As normalcy returns with every passing week, we hear less and less about pandemic\u002Dmanagement inquiries Canadians are owed.
Unlike some other mind-boggling COVID expenditures, though this is at least halfway explicable. The 14-day quarantine-at-home rule wasn’t at all controversial when it was implemented in March 2020. Arriving passengers who didn’t have suitable quarantine accommodations, as determined by a PHAC officer, needed somewhere to go. Hotels made sense.The NP Comment newsletter from columnist Colby Cosh and NP Comment editors tackles the important topics with boldness, verve and wit.
There were two possible justifications for this. One was as part of a concerted, New Zealand-style pursuit of “zero COVID.” Canada never even pretended to play in that league. That left the second possible justification: keeping new strains of COVID out of the country. “We know that just one case of the variant that comes in could cause significant challenges,”Canada’s regime did not do that and could not have done that, for starters because mandatory hotel quarantine only lasted three days.
Let’s see, what else? There was no medically secure transport available between the airports and the hotels. Some quarantine hotels were open to other guests as well. Some imposed standardized check-in times on their quarantine guests, leaving many milling around in the lobby, marinating in each others’ droplets. There were at least two reported sexual assaults. “Guests” weren’t even allowed to get food or other items delivered.
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