In the face of the real risk of hospital saturation, the authorities reactivated the measures of sanitary restrictions, to the chagrin of a tired population. As in France, the government puts pressure on non-vaccinated.
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The deafening sound message, type Alert Removal, sounded on all the Smartphones du Québec on December 31, 2021 at 19:00: “The curfew starts tonight at 10 pm, with prohibition from getting out of your home until you 5 hours. “
This untimely reminder, which picked Quebeckers preparing to celebrate alone or in their simple family bubble the passage to the New Year, was not the taste of all. “This government speaks to us like children,” Grinte Valérie. This 65-year-old Montrealer, duly vaccinated and unintended to maintain the front of the refusal of anti-Covid-19 sanitary measures, leaves a lot of his compatriots, dawies his annoyance.
it was only at the end of the afternoon the day before the Provincial Prime Minister, François Legault (Coalition Future Québec, Nationalist Center), announced to his compatriots his turn of Screw with immediate effect: Prohibition of private gatherings, closing restaurants, returned back to school and new curfew thus, in the hope of countering the Omicron wave and its 15,000 new daily cases since the end of December 2021 which threaten ’embolished the Quebec health network.
The late announcements left the restaurators with kilos of foie gras on his arms, and Quebeckers worried: the previous curfew decreed on January 9, 2021 was supposed to last a month, but he had finally been lifted May 28.
Despite their docility to vitally follow the government instructions and their eagerness to be vaccinated – in early January, 84.7% of Quebeckers had received at least one dose – they are referred to the departure box. This is no longer the “marmot’s day” but “the year of the marmot” they fear to endure.
The director of public health resigns
The arches drawn to the windows, with the encouragement slogan “it will go well”, which had bloomed on the facades of the Montreal apartments at the trigger of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, were cleared. As seems to erode the collective trust that has long accompanied the management of the epidemic by the public authorities. The leader of the government seems to be escaping the vindicate: one year of the provincial elections that will see it putting its mandate into play, François Legault remains popular, collecting up to 46% voting intentions (light institute).
On the other hand, his National Director of Public Health, Dr. Horaco Arruda, star of the first wave for his incoming and reassuring attitude, concentrated in recent weeks all critics. The third dose of vaccine that is expected, the shortage of PCR tests, the lack of surgical masks claimed by the caregivers, the 20,000 infected health workers and therefore absent or the last minute-facing-face, it was He and again him. Monday, January 10th in the evening, he announced his resignation. But the role of “fuse” of the leader of public health can not obscure the essential: the return to a confined life is largely explained by a Quebec system of exsangue care, well before the arrival of the pandemic.
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