The COVID-19 pandemic

[panamaniac]

Self isolation for those arriving from abroad has now been in place for a couple of weeks.  Whether something "should have" been done differently, sooner, whatever, is irrelevant at the moment, as the entire focus needs to be on fighting the spread of the virus now.  One can come back for "lessons learned" in future, when the war has been won.
Once reliable speedy testing becomes available, I could see it being used to address the issue of truckers and other still allowed to cross the border.

To me it feels like we didn’t really take it seriously until it was here. We didn't implement major changes in procedure until there were enough cases in Canada that a widespread cessation of in-person activities was needed.

Our population is three-and-a-half times that of Alberta, but we're not even completing double the tests. 70,000 tested there, compared with less than 100,000 in Ontario. Not too impressive.

We were actually testing more earlier on, 4000-5000 tests/day at the beginning of April, but now only about 3000. The capacity is there to do more, the testing volume has been determined by the policies for who to test. Ford has now ordered expanded testing, so we should be seeing that in the coming days.

Remains to be seen whether Doug Ford can will an improvement in the ongoing gong show that thas been covid-19 testing in Ontario.