11-13-2020, 11:28 AM
(11-13-2020, 10:38 AM)tomh009 Wrote: I personally believe that the biggest infection vector (in Ontario, at least) currently is private social gatherings. I do wish we had some good data from contact tracing to clarify this; if they have some data about this, they haven't been sharing much.
Unfortunately, private social gatherings are one of the hardest things for the government to control. A full lockdown -- essentially self-isolation for everyone -- would do it, but we didn't go that far even in the spring. Really, this is simple for people to do, but apparently too many people really don't care (it's hard to imagine that very many people would be unaware of this risk or of the rampaging infections).
This seems to be the case. But as you said, it'd be hard to enforce this. I do not see how we could achieve it over here. It is simple to do in principle, but not in actual practice. It was possible in countries like China when they were able to put massive amounts of police on the streets and watch CCTV, Italy when they had the Carabinieri keeping people inside, blocking highways and NYC which has a police force that rivals many militaries of the world. It was simple to do there and they would fine you really high if you wanted to disobey the rules. I'm not sure how well we could keep people inside and away from each other here, though, without high fines and police out there making sure people aren't throwing private gatherings.