Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Global National: Jan. 10, 2021 | Quebec’s COVID-19 curfew is put to the test" video.

Look at Australia and New Zealand, some of the toughest jurisdictions in the world, everything is open and much higher freedoms than the lockdown lite countries who never bothered getting rid of the virus. Yes any outbreaks from quarantine breaches do incur short sharp lockdowns in local areas. Victoria Australia had more daily cases than Canada in about September but got rid of it completely for a while but have had another minor outbreak. Even though you won't be told it Victoria Australia is the model some are now trying to copy. So don't worry and hope they finish the job this time so can get freedoms back rather than constant fears of the next lockdown lite.
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Read up on Victoria Australia which in about September had more daily cases than Canada at about 500 per day versus 400 per day now look at the situation. Canada was within striking distance of elimination but backed off. A part of the reason given for a nightly curfew was to give police a break so they could enforce movement controls during the day including stopping travel outside of Melbourne for non essential purposes.
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@j-rad2613 Nah just a free Australian ( except travel restrictions ) , not from Victoria though, my state was much more successful , so other than 1st lockdown been low restrictions since.
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That's great your jurisdiction is covid 19 free without ever imposing tough restrictions. Where are you from?
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@muskokadirty2728 First of all unless the provincial borders are shut reasonably tight with compulsory hotel quarantine it can never succeed. You might bring numbers down a bit but the moment you reopen at all they will bounce back, taking half measures produces terrible results and it actually facilitates spread of the virus because the well off just cross borders from high infection areas to low infection areas as can be seen perfectly in the US. I have great sympathy for you for your partial lockdown that can never really end until/unless vaccines produce herd immunity which is a long way off. No country in the world has succeeded with a partial lockdown, Ontario and Canada will be no different. The oppression of the less well off in favour of those with means to travel of course makes people angry and damages mental health because people feel oppressed and abandoned with some truth to it. Hang in there the best you can because of what they do, if you are an average person you can't change anything so try to live with it. Best of luck.
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That's silly, look at your restrictions now versus my country Australia or even China, get rid of the virus you get freedom not the other way around, look at the US.
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Victoria Australia , no cases of community transmission for 8 days currently but in September was about 500 cases per day when the whole of Canada was around 400 cases per day. Seems your lockdown is approaching the toughness of the Victorian lockdown. If it is as tough and contact tracing works and not letting people in from other provinces you will be rid of covid 19 in 3 months or so.
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@matchu4444 the US CDC says 300,000 excess deaths occured from January 26 to October 3 , out of this only 200,000 of those deaths involved covid 19 , so in countries that failed there tends to be a lot of people dying that would still be alive had covid 19 not been around.
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@mayhem1974 It's correct to say there is no proof of the percentage reduction in spread can be attributed to a single measure when 10 measures are taken, but there is the proof if your province followed to the letter the restrictions in Victoria Australia along with enforcement etc. that you will achieve the same outcome but it could be slightly slower or quicker because of the different living conditions , local culture and weather. The governments that didn't take decisive action early on end up being the most disliked because freedoms are restricted on a continuous long term basis and often end up being tougher than those that were tough in the beginning, my state Queensland has had low restrictions in a relative sense ever since ending the first lockdown. Travel restrictions remain of course from any infected area in Australia and all international arrivals except for New Zealand with 14 days hotel quarantine. Hopefully where ever you are things get better over time.
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