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Sort of good news, farmers are hiring locals to help with the planting season
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/farmers-hire-locals-as-pandemic-puts-pause-on-migrant-labour
Unfortunately we're stuck with Ford in Ontario
The medical officer of health in the Kingston area — where the proportion of cases is less than one quarter of the provincial average — wrote to Premier Doug Ford this week asking him to consider a regional approach to easing restrictions
But Ford has now ruled out any geographic differences in phasing out pandemic measures.
In Quebec, restrictions will be lifted last in Montreal, which has been far harder hit by the novel coronavirus than the rest of the province. Businesses outside the Montreal area have already been allowed to reopen and elementary schools in the rest of Quebec are set to resume classes May 11, two weeks before any restrictions are due to be phased out in Montreal.
"We're asking the province to consider a regional approach to the easing of restrictions in places where the COVID-19 situation is evolving differently than other parts of the province," reads the letter from Kingston's top public health doctor, Kieran Michael Moore.
It was jointly signed by the city's mayor and the municipal leaders of the neighbouring counties of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington.
"If we look at the road that's ahead of us, having to live with this virus for the next year and a half, a one-size-fits-all approach may not be the best," Kingston Mayor Bryan Paterson said in a phone interview Thursday.
The regional differences in the impact of the novel coronavirus are most apparent when comparing northern Ontario with the rest of the province. The seven public health units north of Muskoka — an area with a population of nearly 800,000 people — currently report a combined total of just 42 active cases of COVID-19. No long-term care home in northern Ontario has had a cumulative total of more than seven confirmed cases.
But this week, Ford firmly nixed the notion of treating any part of the province differently from the rest. "The answer's no," Ford said in reaction to the request from Kingston. "We have to run the province as one unit."
Ontario is over a million square kilometers in size, about the size of France and Germany combined with very low population density in the North.
Anyway at least he's focusing on where social distancing is most important and while likely not waiting until community spread is eliminated in the more densely populated areas (things are opening up again already) the more remote areas have a good chance of actually getting rid of it (for a while at least)
Regional measure do make more sense though, Quebec is handling that part better, however they are also opening up too soon imo.
