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[brin_bellway]

[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.

Comments

[ilzolende]

If your house doesn't have two bathrooms it might still be beneficial for a household measure to go to the SVIS when sick? Otherwise you'd need to exchange air and possibly otherwise clean the bathroom a lot.

[contrarianarchon]

What an excellent program! And what a incredibly dubious-sounding name! It sounds like a place where you keep dissidents while you internally debate if they're worth killing! I didn't realize an entirely literal name could sound so bad!