EricHiggin said:
That's a pretty odd way to look at the world. Another country, or countries in this case, make terrible decisions, leading to your country suffering because of it, and all you care about is blaming your own leadership? If I were the leader of another country, especially a lousy leader, people with that type of mindset worldwide would be my best friends. No matter how bad I screw up, I can do little to no wrong. Speed past go, collect however much I want. I wonder why other countries don't go out of their way more often to trouble America? Ok, but at least it wasn't a poor one that needed to be corrected this time. |
I don't know how you feel about it, but I've stated plenty times that I was not happy with the slow response of our country. Canada kept listing the risk to Canadians as low for the longest time, with simply the advice to watch for symptoms and then self isolate for 2 weeks.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu (Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont.) said repeatedly in the early stages of the novel coronavirus outbreak that cautioning against travel to infected countries, or closing Canada’s border to them, wouldn’t help protect Canadians from the virus, and in fact could make things worse.
She continued to say so until at least March 9; a week later, the government started to shut the border to nearly all foreign travellers.
Noon March 18th Trudeau finally closed the borders, however not yet to the US where half of our virus imports came from. Midnight March 20th that was closed down as well. However returning Canadians simply got the advise to stay home for 2 weeks, no checks, no tests, some simply went back to work anyway with symptoms. Testing was very slow to get under way, people with symptoms were simply turned away if they didn't fit the profile, basically suppressing any signs of community spread.
All we can say is, we didn't screw up as badly as the US... Luckily it's going better already in BC, Alberta is currently finding more cases but still far below Ontario and Quebec. It's still very manageable here, the curve is flat, but still refuses to go down. Ontario's state of emergency has been extended again, schools won't reopen now until June.
To that end, Ford said his government would issue a new order Tuesday night deploying more workers to long-term care homes. There are currently 93 outbreaks in such facilities across the province.
Public Health Ontario said there have been 135 deaths in the homes, 813 cases of COVID-19 among residents and 437 cases among staff.
The order will also make it mandatory that staff only work at one facility, Ford said _ something several health-care worker unions have been requesting for weeks.
Yep I'm concerned with how our own government is screwing things up. At least we have that fast testing kit coming and research on using anti bodies from surviving blood donors. And it seems most people are taking it seriously.
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