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Gatineau
Dec 2001
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I read somewhere that Canada has the 2nd largest number of cases.
7th death attributed to the illness was announced this morning. All of them in Toronto.
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optimus2861
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Halifax, NS
Nov 2000
time: 01:27
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Plain old overreaction if you ask me. Like Frogger said, almost all the cases are in the Toronto area, and even then we're only talking ~200 cases in a city of 3,000,000+.
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Richelieu
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Gatineau
Dec 2001
time: 00:27
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quote:
Originally posted by Agathon
The cases in Canada are all traceable "clusters": that is, they can be traced to certain individuals who brought the disease back from Asia. The outbreak occurred because a large number of health care workers were exposed to the infection before it was understood what it was. Also a SARS patient was transferred to another hospital and infected a lot of people there.
Since then everyone who has been exposed to the illness has been placed in some form of quarantine (most for 10 days which is the incubation period). Many people have completed their quarantine periods and are asymptomatic so the number of quaratined individuals is dropping. There is expected to be a blip of cases this week when a number of people who were exposed will have come into the incubation period but this is expected and they know who these people are and they are quarantined.
So all this scaremongering is really silly. The infection is so far contained to these clusters. The authorities know who these people are and have taken steps to prevent the spread of infection. Canada is no more likely to suffer from new clusters of infection than any other major country and since the current clusters are well known and contained there shouldn't be too much worry.
Of course some dimiwits are wearing masks on the subway when there is no real need, but there you go. |
Well, if the Canadian government was doing things the way they are supposed to i would be inclined to think the same way you do.
But i saw a guy on one of Quebec's local network this evening, giving an interview and saying how he just came back from teaching in Vietnam and Thailand.
He got off the plane in Vancouver and boarded another one to Ottawa. He is now in Montreal (I didn't hear whether he'd driven there or took another plane).
He said he was never asked any questions, business as usual, etc... and was really surprised about it.
I know i am.
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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
time: 13:27
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If you think that's bad, you should see what the Hong Kong government is doing.
When the virus first hit, it took about a week before the HK government decided that it would be a good idea to limit access to people with the pneumonia. Before then, the patients were allowed visitors.
Then the HK government declares a quarantine for anyone who might have come into contact with the virus. Part of the quarantine required these people to have daily check-ups at a medical clinic, which meant that every day these people were taking public transportation to the clinic.
When the virus hit an apartment block, the HK government quarantined everyone in the building, five days after the virus hit. By that time hundreds of people had already moved out.
Then the HK government decided to move the building's residents to "holiday camps" where dozens of people had to use the same bathrooms.
It's a friggin fiasco.
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