Clearview Chamber Of Commerce
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Stayner, Ontario L0M 1S0
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LETTER FROM CHARLES GARDNER OF SMDHU TO BUSINESSES
Dear Chamber Members,
Below please find the link to a letter from Charles Gardner, Medical Officer of Health for the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, on his decision to move our area back into the Grey-Lockdown zone. The letter is dated March 1st.
Paul Markle, Executive Director of the Barrie Chamber of Commerce, has been in direct communication with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit to voice his concerns about the detrimental effect on our businesses being back in the Grey-Lockdown zone once again. Paul has also reached out to our Chamber separately to encourage us to lend our voice to the cause of taking us out of Grey-Lockdown and instead, finding a different, less detrimental way, to curb the spread of the COVID-19 UK variant. The Barrie Chamber feels the better course of action is to move us back to a modified red zone that allows all businesses to stay open, but still restricts the capacity for grocery and large retail. The Clearview Chamber will be writing a letter to our elected officials in support of this suggestion.
Please click the link below to read the letter Charles Gardner which addresses the community and businesses' concerns about going back into the Grey-Lockdown zone. There are also some excerpts from his letter underneath.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16hD0GXfQxwKF9z4hXPXXjfGew1Mjw8rj/view?usp=sharing
”With the announcement of the Grey-Lockdown in Simcoe Muskoka, many business owners and other citizens affected by this have reached out to me to express their deep concerns of the impacts on businesses including the endangerment of businesses and people’s livelihood, the negative impacts on physical and mental health, the loss of access to cherished activities, and the inequity of this designation when considering the designation in neighbouring locations. They have also questioned the necessity of this designation, in particular in Muskoka, which is much less heavily impacted by COVID-19, as well as the apparent ineffectiveness of such restrictions in preventing people from more heavily impacted areas in the GTA from coming here. I am also aware of the concerns of this nature raised on social media, and in an online petition.
I wish to assure you that I read the emails that I received and take them very seriously. I have also reviewed this matter with some of our local mayors, and with Paul Markle, Executive Director for the Barrie Chamber of Commerce. With their breadth of knowledge, I gained a deeper appreciation of the impacts of these restrictions on businesses and on people’s lives. I regret the difficulty that is caused by our response to the pandemic, even as we strive to reduce the illness and the deaths that occur from this tragic pandemic. The pandemic has been extremely difficult on us all.”
”I wish to thank those who have reached out to me and provided me with your insights. This will help inform my decisions and my recommendations as we move forward in managing the pandemic.”
Stay vigilant so we can stay open!
Clearview Chamber of Commerce
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