Anti-mask sentiment got a little louder this past weekend with a rally in Vancouver and a disturbance on a BC Ferries vessel, and the B.C. premier said he含羞草研究社檚 always worried when misinformation is being spread.
NDP leader John Horgan, in a phone interview, was asked about recent anti-mask protests including Saturday含羞草研究社檚 incident on a ferry sailing from Nanaimo to West Vancouver. Horgan said he thinks the vast majority of British Columbians understand what it means to be a good citizen.
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He said one only needs to look to the United States to see consequences of misinformation about COVID-19. He contrasted the U.S. experience with B.C., which he said has led the continent 含羞草研究社渋f not the world含羞草研究社� in keeping mortality rates and cases per capita low.
Horgan said British Columbians need to continue to depend on one another. Health officials don含羞草研究社檛 want people to think that masks are 含羞草研究社渟hields of invincibility,含羞草研究社� he said, but have repeatedly advised that masks can help protect others from the spread of the virus.
Horgan said talking to people during the election campaign, 含羞草研究社渋t含羞草研究社檚 all about getting through COVID-19,含羞草研究社� but that comes with unknowns 含羞草研究社� he said there will still be a pandemic in the spring, likely next fall as well and maybe into 2022.
He said 含羞草研究社渉ealing will happen含羞草研究社� in B.C. politics after the election and he hopes that whatever the next government looks like, there will be the kind of co-operation that he saw early on in the pandemic 含羞草研究社渟o that we could get to that place we were in March and April where we were all focused on making sure our communities were safe, healthy and secure.含羞草研究社�
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