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And London-Middlesex (city and county are under the same health unit) ends the year with a new case record of 119. At least all but one of the hospital outbreaks is over, so that's a small positive. OTOH, we have the first declared outbreak in a regular (i.e. not a retirement residence) apartment complex. 46 cases in a two building complex.
 
And Ontario passes the 3000 new cases in a day mark. Not just passed it by a bit, but f-ing blew clean through it. Hopefully, this is the Christmas wave starting and once we get past it, things will quiet down. Our provincial lockdown has, after all, only been in force for a few days now, not long enough to show an impact given incubation time.

Alberta's restrictions results are being seen. There were a few days we were under 1000 partially due to decreased testing over Christmas but last few days are 1200s so much better than the 1700 and 1800s we were getting gor a while. With the lag to hospitalizations though those numbers keep going up and there's the concern of the lag of the Christmas and to a lesser extent today's spikes that are likely to occur.

I'm hoping the restrictions will remain in place for places poorly affected until the hospitals are doing better. Fingers crossed that won't take long.
 
Things are looking better in BC too though decreased testing is a factor. The province has ordered all liquor sales to end at 8:00 pm tonight. Of course there are mixed reviews on that one.
 
Things are looking better in BC too though decreased testing is a factor. The province has ordered all liquor sales to end at 8:00 pm tonight. Of course there are mixed reviews on that one.
I found that odd, is it including takeout?
 
All liquor sales had to be ended by 8:00 pm.
Many have late dinners irdered from restaurants hotels etc. I feel like that's really taking away from safe celebrations plus is another thing restaurants have to readjust for - many of those packages were preordered.
 
Many have late dinners irdered from restaurants hotels etc. I feel like that's really taking away from safe celebrations plus is another thing restaurants have to readjust for - many of those packages were preordered.

BC still allows dine-in service. The rationale is that riskier behaviour happens when people drink too much. BC decided to reduce the harm of over consumption. They were encouraging quieter celebrations for this year. Yes, many restaurants were unhappy. Others adjusted. The biggest complaint was the short notice for this ruling. I haven't seen a lot of complaining about this. In fact many people have been complaining that, liquor establishments can be open while churches aren't. Etc.
 
BC still allows dine-in service. The rationale is that riskier behaviour happens when people drink too much. BC decided to reduce the harm of over consumption. They were encouraging quieter celebrations for this year. Yes, many restaurants were unhappy. Others adjusted. The biggest complaint was the short notice for this ruling. I haven't seen a lot of complaining about this. In fact many people have been complaining that, liquor establishments can be open while churches aren't. Etc.
So do an early cutoff for dine in and allow the pickups/deliveries to have the alcohol with orders. I think the way it was done is a low blow to an industry that's already been hit hard.
 
So do an early cutoff for dine in and allow the pickups/deliveries to have the alcohol with orders. I think the way it was done is a low blow to an industry that's already been hit hard.

This was only for tonight and was done.
 
This was only for tonight and was done.
But one of the nights where they do tend to bring in a fair bit of money
I don't see how cutting out the alcohol for a to go new year's eve preorder makes things safer. Why hurt the industry without a positive aspect?
 
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