{"id":3052,"date":"2020-03-28T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2020-03-28T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:10:03","slug":"on-what-planet-does-canada-live-perhaps-planet-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/03\/28\/on-what-planet-does-canada-live-perhaps-planet-b\/","title":{"rendered":"On what planet does Canada live? Perhaps planet B?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Covid-4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3053\" width=\"334\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Covid-4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Covid-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Covid-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Covid-4.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 85vw, 334px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>First, before talking about Canada, let&#8217;s start with New Zealand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the measures taken by NZ at its airports early on before their country&#8217;s full lockdown (see article below published on March 1st, 2020),&#8221;including temperature checks and having travellers manually processed instead of going through e-gates&#8221; as well as pamphlets and messages on board of airplanes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/one-news\/new-zealand\/pm-health-minister-insist-airport-coronavirus-screening-has-been-aggressive\">https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/one-news\/new-zealand\/pm-health-minister-insist-airport-coronavirus-screening-has-been-aggressive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.govt.nz\/government-actions\/covid-19-alert-level\/\">https:\/\/covid19.govt.nz\/government-actions\/covid-19-alert-level\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Same for airports like Dubai before it closed temporarily&#8230; Note, it is the third busiest airport in the world, if Bambi is not mistaken:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Emirates implements thermal screening in Dubai International Airport | Emirates Airline\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v-xTIebsNMI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dubaiairports.ae\/alert\">https:\/\/www.dubaiairports.ae\/alert<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a contrast with Vancouver airport in Canada, today on Saturday March 28, 2020 in the middle of a pandemic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is this normal? Is this wise? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Passengers from China to Toronto board connecting flights WITHOUT testing\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7s8ytmF9w5A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, before talking about Canada, let&#8217;s start with New Zealand. Here are the measures taken by NZ at its airports early on before their country&#8217;s full lockdown (see article below published on March 1st, 2020),&#8221;including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}