We're meant to be having a provincial election on Saturday. What was the Premier thinking, calling an election in February - which is bad enough in Newfoundland, high probability of really foul weather of the "Please stay off the roads" variety - and during a pandemic? To the surprise of nobody with any sense at all, poll workers in the Avalon Peninsula area, where the outbreak is (so far) centred, have been refusing to work the polls in droves. So they have delayed the election for that part of the province... which accounts for half of the population. Apparently legislation doesn't allow postponing the entire election.
I will be totally unsurprised if a bunch of cases turn up in other parts of the province tomorrow, poll workers refuse to show up, and legislation be damned, the whole thing gets delayed.
Well, at least it's entertaining...
