COVID-19, it might be even longer.Even as bars reopen in Canada — a hotly contested decision that’s garnered mixed reaction — nightclubs remain frozen.
After all, how can you dance in close, confined quarters in a pandemic? Bars and nightclubs will be breeding grounds for COVID-19, experts say “As an industry, we’re just twisting in the wind,” Vancouver’s Celebrities Nightclub owner Nate Sabine told Global News Vancouver in May.
It’s one of Canada’s many venues feeling the pinch.“We were the first closed and we’re going to be the last to open.”Infectious disease experts are skeptical if nightclubs will be able to open at all before a vaccine, which could still be a year away.