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Canada PM Trudeau says borders to be closed

Mon 16 Mar 2020 17:40:41 GMT
 

Canadian announcements on travel and borders

Canadian announcements on travel and borders
 
Trudeau closes the borders. Says non-citizens and those who aren't permanent residents will be denied entry. Americans will be exempted as will air crews and family members of citizens.
 
Canada will also ban passengers showing symptoms from getting on planes bound for Canada. This includes Canadians. Starting Wednesday only four airports in the country will accept international flights, except for the US, Mexico and the Caribbean.
 
There are no restrictions on commerce and trade.
 
Trudeau also announced that more measures are coming to support people and businesses tomorrow. He promised $10 billion more to help businesses and announcements to make money available to vulnerable families.
 
Trudeau urges all Canadians to come back. "If you're abroad, now is the time to come home," he said. He tells all returning Canadians to self-isolate for 14 days.
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Just now, Phil_314 said:

Weak policy.  Keeping it open to the States is going to screw us pretty hard, who knows how many carriers there are from there??

Maybe if ya’ll would stop buying all the damn toilet paper we wouldn’t need shipments from our brothers in the south ...

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Just now, Phil_314 said:

Weak policy.  Keeping it open to the States is going to screw us pretty hard, who knows how many carriers there are from there??

They're implementing an honour system. People will be asked if they have coronavirus symptoms. What a joke.

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1 minute ago, John.Tallhouse said:

Maybe if ya’ll would stop buying all the damn toilet paper we wouldn’t need shipments from our brothers in the south ...

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We produce plenty in Canada. We have the Kruger (Scott) plant in New West. We're not gonna run out any time soon.

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2 minutes ago, Phil_314 said:

Weak policy.  Keeping it open to visitors from the States is going to screw us pretty hard, who knows how many carriers there are from there??

Only if we fail to screen properly.  The narrowing of all incoming public through 4 airports will help for sure.

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Just now, HKSR said:

Only if we fail to screen properly.  The narrowing of all incoming public through 4 airports will help for sure.

They're ASKING people if they have symptoms at the border.

First off, people can lie. Second off, people don't show symptoms immediately.
We already are failing to screen properly.

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1 hour ago, gurn said:

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-people-higher-risk-2020-2

 

Chart of death rate  by age.

10-19 yrs       .2%

20-29             .2%

30-39             .2%

40-49             .4%

50-59             1.3 %

60-69             3.6%

70-79             8%

80+                14.8%           

 

So as I said, it is killing children, and young adults in their prime, just not at the much higher rate for the rest of the people.

 

It’s killing the weak and sickly.  Those who are dying, like with any flu, have underlying medical issues, especially respiratory.  And these are numbers based on those who were tested, and were positive.  100 times more people carry the virus with minor or now symptoms.  

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5 minutes ago, Green Building said:

Do your own due diligence, stop interacting with people. It's going to be a tough few weeks/months, but take some initiative for your own actions, like we all should at times like this.

I've been doing that pro bono ::D
For real though, I just hope everyone starts taking these precautions soon to minimize how long this terrible period will last. 

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