WARMINGTON: Torontonians tired of being painted into a COVID-19 circle
Article content
We have come full circle!
“The City of Toronto will again paint circles on the grass at Trinity Bellwoods Park to encourage people to practise physical distancing while using the park,” the city said in a statement released Friday. “Installation work will begin next week depending on weather conditions – the paint requires dry, sunny weather to cure properly.”
tap here to see other videos from our team.
WARMINGTON: Torontonians tired of being painted into a COVID-19 circle Back to video
tap here to see other videos from our team.
The circles will join the numerous fence walls encircling the urban park’s cherry blossoms that block off the sidewalks and bike routes to somehow prevent someone from catching the dreaded coronavirus variant of the moment.
Meanwhile, the tent cities have the best view of the cherry blossoms with no fear of a bylaw ticket or circle being put around them or their dirty drug needle box either.
“We continue to work to give people safe outdoor places to get outside for fresh air and exercise during the pandemic,” Mayor John Tory said in a news release.
This must be why the tennis courts and outdoor rink are now locked because Lord knows (conveyed sarcastically) tennis, skateboarding and scootering are offer as much a risk to catch COVID-19 as is golf or a beer on a patio. Hopefully authority goes easy on those who shimmy the locks.
“We know Trinity Bellwoods is a popular park, so we’re proactively putting the circles in place this year to help make sure we’re encouraging people to be safe,” Tory said.
After 14 months of this pandemic nightmare, people don’t need lectures on how to remain safe. They also don’t need circles on the ground to know how to social distance or behave.
tap here to see other videos from our team.
They proved that Friday afternoon as hundreds tried to catch some rays after a cold week and managed to find their own patch of grass without Big Brothers’ assistance and without incident.
These people also understand no glorified crop circle is going to keep this virus from catching them either. In fact, these minutes in the park are supposed to be a rest from the whole COVID prevention disinfecting protocols that now dominate day-to-day life.
Mostly the exercise of painting circles for people to make sure they fit neatly in is so patronizing. It’s also insulting and demeaning to people who are free to attend any city park they choose during a draconian stay-at home-order lockdown that has closed down our economy.
In the meantime, just hours after Premier Doug Ford apologized for “going to far” with enforcement measures and the closing of playgrounds, somehow Toronto is still moving forward with these Orwellian circles, just a year removed from the mayor scolding Torontonians for packing the very same park on a spring day.
Circle this latest date on your calendar next to your COVID-test and vaccination appointments. This is your life now!
They forget these silly circles and instead have city staff take down all fencing around all cherry blossom trees, open up the tennis courts and basketball courts and let people paint the city with happiness.
Toronto should circle back on these plans and save the paint before all of these civil liberties are circling the drain to democratic oblivion.
People have had enough of this virus, and the response to it, painting them into a corner.
Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion. Please keep comments relevant and respectful. Comments may take up to an hour to appear on the site. You will receive an email if there is a reply to your comment, an update to a thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. Visit our Community Guidelines for more information.