You either have the virus or you don't

[impact]

"Lesser humans, including international students, temporary workers and foreign tourists, still have to produce a full-on PCR test to enter Canada. That test could have been conducted before they left Canada, so long as the result isn't more than 72 hours old, which is not as stupid as it might seem: If you catch COVID during 72 hours abroad, you're very unlikely to test positive before hour 73. But it also highlights how irrelevant crossing a border is to all this: You either have the virus or you don't."

"That being the case, at Friday afternoon's press conference in Ottawa, Global News reporter David Akin asked newly minted Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos for some medical justification for treating fully vaccinated Canadians coming back from brief American excursions differently than fully vaccinated Americans coming to visit. Duclos essentially repeated the day's announcement and punted to Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam to provide evidence based on health and science."


"Such evidence was not forthcoming. "So, I think, um, some of it is not as much the science as it is the operational consideration, as I understand it," she ventured."

"In other words: "This is pure politics, don't look at me."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chr...ans-for-idiots