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 hesa国际传媒檚 always worried when misinformation is being spread.
NDP leader John Horgan, in a phone interview, was asked about recent anti-mask protests including Saturdaysa国际传媒檚 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 sa国际传媒渋f not the worldsa国际传媒� in keeping mortality rates and cases per capita low.
Horgan said British Columbians need to continue to depend on one another. Health officials donsa国际传媒檛 want people to think that masks are sa国际传媒渟hields of invincibility,sa国际传媒� 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, sa国际传媒渋tsa国际传媒檚 all about getting through COVID-19,sa国际传媒� but that comes with unknowns sa国际传媒� he said there will still be a pandemic in the spring, likely next fall as well and maybe into 2022.
He said sa国际传媒渉ealing will happensa国际传媒� 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 sa国际传媒渟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.sa国际传媒�
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