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The superspreader events that governments let happen - Macleans.ca

“Canada’s largest superspreader events were in workplaces vulnerable to swift infection spread and where workers had little power to keep themselves completely safe.”
macleans.ca/society/health…

When BC’s provincial medical officergave the green light for skiers to hit Whistler’s slopes last Feb. 5, the resort town was already dealing with a lot of COVID-19 cases. 12,000 permanent residents & many seasonal staff, Whistler had had 547 infections the month previous,

That amounts to a rate of 2,193 cases per 100,000 people.

Quite QUITE extraordinary that a Chief Medical Officer would then given the green light to the season.

WTF is wrong with these people?

So MORE people travelled in.

Now it is riddled with P1 infection clusters

Same thing happened in Ontario.

Just about every business was categorised as “essential business”