Coronavirus: general links
BBC surveys the world’s response to the pandemic, and CBC asks what will happen in Canada when winter comes. Not local stories but I think they’re important.
Also, people keep arriving in Canada with Covid on flights from elsewhere. Contagion is a hell of a thing: just as we need to wear masks to protect others, as nations we need to impose measures, because the virus doesn’t care about national borders. Unfortunately Canada’s lying next to a huge infected beast that’s snorting in its sleep.
Ephraim 18:10 on 2020-08-11 Permalink
We need to set up Quarantine hotels for some of these people and warn them that they will be put into quarantine hotel… and if you are found violating quarantine, you will be put into quarantine hotel and have to pay for it. That should end some of the nonsense on the east and west coast. On the east cost, the American soldiers in Goose Bay are violating quarantine. On the west coast, there is the Alaska exemption, though they closed most of that up and there are now boats turning off their beacons to enter Canada… we need to sink them as pirate ships or we need to force them into a watched quarantine. Because clearly, you don’t honour our quarantine or care about our lives… and the fines aren’t serious enough… well, ban you for life after you finish 14 days under watch in a hotel that you have to pay for.
JaneyB 11:06 on 2020-08-12 Permalink
Agreed. I don’t understand why we aren’t doing this for people not staying with friends and relatives. A simple barracks-like accommodation would be fine. Right now Australia makes the arrivers foot their quarantine hotel bill. I think that’s a bit harsh.
Ephraim 12:12 on 2020-08-12 Permalink
There are plenty of hotels near the airport that would be glad to get some income and need to be refurbished anyway… it’s really a place where no one wants to stay anyway and definitely easy to quarantine, since no one wants to go and no where to go without a car.