Not much to offer in that article :( mostly rehashing the history of the pandemic. How about searching out effective programs or ideas from parts of the country? For example, is contact tracing ineffective everywhere in Canada, or are there some good examples that we can learn from? Seems this is mostly despair reporting masquerading as thoughtful analysis.
Yeah that's a fair comment. It is despair reporting... I honestly have run out of things to say on this thing. We don't seem any further ahead than we were in April. The only successful parts of the country are those places that had low case counts to begin with and basically shuttered their borders from the rest of us. The things that work, and the countries that have done those things, have been known since the summer. Contact tracing worked for a while in BC when their case counts were low and they were deliberately rationing testing. But they've started to lose control. At a certain point contact tracing becomes unworkable when each case has 50+ contacts. There are plenty of areas we can learn from -- it's been widely reported on. Our governments have proven to be incapable of implementing best practices from around the world.
Not much to offer in that article :( mostly rehashing the history of the pandemic. How about searching out effective programs or ideas from parts of the country? For example, is contact tracing ineffective everywhere in Canada, or are there some good examples that we can learn from? Seems this is mostly despair reporting masquerading as thoughtful analysis.
Yeah that's a fair comment. It is despair reporting... I honestly have run out of things to say on this thing. We don't seem any further ahead than we were in April. The only successful parts of the country are those places that had low case counts to begin with and basically shuttered their borders from the rest of us. The things that work, and the countries that have done those things, have been known since the summer. Contact tracing worked for a while in BC when their case counts were low and they were deliberately rationing testing. But they've started to lose control. At a certain point contact tracing becomes unworkable when each case has 50+ contacts. There are plenty of areas we can learn from -- it's been widely reported on. Our governments have proven to be incapable of implementing best practices from around the world.
I wonder why so few provinces have adopted the feds’ COVID contact tracing app? It seems to have been universally approved by privacy and IT folks.
I don't know about other provinces, but in Quebec the government won't allow the app because the data is collected by the feds.
(I know this comment was from two days ago and was accurate at the time BUT) thank goodness they've since changed their tune!
It's frustrating, people complain "We can't have another shutdown!" then follow it up with "I won't wear a mask, and you can't tell me too!"
I tire of the whinging by some people.