Quebec to begin issuing fines to people not wearing masks

Quebec has announced plans to crackdown on people not following provincial mask guidelines. Dr. Ronald St. John weighs in on this and other COVID-19-related news.

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76 comments

    1. If they don’t know your name any ticket is not legally binding. Don’t give your name. Unless you are driving a motor vehicle, a law enforcement officer can legally demand your name.

    2. @Woxwell Yes they can, because an officer and i quote ” must first have a legal basis for the request”. You are breaking the law by not wearing a mask, therefore, he can get your name whether you like it or not.

    1. Canadian Civilian you have NO right to spread a deadly virus, not wearing a mask in public infringes on everyone’s right to health and life. If you don’t want to wear a mask don’t go out in public, easy.

    2. ​@Christopher Guy Covid 19 is not dangerous, the government, wall street, who and the medias are dangerous, the only thing they want is to steal the population’s money and get more power.

    3. @Christopher Guy Yes, a virus so “deadly” you have to get tested to know you have it… A virus so “deadly” that it has a mortality rate of near-ZERO (as with any other cold or flu strain).

      Enjoy your “new normal,” doomer… And be sure to stock up on plenty of toilet paper! (I hear Sharmin is particularly efgfective against da deadly kawvidzz!)

    1. When are they going to wake up? When government gets this bold and calls healthy Canadians ‘irresponsible spreaders of covid19″ then it is too late.

    1. L C> Covid is not dangerous, but the government is.

      Really? Great! Tell me your location and I’ll come over and cough on you and you’ll be fine. 👍

    2. @- Only if he can call the government and report you for not wearing a mask and coughing.
      Let’s see who regrets what.

    3. @Cop Named Tim Ignorant is when you don’t know something .I know i wont get the cough cough ! Viruses don’t work that way,you have been lied to all your life!

    1. you do if your getting less than 6 feet away from someone, unless the other guy wants to walk in the middle of the road

    1. @- To destroy the economy and make peoples lives as complicated and frustrating as possible so they willfully accept the strange brew vaccine.

    2. @powerslide000 I’m following the science not “Info Wars” so it’s the facts that matter. A great thing about facts is they are true regardless of your opinion.

    3. @Christopher Guy If you believe non medical masks stop the virus, you are following stupid bureaucratic orders, not science.

    1. You wear a mask to protect others and not wearing one puts others at risk so fining someone who doesn’t is a smart move.

    2. @Christopher Guy Free and healthy Canadians can’t infect everyone, and it is not their job to protect you or ensure your safespace.
      Please tell everyone you know that doesn’t wear The Mask that you support government force against them over it, and wait for the equal and hostile backlash against you.

    3. @NPC you are wrong, because you can have COVID19 and not have symptoms you can infect others. By not wearing a mask you could be infecting others and you do NOT have that right.

      You need to research the science for yourself because where you are getting your information from isn’t science.

  1. There is no justification for tyranny! ‘Health and safety’ is no excuse. There are plenty of risks to life. We all experience sickness. We all get older. We are all going to die. We will all experience tragedy. No one can escape these things. Politicians and ‘health officials’ don’t have any ability to protect anyone from these things, no matter how many laws, policies, or mandates they put in place. Anybody who thinks otherwise is a completely delusional fool.

    1. Don’t forget, these rules also protect you from unicorn horn stab wounds. See any being reported? No sir you do not. 100% effective measures.

    1. @Christopher Guy What studies? 95% effective at what? How effective are they on their absolute own, with no prior guidelines being observed?
      List them here for the whole class.

    2. @Christopher Guy 95% is simply wrong. I typed out a long reply with the relevant facts and analysis but google’s bots have censored it, such is the world we live it. You need need to dig up original papers. They don’t agree with your assertion. Not even close.

    3. @Christopher Guy A more accurate number is 10-40% taking into account material and leakage. Accounting for double filtering of two wearers nets out to 19%-64%. Too low to produce r0 below one.

    4. @Christopher Guy Your math is not adding up. If on ksam has a filtering efficiency of 62% then two wearers would be two filters which will have an efficiency of (1-(1-.62)^2) = 85%. You must be remembering incorrectly, or have misunderstood something. Besides, the chances of a run-of-the-mill, unfitted, non-medical ksam having a filtering efficiency of 62% is pretty close to 0%.

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