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Hello fellow inmates!
We’re ready to bust from our cells next Friday, with a wild night out when curfew is cancelled.
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Young people will probably fill the streets celebrating till dawn, like New Year’s Eve. More staid Montrealers will stand on the sidewalk outside their homes until 9:35 p.m. just to feel they participated in Friday Night Fever.
Almost five months after curfew began and 14 months after our first lockdown, we can see a glimpse of normal life glimmering in the distance. But only if it’s normal to wear masks when you’re fruit shopping and wash your hands before and after using ATMs.
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With vaccinations racing ahead, Quebec may soon be divided into two classes: the jabbed and the jabless.
The big question looming now is: how to convince vaccine skeptics to get vaxxed too?
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If too many Quebecers opt out of shots, we could see half-closed stores and a curfew that lasts until Christmas 2025.
So how do we convince the indecisive-about-inoculation to join the herd?
Should we use a carrot, or a stick? Many countries are already waving sticks by creating après-vaccination passports, or ID cards.
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Quebec nationalists have finally achieved their dream “separation” from the rest of Canada.
With our borders sealed off from Ontario and New Brunswick, you can’t enter Quebec from Canada anymore. We’re separated!
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Our COVID rules have proved separate from Canada’s too, for better and worse. Nothing reveals this like the recent differences between us and the other distinct province Alberta.
That province has practically been partying all year compared with Quebec with long-open restaurants, gyms and gatherings of 10 people permitted indoors, until recently.
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The world is slowly opening up as more countries ease rules and people step out of their bubbles into the safe spring air.
In Montreal, many who’ve been vaccinated are cautiously meeting other vaxxed, while younger people book their first shot and dream of exotic trips to Ontario.
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Our COVID bubbles will soon start bursting, but as we emerge from a year underground, not everyone’s eager to return to “normal” life. Some are also anxious.
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The world is slowly opening up as more countries ease rules and people step out of their bubbles into the safe spring air.
In Montreal, many who’ve been vaccinated are cautiously meeting other vaxxed, while younger people book their first shot and dream of exotic trips to Ontario.
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Try refreshing your browser, or Josh Freed: Not everyone is ready for their COVID bubble to burst Back to video
Our COVID bubbles will soon start bursting, but as we emerge from a year underground, not everyone’s eager to return to “normal” life. Some are also anxious.