The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

I don't know, so far they've refused to take any action.  I imagine when hospitals start ordering freezer trucks we may see some movement, but honestly, it's sad how our government seem to have just given up.

It also pisses me off the lack of vision and long term planning this government has. There was zero prioritization to get schools to be safe, although it's turned out better than expected, I don't think this has anything to do with our government...and it's still not great.

But the current situation is lining up to be an extremely sad and depressing Christmas. Aside from those of us who will be locked in our homes, there will be those who are saying goodbye to their loved ones, and even worse, those who ignore the restrictions and kill their loved ones.

If we instead had strong restrictions now (or moderate restrictions earlier) we could probably have gotten to a place where Christmast could be relatively safe. But that would require planning.

I am not sure what you mean about the schools being safe.  Both my daughters in grade 4 and 6 have had no issues at school at all.  There have been no positive cases reported in their school and our family feels safe.  
We cant keep shutting everything down.  Business need to remain solvent, otherwise thew depression that comes out of this will make most people forget about any pandemic..

A number of people on this site are fortunate enough to work from home.  I know many people that cant, they either go to work or no pay.  The government cant afford to keep doling out money to people.  We have to find a balance...  I believe the government has been doing a good job given the situation.

Umm...maybe read my later comments...it is a false statement to say people can either work or no pay...we already have EI and we did CERB. As for what the government can and cannot do forever, that's a different discussion, but given that we have a vaccine that should be approved by the end of the year, this is absolutely a temporary situation which the government CAN handle.

We can in fact keep shutting things down. As for businesses, I believe more support should have been given to small businesses as well.  That's also a thing we could do.

Ultimately, letting the pandemic run rampant won't help businesses.  Countries which have controlled the pandemic better have had better economic outcomes, we knew this from the beginning, widespread illness and death is not an economically positive scenario.

As for the schools, class sizes were not reduced to what was recommended, we took no steps to broadly enable outdoor teaching, we did not shut down less important facilities like bars and gyms to prioritize keeping numbers as low as possible to make schools safer.  I'm glad your school has no positive cases, but there have been hundreds of outbreaks at school now.  Like I said, not as bad as expected, but certainly far worse and far less safe than it could have been.