CANADA

JOHN HENLEY WEYMOUTH 1953-1957 DURDAS, ONTARIO – AUGUST 2020

On the whole Canada has dealt with the pandemic reasonably well when compared to some other countries. In the USA for example the pandemic has run amok. A more reasonable approach to social distancing and wearing a mask has been less of a problem here. Unfortunately there are still the antimaskers and idiots who think parties, bars and mingling on the beach won’t affect them.

Hindsight is always 2020... which is an appropriate expression for this pandemic because of the year! It takes time to find out what works and the government should have insisted on fourteen day quarantine right away. Unfortunately, as with other countries, there was a window for residents to fly home from other countries, which meant, in many cases, they brought the disease back with them.

My 80th birthday was on March 12th and I decided the following day that I would start my own self-isolation without waiting for a government directive. I saw the writing on the wall and have been hyper cautious ever since. My ‘bubble’ is small in terms of people I will even see so that I am not exposed to the virus through their contacts. In some respects