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Dr. Brendan Hanley
Latest COVID case related to travel
The Yukon has its 77th case of COVID-19.
The Yukon has its 77th case of COVID-19.
As with all the other recent cases, this latest incidence of the virus is linked to travel rather than any kind of community spread territorially.
In a news release issued late Monday afternoon, the Yukon’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Brendan Hanley, said “Case 77 is an adult in rural Yukon, associated with travel within Canada.
“The person is self-isolating and recovering at home. Contact tracing is ongoing.”
Hanley also issued a public exposure notification pertaining to April 9 in Watson Lake.
“People may have been exposed to COVID-19 infection if they were at the following location: Andrea’s Restaurant, Alaska Hwy Truckers Pub and Grill breakfast sitting 6 a.m. to 11 a.m.”
It’s unclear if the public notice exposure is related to Case 77.
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Comments (9)
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Motive unclear, are you actually Josey Wales? on Apr 24, 2021 at 12:30 pm
Although your comment is a bit easier to follow than Josey's usually are. But the faux-intellectual rambling is similar.
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Juniper Jackson on Apr 23, 2021 at 4:29 pm
Motive unclear: Your comment captures the entire pandemic issue. So well written. Thank you for composing and posting!!
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motive unclear on Apr 22, 2021 at 9:41 am
One of the most effective missiles fired against the contrarians in the great mask debate has been that those failing to don the oxygen-preventer or adopt the other temporary measures are thinking only of themselves. If true, this is a serious charge as surely we cannot tolerate any form of selfishness in the new inclusive, diverse and sustainable society we are building, now can we?
Let us examine this argument to see if it has any merit, shall we?
If I were a bureaucrat sheltering at home, collecting six figures and benefits, I could be the perfect example of the selfless man, so concerned about his fellow person that he wouldn’t think of contaminating anyone with the dreaded plague. And yet, I would need groceries which must be produced and trucked and sold and delivered, and the residual garbage hauled away by other folks who are not as selfless as myself, and are quite willing to take on the risk of infecting each other by their loathsome activities. So, by proxy, I am indirectly spreading the plague of death, ironically, due to my chosen selfless lifestyle.
And by the way, the folks who find themselves in this situation have little if any reason to want things to change. What exactly would be the attraction for me, were these measures to suddenly end? I would have to be up before noon, climb into a frigid car, risk death on the highway, just to sit at a desk or look out the window, go to the mandatory meetings, and listen to boring reports all day long. Much better to do as I wish with my time at home, no?
But is it really just the economy the measures have destroyed? The “economy” which is more a thought than a thing, will most certainly survive the plague in some weakened form or other, so there is no reason to fear it’s demise.
What has really been destroyed is something far more important. What has been destroyed almost completely for most of us is the simple joy of being alive! Anyone with a memory bank can easily recall the simplicity of life before the alphabet media began telling us we were all going to die. We called up a friend and met for a coffee, paying little attention to what we wore, or how close we sat to each other. We stood in lines shoulder to shoulder to pay for our breakfast, and maybe stayed a bit apart from the dude with the red nose stifling a sneeze, but that was about all. Sometimes we even… wait for it… touched each other!! Those who could afford it and desired it travelled quite freely, even overseas, presenting only a passport to do so; spreading plagues was the furthest worry from our minds.
Those days are gone.
And in their place, we have “authorities” enforcing more and more restrictions on their populations, killing businesses, killing marriages, killing friendships, killing dreams, and instilling in their place, fear, terrors and threats of violent enforcements of ever-growing social controls.
Sometimes the thing that benefits you most, benefits me too. And in the case of the world at large, ending the face-erasing, oxygen preventing, selfless-me signaling would be a huge benefit to one and all. Oh… except maybe some oligarchs here and there, and I can live with that, being as selfish as I am.
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Juniper Jackson on Apr 21, 2021 at 5:29 pm
76,000 people travelled through the Yukon. It would seem the borders ARE open.
There is absolutely NO reason to keep us locked down internally. Oh yeah.. the threat here is soooo great.
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Moose101 on Apr 21, 2021 at 6:39 am
Come on this is embarrassing - last 2 notifications have been 10 days after this person arrived. What’s the point? You then have the Gall to not even tell us if this notification is linked to #77 in Watson Lake. I will mention again this person came back into The Yukon and didn’t isolate for 14 days and not charged again.
I’ve had it being mister compliance for following rules getting vaccinated and such. Why wasn’t this person vaccinated and following guidelines? It seems to me that the government lawyers say don’t lay charges as you can’t enforce them.
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bonanzajoe on Apr 20, 2021 at 8:26 pm
77 cases of covid in Yukon. I challenge the Doc to tell us how many cases of flu in the Yukon since this hoax started.
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martin on Apr 20, 2021 at 8:19 pm
Of course it is not clear from the notice. When the Libs came out clean? And to think that yukoners had the chance to get rid of this (dis)administration.
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Dr. Pepper on Apr 20, 2021 at 7:08 pm
Newsflash - all covid in the territory and Canada for that matter is related to some sort of travel - jeesch.
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Yt on Apr 20, 2021 at 5:04 pm
Yeah, let’s open up those borders.
With the YP not getting elected we dodged that bullet.