Infection rates in Ontario are edging down after nearly six weeks of the latest lockdown, and the Premier has just announced that families will be allowed to go camping in provincial parks this summer if they stay away from other people.

I always thought that was the whole point of recreational camping, but I could be wrong.

The current stay-home order, the third (or maybe the fourth?), is scheduled to be lifted on 2 June. When the previous lockdown ended just before Easter, it took less than two weeks for the public health authorities to slam the province shut again as infection rates spiked in all the cities, the dreaded variants made their debut, and young people began showing up in ICUs.

So we'll see.