Oh man. The border thing is tricky. It *looks like* Canadians are mostly bringing the variants into Canada and spreading them. Some are cheating and flying to the States and walking through at unguarded border points. Some are arriving on planes and ignoring quarantine protocols.

Some are moving from province to province, ignoring provincial restrictions or guidelines.

All the federal restrictions on flights and whatever won't mean *anything* if provincial quarantine protocols aren't adequately enforced.

"Adequately" enforcing them could be very hard.

And if they land in or end up in a province who has not got a good quarantine system, there we are.

Because we're not a police state, enforcing quarantine is ... well, tricky.

And Canadians must be allowed to return home.

The variant outbreak seem to coincide with the return of the Snowbirds.

Most reporting is partisan. Villifying or defending the fed/prov govts.

Based on what I've read, if all the rules and regulations on travelling to Canada are followed/enforced, there shouldn't be outbreaks.

So if there are, it is because either testing or quarantine is failing.

Not sure there's a legal fix.

A system that relies a lot on honour and voluntary compliance is always going to have failures.

You know why?

There are shitty human beings in this world.

So. We could stop all the flights we want and as long as Canadians are allowed to come home and quarantine is not *enforced*, we're buggered.

Enforcing quarantine at an effective level would be made out to be something close to "police state".

Not sure what the win is here.

The recent outbreak in Nova Scotia has been at least partially traced to Ontarians who came and didn't quarantine. Both those Ontarians and the Nova Scotians they came to visit suck, btw.

Seriously. I don't think there's a foolproof, legal, "free society" fix for this.

In Nova Scotia when we have high numbers travel between regions is restricted. Not enforced, but restricted by public announcement.

Today I am not supposed to go into the central zone (Halifax) from my zone, for instance.

From a Nova Scotian epidemiologist who actually understands these things. https://twitter.com/WilsonKM2/status/1385522802296512514?s=19

So. Good inter-provincial incoming quarantine and border control, careful contact tracing, internal regional intra-provincial "quarantining", fast response to public exposure and public compliance seem to be the ticket.