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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 21:10:57 -0300
Subject: Methinks many folks must find it rather disturbing to see the
sheople enjoying Higgy's Police State N'esy Pas?
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Methinks the trolls such "Ray Oliver" are the definition of pathetic The fact that CBC and the RCMP allow their LIBELOUS words against me to be published and deletes my replies to his obvious malice and my valid opinions on topics is VERY OFFENSIVE INDEED N'esy Pas?
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Thursday, 8 October 2020
Masks mandatory in most indoor public spaces starting at midnight
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Mandatory masks: New Brunswick's first day of new rule
Businesses in downtown Fredericton already seeing a difference
· CBC News · Posted: Oct 09, 2020 6:45 PM AT
Matt Savage is the owner of Savage's Bicycle Center in Fredericton. He said the majority of his customers already wore masks. (Gary Moore/CBC)
It was a little harder to recognize friendly faces around offices, shops, and restaurants Friday as New Brunswick's mandatory mask regulation took effect.
People are now required to wear a mask in most indoor public places, regardless of whether physical distancing can be maintained.
For some it's a continuation of what they've been doing already, while others will have to adjust to the new mandate.
Matt Savage, the owner of Savage's Bicycle Center, said the store never enforced masks before now, unless physical distancing wasn't possible.
Savage said most of his customers were already wearing masks anyway.
"I would say 80 per cent of our customers coming in were wearing masks," he said, adding the store has been, and will continue, handing out disposable masks for customers entering the building.
A mask sign on the door going into Savage's Bicycle Center in Fredericton. (Gary Moore/CBC)
Savage doesn't expect to have any issues enforcing the rule now that it's mandatory.
"If this is the difference between me being able to open our doors and the coffee shops being able to open — it's just such an easy, easy thing to do."
"We will enforce it at the door — it's the law, we're going to do it, and we're going to do our part."
Savage is also the chair of Downtown Fredericton Inc., a local business improvement organization for the downtown area.
He said the mandatory mask regulation is probably the easiest thing to do that has been imposed on businesses since the start of the pandemic.
"We want to do what we have to do to keep our doors open. Nobody wants to go back to that point where we were forced to close."
Outside Savage's Bicycle Center, more people seemed to be walking around downtown wearing masks than was the case before the regulation came into effect.
That's something Sarah McAdam, co-ordinator of the Cultural Market, noticed too.
"I see so many people going by now that have masks on, whereas yesterday, literally yesterday, they didn't," McAdam said.
Sarah McAdam, the co-ordinator of the Cultural Market in Fredericton, noticed more people wearing masks walking downtown Friday. (Gary Moore/CBC)
Customers going into the Cultural Market, which offers international foods and local products, are required to wear a mask while ordering food and walking around the building.
Once seated at a table, people can remove their masks.
McAdam said with the new mandate everyone knows what's expected of them now.
"I get a sense of relief knowing that people feel safer, more comfortable and they feel that they know better what to do," she said.
Yvonne Anisimowicz is a customer at The Cultural Market. She said she's been wearing a mask throughout the pandemic, and is glad it's now mandatory.
"It's about time, I think it should have been done from the start — I understand why it wasn't, but it's definitely time," she said.
Anisimowicz said wearing a mask is a minor inconvenience that could play a major role in preventing spreading the coronavirus.
"I follow the science, I understand that this is the best way that we can do our part to help control the spread of COVID-19 and to avoid having another outbreak in the province."
Premier Blaine Higgs said during a news conference Friday that officers will be visiting businesses throughout the province to check on their operational plans.
Only children under age two and people with a valid medical condition that prevents them from wearing a mask are exempt.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-nb-ns-atlantic-bubble-possible-changes-1.5755471
N.B. outbreak could mean changes for Atlantic bubble, Morrison says
Dr. Heather Morrison urging Islanders to consider whether they must travel over Thanksgiving weekend
Sara Fraser · CBC News · Posted: Oct 08, 2020 3:38 PM AT
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David Amos
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Methinks Cardy must have partaken of a lot of butter tarts in order to appear to be not so bossy to you. Trust that many former NDP folks will agree that he is not so pleasant to the peasants in private N'esy Pas?
Ex-Tory Bev Harrison will run for NDP in next election
Hampton NDP embroiled in controversy as declared candidate turfed
CBC News · Posted: Jun 27, 2014 9:07 AM AT
Bev Harrison appeared with NDP Leader Dominic Cardy at a news conference on Friday to confirm that he will run for the NDP in the Sept. 22 election.
"The NDP’s riding of Hampton is in tumult with resignations, allegations of heavy-handed politics and party switching. Pat Hanratty, the riding association’s president and a former president of the provincial party, resigned this week and posted on Facebook that he was quitting the "Un democratic party", adding, "I'll be back when the reign of terror is over."
And WEAR YOUR MASK!
Order online.
Will you do my grocery shopping and run my essential errands for me? Most people do need to go out at least occasionally.
The only exception could be a health appointment that you have to physically go in for. Even then you should really, really wear a mask if you can. At the very least if you truly cannot wear a mask then you must be extra vigilant about staying away from others and the other health measures.
Then you best have the paperwork and documentation in hand that you are exempt.
Just like we have handicap parking tags, people can have their pass. Like with parking tags they are occasionally checked and verified that the individual using it is the one who needs it, and that it's valid.
Simple solution. Then they show the card to show they're exempt and the workers can't ask what exact condition you have. But you have falsifying those cards a crime, as it would be fraud. Removes shaming and the burden of proof. But just because you have a pass that doesn't mean you get to just go wherever you want if your needs can be accommodated. Curb side pick up for groceries, pharmacies, and stores, online orders, and take out for food are all options and those services should be utilized.
The exemption card would permit entry to essential services only that cannot be accommodated in other ways and must be done in person, like health appointments and such.
No it is not a violation of the Charter of Rights.
You need to be able to provide proof to CRA to get the disability credit,
You need to be able to provide proof of why you didn't have your seatbelt on.
So you say
Methinks Higgy et al know I am not joking about the PC Party's and their minions fondness of butter tarts N'esy Pas?
Or they may be trying to pull a fast one...
People don't wear masks with friends or family, if they do so at all. Or they sit together at work and eat in the same small staff room face to face with others and then spread it around to their contacts. The virus doesn't press pause to allow you to eat.
Masks are to be worn properly and in ADDITION to all the other measures, not as a replacement. Human error is the problem and anti-maskers fueling conspiracy theories is just extra.
So now we have to be reactive to try to contain these outbreaks. If outbreaks become too large to contact trace in a timely fashion, or if it's in community spread, we'll get an up close look to what Quebec went through. We're not somehow different beings than they are. We just got lucky because most of our cases were travel related and the chains of transmission were quickly broken *proactively*.
We don't wear masks with our close contacts. Now that our contacts are increased the second wave will be larger. Even with masks, once you have a lot of cases and community spread the cases will spike. It only takes one "weak link" in each household to fuel the spread of the virus. Look up "this is not the flu" because they do such a good job at visualizing this and visualizing exponential growth.
Time will tell how large these outbreaks are, but exponential growth happens sooner than you think. The second wave is usually larger than the first. We're victims of our own success with exemptions and thinking the pandemic was over. Cases could have been fewer, with smaller clusters, contact traceable and not spread via community transmission.
Being reactive is not how we should be and masks along with all other measures can only do so much once it's in the community because we have close contact with our close contacts and that's all the virus needs to spread like wildfire. Harsh lock downs will work again if we can't contain it with all the other measures, like a reactive quarantine for the masses. But it would have been better to be proactive.
If you can wear a mask for a short time, but not a long time, due to feeling suffocated or trapped, that's a psychological issue and treatable.
FYI Months ago while I was waiting in an emergency room to get a halter installed to do more tests on my old ticker I was forced to wear mask. Trust that my COPD condition got much worse in a heartbeat and the tests they do on me confirms this o be a fact. Later my doctor prescribed some serious drug that has helped my condition However it floored me the first time i used it. (Quite latterly) I passed out in my bathroom and woke an hour later in the shower in an embarrassing condition I was glad I live alone..I was heading to the toilet because i thought the drug had made me sick like its warning book informed me of.
Too much information? Maybe but I do know if some Keystone Kop and the Crown wants to charge me for not following Higgy's illegal orders order I have lots of health care bills to prove what I say is true Methinks everybody knows that love to argue lawyers in court on the public record and that I am compelled to pay for my health care because Higgy et al have illegally denied me a Medicare Card for way past to long N'esy Pas?
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/masks-new-brunswick-covid-19-higgs-1.5754955
Masks mandatory in most indoor public spaces starting at midnight
Premier Blaine Higgs says not enough people were following rules
· CBC News · Posted: Oct 08, 2020 2:39 PM AT
Premier Blaine Higgs said the government is not planning to distribute
masks, but if availability becomes a problem, won't rule it out. (Gary Moore/CBC NB)
Masks will be mandatory in most indoor public spaces in New Brunswick, regardless of whether physical distancing can be maintained, as of midnight Thursday, Premier Blaine Higgs has announced.
The decision comes as three new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to 24.
Only children under age two and people with a medical condition are exempt.
"Unfortunately, there are still too may people not wearing a mask when they are required," Higgs told reporters during a news conference in Fredericton.
He had been hopeful the majority of people would "do the right thing" and choose to wear a mask to protect the people around them, he said.
But enforcement officers surveyed 600 public spaces over the past week and found the average number of people wearing a mask provincially was 36 per cent.
In major urban centres, the number was as low as 16 per cent, he said.
"These numbers are simply not acceptable."
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Jennifer Russell said she recommended a mandatory mask policy to the COVID-19 cabinet committee and cabinet before members discussed the issue Thursday morning.
She cited the outbreak at Manoir Notre-Dame special care home in Moncton, where 19 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed, and the need to take more steps to prevent the spread of the virus.
The province is into the second wave of COVID-19, Russell said Wednesday, but the full extent of the outbreak won't be known for another two weeks, the average incubation period of the virus.
Before the COVID-19 committee and cabinet meeting, Interim Liberal Leader Roger Melanson told CBC he would support mandatory masks, if that was the recommendation of Public Health.
"I mean, when you see the inconsistency … there's some private companies that do enforce it, some are suggesting we do wear one, we're seeing more municipalities now in their locations going forward to wear a mask. It's very inconsistent and people have their different interpretations — Should I wear one? Should I not wear one?
"So I think we have to have a provincial policy and make it clear if you should or should not."
New cases
The three new cases of COVID-19 confirmed Thursday include a person in their 40s in the Saint John health region, or Zone 2, a person in their 20s in the Fredericton health region, Zone 3, and a person in their 30s in the Campbellton health region, or Zone 5.
The Saint John and Fredericton cases are related to travel outside the Atlantic bubble, while the Campbellton case remains under investigation, Russell said.
Of the 24 active cases in New Brunswick, 20 are in the Moncton health region, which is Zone 1, two in the Saint John health region, one in the Fredericton health region and one the Campbellton health region.
Three people are in hospital, one of them in intensive care, said Russell.
Seventeen of the cases were announced Wednesday — the province's largest single-day increase since New Brunswick's first case March 11.
All of those cases are in the Moncton health region and connected to the Manoir Notre-Dame outbreak, which was declared Tuesday after two residents tested positive.
Thirteen residents, four staff and two family members who were close contacts of a resident have tested positive, said Russell.
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador have already implemented mandatory orders for masks.
With files from Information Morning Moncton
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In the "mean" time perhaps his over worked "Peace Officers" and a few disenchanted former cabinet ministers could put Higgy's fancy blue knickers in quite knot N'esy Pas?
Methinks everybody knows by now that it is you who should back away from the pipe N'esy Pas?
Mask wasn't necessary but now it's more dangerous because it's in Moncton a small have not province divided in two. What make's it worse because it's in the southern part of the province?
Methinks a lot of folks already noticed that his old buddy Teddy the former Minister of Health wasn't wearing a mask while calling Chucky Leblanca pest at least twice recently N'esy Pas?
It is somewhat amusing that Higgs chose to turn a blind eye to all the National and International travelers coming into N.B. via plane , and not being forced to self isolate . As a result , Covid-19 has started to flare , and so Higgs is going to try to blame it on N.B.ers for not wearing masks . If Higgs would have kept the borders closed , and made quarantine for people coming into N.B. mandatory , then we wouldn't be having this issue
You expect better from a bumbler? Good luck with that.
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virus and a fear based approach. This is putting small business into bankruptcy and affecting our mental health. Very painful to watch.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8
In our business, you would be asked to leave.
"That's discrimination based on health. its illegal."
No, it's not discrimination based upon health. It's discrimination based upon a person's inability to adhere to health regulations. It's no different than "No shirt, no service".
BTW: If someone enters your establishment who is clearly ill, you are within your right to ask them to leave ... nothing illegal about it.
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the trolls such "Ray Oliver" are the definition of pathetic The fact
that CBC and the RCMP allow their LIBELOUS words against me to be
published and deletes my replies to his obvious malice and my valid
opinions on topics is VERY OFFENSIVE INDEED N'esy Pas?
N.B. outbreak could mean changes for Atlantic bubble, Morrison says
Dr. Heather Morrison urging Islanders to consider whether they must travel over Thanksgiving weekend
· CBC News · Posted: Oct 08, 2020 3:38 PM AT
'P.E.I. in particular will ... be looking at whether or not we need to make any changes to the Atlantic bubble,' CPHO Dr. Heather Morrison told CBC News: Compass Thursday 1:20
An outbreak of COVID-19 at a long-term care home in Moncton, N.B., is raising concerns about transmission of the virus inside the Atlantic bubble.
On Wednesday, officials in New Brunswick confirmed 17 new cases amid efforts to contain the outbreak at the Manoir Notre-Dame special care home in Moncton, where 13 residents, four staff and two family members tested positive. Officials also identified potential public exposure to the virus at the Moncton Costco Optical Centre and Moncton St-Hubert restaurant.
"We have lots of connections with New Brunswick, and the Moncton area, and it does raise concern for us here on Prince Edward Island," P.E.I. Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Heather Morrison told CBC News: Compass in an interview Thursday afternoon.
"At this time it is a concern, but [we are] watching carefully what is going on," she said.
P.E.I. currently has three active cases of COVID-19, and 58 recovered.
Changes to the bubble?
With Thanksgiving weekend approaching, Morrison said it has her thinking about public health measures and how careful people need to be
"I think New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I. in particular will all be looking at whether or not we need to make any changes to the Atlantic bubble," Morrison said.
"At this point, I think we will be trying to make sure that anyone coming to the Island, whether they're visitors or Islanders returning for the weekend, are reminded that if they have any symptoms that they should be tested."
A news release issued late Thursday addressed how this reminder will be delivered: "Additional information will be distributed to everyone entering Prince Edward Island via the Confederation Bridge and the Wood Islands ferry to reinforce the need to monitor for symptoms of COVID-19, follow public health measures and avoid large gatherings."
Think twice about travel
In the interview with CBC News: Compass, Morrison also urged people to think about whether they really need to travel, until officials know more about how the Moncton outbreak is going.
After Morrison spoke with CBC, officials in New Brunswick held a briefing and said there are three new cases in that province, although not related to the long-term care home. That brings the total number of active cases in that province to 24.
New Brunswick officials also announced wearing masks will be mandatory in most public spaces as of midnight.
The COVID Alert app is available to Islanders beginning Thursday, and Morrison urged Islanders to download it. She said it's one more tool officials can use to identify contacts and lessen the spread of the coronavirus.
"The more people who download the app, of course the more useful it will be," she said.
More from CBC P.E.I.
With files from CBC News: Compass
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