NOW they restrict foreign travel?

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  1. Jolly Penguin

    Jolly Penguin Well-Known Member

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    This is infuriating. The horses have long left the barn and NOW the government decides to restrict international travel at our airports????

    So we have crippled the economy by allowing the virus and now the UK and African mutations into the country.... Demanding stores restrict their hours, close down shops for stretches of time, and they tell us all not to see our families for the holidays....

    All because they didnt make any effort to stop the virus (and new variants) from coming here??? Leaving the front door wide open to travel to and from higher infected areas of the world?

    I know 2 different people who went on international vacations this year. Just for fun. Why was that allowed but shops forced closed????

    Had we put a clamp on international travel all along, and shut down social gathering for just a few weeks, could be living in a post or never was covid Canada right now. Other countries did it.

    I am disgusted at both my prime minister and my premier. At first i blamed only Trudeau, because airports are federal jurisdiction, but now i see Ford taking measures at the airports for mandatory and enforced quarantine. He should have done that immediately, as covid was first discovered and people came home. Instead he allowed them to spread it, and here we are a year later and still closures.

    These governments traded avoiding some complaints of want to be tourists for so many deaths and lasting adverse health effects.

    WTF?????

    Also, Ford put out restrictions on when stores could be open, forcing more people to go at the same time, creating crowding instead of distancing, and claiming it would curtail the virus with no explanation how.

    Our huge national and provincial parks have also been closed. How does THAT make any sense?
     
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    Spot on, same in the UK where last week they finally restricted it. I was fuming at the weekend reading about a group of people at Heathrow returning from a Yoga retreat! Meanwhile people are being fined in Cornwall for watching sunsets in their car!
     
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    I was in Canada (Ontario) in the fall. I had a local cop come to the door where I was quarantining and, through our conversation, I learned that just less than 40% of the people who were supposed to be in quarantine were not at home when he visited. I asked what he did about it and he shrugged. No consequences. And I just heard about the LTC home in Barrie where 40+ residents have died - one of the employees was living in a house with a family member who was quarantining there after a trip to the UK. The entire family became infected with the new variant.

    So, people aren't following rules. I agree that Trudeau has shown that he has no balls and is afraid to make the hard decisions. Ford too. Consequently, they haven't imposed consequences for those who are not following rules. But now, it seems they've swung in the opposite direction with the hotel quarantine (at the travelers own expense) and the shut down of the four airlines that travel to Mexico and the Caribbean. Basically, I think they are trying to make it too painful to travel and will discourage spring breakers from heading south.
     
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    Yes. Exactly. It never should have been voluntary. It never should have been about discouraging travel. They should have grounded the planes full out, way back. That they didn’t means the rest of us who don’t go on those fancy vacations have to suffer both in health risks and in our businesses.
     
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    I was very critical of their 'lockdown' decisions. It's hardly a lockdown when liquor stores are open. And now - with the stay at home orders - walmart and costco are open. I would be fine with that if only their grocery sections were open, but they have created unfair advantages for these large stores when smaller competitors (for clothing/appliances/tvs etc\) are ordered closed.
     
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    It was also funny when Ford was shutting things down or not by region, with regions right next to each other. He didn’t know we have cars? He didn’t block the highways or even monitor them. So the people of Toronto could go to Barrie to get a haircut and bring the virus with them (which is likely what happened).
     
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    And now in the UK we have another new variant the South African, people in certain areas will now have door to door testing and even more rigorous lock down, Governments have failed the people all around the world.
     
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    Liquor stores are considered "essential". I guess people need their fix no matter what or because of what is going on.

    Our local WalMart has closed off the garden and clothing sections of the store but I think that's mainly because people were milling about shopping as if nothing was happening. I believe this was done at the store level versus a company-wide mandate. They also stopped taking any food returns so those of us that got bad meat (or other unusable food items) are just out of luck.

    Nevertheless, I absolutely agree that it's a double-standard for certain small businesses to be closed while big box stores with the same items can be open. Some of those smaller businesses are having to close permanently and that's not right.
     
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    Very good points..... I essentially agree with your concerns but....... there is some positive information coming out of Australia.

    I could be wrong.... I often am but.... I am of the opinion that if all of the residents of a certain seniors facility in Ontario had been given Ivermectin as a preventative....... what would have occurred would have been very, very, very different indeed?





    Ivermectin treatment caused 'amazing improvement': Melbourne COVID patients




    https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2...b4Pf-NBUMuMSshToa23ER3SMjTC6nihj0_W0_DIOFKrrU

    66 residents have died at Roberta Place long-term care home


    I could be wrong... I often am... but it is obvious that BigPharma is one of the major remaining advertisers keeping CNN and Fox News afloat....... so of course.... they use their economic clout to shove the government officials in Canada and the USA toward the VACCINES that could well earn BigPharma somewhere in the range of one trillion dollars!
     
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