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Curious as to how busy the testing location is here in Brandon? Are a lot of people getting tested?  
There are obviously a lot of other respiratory illnesses going around right now as well. Too bad everyone with symptoms couldn’t just get tested. I’m sure there has to be some community transmission by now.

To say that if you have any cold symptoms but no fever, and haven’t travelled recently, then stay home and self distance, self isolate. Only if respiratory symptoms develop, should you request a test?

What if a person is having fever, respiratory symptoms, etc? They still will not test if that person has not been out of the country in the last 14 days and has had no contact with anyone who has. So if someone works in a public place and gets sick, how are they supposed to know what they have all come in contact with? People aren’t listening to the 14 day isolation rule when returning from holidays so who knows what is being transmitted in the community right now.  
 
Our MPI building should become a drive through site now like Winnipeg has done. Would make for quicker and likely more safe testing conditions. I know people who are sitting at testing sites for 5+ hours surrounded by other sick people. That can’t be a good thing.

Don't forget the interest on that 6 months deferral isn't going to stop, adding a fair bit on to the cost of the rental.  
 
Of course If you cant make your rent talk to your landlord, contrary to popular belief they aren't all big meanies, maybe they can help you out but your issues likley have to be legit, most low income people are getting extra GST/CTB and or EI and should have at least a bit of reduced expense, gas money ect, mind you those on assistance will also enjoy those benifits with no added expenses so dont expect the landlord to fund you when they are likley feeling the effects as well

Good to see 7/11 has floor spacing marked out on their floors. Great idea, I hope the big stores do this as well.

to the lady at Wal-Mart who brought our groceries out to our vehicle this morning. I won't set foot in a store and they exceeded my expectations. I will say she looked kind of like a deer in the headlights. A little bit nervous and scared. So she moved quickly. We did not wait more than 5 minutes today. It worked well. I would imagine that as this service catches on as cases increase it may get a bit more trying. But right now it worked well. Now I have an order at Superstore tomorrow and we will see how they are coping with demand for pick-ups.

Is the Federal building open through the week?

Today I found out that my teen was invited over with several other friends to a home where the parents were indeed home, and obviously ignoring the fact that we have been advised to social distance ourselves. So I found out after the fact that my teen spent several hours with friends in another person’s home without my consent. My teen had been social distancing this past week and I thought we had established how important that is. What is the point of cancelling school if parents will not adhere to the guidelines?? Not only that but these parents are putting other peoples lives at risk. Please do not ask other people’s children and teens to visit your home or have play dates. I know this is a difficult time but the sooner we follow these restrictions the sooner this will be over.

Last Friday the Medical Officer for London England addressed the city with an interesting concept. Take a room and place within it 40,000 small pieces of paper, then take a lit match and throw it into the center of the paper. The flame from the match will ignite the paper and the flames will spread out. Now assume that the room is a football stadium and the pieces of paper is 40,000 football fans. Take one infected person - within an hour he will have infected all the individuals around him - when he gets up to attend the bathroom he will touch the stair railing leaving the virus - then the counter in the bathroom, plus whomever he comes in contact with. From their he goes to the concession and obtains a drink and snack infecting all those around him there. When he leaves the stadium he will have infected some 2500 people all of whom will take the virus home to their family. We now have some 10,000 people infected out of those some 3- 4000 will have to be admitted to hospital of which 500-600 individuals will die. NOW Ask yourself this - Can the Brandon Regional hospital handle an influx of 3-4000 people over a 2-3 week period. Do not be so careless whereas you will put our Health Care workers into a situation where they must decide, due to lack of beds and nurses as to who will get treatment and who will be left to die.

From: Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)  
 
 
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6  
 
Edited by (vette)mech, 2020-03-23 14:24:18

Now being asked to self isolate 14 days if travel outside of canada or within canada(outside of manitoba).  
 
Public health officials are strongly advising all Manitobans, including health-care providers, to cancel or postpone any non-essential travel.  This i:ncludes international travel and travel within Canada.  There should be no recreational, tourist or non-essential personal travel.  In addition, effective immediately, public health officials are recommending that anyone who returns from travel, either international or domestic, should self-isolate and self-monitor for symptoms for 14 days following their return.  
 
I wish them good luck with enforcing this. People who are returning from the u.s arent following this rule even. Im all for it tho.  
 
Edited by Cjford, 2020-03-23 15:47:15

Please report people that are doing this.  
It’s the only way we are going to STOP PANDEMIC!!!

Just who are you suppose to report these people to?? They haven't really done anything wrong at the moment. Technically speaking the teenage son who attended the party is just as irresponsible as the parents who supervised same.

Today's CBC story (Mar 24) says Cadham Labs in Wpg is short of a chemical reagent needed to do the Covid 19 lab testing. And we haven't even gotten into the worst of the epidemic yet. Frustrating that they've known for weeks that this was coming and they are short of supplies.

You do realize the world and not just Manitoba is in a pandemic right? The reagent is a manufactured item and there is a shortage everywhere.

So same thing. Why didn't the chemical company that makes the reagent ramp up production long ago in anticipation of what was known to be coming?

just like anything else the demand needs to be there before a company is going to over produce it

Is there anywhere online stating how many test are being done in Manitoba?  
 
And how many are done rest of the nation?

iceman, the links that Adam put on the home page include this one to MB Health. It says the number of tests done in Manitoba and how many and which region has positive cases:  
 
https://gov.mb.ca/covid19/index.html  
 
From there you can follow the link to the Health Canada page which gives a national summary:  
 
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html

In Manitoba 4500 tests done as of Monday. Probably the lowest out of the larger provinces.

ATM you are supposed to report people who are not self isolating for 14 days after travel, after being in contact with a known infected person and if you are feeling sick or suspect you may be positive  
While it is safest to stay home and only go out when absolutely necessary at the moment it is not against the law to have gathering under 50 people, think iv read recommended no more then 5 , so depending on the definition of "party" the teens/parents were not doing anything illegal to report  
 
Parents can make their own rules for their kids so imo this issue is between the parent and teen, not the people who issued the invite

Wonder why we are low? Not that i want more cases, but it prob better to be proactive in testing.  
 
Sask has about 5700 test done, and their smaller than Manitoba according to online stats.

Does anyone know if any of the walk in clinics have phone appointments? I’m immune compromised and don’t really want to go in , but I believe I have strep throat.

Wheat City Clinic is doing phone appointments.  
 
https://wheatcitymedical.com/2020/03/17/wheat-city-medical-announces-temporary-ability-to-have-access-to-doctors-via-phone/

Over the past couple weeks I have read all the news on covid19, all the updates and info is great, but are there any cases in Brandon as we have 21 now in Manitoba.

are halted at Shoppers Drug Mart at Loblaws request. Wanted to get a ticket for Lotto Max but couldn't.

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Walmart is not selling lotto tickets either (yesterday was the last day)