Families who have lost loved ones to the virus are pleading with Quebecers to respect health measures if they do not want to experience painful mourning like the one they will wear at Christmas, when the number of infections has reached a peak yesterday.
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“If I go to see relatives and that without knowing I give the virus, I will have it on my conscience the rest of my life […] And to say goodbye to someone through my cell phone, I do not want to experience it again, ”testifies Frédéric Morin, who lost his father, Pierre Morin, to COVID-19 in May past.
Despite repeated calls from the government to avoid gatherings and respect social distancing, the province recorded a new record on Saturday with 2,031 new daily infections and 48 deaths.
In Montreal alone, there are 630 new patients and a dozen people have lost their fight against the virus.
For the 34-year-old father, the population must absolutely wake up before losing a loved one in turn, while Quebec has more than 13,000 active cases of COVID-19, according to the National Institute of Health public.
“Even if the deaths accumulate, there is a kind of carelessness. I find it ordinary. My father won’t be there at Christmas! He says.
A well-deserved break
According to him, the government was right to cancel the gatherings to give the guardian angels a break, having found themselves at the forefront of their hard work before his father’s death. “They work hard and don’t stop. I think this is a respect we should have for the health care system. People on the front line didn’t have a lot of breaks, ”he says.
Although Deborah Ward would like to welcome her loved ones during the holiday season to pay tribute once and for all to her mother, Doris McCall, who lost her life at the beginning of April, the Bouchervilloise continues to respect the measures. to the letter.
Show good faith
“My mother wanted people to unite, for people to laugh, or to experience their emotions together, and we couldn’t. We don’t control anything. Even if that requires us to draw on our reserves of good faith and conscience of the other, we are not in an individualistic society ”, she underlines.
What worries him is that less concerned citizens are transmitting the virus to more vulnerable relatives. “Often at Christmas, we bring together several generations. If misfortune strikes, and as a Christmas present, Grandma, Uncle, Aunt catches COVID-19 … It is not fair to us that it is necessary [respecter les mesures], it’s for others, ”insists the mother.
“We must collectively join hands – without doing it physically, there! – to help themselves and stop the second wave ”, concludes Mr. Morin, specifying that he will spend a“ quiet ”Christmas with his two young daughters, punctuated by Facetime calls.
A computer problem would have further slowed data entry, resulting in a higher toll on Saturday, due to the catching up of unaccounted cases.
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