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I'm not sure how to respond to this other than to say it is patently untrue. Not least, Canada had a government that admitted the virus existed and might be a
by tobyjsullivan 5y ago
I'm not sure how to respond to this other than to say it is patently untrue.
Not least, Canada had a government that admitted the virus existed and might be a problem. Following that, we had a coordinated national effort to combat it rather than a laissez-faire approach of letting every state do as they please (which often meant nothing at all in many states).
Canada's approach was hardly bullet-proof but claiming the countries' responses were identical could not be further from the truth.
- refurb 5y agoThis isn’t accurate at all. Each province was pretty much doing their own thing. BC didn’t even have a mask mandate until late last year. The federal govt requires a quarantine when arriving by plane but thousands have said “no” (how is that possible) and been threatened with a fine that costs the same or slightly more than quarantine. It’s been a major cock up.
- TMWNN 5y ago>Following that, we had a coordinated national effort to combat it rather than a laissez-faire approach of letting every state do as they please (which often meant nothing at all in many states). As refurb said, this is completely wrong. Canada is decentralized (yes, including its healthcare system) like the US. Ottawa didn't mandate the Atlantic Bubble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bubble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bubble), for example; the Atlantic provinces set it up on their own. Ontario's recent lockdown—far stricter than occurred anywhere in the US, as I understand it—is just that, in Ontario.