But while it's likely that even more hot-weather past-times will be cancelled or curtailed, experts say that doesn't mean summer 2020 has to be a dud.
For city-dwellers, the possibility of a summer-long closure of parks, pools, recreation centres and playgrounds "is challenging culturally and psychologically," says Siemiatycki, noting our long winters make the summer weeks especially precious. "I said, 'I can't answer that,"' Ford said earlier this week. "He goes, 'Well, find out and get back to me right away."'
Keith Dobson, a clinical psychology professor at the University of Calgary, says the loss of these events will impact each person differently, but he expected they would intensify feelings of loss that are already emerging in many households.
On the bright side, think of all the money we’ll have to spend once this is all over!
Stop rubbing our noses with this of what we can’t do & what we will miss out on. It makes the situation worse leading to more anxiety/depression and anger.
Don’t need events to have fun duh!!!! Wow a little common sense will go a very long way
Or we can reverse course now and let people outside since the science 🧪 tells us that this is very much an indoor spreader
I think theres bigger issues at stake here than fun. More like no job no money no mortgage payment...
Is trudeau headed for jail
Less noise, pollution, waste, consumerism, everything....we should do this every year