The flouting of public health recommendations, the on-and-off adherence to safety guidelines, the bending of rules to break isolation—these are not new phenomena when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic. The behavior was being observed during the first wave, in the spring of 2020, and has continued consistently over most of the year. In general, though, a solid 50 percent of Quebecers have strictly observed the provincial government’s directives to remain physically distant from one another.