Numbers are out, and they’re pretty-much what was to be expected… relatively consistent, but slowly creeping upwards. Dr. Henry today talked about it with an interesting spin… that when this all began, we answered the call, did what needed… and it worked.
Then… we purposefully took our foot off the pedal a bit… took the Summer off, as it were… hung out, visited friends, had a good time.
But now, as before, it’s time to take it seriously again, and we know how to do it because we did it successfully the first time. The case counts we’re seeing are higher than ever, but it’s no reason to panic. Fair enough… the first time around, nobody really knew what was coming… and that, possibly, despite our best efforts, this whole thing could blow up.
There doesn’t seem to be that sense of urgency this time around… which isn’t necessarily a good thing. We think we know what we’re dealing with, but it was a lot easier back in the Spring, when we weren’t heading into “respiratory season”.
The fact is, given all of the social distancing and masks and care, “respiratory season” really shouldn’t be as big a deal this year. The precautions we’re taking against transmitting C19 should prevent common colds and flus from spreading as well. We shall see.
I was curious to hear Dr. Henry’s response to a question that was sure to be posed to her today, related to the TV ad she’s in which you may have seen… where she’s in a completely unrealistic classroom set-up, answering kids’ questions. It was, in fact, the first question asked.
The classroom has like 6 kids in it, all spaced out… there’s a sink, for hand-washing, off to the side… all of it not looking like any B.C. classroom any local teacher has ever seen. Her answer was that indeed, it was just a comfortable setting for kids to have their questions answered. There was no intent to imply that this was the way classrooms would look. Hmm.
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A stunning lack of non-staff masks in the Okanagan wineries.
You would think, with 5 months to plan, that they would have come up with safer options for a return to school. You would think they would encourage those parents who would prefer to keep their kids home to do remote learning, keeping class sizes smaller. I don’t think the current plan will work, especially with cold and flu season soon upon us.
Have stayed off FB for past couple months. For sure people have relaxed and somewhat relax their guard. However in the beginning we barely tested anyone as we didn’t have the capacity unless someone had obvious symptoms or exposure. Now we have increased testing capacity and you can finesse your way into a test if you think you have possibly been exposed to COVID so of course numbers are now higher.
Some other provinces that perhaps didn’t do as good of a job to begin with also had testing capacity to test more. Alberta and Ontario per capita have significantly out tested B.C. and have different testing model. Good to see hospital numbers staying low.