purification so that the current government presents itself “clean clean” in front of the electorate . We are no longer talking about a pandemic, nor the death of thousands of elderly people in CHSLDs, nor management errors. No, it is now part of a past to be forgotten. Collective protection against COVID-19 no longer exists,
it is now a matter of individual decisions, each being henceforth responsible for his little person, disregarding the others. Unfortunately, too many people downplay the impact of newer variants by claiming they are as dangerous as a big flu. Nevertheless, we have to look around us to see the
long-term negative consequences of the virus for some infected patients.
Given the situation, it seems to us that Public Health should be more directive to require the wearing of a mask in public transport as well as in restricted places such as small performance halls, meetings or others.
Even if the laissez-faire advocated by the Legault government suggests that COVID-19 is behind us, the deaths linked to this virus continue to add up daily in Quebec hospitals. Isn’t the electoral calculation of the CAQ’s strategists likely to explode in their faces this fall during the election campaign? If so, waking up may be painful for these opportunistic sleepers.
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