People seemed confused about Manitoba’s household-only rule.

It’s not hard. Only see people you live with already.

Need care or need to provide care? You can still do that.

Share custody? Also fine.

Deliveries? Work on your house? Also fine.

The goal: don’t socialize.

Live alone?

You can designate one person you see. Ideally, that’s someone you already see.

Live alone and need care? You can still get that care.

The goal is to end unnecessary contacts.

Necessary contacts remain.

Don’t find a reason or excuse around this. That defeats the point.

If no one has close contacts outside their home for two weeks, the virus will largely stop spreading.

It’s a simple concept, but it is of course hard to execute.

Still wondering why you need to do this?

Test-positivity rates are very high. The virus, effectively, is everywhere.

Reducing contacts is the only way to slow this spread at this point.

Meanwhile, we already have dozens of COVID patients in ICUs.

Nurses and doctors and other health-care workers at the ICUs are working very long hours.

It’s not sustainable.

Meanwhile, we end up with two to six new hospitalizations for every 100 new cases.

So just stop seeing people you don’t need to see.

You did it in April when avoiding others wasn’t an order and there wasn’t much COVID around.

Do it now.

It *is* an order - and the virus is spreading everywhere.