Wow, People Totally Have This Coronavirus Thing Handled

As of this writing, Canada has 4,000 infected persons and fifty-three deaths.


Canada's stupefying unwillingness to close borders, restrict flights, question and quarantine people re-entering the country and stop possibly infected persons from connecting flights is matched by this stunning bit of sycophantic idiocy:

If governments wanted to secure a supply for health-care workers, they could have purchased them in bulk when they were still available, or mandated that stores stop selling them to the public and make them available to the health-care system. Instead, the Canadian government sent 16 tonnes of protective equipment, including masks, to China.

And now, it’s too late. Very few masks remain available. Before the pandemic, China produced approximately half of the world’s medical masks. But in the current circumstances, the Chinese are keeping them in their own country. This is contributing to a global shortage, and highlighting our dependence on other countries.

No wonder the Americans don't trust us:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is in talks with the United States in hopes of avoiding the deployment of American soldiers along their shared border.

Uh, f--- you.

If Trump were to do this, it would be on his side of the border.

It's not like bootlickers who don't secure their own borders can ever be trusted to contain the Chinese-spread virus affecting both Canada and the US.


Somewhat related - b@$#@rds:

Cabinet should reset immigration targets now a third higher than they were in previous recessions, an MP said yesterday. The Department of Immigration only two weeks ago set the highest immigration targets in more than a century: “Those ballpark figures should not be taken as a realistic target anymore.”

How India is handling things:

Videos of officers forcing people to do squats, sit-ups, pushups, and in some situations, violently cane those who flout the restrictions have been circulating on social media this week, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a three-week ban on going outside in an attempt to contain the spread of COVID-19.