The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

It’s all a question of what we are willing to do. The virus moves with people, implementing controls on the movement of people does stop the virus. It is clear we are unwilling to implement the controls necessary to reach COVID zero, we are barely willing to implement controls that avert the most devastating outcomes. 

But make no mistake, there is nothing impossible here, this is a choice we have made.

I agree with ac3r that preventing the virus from getting into Canada at all would have been completely impractical. It was already spreading (outside of China!) in December, long before there were any serious alerts.

That said, much more could have been done to limit its spread within Canada.

"limit"...how about eliminate.

Yes, I'm not suggesting that we could have prevented it from coming here ever, but we could have pursued an extinction policy, we did not. That was a choice.