Richard White
Senior Member
The feds here are telling Canadian citizens out of the country to get back, while they still can.
I give it a week or less before they seal the borders.
The feds here are telling Canadian citizens out of the country to get back, while they still can.
It's America what did you expect? Europe has their affairs in order but America is ass backwards when it comes to pretty much anything of importance.
Anyone with common sense would have held the planes at the gates and allowed them to be screened one at a time.
Maybe don’t fly during a pandemic? This thing‘s been out for over a month now, who are these people still flying?Turns out Canada is not doing much better either.
Maybe don’t fly during a pandemic? This thing‘s been out for over a month now, who are these people still flying?
Turns out Canada is not doing much better either.
The curve has not been flattened as of yet, and those travelers are at a serious risk of infection in those spaces!
This coronavirus chart shows what Canada is up against in trying to 'flatten the curve' - Macleans.ca
Inexplicably, the federal government is not publishing national infection numbers in a way that allows us to see the much-discussed curve. So we've done it for them.www.macleans.ca
Everyone should be practicing as much social distancing as possible for the next week or two as cases become exponential:
Social Distancing: This is Not a Snow Day
Originally published by Ariadne Labs on March 13, 2020medium.com
Some questions to ask:
- Why isn't there any temperature testing at the borders? (even though 11% may not show symptoms, it's still better than nothing)- all travelers got were literally touchscreens (what!) asking if they travelled to Wuhan!
- Why wasn't the citizenry alerted to the issue (discourage leisure and Snowbird travel in the last month) so they wouldn't dismiss it at the onset, and then panic rush back to Canada when things got bad?
- Why wasn't there any governmental actions taken on buy limits & implementing price controls for masks and sanitizers (resulting in large panic-buying situations where spread could easily occur, and scalpers could suck up supply?)
- Why wasn't the use of masks encouraged and a supply secured?
- Why aren't mandatory quarantines being enforced from countries with exponential spread, in light of our testing shortages? It was nearly by luck that we caught the first few cases from Iran- who knows if other cases might have slipped through (i.e. from Italy) and continued their everyday lives?
International travellers arriving at YVR say they're not seeing extra screening
The federal government announced several new travel advisories and restrictions related to the COVID-19 outbreak Friday, suggesting that Canadians avoid all non-essential international travel, including to the United States.bc.ctvnews.ca
IMO, we are hardly doing better than the US ATM- while Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan show how a curve can be flattened by social distancing, mask use, and border tightening.
Coronavirus Lessons From Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong
All three territories have kept their COVID-19 cases low despite strong links to Chinatime.com
As I said before we need to seal the borders, invoke the emergency measures act and suspend all civil liberties. Initiate a curfew and have anyone violating it locked up.
Shut down the country for 3 weeks.
This won't be solved until all modes of transport are closed and the movement of people ceased. Shut down all airports, via rail, GO transit and the TTC. Close all the gas stations too.
Make it difficult for people to move around and see how quickly the cases drop.