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> It is frustrating as even now they are announcing stricter lockdown measures including checkpoints on highways between provincial regions. Is that serious? I
by 908B64B197 6y ago
> It is frustrating as even now they are announcing stricter lockdown measures including checkpoints on highways between provincial regions.
Is that serious? It has to be satire. I would expect that from places like Cuba, not a western democracy.
- reggieband 6y agoVideo for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8esnpGdkyY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8esnpGdkyY0
- TMWNN 6y agoWhat reggieband mentions began very early in the lockdown process: See the Atlantic bubble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bubble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bubble). Individual Australian states did the same thing. There such a thing is effective because only a handful of highway connections exist between states, and there is effectively no way for people to cross the desert outside the border crossings. It's not nearly as effective in Canada and, aside from constitutional issues, would be completely ineffective anywhere in the 48 contiguous states; even the most rural states have hundreds of interstate road connections, and it's possible to cross on your own almost anywhere else.
- mrep 6y agoI mean, France currently has a 7 PM curfew and until 3 days ago was restricting people to their own region and within 10 km of their residence: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-pm-confirms-covid-19-travel-restrictions-be-lifted-may-3-2021-04-22/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-pm-confirms-covi...
- blaser-waffle 6y agoBC is blocking off traffic from AB