‘Virus is still here’: A look at reactions to Ontario dropping transit mask rules
Ontario have been able to drop their masks this week now that provincial mandates have lifted.Mask rules for public transit and health-care settings expired last weekend, with the province’s top doctor saying high vaccination rates and improvements in the COVID-19 situation allowed for the mandates to end.The Canadian Press took the pulse of commuters at Toronto’s bustling Union Station to get a sense of how the end of the mandates is being received.
Here’s what some said:Jorge Junir, 61Junir wore a black cloth mask emblazoned with a gold Toronto Raptors logo as he passed through Union Station on his daily commute.He takes the subway from his home in the city’s east end to work at a downtown hotel.
He said he feels less safe riding public transit now that the mask mandate has been dropped.“I’m 61-years-old, I have a health problem,” he said. “The virus is still here.
Yes, the numbers are down, but still the virus is here.”Junir said his entire family continues to mask in public.“It’s to protect other people too,” he said. “Especially now that the mask mandate is gone.” Here’s how masking rules are changing in Ontario come Saturday ___Bina Rathod, 48Rathod walked through Union Station unmasked to catch a GO Transit train home to Brampton, Ont.As a franchisee of two downtown Toronto counter service restaurants, Rathod said Canada had been “so slow” to lift restrictions, which hurt business.
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