Is Christmas COVID-19’s Newest Target?

It’s no secret that the year 2020 has been unprecedented and eventful, to say the least. Since the very first recorded COVID-19 case hit Canada back in January, it has been challenging the way we live and interact with one another. A fun night out has been replaced by game and movie nights, family gatherings have been reduced to family Zoom calls.

In March, Ontario premier Doug Ford began what was essentially the beginning of a province-wide lockdown, all non-essential businesses were required to close their doors and gatherings were reduced to ten people. This lead to widely popular and celebrated holidays like Easter and Thanksgiving to be completely overlooked for the 2020 year.

While that initial lockdown lasted for months, some believed that to be the worst of it. Now here we are nearing the end of November and cases again are on the rise, not only in Ontario but around the world. Locally, earlier today the Windsor Star reported an outbreak of up to 39 cases of coronavirus at Frank W. Begley Public School in Windsor.

That would make it the largest COVID-19 outbreak at any school in Ontario. With evidence from the newest Toronto lockdown and this local breakout, it almost seems inevitable that second wave of cases will send us into a second lockdown.

The question now is when. December is rapidly approaching and a new lockdown with strict public gathering regulations will surely add Christmas 2020 to the long list of changes in this strange year.