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New York opened restaurants to indoor dining last weekend, Chicago is expanding the capacity limits for restaurants that are already open.
In Toronto, Mayor John Tory wants you to just stay home.
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Tory and his medical officer Dr. Eileen de Villa announced Wednesday they were asking the province to delay lifting the stay-at-home order until “at least March 9.”
That means instead of moving to the incredibly restrictive grey lockdown zone this coming Monday, we face nearly three weeks under the most restrictive conditions in the country.
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During the recent lockdown, take-out food was the only thing going and Vanderwerff said 95% of the staff at the restaurant had to be laid off.
Matt MacInnis and his friend, Amelia Gray two of 10 patrons sat socially distanced in the restaurant, enjoying some red wine with their lunch.
“It’s a start at least. It’s nice to get out during the day and enjoy a restaurant, at least,“ said MacInnis.
He insisted restrictions still need to be “loosened up a bit.”
Gray said she was “definitely happy to be out and drinking wine.”
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It’s the most fearful rhetoric about new variants that Canadians have been exposed to yet. Is it true? Are her remarks justified?
Time will tell, but those who study the big picture of how COVID-19 is playing out around the world were left scratching their heads at what she said.
“What I see so far is that the U.K. variant replaces COVID classic, but it doesn’t add to it,” says Dr. Neil Rau, an infectious diseases specialist based out of Halton Healthcare Services. “So the overall trajectory is still favourable.” Rau points to both the U.K. and Denmark, which continue to see a rapid decline in cases.