https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/where-would-you-travel-in-b-c-if-restrictions-were-lifted-1.5572826
Perhaps the Mayor was a bit too quick with her offer of “ Palliative Support “ for financially compromised Tofino business operators. This article would indicate that some of the summer season could be salvaged.
If you are a business operator in a tight spot , the federal government has a variety of programs available. From wage subsidies and interest free loans to rent relief there is help. There is a loan program for businesses that didn’t qualify for the previous ones that will be offered through Community Futures in Port Alberni .
If you want any information you can contact me through this blog or telephone me. I’m in the phone book . Ralph
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Short term help to businesses is not going to help them survive if this story out of China, where they say the virus is changing along with a lengthening of the incubation period beyond 14 days is actually happening.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-s-new-outbreak-shows-signs-the-virus-could-be-changing-1.1438611
The Chinese are suggesting this virus may last a long time.
The second wave of the virus is going to be far worse than the first.
There won't be any room for "asking nicely for people to not travel". The next lockdown will need to be an enforced 'NO TRAVEL' order.
This "salvage a few dollars" experiment should have been kept among the Trump supporters below the border. We could have been patient for a few more weeks, watched them suicide themselves with re-opening, learned from their mistakes, and saved Canadian lives.
This "re-opening" is not going to end well. Folly, for the sake of money.
We will still be dealing with this virus months, even years, from now.
Anyone who believes that we're on the road back to "normal" probably also believes in the fairy godmother. Nice concept, but not real.
People who don’t like tourism never will
The new normal will be different I just hope we don’t lose too much to get there
Has anyone stopped to think about their personal risk of getting this virus?
It is probably in the order of less than one half of one percent. Meanwhile we live in Tofino with odds of a massive earthquake/tsunami somewhere around 20% in any given year. And we worry about a virus and not the earthquake/tsunami???
Thanks for that 6:42 PM. That's good information to have. Myself, I'm more concerned that the nest of snakes at the corner of Third and Campbell is more likely to devour us all, long before any virus or earthquake destroys us.
Now, despite it being the #2 item of concern on people's minds according to their thought survey, they're going to open the accomodation providers while the national park remains closed. Are you looking forward to seeing 10,000 people crowded onto Chesterman's Beach ten days from now?
Yes we will be dealing with this virus years from now. Fortunately not likely in sickness and death from Covid but more likely in huge tax increases to cover the governments spending spree, and a generation that expects not to work whenever a single vulnerable person is at risk and can qualify for social resilience credits of some description.
And when will some smug stupid "Canadians" get over themselves and their endless virtue signaling. This is not about just lives vs just money. Not here or in the US. We need to manage both. . We have our own problems. The American economy will hopefully rejuvenate. We will need them as we usually do, likely riding their coattails, in innovation and productivity and efficiency. Like we have for years.
The prolonged economic decline we have triggered in Canada, and the coming economic stagnation, may well be the lasting legacy of this government's incompetence. Yes incompetence. Can you say Seniors Living and not feel shame.
Alcoholism suicide, drug abuse, domestic violence and depression,
The deaths of despair. Lowered standards of living will be the surviving horsemen of the future. But nothing to fear, "Budgets balance themselves" says our sophomoric moronic leader.
How Canadian leadership has handled this crisis, with unflinching belief in it's own superficial ideological perspective on everything to do with the "covid pandemic", is fair warning for us all, and what will happen when they try to remake the economy to ward off the spectre of environmental crisis, due to, ta dah, drum roll.... global warming.
When you get too far over your skis the trendline is usually a rapid down hill.
Let's spell it out clearly, for those who don't get it yet. Current Canadian leadership at all levels of gov"t couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery.
And what can you do to prevent said tsunami? Not a damn thing. But we can certainly do plenty to keep the virus at bay. We should.
To 9:47 And the Chinese can be counted on for full and honest reporting?
And the "Virus shows no evidence of human to human spreading". Chinese experts inform the WHO in late January.
They blamed it all on some Bats and some Pangolins. It's truly amazing. I didn't realize there were so many people around the world consuming these creatures. Millions in Europe and North America too must have discovered the culinary delights of Bats and Pangolins Amazing!
@9:19 PM.
The Park is opening for day use on June 1st. Only Incinerator parking lot will remain closed.
8:53pm. Where are you getting this information? I looked on the Parks Canada website, and found no such announcement, only a mention that "some" locations may see a partial opening of "some" services.
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