The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

Many lower-income people use Dollarama for their daily groceries so I think that would be essential. Unless we were to provide some kind of food delivery service to those people.

OK, not really directly about Covid, as such, but for anybody who has been following the American election and specifically the (bogus) controversy in Houston, the thought occurred to me: what could be more American than drive-thru voting? I don’t think even apple pie is nearly as specifically American…

Despite record high numbers and more deaths, Doug Ford will be loosening restrictions on gyms and restaurants. Fucking unbelievable: https://outline.com/YZ9guG

Not that I’ve envied Doug Ford, but I definitely don’t envy politicians trying to balance public health/death counts against the risks to the economy.

The problem is that they aren't a balance, instead they're positively correlated...an increase in the pandemic will hurt the economy, people will be afraid and uncertain. The only way to improve the economy is to improve health outcomes.

What it takes is courage and leadership...to know what you're doing is the right thing for both our health and the economy, and to inspire people to work with you on those actions.

I don't think we're seeing either of those from DoFo right now...and we've never seen it from Trump.

There are other aspects too, like not having an economy based on the increasingly precarious service work...but that's a much bigger issue than the pandemic. Although, related, Uber and Lyft managed to write themselves some pretty favourable legislation in the California election.