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I presume you have never been in Europe. There barely any borders to close and a lot of people live in one country and work in another. You can’t block that for
by tinus_hn 6y ago
I presume you have never been in Europe. There barely any borders to close and a lot of people live in one country and work in another. You can’t block that for a year.
In Baarle Nassau in the Netherlands there is a store, and half of it is in the Netherlands and half of it is in Belgium.
By the way, air travel has been ~0 for a year now. Unfortunately it has not in fact stopped the pandemic. Must be the no true lockdown: if it doesn’t work we just say it wasn’t strict enough.
- retrac 6y agoCanada closed some of the internal borders between its provinces; something that has never happened before. Some road blocks, some of its based simply on the honour system. Here in Ontario, I cannot legally visit anywhere east of Quebec right now without quarantining on arrival for 2 weeks. And some remote communities are literally barricaded from entry.
- tinus_hn 6y agoWow! No wonder Canada beat covid-19. Oh wait, they didn’t. But at least they are in the worst economic depression in decades.
- retrac 6y agoThe regions that did quarantine themselves like that (the Atlantic provinces) are in fact doing much better than the rest of the country. Newfoundland is in near-total suppression. Though unlike some others in this thread I do believe being an island is helpful, even if just psychologically.
- chasd00 6y agoi don't know why you're being downvoted. This statement is true "Must be the no true lockdown: if it doesn’t work we just say it wasn’t strict enough." any criticism of the lockdowns is met with "you didn't lockdown enough".
- leesalminen 6y agoWhen someone says "you didn't lockdown enough", I hear “you didn’t destroy enough people’s livelihoods”.