St. Patrick's celebrations

[danbrotherston]

In case you hadn’t noticed, students tend to have parents who are older than them, sometimes by quite a few years, and sometimes even visit their grandparents, who are usually much older and almost never younger. To suggest that because the virus doesn’t much affect student-aged people and therefore passing it around like a bong is A-OK is the height of idiocy.

If Public Health says the gathering is a bad idea, the police should close the area and water cannon anyone who disobeys.

Of course, not being a public health expert I don’t actually know if cancelling the event is indicated, but if it is then it should be done so forcefully.

I doubt that these kids will be seeing any adults after st. pats, but I could be wrong and you might be right. Doubtful their parents would be a risk either way, being that I'd imagine most would be between 40 and 60 years of age. I also imagine they'd be smart enough not to hang with the grandparents if they were sick.

As for passing bongs (and drinks) they're doing that already. And kissing. And holding hands. Having sex. And they're already in close quarters while in school anyway. Unsure how the St. Pats event makes it that much worse. By that logic, then, we should cancel school (like they have in Japan and Italy).

I am concerned of the workers that would 'staff' this event though. Not like professors that can teach their students from a distance.

I do agree with this as well. It's also important to see a distinction between events where people travel great distances to attend (like True North) and events where people do not travel great distances, like St. Pattys' day. Ontario does not have an outbreak right now, and we're doing enough testing to be relatively confident that we aren't missing one. People can travel in Ontario with relative safety right now. If/when an outbreak does come (probably as a result of the undetected, uncontrolled spread in the USA), than these measure would be warranted.

However, events which see people attend from far distances, and from regions which are seeing an outbreak obviously make sense to cancel because that is how the disease can spread.