Caught flat-footed, Canada once again fumbles its pandemic response

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Justin Ling: For the past 24 hours governments scrambled to come up with travel measures to address omicron. Meanwhile, the wait for boosters and tests continues.

Volunteers speak with a family during a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ont. on Dec. 4, 2021

Beyond a new travel advisory, recommending Canadians avoid all non-essential travel, the government announced no major new travel measures, but suggested they may yet announce new steps. Civil servants warned that truncating that timeline from weeks to days, ahead of the busiest time of year for air travel, would cause massive delays and queues at airports across the country, so bad that social distancing inside the airports would be impossible.

Ottawa further considered the idea of banning foreign nationals from coming into the country for non-essential purposes; to reimpose the 14-day mandatory quarantine for travellers, regardless of vaccination status; and to end the testing exemption for those making trips of under 72-hours to the United States.

 

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Too bad the premiers did not agree on anything

Fraudulent Government through and through

Boosters and tests are provincial.

The COVID gong show continues. 'Just Do Something/Anything' is the government's COVID slogan.

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