OTTAWA, April 17 — “Stay the blazes home”: The salty call by the premier of Canada's Atlantic coast province of Nova Scotia has become a rallying cry in the coronavirus pandemic fight. The comment during a televised Covid-19 briefing last week by Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil, exasperated by...
'Stay the blazes home,' the colloquial call by Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil has become a rallying cry for Canada's coronavirus pandemic fight April 16, 2020. — Nova Scotia Coomunications pic via AFP
The catchphrase also inspired a rock song by Canadian artists The Stanfields, a few Celtic ditties, and an ale by Garrison Brewing of Halifax that claims to be, like the premier, “refreshingly unfiltered.”“Stay the blazes home. Think about the common good. Stay the blazes home. If you got the inkling. You wanna go to town. Remember there's a nasty bug going around,” The Stanfields sang in a home-made music video posted online.
Socks, hoodies, and underwear with McNeil's face on them and the phrase printed on the waistband have also been hot sellers. In his daily briefings, he has hammered: “stay home and follow public health protocols,” while criticizing long lines of shoppers at grocery stores that have remained open, and shaming “reckless and selfish” people who gathered for house parties during the government-ordered lockdown.
Drone images of eerily empty Halifax streets by public broadcaster CBC appeared to show the message was finally getting through.“It worked,” he told AFP. “Everyone heard the message and are now following the advice of the premier.”
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