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Well they finally got off their donkeys and are suspending inbound travel from India and Pakistan for 30 days. Marvelous. Did they suspend outbound travel, nope, so 31 days from now all that decided to go on "essential travel" will be coming back, probably infected.
Kinda like closing the gate when the horse is already gone.....?
That there is what you would call a half-axx measure.
They must have gotten permission from jagmeet?
Total failure of our federal government to protect Canadians and our borders.
VERY TRUE on both accounts.Quote:
Originally Posted by canadaman30
Come on you silly people...the Village Idiot is part owner of the Airlines now...it's bad for business to stop them from flying. After all, he put in place the strictest quarantine rules in the world..he makes them promise to quarantine when the get off the virus infected airplane.
Like people who didn't give a crap in the first place and travelled to a Covid Hotspot during a pandemic will actually stay inside for 14 days when the return.
I posted this on another thread but thread is probably a better fit.
Wow, they slam the door on air travel from India, too many infected flights were arriving with a new virus strain. Sound like a remarkable thing that they've done. The fact is what our government is doing is actually aiding and abetting the spread of the virus with a co-conspirator the airline industry. For the next month or whatever, you can't fly directly from India into Canada. The remarkable thing is that does not appear to prevent anyone from taking an indirect route from India into Canada. You simply hop a flight for a country where there is no restrictions on flights to Canada and fly from there into Canada. If you have a number of asymptomatic carrier of the virus, with this approach the virus will eventually arrive and further spread in Canada. It appears that the PM of New Zealand understood this could happen, when she placed a moratorium on all flights into New Zealand. How could Mr. Trudeau have missed her lead on this matter?
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they didnt solve anything with the india travel restriction. its only direct flights that are not allowed. you can easily get a indirect flight and still come.
Keep the golf courses closed and the international airports open. That should stop the spread.
Yea, lots of spread at boat launches too......NOT!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ysyg
Have they stopped inbound flights from Brazil (or other places that have a major COVID issues, especially variants)?
Stopping flights to reduce the spread of variants is a futile gesture. If the preferred evolutionary path of the virus is blocked by restricting air travel, we'll make our own variants here.
Why aren't people catching on to this?
There was a documented case last year in where they extracted different variants from one person during the course of his infection and treatment, and he eventually died. Every time they tried to treat him, the virus would mutate, eventually following the same evolutionary path to the UK variant. In one person!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...tudy-1.5298356
Hordes of infected people walking around, coupled with hordes of half vaccinated people also walking around, and we wonder where variants come from.
Again, picture a dog chasing its tail.
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I think there are two "objectives" at play here ... the FIRST is to try and reduce the active COVID cases so we can re-open up our economy, before Turdeau drowns us in too much debt to ever come back from. This would have us close airports to get things under control ... this would also have us place much more stricter measures on factories to reduce the primary transmission that is happening right now (the core root of most transmissions to date, from what I've heard).Quote:
Originally Posted by GW11
On the other hand, the SECOND issue at steak is to adapt human beings to this new virus ... if that is the right way to put it, so we don't have to indefinitely keep dealing with variants and shutting down our economy for decades to come. In essence, flights or no flights ... those mutations will happen, and I don't know how to stop that unless we are able to fully vaccinate the entire world against all living variants of the COVID virus. I don't see that ever happening ... so this thing is going to mutate, whether you shut down airports or not ... and therefore, we need to find ways to predict the mutations that will dominate a "flu cycle" like the current flu shots ... and get people vaccinated before significant numbers reach our country ... otherwise, I don't know what our new normal will look like. And my point is ... closing airports or not doesn't really help this point, but closing airports DOES help my first point (at least short to medium term opening of the economy) ... so why not shut down airports?