“OK, good,” McCaughey, 63, remembers thinking, as he logged onto the Toronto public health website Thursday to check his test results. But less than an hour before the gathering, one of her sisters tested positive. But instead of preparing food to take to family over the weekend, he was busy turning the Christmas dinner he’d been planning — and cooking — into care packages for the residents of a local homeless shelter. Every day, she said, she gets another call from someone who either has COVID or knows somehow who just tested positive. Even though he’d planned initially to spend the holidays mostly alone — he’s a separated dad without much family — he’d grown excited about having plans.

Source: The Star December 26, 2021 21:39 UTC