The curve has not been flattened as of yet, and those travelers are at a serious risk of infection in those spaces!
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:
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?
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.
All three territories have kept their COVID-19 cases low despite strong links to China
time.com