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Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (nCoV-2019)
- Thread starter AlvinofDiaspar
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AlbertC
Superstar
Scenes from Vancouver bars as they've begun to reopen over there:
dailyhive.com
What downtown Vancouver looked like on the weekend as some bars reopened | News
Vancouver's entertainment hubs looked a little closer to normal this past weekend as lineups formed to get into popular bars and other nightlife spots.
dailyhive.com
Jasmine18
Senior Member
Its only temporary and really if someone wants to come to Canada they can wait 8 hours.
Soop
Active Member
Two Jays aren't paying their condo rent.
Landlords for first baseman Rowdy Tellez and coach Mark Budzinski say they’re owed thousands of dollars rent
Landlords for first baseman Rowdy Tellez and coach Mark Budzinski say they’re owed thousands of dollars rent
lenaitch
Senior Member
Where? Pre-or-post customs? It would have to be a quarantine-type facility. Is there a spare hangar out there. Who pays? An eight hour turn-around means a dedicated lab. If somebody tests positive, does that 'taint' the whole room/flight? The folks that were repatriated at the beginning of this whole mess were quarantined for a couple of weeks (no testing). It seems we have trouble with testing and lab capacity as it stands. If such a thing came to pass I would change someone who "wants" to come to Canada to 'needs' to come to Canada.
Jasmine18
Senior Member
Countries much poorer then Canada have already established Corona test on all incoming flights, so the issue is more a lack of will in Canada to do things that require much effort I think.
First of all the passengers can be charged a large fee for the test and program to be covered in costs.
Second, we can easily do this if we are motivated... if we can give CERB to 8 million people in no time I think we can test a few thousand people a day.
Third, people who are socially distanced and wear masks have very limited risk of being infected.
Because What is the solution?
Right now the plan is to stay closed and then just let anyone in after a random date? Right now people are flying into Canada that are non-residents and are family of Canadians now with no test or nothing.
We will reduce community transmission to near zero soon and then we just going to let people come in to the country with Corona lol...
W. K. Lis
Superstar
In both the Canada, the COVID-19 tests are free. In the USA, the COVID-19 tests are "supposed" to be free.
Jasmine18
Senior Member
True but if a non-resident wants to come to Canada its more then fine to be charged a fee for a test.
That is why i think it would be fine as it would discourage most non essential travel to Canada anyways.
This is more about giving people who really need to travel an avenue.
AlbertC
Superstar
@Admiral Beez
I know your trip this summer has been called off, but here's some news about the theatre situation in London as FYI:
ca.finance.yahoo.com
I know your trip this summer has been called off, but here's some news about the theatre situation in London as FYI:
'Hamilton,' 'Phantom' will be off London stages until 2021
LONDON — Some of London’s biggest West End shows, including “Hamilton” and “The Phantom of the Opera,” won’t reopen until next year, producers announced Wednesday, as arts bodies warned that Britain faces a “cultural catastrophe” because of the coronavirus pandemic.Producer Cameron Mackintosh...
ca.finance.yahoo.com
I had a cruise booked for October and just got word that it has been cancelled. I was going to cancel anyway.
AlbertC
Superstar
Hope they provided a full refund instead of just credit for a future cruise.
125% credit for a future cruise or less than 100% credit -- I've only put down $50 at this point, so I'm not too worried.
TrickyRicky
Senior Member
Sunrise,
On a personal note re: are you depressed. Well I think much of the population is a little depressed. Me personally I’m doing well and lucky to not be personally impacted financially or health wise in my family or social circle.
No my recent posts aren’t motivated by depression or anxiety, they are motivated by anger and disappointment. I think it’s a great exercise in ferreting out the BS in our society, our weaknesses, our blind spots, our arrogance.
I use the word failure with specific intent. One of the idiosyncrasies of Canadian culture that bugs me (there are of course many positive ones as well) is the reflex to be defensive and deflect. I personally suffer from this. When there’s a problem or we did something wrong our first instinct is to defend our position and deflect to it being someone else’s fault or responsibility. If you doubt that this is cultural thing go make a complaint to a customer service representative in Canada, then go to Japan and do same.
Defend and deflect is what all our leadership in Canada is doing and it cost thousands of people their lives. Passivity over proactively cost thousands of people their lives and millions their livelihood. And we stuck it to the most marginalized and weak.
Nope, I apologize for my tone and I’ll get over it but I’m still pissed. Newsweek just came out with a list of the top hospitals in the world. Toronto was by far the standout with the most top rated hospitals in the world by far. Sounds great but put to the test our health system still failed.
On a personal note re: are you depressed. Well I think much of the population is a little depressed. Me personally I’m doing well and lucky to not be personally impacted financially or health wise in my family or social circle.
No my recent posts aren’t motivated by depression or anxiety, they are motivated by anger and disappointment. I think it’s a great exercise in ferreting out the BS in our society, our weaknesses, our blind spots, our arrogance.
I use the word failure with specific intent. One of the idiosyncrasies of Canadian culture that bugs me (there are of course many positive ones as well) is the reflex to be defensive and deflect. I personally suffer from this. When there’s a problem or we did something wrong our first instinct is to defend our position and deflect to it being someone else’s fault or responsibility. If you doubt that this is cultural thing go make a complaint to a customer service representative in Canada, then go to Japan and do same.
Defend and deflect is what all our leadership in Canada is doing and it cost thousands of people their lives. Passivity over proactively cost thousands of people their lives and millions their livelihood. And we stuck it to the most marginalized and weak.
Nope, I apologize for my tone and I’ll get over it but I’m still pissed. Newsweek just came out with a list of the top hospitals in the world. Toronto was by far the standout with the most top rated hospitals in the world by far. Sounds great but put to the test our health system still failed.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
You can't charge enough to come close to break-even for the administrative costs (and in the end, that cost would only be a rounding error in the govenment budget). If we care enough about biosecurity, we would do it even without a traveller's levy.
AoD
Jasmine18
Senior Member
Canadian politicians love Trump in that way...
Anything we do bad ,they did worse so they always look good in comparison.