Cases in South Africa have decreased significantly since mid-January. They are now reporting less than ⅕ of their peak! Enough for them to transition from our “Needs Action” category to “Nearly There”. Congrats!
Open Letter on behalf of the Edmonton Independent Hospitality Community
"We are calling on all levels of government to adopt a Covid Zero plan. This will stop the cycle of bleed & bandage, and focus on a long term solution for real economic recovery.
"Our goal is and always has been for hospitality operators to get back to a point where we can meaningfully contribute to rebuilding the economy.
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"Adopting a Covid Zero strategy has worked to drastically reduce and in some cases eliminate Covid in other jurisdictions such as South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Australia and even here in the Atlantic provinces of Canada.
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Singapore continues to report effective control: today 20 imported quarantined cases and 2 community cases. No covid deaths since November 2020. Congrats!
Denmark has reported significant progress since December, cases are down by ~10X from peak.
However, progress in the last 10 days has come to a halt, with daily cases leveling off around 400.
New York State reports some progress, with new cases decreasing by over 30%, hospitalizations and deaths just starting to decrease.
Also, 9% of New Yorkers received at least one vaccine dose.
"The question is: what would you do in order to figure out what to do?..Maybe you would..try to pull on the hood or pull on the doors. Maybe you'd get a door open. But you probably might end up in the backseat just like you might end up in the front seat.
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"The purpose of complexity science, as I understand it, is to figure out what are the control variables in a problem. So if you knew that the steering wheel and the brakes and gas and the gearshift were the things that you need to control..you would know how to drive a car.
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Iceland reduced cases further in January, now averaging 3 new cases per day. Yesterday, only one domestic case was reported, which was already in quarantine. They have now delivered 5 doses of vaccine per 100 people.
"Health experts around the world are now re-evaluating their nations’ responses..as “mitigation policies” have failed to contain two waves of the pandemic — with a..wave of highly infectious variants on the way. thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/…
"By now every[one] knows what COVID mitigation looks like: imprecise lockdowns with no real targets followed by ill-timed openings that result in more exponential grief.
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"And then politicians, who look as dazed as Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, call for another round of lockdowns with no strategy and no goals.
"It’s a policy of constant déjà vu — all pain, no gain and more COVID-19.
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