Rick Mercer Rant: Social Distancing
Normally, when I’m doing a rant I have a few rules. The first thing you need is a good looking camera man and a great alley or a great looking camera man and a good alley. Today I have neither. Why? Because I like my camera man. I like like him very much. He’s one of my favourite people. I like him so much that I don’t want to be within six feet of him. I don’t want to be in the same room as him. I want him to stay home, stay healthy, and go stir-crazy just like the rest of us.
Any why am I not in my alley? Because there may be people there. And, what will they be doing? They will be doing what they’re always doing, wandering around enjoying the magnificent graffiti as if they are in an art gallery. Do you know what you don’t do during a pandemic? Visit an art gallery! And I know technically it’s not an art gallery—it’s an alley. Congratulations! You found yourself a loop hole. People. Stop looking for loopholes. Stop ducking under police tape. Stop hanging around narrow pathways. Stop jogging in groups.
Yesterday, I say a group of people walking along a street passing around a joint. Seriously? Passing around a joint? Legal—yes. Stupid—big time yes. Why not just French kiss each other, go home and catch a house on fire and the neighbour’s house too?
Normally it makes no sense to rant about something that almost everyone else agrees with. And honestly 95% of Canadians are all doing the right things but some of us are bending the rules and it has to stop because it is through a loop hole that a virus will get in.
We can do this but only together. All of us together. Flatten the curve. Plug the holes.