04-11-2020, 07:25 PM
(04-11-2020, 02:20 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Interesting political problem — for my suggestion to have been useful it would have had to have been all borders, specifically and most importantly including the US border. On the other hand by now it would be obvious and undeniable to everyone that we were in the right — no out-of-control spread in Canada, cases all over the place in the US.
Thing about the US border is that food and essential goods need to come over the border. I don't know how much interaction with the community truckers have once they cross the border. Aircrews are apparently supposed to not really supposed to leave the hotel I think.
Here in NZ there was some press about how truckers are having a bit of a tough time because bathrooms and restaurants (even takeout) are closed.
Speaking of no out-of-control spread, that's NZ. We've been net negative (more recoveries than new cases) for a couple of days. NZ closed early and pretty comprehensively. You can basically get groceries, pharmacy and gas. (There's more, but not much). The total active is somewhere around 900 now.