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As the province has struggled for several days with an increase in COVID-19 cases, are we paying the price for our selfishness?

Karaoke kids

Here, I am not referring to the song by Luc de La Rochellière. It is rather a question of the 50 people who were infected by COVID following a karaoke evening organized at the bar Kirouac, in the Quebec region. Among them: three children attending school. Collateral damages.

Ah the great deal. Forty people said to themselves that it was okay to go sputtering into a microphone while all of Quebec is trying to avoid a second wave. “To hell with the collective good! Me, I want to sing Travel Travel. “

Like cicadas in summer, they preferred to chirp instead of telling themselves that it might be better to think about what was coming this winter if we weren’t careful.

Last I heard, karaoke is not an essential service. The bars either, by the way. Shouldn’t we consider, then, closing these establishments by offering them compensation?

It’s everyone who pays

I understand that in government, we do not want the public to feel that we want to slow down the economy. The bar lobby has campaigned a lot for a reopening. Several establishments could not recover from a second confinement.

But there is still a part of me that remains convinced that even if things are going well in a lot of establishments, only a few recalcitrant places are enough, only a few customers who ramble from one place to another are enough to that everything starts up again. So that the collective effort is destroyed.

The important thing right now is that the children go to school and that people can work. Are we going to keep the bars open and close the schools?