There's lots of financial insecurity and economic hardship.Lockdown has shown how complementary digital learning can be to in-person schooling. "People just haven't been able to see their friends and family. "My in-laws are just across the city - basically 20 kilometres away - we haven't been able to see them for months, so it's been really strange. "Everybody was basically cooped up at home for over 100 days," said Duncan Rhoda, a former Winnipegger living in Melbourne, which also imposed travel restrictions within the city to slow the spread of COVID-19. It was only lifted in October after a difficult 113 days. But the lockdown wasn't easy and lasted longer than most Australians expected. In Australia, Victoria brought the hammer down decisively. When cases climb, we watch and fret instead of bringing the hammer down." Victoria's victory came at a cost We shut down slowly and reopen prematurely. Yet, time and time again in Canada, we do the opposite. "If there is one lesson we can learn from countries that have weathered the pandemic best, it is this: Shut down swiftly, and reopen cautiously. "Manitoba is a striking example of the price that is to be paid for smugness," Picard wrote in the Globe and Mail on Nov. Picard has indeed written about Manitoba recently. "We have and we continue to we maintain some of the most restrictive measures," the premier said Monday, taking particular care to source that claim by crediting Andre Picard, the health columnist for the Globe & Mail. Premier Brian Pallister also said Manitoba does not need orders tougher than a regime of restrictions he described as the toughest in Canada. Even if we put that order and we can't be everywhere and enforcing everything."įRONT BURNER Life under Melbourne's stringent COVID-19 lockdown "We need to get the buy-in from from people. "Our approach can't only be orders," Roussin said Monday. That is something he announced would be imposed in Manitoba one week ago before he declined to enshrine that measure within Manitoba's latest pandemic public-health order. Not only is a Victoria-style lockdown off the table, Roussin is not pursuing any version of a household-only socialization order. Roussin, however, has made it clear he is not considering tougher restrictions, at least not in the near future. It is clear at this point enough Manitobans have ignored these pleas to ensure the daily case counts keep rising. It's the same message they've been conveying ever since September, when the number of cases in Manitoba started initially climbing in Winnipeg. Roussin and Siragusa implored Manitobans to stay home as much as possible and reduce their number of contacts. They are feeling stretched, and they're not going to be able to keep this up forever." "Our health-care workers are getting tired. "There is no plan that can prepare us to manage the demand on our hospitals that 400-plus cases per day for a sustained period of time is going to create," said Lanette Siragusa from Shared Health.
Brent Roussin, Manitoba's chief provincial public health officer. "We can't sustain this number of cases in our health-care system," said Dr. On the very same day, Manitoba health officials declared the province can not sustain many more days with case counts in the hundreds because the health-care system is already at capacity.
On Monday, Manitoba disclosed 392 new cases, which would translate into 1,848 new cases in Victoria. It is clear that Manitoba is nowhere near as serious about clamping down on COVID-19 this fall as Victoria was a few weeks into the Australian winter. That figure is equal to 142 new cases in Manitoba, again when you adjust for population. 2, when Victoria reported 671 new infections in a single day. If that sounds like a lot, residents of Melbourne were also subjected to a curfew on Aug. They weren't allowed to visit friends and family outside their homes except to visit lovers, provide care or services, to hand off or receive kids as part of joint-custody arrangements or for compassionate reasons.Īs for exercise, Victorians were only allowed to, say, go running with members of their own households - or one other person, if they lived alone. Victorians weren't allowed to have any visitors at home except for caregiving, compassionate reasons or to allow services such as plumbing to occur. Cleaners walk down a Melbourne street as the city operated under lockdown in September.
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