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Originally Posted by isaidso
Some provinces (New Brunswick, Saskatchewan) have done a far better job responding to and managing this pandemic. They will surely open up well before other provinces (Ontario, Quebec) that have been slow to respond and in many ways incompetent.
Will people from central Canada try vacationing in provinces that open up before them? I suspect places like New Brunswick won't take kindly to out of province visitors... and I don't blame them. Could we see movement between provinces restricted all summer?
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NB won't be open to non-essential travel from other provinces that still have significant outbreaks.
We can't say that because one province has fewer cases it did a "better job". For a while the best province for per capita testing was Alberta, then it was Nova Scotia. Newfoundland and New Brunswick were behind on testing for weeks. I think the biggest factor is less travel from areas with outbreaks. The bigger provinces have more international connections, and Nova Scotia has an airport with many flights to Europe and the US (but not Asia and so was hit weeks later than ON and BC). Had covid emerged during the peak of the tourist and cruise ship season I don't think NB and PEI would have been spared. I also think that bigger provinces and bigger cities have inherently bigger clusters of outbreaks. Ohio has huge prisons with thousands of people. PEI has nothing like that.
In BC we're down to around 25 new cases per day with most being in already-discovered clusters. That is like NB having 4 new cases a day or PEI having 0-1 new cases. The difference between PEI being a worse than average or better than average province comes down to 1 nursing home outbreak.