People are getting so bored....
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/burgers-ice-cream-doughnuts-and-plants-queues-forming-for-non-essential-items-1.4940671
Burgers, ice cream, doughnuts and plants: Queues forming for non-essential items
Rob Ladouceur and his wife waited in their car on three consecutive days at a new Peters' Drive-In in Edmonton for burgers, shakes and fries. They drove away empty-handed each time. The couple gave up the first time when cars were backed up for almost a kilometre. They were turned away the next two days because the restaurant closed before their car made it to the window.
The Winnipeg ice-cream shop Bridge Drive-In closed its drive-thru just two days after opening because of traffic congestion that created friction with neighbours. People also waited over two hours in their cars to pick up a box of doughnuts in Mississauga, Ont.
Mike Priest was assigned a curbside pickup time to collect a gift card and hanging basket at Bradford Greenhouse in Barrie. That took an hour and 20 minutes. "We had been assigned a time to show up, arrived right on time and saw about 10, 15 cars. Figured that wasn't too bad until we got near the front of the line and realized it was just a line to get into the main line, which was over 100 cars long."
So much for the environment benefiting with all those cars idling in line ups...
Most elementary schools are open again in Quebec (Montreal follows on the 25th)
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/return-to-school-bring-your-own-sanitizer-quebec-student-advises-fellow-kids-1.4940812
Sebastian Weiss is advising other kids who may be returning to school to bring their own hand sanitizer because the stuff at his Quebec City school “smells pretty bad.” He also warns to cut back on any expectation of excitement: there are no gym classes and no library time. The Grade 5 student told CTV’s Your Morning Friday that arrows and logos painted by teachers on the floor in the hallway show students how to move and where to stand. And he’s allowed only four books from the class library.
Class sizes are limited to 15 children and officials expected about 60 per cent of eligible students would return this week. They came back to a transformed school experience. Playground equipment is still off-limits and schools are limiting the number of kids out a recess at one time. Desks are spaced out. Physical education and library time is no more. There are no school lunches, either. On school buses, students can only sit one per bench and the driver sits behind a plastic shield. Students are reminded often to wash their hands.
Sebastian says he and his classmates spent the first half of the first day back going over all the new rules and, after a trip home for lunch, he came back to an afternoon-long refresher on what his class had been studying before schools closed down.
Quebec is still reporting over 700 new cases daily and about a hundred deaths daily. Ontario is down to over 300 new cases daily and 30 to 50 deaths daily and keeps the schools closed until at least the end of the month. All lesser hit provinces have already cancelled the rest of the school year or only have limited schools open for kids of essential workers. Doing everything backwards in Canada lol.
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