Do you want a case that proves in black and white how important it is to strictly follow health guidelines?
Look no further: there is one right in front of you.
The Méga Fitness Gym, in Quebec.
HOW A VIRUS SPREADS
While at the gym that I attend, we systematically take the temperature of each client before letting them in, it seems that at the Mega Fitness Gym, we don’t.
In addition, clients were training within two meters of each other and the personal protection offered to workers was inadequate.
Result: the gym is the source of a major outbreak in the region. More than 140 positive cases have been directly linked to this fitness center, and more than 20 workplaces have been infected due to non-compliance with sanitary rules.
Do you want to know how a virus is spread?
Well, that’s how it is.
You enter a place that does not respect the instructions. You catch the virus.
Then you go to work and you go home at the end of the day, and you give it to other people, who will give it to other people, who will give it to other people before anyone in this long chain of transmission does not feel the slightest symptom.
It’s not more complicated than that.
Yes, I know, this is nothing new, this is how all contagious diseases have been transmitted since the beginning of the world, be it seasonal flu or gastro.
But COVID is not just the flu.
As the owner of the Mega Fitness Gym will tell you when he (hopefully) leaves the hospital.
THE MOMENT “OUPELAILLE!” “
Because, yes, I sincerely hope that the owner of the gym will recover.
Even though he seemed to trivialize the situation.
In front of all the bullshit circulating on social networks, and all the platform managers who think they are epidemiologists when they barely manage to tell the difference between a flu and a cold, not to mention the fatigue that sets in , no wonder some people end up believing anything.
That said, just as some Trumpists were disillusioned when they saw their idol encourage the most crackpots of its followers to storm the Capitol, I hope that what happened to the owner of the Mega Fitness Gym will ignite a little light in the brains of some deniers of the pandemic.
I keep telling myself this since the start of the crisis.
One day, a conspirator, an anti-mask or a public figure who trivializes the seriousness of the situation will find himself in intensive care with a pipe down his throat, and, that day, several people who shared his point of view will say to themselves: “Oupelaille! “
THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE
The solution is not very complicated, however.
In fact, it is very simple. Even a five-year-old could understand it.
The day when a critical number of people will be vaccinated, we can relax the instructions.
Until then, you have to be careful.
Mask, distancing, hand washing, family bubbles.
How many times will I have to repeat it?
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