While Canada continues to import cases via the dozens of international arrivals daily, perhaps if we’re lucky by October the CBSA will catch onto the whole asymptomatic/presymptomatic thing.
Take the UP express, subway then 3 buses, what could go wrong?
The transparency and data release is foreign to what we could expect here.
Yes, NZ is a small country. It’s also done this better than pretty much any other country in the world.
@Travisdhanraj here’s something to ask about at those pressers!
We’re going to waste the sacrifices made by everyone, including the disastrous economic fallout and $340B deficit, and have more deaths if @JustinTrudeau and @HonAhmedHussen do not protect our borders with greater diligence and strengthen testing requirements for arrivals.
@JennyKwanBC and @KentThornhillMP should be pressing for the public reporting of int’l arrival data including numbers, category (cit/pr vs the “immediate family” allowance), COVID+ cases and data on CBSA isolation auditing for ex. # arrivals contacted.
Too much has been lost.
It’s worth noting New Zealand’s “immediate family” definition is kids and partners.
@liberal_party must be cognizant of health resource implications of allowing older parents of CIT/PR entry during a pandemic disproportionately affecting that precise age group esp in 2nd wave
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It seems Air Canada has managed to convince the federal government to employ rapid testing as an opt out of quarantine on the basis of preliminary results from a massively flawed study.
First, Australia and New Zealand remain the gold standards for the “Western world” in regards to COVID response. Both had mandatory hotel (not home w/relatives) quarantine at port of arrival, before going anywhere, mandatory testing AND drastically reduced int’l flights. 2/n
Australia diverted ALL international flights out of Victoria when Melbourne’s numbers skyrocketed in 2nd wave and cut total international arrivals by 40% concurrent with other restrictions. This is what happened after. 3/n
As noted in the editorial, “elective” is often a misnomer. I saw a neighbour go from walking dogs kilometres at when referred to ortho for a joint replacement to essentially immobile by the time of surgery nearly 2 years later. This is in the GTA. Haven’t seen him out since. 2/n
The BC Supreme Court in the Day case acknowledged that Charter rights to security of person can be infringed when health worsens due to wait list delays. So what is an “elective surgery”? 3/n
Anybody trumpeting their Cambie decision as some sort of victory needs to read this.
“ I have also found...provisions have the effect of limiting the right to security of the person individuals who are suffering from degenerative/deteriorating conditions and waiting for...
...elective surgery in the public system beyond their wait time benchmarks associated with their diagnostic priority codes, even though the patients are available for surgery...
Specifically, some of these patients will experience prolonging and exacerbation of pain and diminished functionality as well as increased risk of not gaining full benefit from surgery.
Disappointed to see the continued racist depictions of BIPOC victims of crime in the mainstream Canadian media after @CTVToronto@CP24 and @CBCNews used a mugshot in stories of a murder victim in Toronto meanwhile this is how white suspects of murder were depicted last year.
Yet this is how someone who killed a cyclist while driving impaired is depicted after allegedly violating parole while speeding up a major highway impaired again. Has anyone seen Marco Muzzo’s mugshot?
Here’s CP24’s depiction of a smiling serial killer Bruce McArthur.
The author of this piece is listed as the author of the (now edited) Mohamed Sow piece linked from the @CP24 tweet:
This might be the single most asinine thing I’ve seen written by an individual with *some* subject matter expertise in the last 3 months. It’s in relation to the #sickkids report on school opening precautions.
It’s comically hypocritical as the author of this statement appears to have absolutely no background in child health or education whatsoever, but claims to be able to weigh the impact of months on end better than report authors who are ID docs AND paediatricians.
Nothing to see here folks, totally inconsequential.
(>20% of kids in Toronto love below the poverty line, nearing 50% in some wards)