@CFIBideas I’m grateful for the grants the province has provided - but we’ll definitely need more if this goes on! I know CFIB’s working towards it, so know that we appreciate all you’re doing!
@CFIBideas By the end of this week, we’ll have been closed up tight 8.5 months of the last fourteen. The treatment of PSS businesses in Toronto and Peel, by municipal and provincial gobs has been appalling. @fordnation@JohnTory
@Andoff I’m in the same boat; checking daily for updates on eligibility. Elyse got hers a week ago, but she qualified under a different classification. Wishing you luck!
Following the article addressing this weekend’s crowds at Yorkdale, and how it’s unfair to PSS businesses, you had a survey, @TorontoStar, that was a little unidirectional. What about the other side of the coin?!
I, personally, know how difficult it is to admit to making mistakes or being wrong, but with growth it becomes easier. All it requires is taking the first step, @fordnation. You can do it; give it a try. You might just save both lives and businesses...
@CFIB Our municipal health boards (especially in Toronto,) are over-worked, understaffed, and unable to advocate for us (in PSS,) and we need help. In the 6 mths we were allowed to work in ‘20, there was next to no workplace transmission. Got time to talk about it?
Toronto has had the longest lockdown in North America, w indoor dining closed for exactly 300 days since the pandemic began. Here is the data:
Restaurants: 171 consecutive days (300 total)
Gyms: 164 consecutive days (293 total)
Hair/nail salons: 129 consecutive days (221 total)
If @fordnation waits until Saturday to implement this “lockdown,” we’re gonna be faced with another spike in cases by mid-April, just like we saw in January, after he let everyone congregate for Xmas, and then we’re gonna see another 3 months of “grey lockdown.” SMH
@blogTO Even if they did work, they don’t work they way Ford, de Villa and Tory are imposing them. Last year it was “two weeks to flatten the curve,” but many of us were locked out of work for 3.5 mths. Now, we’re locked out for 4.5 mths,& are facing another lockdown?!
Hey @fordnation & @JohnTory - why is it that you gave patio-worthy bars & restaurants 18hrs notice to open two weeks ago, but you gave personal services a two week date?! (that we could only assume you already knew would fall into the next lockdown...)
If you’re planning another stay at home order, @fordnation, please be strict with it: lock EVERYBODY down, including construction this time around. Lockdowns have so far been ineffective, hence why they’re dragging on so long! #shortandsweet
SCOOP: Biden will announce today that 90% of U.S. adults will be eligible for the vaccine by April 19, and that the U.S. will more than double the number of pharmacies where people can get a shot by then. Story link to come.
So, why, @JohnTory , are we among the last to be granted a return to work, when we’re among the safest businesses outside of medicine to be in? The standards that we’re held to should showcase how safely we can operate - and how well we can manage our clients...
Lots of other personal services in Toronto, besides hair salons & barber shops, @TorontoStar. Tattoo shops in the city (& prov,) are better & more prepared than any retail, & we don’t think the standards are too high; it took very little adjustment for us to reopen last time.