Richard White
Senior Member
I give it a week or less before they seal the borders.
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Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (nCoV-2019)
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I give it a week or less before they seal the borders.
salsa
Senior Member
Richard White
Senior Member
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.
Johnny Au
Senior Member
For at least three weeks, I will have to work from home since my workplace is closed due to the virus (I normally work in an office).
salsa
Senior Member
TheKingEast
Senior Member
Yup. That was me last week. I couldn’t believe it. Such a massive fail that will have far reaching economic implications. I’m resigned to the fact that I’m likely going to take a significant financial hit.
AlbertC
Superstar
Latest updates as of Sat, March 14, 2020 EOD:
www.thestar.com
- Urban Outfitters says it’s temporarily closing its brick-and-mortar stores, including those in Canada, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada, courtesy of The Canadian Press: 260 confirmed (11 cases resolved). Ontario: 106 confirmed (five cases resolved); British Columbia: 73 confirmed, including one death (six cases resolved); Alberta: 39 confirmed; Quebec: 24 confirmed; New Brunswick: Two confirmed; Manitoba: Four confirmed; Saskatchewan: Six presumptive; Prince Edward Island: One confirmed; Newfoundland and Labrador: One presumptive; with an additional four confirmed cases among Canadians quarantined at CFB Trenton.
- Saskatchewan has identified four new presumptive cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to six.
Saskatchewan confirms four new cases of COVID-19; Urban Outfitters closes North American stores; Donald Trump tests negative;
The latest novel coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday.
www.thestar.com
AlbertC
Superstar
Union representing workers at Casino Woodbine calls for its closure amid COVID-19 outbreak
‘The possibility of disease being spread is quite high,” says president of Local 533 PSAC
Desmond Brown · CBC News · Posted: Mar 14, 2020 7:28 PM ET
‘The possibility of disease being spread is quite high,” says president of Local 533 PSAC
Desmond Brown · CBC News · Posted: Mar 14, 2020 7:28 PM ET
Jasmine18
Senior Member
Reading many stories of people violating quarantines around the world and frankly people still gathering in large Gatherings not practicing social distance thing.
I imagine a lot of democratic countries are going to become more authoritarian over the next few months
I imagine a lot of democratic countries are going to become more authoritarian over the next few months
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Maybe don’t fly during a pandemic? This thing‘s been out for over a month now, who are these people still flying?
AlbertC
Superstar
For the record, you were the person who was still interested in looking into cruises less than two weeks ago. Just sayin...
Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (nCoV-2019)
I just received an email from Norwegian (I've cruised with them in the past). All new bookings can be easily cancelled for a 100% credit for a future cruise. As for bringing a book in case of quarantine, it's not that peachy. Listen to some of the people who were quarantined in a 10x10 room for...
jje1000
Senior Member
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, 2020
medium.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, mandatory quarantines, 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 China
Richard White
Senior Member
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.
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, 2020
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.
Northern Light
Superstar
Worth saying here, transmission in China and Italy occurred after quarantines in large numbers, particularly within families.
If your single; quarantine/self-isolation can work quite well.
If you're household is limited to healthy people at or lower than middle age, it can work quite well.
If you're a multi-generational household, probably not so much.
Quarantine is not a magic bullet.
Nor is it entirely practical.
You think, we can do w/o transit; but how many nurses and doctors take transit to work; how long can you really deal w/o garbage pickup, before its a problem, especially in apartments.
etc etc.
There are number of services that simply can't not run for any length of time without creating their own public health dilemma.
We should be addressing situations where that isn't true, more effectively.
Casinos, and the non-food portion of malls should generally shutter.
Everyone should get paid personal days, immediately, by government fiat, even if only as an interim measure.
We need to get more test kits and not curtail testing, as is being discussed.
Jasmine18
Senior Member
That is why shutting down the borders is better. ^^^
You can cut off new chains of infections and focus on the ones in canada.
You can cut off new chains of infections and focus on the ones in canada.