Quote:The small community on the St. Lawrence has zero active cases, but locals aren't letting down their guard down

• they wear masks
  
• they maintain physical distancing
  
• they disinfect common-use surfaces after every use
  
• they've closed the local theatre and other gathering places
  
• they shop locally, not going into the big cities with the big illness counts
  

(11-16-2020, 09:54 AM)robkelk Wrote: Welcome to Morrisburg, the town that COVID-19 has (mostly) left alone

Quote:The small community on the St. Lawrence has zero active cases, but locals aren't letting down their guard down

For folks not familiar with the geography, Morrisburg is on the main highway between Toronto and Montreal, less than an hour from Ottawa, and between two border crossings with the USA. And they still have zero active cases.

So, what are they doing right? I'm probably preaching to the choir here:

• they wear masks
  
• they maintain physical distancing
  
• they disinfect common-use surfaces after every use
  
• they've closed the local theatre and other gathering places
  
• they shop locally, not going into the big cities with the big illness counts
  

In short, they work together and accept the financial losses.

Quote:Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, Eid — some of the most celebrated holidays for cultural communities in Quebec have been observed in alternative ways this year in order to follow public health guidelines.

So, as cases hit what Premier François Legault himself called a "high plateau" in the second wave of the pandemic, some are asking why, in a secular state, make the exception for Christmas?

Quote:The approach has largely worked. The nation's recorded cases peaked at 739 on Aug. 5, but since then the count has dwindled steadily and most Australian cities have gone weeks without a single new case.

It has come at the cost of a million jobs nationwide and thousands of now-failed businesses. But it was worth it, says Dr. Nancy Baxter, who runs the University of Melbourne's School of Population and Global Health.

"You can't have a well-functioning economy with a raging pandemic. It's not an economy versus lives," she told CBC News.

Baxter is a Canadian who moved to Melbourne just before that city entered its first lockdown. She now worries about her friends in Canada, where the approach to the pandemic has been very different.

"Hearing what's happening in Ontario, it's pretty shocking … It just seems like what's happening is the public health officials are telling the government one thing, it's not what they want to hear, so they just kind of have changed the policy to just basically admit defeat and say they're going to let the epidemic just run wild in Ontario."

Quote:The final line of the proclamation, issued by the White House press secretary's office Wednesday evening, reads: "I encourage all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship, to offer a prayer of thanks to God for our many blessings."

(11-25-2020, 08:57 PM)Labster Wrote: I wonder what it's like to live in a country where the government encourages social distancing.

(11-26-2020, 02:09 PM)LynnInDenver Wrote: https://www.9news.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/denver-mayor-michael-hancock-travels-thanksgiving/73-e6b5f236-b0c7-4415-a22e-c84dd6f7acf1

So, after asking that people NOT gather outside their household for Thanksgiving, the Mayor of Denver has gone out to see his daughter in another state, ON A PLANE. This seriously undermines the message, and is a slap in the face to those of us who have been doing EXACTLY as asked. ...

Quote:On Friday afternoon, the Vancouver Sun reported that Mark Donnelly had agreed to perform at a Saturday event in Vancouver protesting COVID-19 restrictions.

Not long after, hockey team owner Francesco Aquilini tweeted at the newspaper to request a change in the headline from "Canucks anthem singer" to "former Canucks anthem singer."