Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[EricHiggin]

SvennoJ said:

EricHiggin said:

Heard this the other day and wasn't all that surprised. Scotlynn is a massive farming and trucking operation here. With the many truckers coming in and out of the operation, it's totally possible it got spread to the migrant workers unknowingly. Plus typically, these workers are bused into town once a week for an evening so they can get supplies they need like food for the next week.

Many of the smaller farms here didn't bother bringing in help for this very reason. Too risky due to Covid 19 and too expensive for 'locals', especially considering it tends to take 2 locals to cover 1 migrant workers productivity. Scotlynn have giant contracts with big food corps they have to fulfill, so they will do what they have to, to meet those obligations, even if they have to take the financial hit this year.

Many of the vegetable fields are empty or being disked down. There's Gov bailout programs that a bunch of farmers are taking advantage of which will ease the pain somewhat, but if farming wasn't tough enough now, it's really going to take a big hit this year for some. 

Norfolk isn't very dense at all, even in the towns, so we'll see what happens in terms of it spreading.

Yeah apart from the fruit farms I did notice plenty empty fields around :/ I often cycle from Paris to Brantford then along the LE & N trail to Oakland, Waterford, Bloomsburg, Simcoe and sometimes on to Port Dover. Then back on Blueline road and old highway 24 along Wilsonville. Today I turned back in Waterford, pretty quiet there today. I usually see the migrant workers queued up at the bank in Waterford late summer.

It sucks for farmers, locals cost twice as much and do half the work. I wouldn't be any use at it either with my bad back. I can chop down trees into bits but anything low to the ground and after an hour I'm done for. Biggest challenge atm is to get rid of knotweed invading :/ Pita to dig it all out.

Anyway, with this outbreak and likely also as result from the gatherings in Toronto last week, Ontario is on the rise again.

Thanks to Quebec declining the national total is still going down.
Ontario is currently the biggest contributor in Canada.

Luckily Biddle himself can easily afford this problem overall. Ever been down Radical Road along the bluffs a couple km's outside of Port Dover?

This was a serious rumor going around for years.

Wanna guess who's property this really is? It ain't Elton, that's for sure.

Unfortunately while most scrape by gettin low, few sip Corona on high.

But ya, not good for the numbers. Going to have to avoid the Simcoe area as that's where the majority of migrants are taken for supplies. Very well may have spread to locals or other migrants in town and is present on other farms now.

If we ain't growing cancer sticks, or burning coal for power, we're spreading Covid I guess. Can't Norfolk do anything right?