[OldDartmouthMark]

I'm confused. I was assured by members of this forum that there is no difference in risk between living in a more dense urban area, where peoples' main forms of travel include walking, transit, and, to a lesser extent, bicycles, vs living in a less-dense suburban area where the main form of transportation is personal cars.

So why do we need to widen sidwalks into the street? There is no additional risk for catching COVID-19 from narrower sidewalks with, presumably, more people on them...

The article, like most on Bousquet's site, is written in an confrontational, one-sided fashion, which is mainly why I don't bother with reading anything from there anymore. I was willing to give him a fair shake, but time after time again I find myself reading one-sided SJW-type articles that appear to be more aimed at getting people pissed off than actually trying to reasonably cover a topic, and informing people of things they should know. This was further enforced when I have been listening to his questions during the NS government COVID-19 news conferences - his questions are all loaded and non-productive... typically eye-rollers for me. I don't waste my time with his garbage anymore.

But, yeah, what better time than a health crisis to try to gain traction to advance the cause? While the rest of us are just trying to work with the government's attempt to keep people safe and not overwhelm the health system (and front line workers), some folks appear to be planning on how to use this to gain ground when everybody is focusing on something more important...