Originally Posted by
TheCanuckian
Of course if travel increases dramatically, we can assume that travel-related cases will as well. The fact that travel is at only 9% of last year's levels means that most of the travel-related cases have been mitigated simply by people staying off planes. The question, I guess, is whether you try to crush that small percentage by reducing travel from 9% to something lower; or whether you leave it as-is and turn your attention elsewhere. It seems travel is a relatively easy bug to quantify and crush, so a good one to go after from a PR perspective.
That 9% is
all AC RPM so the amount of int. travel is again a small fraction of that.
We know from the government itself that only
about two per cent of COVID-19 cases have been brought into the country from overseas while at the same time
more than 80 per cent of the 6.5 million total arrivals into Canada between March 31 and Nov. 12 were exempt from the quarantine so why not invest available resources by getting the biggest return possible by listening to the experts who're calling for far more scrutiny of this group? Decisions are being based on optics rather than reason.