The COVID-19 pandemic

[plam]

My concern with irregular crossings is that we could have infected people from the USA, possibly including ones who normally would just cross at an entry point, coming in and re-igniting our outbreak.

I’m feeling pretty good about our numbers; I see from the numbers that Ontario is back under 2000 active cases, which I believe puts us at numbers we haven’t seen since March. Continuing on this path would mean that we could be back to 0 by the fall. But it wouldn’t take many infections coming across the border to re-start the whole thing.

Irregular crossers bringing COVID with them could be a concern. Flights might be more of a concern. I'm unclear how much checking is going on for people who re-enter Canada from the US by air. I suspect that those numbers are higher.

It would be good if the numbers stayed at 0 for the fall. It seems to me that good border enforcement / quarantine is the key here. Certainly people (or the media) complained a lot about the self-isolation not being good enough and seemed to prefer government-managed isolation. There has been an additional kerfuffle about that recently, but no evidence that it has escaped the 14 days, despite opposition politicians claiming so (with no evidence).