The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

So let me get this straight, AFTER the single biggest family visit event of the entire year, and after the single biggest shopping season of the year, THEN we get locked down. That's a bit like closing the barn doors after the horses have left?

This is a greedy government, they want their cake and eat it too, and we're all going to suffer for it...some much more than others...some much MUCH more than others.

Just to note - it’s not greed, it’s cowardice. 

BTW, safe to assume that “essential” businesses will again include Costco’s and Walmart’s, big box hardware stores, dollar stores, liquor stores, etc, etc?

Some in Ottawa (zero in ICUs at the moment) are agitating for a 14 day lockdown, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.

Agreed on the above.

As I understand it, grocery stores will be 50% of capacity, big box will be 25%. Hardware stores curbside only. Liquor stores, no info yet. (I don't see why they could not open just the grocery parts of the big box stores and fence off the rest.)

As for the Ottawa ICU, you might yet end up getting patients transferred from other public health regions.