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Originally Posted by Dennis69
... living on an island we have locked down the borders to the rest of canada, ... we have had less then 300 cases of covid and 3 deaths ...
If we got a case these people found the persons private info and shamed them in the towns and now it to the point of people don't even want to get tested ...
Tourism is one of our biggest industries so this winter will be interesting to see after they cut off federal benefits and still only 75% open!!
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That's one of the problems with being an area that is isolated. You get very few cases and are able to shut the world out and keep the virus out successfully.
But then what.
Then you are scared to death of getting just one case and so you stay locked down in fear, putting an enormous strain on all the citizens and on the economy and have trapped yourself in a corner with no way out.
New Zealand did this. They shut themselves off from the world, waited the virus out and had no cases for 100 days. They patted themselves on the back and the world looked upon them as a shining example of how to lock down and beat the virus. Then a few weeks ago cases started rising again and now they have 67 + cases with no idea where they came from since the borders remained closed. So they went back into lock down and will mandate masks soon and the people who adored their prime minister are starting to get fed up while their economy dwindles.
You either stay that way for 30 years and commit suicide or you accept the virus, take some precautions for the vulnerable and move on.