Picked up and dropped off gifts yesterday... my parents have apparently gotten their vaccinations now (we still stayed outside and fully masked up, elbow bumps instead of hugs, etc). We'll be doing the gift openings over Zoom later today.
Regarding the Ontario lockdown tomorrow... I can see that getting people to preemptively cancelling attempts to have a gathering today to avoid potentially getting locked down in someone else's house/having guests for 3-4 weeks instead of two days if something comes up that delays departure, or to have a strong request from officials to isolate themselves once they get home from the gathering.
I'm starting to suspect that what we were seeing locally was the effects of ill-advised Halloween parties (they actually had to break a few up in places), and the declines have been facilitated by a large percentage of people actually taking responsibility for keeping this thing from being worse than it is elsewhere. That said, we're still not counting it as a proper decline until the middle of January, even though the state numbers are really encouraging.
Regarding the Ontario lockdown tomorrow... I can see that getting people to preemptively cancelling attempts to have a gathering today to avoid potentially getting locked down in someone else's house/having guests for 3-4 weeks instead of two days if something comes up that delays departure, or to have a strong request from officials to isolate themselves once they get home from the gathering.
I'm starting to suspect that what we were seeing locally was the effects of ill-advised Halloween parties (they actually had to break a few up in places), and the declines have been facilitated by a large percentage of people actually taking responsibility for keeping this thing from being worse than it is elsewhere. That said, we're still not counting it as a proper decline until the middle of January, even though the state numbers are really encouraging.
"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor