Have your say: COVID-19 restrictions at Cayuga Arena

To the Editors,

There is an old saying: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

On Tuesday, November 3, I travelled in the morning to Stoney Creek for a meeting. As I entered the building, with the requisite mask, I used the hand sanitizer located in front of the elevator, placed there to prevent contamination of the call button. At the office for the meeting, a bottle of hand sanitizer was located just inside the door.

Similar procedures were followed at Montana’s in St. Catharines where I met a friend for lunch, in Niagara Falls when I went to a lawyer’s office, and at First Ontario in Cayuga where I did some banking.

When I arrived at Cayuga Arena to meet some members of the local track club planning to use the walking track, I expected the same procedure. Instead, there was no sanitizer, no taking of temperature, no questionnaire as to symptoms – only an attendant taking my name and phone number. The purpose of that, apparently, is to allow notification of those present if anyone on the list exhibited future symptoms. This struck me as an example of the relationship between free-running horses and open barn doors.