Article content Thirteen months into the pandemic, Quebec has found itself in the midst of a third wave — and public health experts are wondering why the government isn’t doing more to stop the spread of the virus. “I understand the desire from the government’s perspective to give people a little bit more freedom,” said Prativa Baral, an epidemiologist and a PhD student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “But the thing is, the longer we wait, the longer we do these middle-ground restrictions, the longer this pandemic will last.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load.