A family exhausted by the pandemic

Mr. Prime Minister,

Let me introduce myself: I am a father of a family of three children, a family exhausted by the pandemic.

It has been a year, Mr. Legault, that we follow you in our fight against this virus. A whole year that we follow all your instructions to the letter.

It’s been a year since we saw any of our family or friends. One year that my children did not go to the movies, did not go out to play with other children, did not have any friends for their birthday, did not go to see their grandparents, did not have the right no school activities, no family outings, no team sports, no hope, even dreaming of a little trip soon.

• Listen to Rémi Nadeau’s column at Caroline St-Hilaire’s microphone on QUB radio:

Masked children

At school, they sit, strapped to their chairs all day. They are masked and are even forbidden to talk to a friend who is not part of their class bubble.

While your eyes are fixed on your column of statistics, and your only apparent concern is to see the number of cases drop, here it is lives that come to an end, humans that creak, mothers that fall apart. , children who cry and fathers without answers … for a year.

• Listen to Caroline St-Hilaire and Carl Marchand’s current review on QUB radio:

It is relentlessness

Congratulations on finding, once again, nasty virus transmitters that you are now going to smother all day with masks: the little school children. Are you going to hide our children all day after spring break? Are you going to go after them now that there is no one else to suffocate? Are we still in the same “temporary” situation … of a year ago?

Prime Minister, I do not feel any sense of urgency on your part to give life back to your suffocating and suffering citizens. On the contrary, you seem to be looking for the culprits that transmit the virus rather than finding the children at little or next to nothing.

Your “caution” is starting to sound like a relentlessness, an obsession, or even a social experiment that has now gone on for … a year.

In addition to seeing the devastating effects of confinement on my children at home, I have seen my students at school sink into depression, demotivation, anxiety and psychological distress … for a year, Mr. minister.

I am no longer with you, but I only ask you one thing: please, leave our children alone!