@LION I'm not going to argue the buses vs. soccer
The restrictions are absolutely incomprehensible in terms of their lack of consistency. There is no doubt that certain industries/groups get special treatment because of their lobbying power. The proof is in the change in restrictions around ages allowed to practice sports, hastily made around Christmas due to the hockey lobby demanding it to allow Junior hockey teams to continue to operate. It sucks for us, but I think it's a reflection on our soccer community and how self-interested so many administrators of the game are that we don't have a stronger collective voice despite such a massive membership. But that's a topic for another day.
There is unfortunately a serious lack of Canadian data. I remember when Bonnie was questioned about reporting on deaths in Long Term Care homes. She said it was unfeasible for them to continue doing it once the number of outbreaks increased because the computer systems couldn't collate the data. It was literally each care home sending in a spreadsheet, and some govt employee having to manually merge/enter it somewhere else every day to get the stats. Sorry, too much work!
So, the US is really the best reference point I can give. And yes, we are not them, but do you not consider that part of the reason we are doing so much better than them through the pandemic is because we actually have restrictions in place that people follow? You can't tell me it's purely because they are more obese on average. I don't think the virus attaches to fat cells. They have 4x the number of infections on a per capita basis. If we had 20k active cases here would you be concerned? If not, what's the threshold? And if you look at any country's chart of infections you will see that growth was exponential prior to having some form of restrictions, so the point is that current 5k could easily become 20k if we aren't careful.
The restrictions are absolutely incomprehensible in terms of their lack of consistency. There is no doubt that certain industries/groups get special treatment because of their lobbying power. The proof is in the change in restrictions around ages allowed to practice sports, hastily made around Christmas due to the hockey lobby demanding it to allow Junior hockey teams to continue to operate. It sucks for us, but I think it's a reflection on our soccer community and how self-interested so many administrators of the game are that we don't have a stronger collective voice despite such a massive membership. But that's a topic for another day.
There is unfortunately a serious lack of Canadian data. I remember when Bonnie was questioned about reporting on deaths in Long Term Care homes. She said it was unfeasible for them to continue doing it once the number of outbreaks increased because the computer systems couldn't collate the data. It was literally each care home sending in a spreadsheet, and some govt employee having to manually merge/enter it somewhere else every day to get the stats. Sorry, too much work!
So, the US is really the best reference point I can give. And yes, we are not them, but do you not consider that part of the reason we are doing so much better than them through the pandemic is because we actually have restrictions in place that people follow? You can't tell me it's purely because they are more obese on average. I don't think the virus attaches to fat cells. They have 4x the number of infections on a per capita basis. If we had 20k active cases here would you be concerned? If not, what's the threshold? And if you look at any country's chart of infections you will see that growth was exponential prior to having some form of restrictions, so the point is that current 5k could easily become 20k if we aren't careful.
