Dear Editor:
What do you think of Doug Ford’s new plan for COVID-19 during the second (worse) wave of the pandemic? Now, we can basically do anything, or go anywhere we want, except get together with our families or go to church.
We can go and get our hair cut or have a massage, go to the gym, or the bars, restaurants, shopping, get on a plane, send our kids on a crowded bus to school, etc., but I am asked not to get together with any of my family except those that live in my house.
Ford says people should not congregate in a church, where they would be sitting down quietly in one spot with masks on, but it’s alright in bars and gyms where patrons are moving around, breathing heavier and without masks on, using areas that can’t be cleaned effectively during use. Mr. Ford needs to give his head a shake.
If you want to lick this, Ford, then you are going to have to make practical policies and enforce them. And don’t say it’s up to the stores to enforce protocols or they get charged (like was reported on the front page of this paper a couple weeks ago after the “little” no-mask rally) when stores have no right to screen or restrict customers for any reason.
So, if I am understanding what Ford’s saying, we only have to wear masks if we want to (no accountability) and we can all go out almost anywhere and risk getting sick and spreading this virus as long as we don’t do it with our family or at church. Ya, that sounds like a reasoned solution – not. You’re not going to be able to please everyone, Ford, so put the necessary protocols in place and enforce it.
Let’s get this thing licked and get on with life.
Paul Dunnill,
Fergus
