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 he91裸聊视频檚 always worried when misinformation is being spread.
NDP leader John Horgan, in a phone interview, was asked about recent anti-mask protests including Saturday91裸聊视频檚 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.
91裸聊视频淚f people aren91裸聊视频檛 prepared to live by the rules in a civil society, they don91裸聊视频檛 have to participate,91裸聊视频� he said. 91裸聊视频淚f you don91裸聊视频檛 want to take a B.C. ferry, get a water taxi, buy a boat, but do not put people at risk because you don91裸聊视频檛 believe that COVID-19 exists. It does, hundreds of people have died in British Columbia 91裸聊视频� and I91裸聊视频檓 personally not prepared to accept people disregarding facts and science.91裸聊视频�
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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 91裸聊视频渋f not the world91裸聊视频� in keeping mortality rates and cases per capita low.
Horgan said British Columbians need to continue to depend on one another. Health officials don91裸聊视频檛 want people to think that masks are 91裸聊视频渟hields of invincibility,91裸聊视频� 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, 91裸聊视频渋t91裸聊视频檚 all about getting through COVID-19,91裸聊视频� but that comes with unknowns 91裸聊视频� he said there will still be a pandemic in the spring, likely next fall as well and maybe into 2022.
He said 91裸聊视频渉ealing will happen91裸聊视频� 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 91裸聊视频渟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.91裸聊视频�
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