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>Who was shaming children? local parents? government officials? I didn't see any of this shaming. In fact, where I live, more children were at the parks. They
by 99_00 5y ago
>Who was shaming children? local parents? government officials? I didn't see any of this shaming. In fact, where I live, more children were at the parks.
They are somewhere in Canada. Regulations and attitudes differ depending on the location and phase of the pandemic.
>The City of Ottawa said Tuesday that an Orléans man confronted by a bylaw officer while kicking a soccer ball with his four-year-old autistic son in an empty field was given a warning, but not fined $700.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/orleans-man-stung-with-700-fine-for-letting-his-autistic-son-play-in-empty-field https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/orleans-man-stung-...
Seems like parks being closed happened in the US too.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/closing-parks-ineffective-pandemic-theater/609580/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/closing-p...
I hope people aren't forgetting what we went through and how the public and officials reacted to it. It would be hard to improve unless we remember what happened.
- guyzero 5y ago"overzealous municipal bylaw officer" isn't exactly some sort of mass oppression. I'm pretty sure bylaw officers writing dumb tickets existed before covid.
- drekipus 5y ago> isn't exactly some sort of mass oppression Tell that to BLM
- 99_00 5y agoThe point is that kids were barred from parks and fields.
- doubled112 5y agoThey closed parks in Ottawa, Canada... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ncc-path-closed-open-covid19-1.5512498 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ncc-path-closed-open-c...
- guyzero 5y agoIn March of 2020 when pretty much everything in North America closed and they reopened in May of that year. I didn't notice at first that the ticket was issued at that time. The understanding of covid was significantly less then and some of the measures were unnecessary in retrospect. This all has little to do with an essay penned this year about schools.