(01-09-2021, 06:42 PM)robkelk Wrote: Just received the same AlertReady message twice. (For you folks in the USA, that's the Canadian equivalent of a Presidential Level alert - and we cannot opt out without turning off our phones altogether.) Almost the entire province of Quebec is under curfew from 8pm to 5am, starting today and going until further notice. One can go to work, escort a minor who has to go to work, go tend to an ailing parent (no other relations, just parents), buy medications, or (if you stay within 1km of your home) walk the dog - anybody else caught out faces a fine starting at $1000 and going up from there.
Doesn't affect me... yet.
I can see what they're doing there... trying not to close businesses, yet trying to dramatically reduce the ability to have private gatherings that may be the current key spreader of infection... not a lot of time between typical business closing and when you need to be at home to go and socialize at someone else's house unless you arrange a sleepover (assuming 20-30 minutes to get home, 20-30 minutes to get to the friend's house, 20-30 minutes to get home, that leaves a scant 90 minutes at best for socializing). Just like engaging a full lockdown on the day right after Christmas, it's trying to present a sufficient logistical challenge that most people will cancel such plans rather than deal with the headache.
"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor