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Originally Posted by rrskylar
Very sad news, condolences.
Watching the supper hour news and I see a store manager in Morris livid about returning snowbirds stopping in his store, these fuckers that clueless or is no one from border services telling them to self quarantine for 14 days!
All we need in Manitoba is more “spreaders”
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That is one huge lesson learned from this incident. You can bet that the next time we get an outbreak of any kind of significance, the hammer is going to come down on travellers right away. The mindset is going to shift from the current "I come and go when and where I please" to "I come and go when and where I'm told I can go". It may sound draconian, but in hindsight, this massive war-like loss of human lives and dollars could have been mitigated by putting strict travel controls in place early on. Next time around I could see the keys of the snowbirds being seized at Emerson while they go straight into quarantine, for example.
I'm not saying that to blame anyone, I think the scale and magnitude of this exploded quickly beyond what any government around the world would have expected based on past experience... in the same way that 9/11 was a huge mindshift in terms of travel security, covid-19 will result in a huge mindshift in terms of the public health impact of travel, which is why I call it a lesson learned.