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brin_bellway) wrote2021-04-24 10:09 am
brin_bellway) wrote2021-04-24 10:09 am
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[cw: (mild) illness, (arguably) government bullshit]
I'm very glad the Region of Waterloo has started offering quarantine hotels to non-travellers (specifically those whose homes are too crowded to isolate within them), but couldn't they have made it sound *slightly* less like an organ-harvesting ring?
"Safe Voluntary Isolation Site" sounds like those jokes people make about the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about how the worse a place the Congo gets the more desperately-reassuring words they add to the name. Like, yeah, *I* would still go to the SVIS if I were sick and didn't have my own bedroom, but that is largely because I already have high trust in my municipal government.
I'm very glad the Region of Waterloo has started offering quarantine hotels to non-travellers (specifically those whose homes are too crowded to isolate within them), but couldn't they have made it sound *slightly* less like an organ-harvesting ring?
"Safe Voluntary Isolation Site" sounds like those jokes people make about the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about how the worse a place the Congo gets the more desperately-reassuring words they add to the name. Like, yeah, *I* would still go to the SVIS if I were sick and didn't have my own bedroom, but that is largely because I already have high trust in my municipal government.