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I heard the Brandon City is not enforcing masks on the busses, how is that smart or even allowable? Come on Brandon City, what are you thinking?

Why wouldn't you wear it on a bus, why should the drivers put themselves at risk.  
Maybe they feel same way our school bus drivers have stated to the media.  
 
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/we-re-sitting-ducks-school-bus-drivers-uneasy-about-returning-to-work-amid-covid-19-1.5072500  
 
 
If I was riding bus I would be wearing a mask and carrying hand sanitizer.  
 
Come on people this is a pandemic everyone needs to do whatever they can to flatten the curve.  
Last night on National news Manitoba is in 3rd place now for increase in cases only Quebec and Ontario are ahead of us.  
 
Edited by Mac72, 2020-08-23 11:47:57

If this is the case, perhaps a phone call or two, to Mr Mayor, would persuade a ... re-thinking....

Don't bother the mayor...  
 
You haven't had to wear one until this coming Monday so it's been up to you whether you decide to or not.

I thought you had to wear a mask on a bus already  
 
Things change so fast and there is so much information about this area or that city it is hard to keep it all straight.  
 
sometimes I wonder if it would be easier to say mandatory masks in Manitoba and be done with it.

Population of Manitoba 1,400,000 (approx.)  
 
Currently 356 active COVID-19 cases in Manitoba  
 
Currently 9 people in hospital related to COVID-19  
 
Manitoba deaths from COVID-19 is 12  
 
Mask up people.....

Don't "bother" him? Perhaps if we started bothering him he would actually "do" something like, oh I don't know, his job? Hopefully Brandonites do the right thing and mask up on public transportation while the mayor continues to shrink down in his desk and hopes the teacher doesn't call on him.

You need to learn how things work. The Mayor is not the solver of all problems and he does have the authority to make rules all by himself.  
 
Edited by BiG Mack, 2020-08-23 17:30:22

did I claim he was/can. When he is publicly called out by the leader of the NDP for failing to act during the outbreak, and researching what he does have the authority to do, I know that I am correct in my opinion. I am very aware of how things work in City Hall. Any reason for your instantly aggressive defense of him?  
 
 
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-what-does-declaring-a-state-of-emergency-mean-for-a-city/  
 
Edited by Gussins, 2020-08-23 17:47:51

That's exactly what you said. The Mayor does not make the decisions for the City. Which is what you were basically alluding to. Wab just likes to whine about anything he can. Anyways I'm not going to argue with you. I'm not defending the mayor. Call the mayor, tell him how to run the city sounds like you got everything figured out anyways.

I can fully understand School Bus Drivers situation. I doubt if they were consulted in any of the discussions , concerning school re-starting. This is evident by the link given by Mac72.  
I imagine that the poorest divisions will be struggling to maintain any kind of service, given the extra sanitary precautions, that will have to be taken, to keep everyone safe, including the drivers themselves.  
To understand further,driving the kids to school raises the odds,of the driver catching the virus. He may well be diligent, for example when asked to a social function, he may consider if there are likely to be people there, who are not in his normal circle of contacts, because he knows their routine within that circle. But if there are going to be people there, from outside that circle , who may have inadvertently come into contact with a carrier. If he was thinking as he should , he would decline .  
This is pretty much what all Daycare Supervisors, Principals and Carehome Managers should be advising their staff to do, if their not sensible enough and doing it on their own already.  
How does the driver know when kids are getting on the bus in the morning, who they were associating with the night before. The unknown part of the equation of people is how it spreads.  
Having driven a bus I can tell you, that even when kids are sick, a lot still get sent to school, otherwise parents can't work , if there is no one else available to mind them. Drivers are all up to date with First Aid but it is not going to help with this problem.  
Some may say this is not possible, but if you want to stop the spread it helps to remove the compound factor .  
Basically to lower the odds.  
Personally I am not at all surprised at the response by drivers. My route was incorporated with another one last year, so I lost my drive. There was nothing else available, so I looked for work elsewhere. But kind of glad now that it finished when it did.

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