The Mrs’ sister came over yesterday and we spoke about her work in the downtown service industry. They’ve begun turning non-locals away from their high profile establishment when they’re carded and their home is outside of BC. She said in one shift she had 12 Americans present IDs, most of whom had only recently arrived (they said). No respect for the quarantine whatsoever, and here to party.
but why is there any more reason to suspect these people are infected any more so than say people from vancouver? it seems odd to me we treat travellers like they are likely contaminated when the statistics show they are almost as likely to be virus-free as your next door neighbour.
washington and oregon where most us tourists are from around here have lower death rates than canada.
0.04% of washington state residents have the virus.
0.02% of oregonians have it.
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 July 2020 - 06:13 AM.