Now a moment of gravity.
Coronavirus.
So much misinformation emanating from Toronto right now with patient zero Canada arriving there.
next, little doubt, will be Vancouver, also alleged flight from Wuhan region that arrived there.
The number one question I would have is why flights from China to Canada are being allowed presently. Or that the patients from such flights are being immediately released. There should be quarantine and in the case of this virus incubation periods are looking like 10-14 days.
Yet Toronto public health officials as well as Health Canada are falsely reporting that all precautions were taken and that the virus here is well contained.
We have the following blatant misinformation being expressed;
“We have somebody who’s had very little external contact,” said Eileen de Villa, Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto. “We are now in the process, as the local public health unit, of undertaking the investigations, understanding the history of the ill individual, and all of the activities that that individual has undertaken since becoming ill.”
Dr. Yaffe said medical authorities are still ascertaining whether the patient was infectious on the flight.
Canada announces first confirmed ‘presumptive’ case of coronavirus in Toronto
ffs the individual was on a presumably packed flight from the region, airplane cabins are notoriously known to be carriers of such contagion and we have such misinformation as the health officials stating they don't know if the man was contagious on the flight.. This ignoring that the man was not only reporting symptoms the same day of the flight, and that he obviously was symptomatic, and I would think in an infectious stage.
The health officials are refusing to release information on what flight it was, or even contacting whoever else was on board. They are going on the presumption that only those seated nearby would be at risk. So they are contacting those that were seated immediately near the infected individual. This again ignores that Aircraft contagion can be high, and they of course have no information if the individual went to the bathroom during the flight (probably) and whether the bathroom handle, toilet handle, sink taps etc, anything a person could touch, would then be a transfer point.
Next theres been blatant lying that patient zero was handled with all precaution. The EMT providers have stated they were NOT informed about the suspected contagion and that they had used routine precautions. Health Toronto, Health Canada saying one thing. Emergency responders saying they did not know the patient could have had Coronavirus until the press conference this AM. This shit is going to hit the fan.
I'm just some punter observing this and thinking once again we're living in dumb world that seems to have to learn everything for the first time..
Not just Canada is clueless on this. In the UK they were exhorting those in Wuhan area to come home immediately rather than stay, even if their plans were to stay. That is not in the greater interest of Public health in the UK. Why would this advisory be stated? Quarantine is of course best achieved at ground Zero, in China. Don't spread it across the globe... too late.