The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

And yet, travel from China was not the biggest problem. Ontario has had only five cases traced back to travel in China, seven for Italy and 18 for Iran, the three early hotspots. On the other hand there have been 64 cases from Mexico, 111 from the UK -- and 369 from the US.

Thanks for those numbers — I was unaware.

Interesting political problem — for my suggestion to have been useful it would have had to have been all borders, specifically and most importantly including the US border. On the other hand by now it would be obvious and undeniable to everyone that we were in the right — no out-of-control spread in Canada, cases all over the place in the US.

Exactly. The US border was a huge political problem, exacerbated by the current resident of the White House.