B.C. risks return to severe pandemic restrictions

[team dirt]

Unless they physically block the border I’m going as normal. Nothing changed last spring for me and I had my best spring ever.

 

[Radar78]

Unless they physically block the border I’m going as normal. Nothing changed last spring for me and I had my best spring ever.

X2......

 

[Teth-Air]

Pretty tough to go sledding for me when hotels wont rent rooms, cops pulling over every red plate they see and just standing by as local hipster douchebags vandalize and sabotage alberta vehicles, restaurants not open etc. Not to mention work jumping on the dumbass bandwagon of the govt's and forbidding us to leave the province.

Paranoid? Come on, really? The cops are nowhere to be seen when they believe that they will catch Covid from the people they pull over. I have been going to and from B.C. every 2 weeks for the last 3 years. Not once has there been an issue or have the police or locals been interested in me. Only if it becomes law to keep Albertans out and that will only happen if a Federal emergency is called. The restaurants that openly promoted that Albertans were not welcome are now boycotted by me, even though they are now advertising that they are open and welcoming all back. You can stay home if you want and leave fresh snow for the rest of us.

 

[Caper11]

All of Manitoba moving under Code Red restrictions starting Thursday https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/all-of-...-red-restrictions-starting-thursday-1.5182370

 

[Bogger]

All of Manitoba moving under Code Red restrictions starting Thursday https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/all-of-...-red-restrictions-starting-thursday-1.5182370

That is so fawked up... no socialization with anyone outside your household but schools will reamain open ?????

 

[Pedaling pete]

Who's going to follow those kind of rules? Not me.

 

[rknight111]

Won’t be long again and we will all be under lockdown. This better turn around.

 

[Bogger]

I just finished a mandatory 14 day isolation because I was potentially in close contact with a confirmed positive case a few weeks ago. My bud who tested positive was sick with flu like symptoms for 2-3 days and quickly recovered. Because there was the potential for me to be a "spreader" I respected the 14 day isolation period, could not go to work, had to use up a bunch of personal and vacation days and worst of all the isolation was brutal. It's one thing to hunker down and limit interactions, social distance, wear a mask etc.... When you are forced to isolate and can't go get milk, buy parts, go to the dump, pick up food etc.... And this was all AFTER a NEGATIVE test result.

I can see how isolation would impact someone with pre-existing mental health issues. I don't believe that "Mandatory" lockdowns are a good solution. I've said from the beginning, protect the vulnerable and let the rest run free, many will get it and quickly recover many will not get it for any number of reasons. I think Atlantic Canada is in for a rude awakening when they finally do open up their "Bubble" and a few cases get in, I think they are just delaying the inevitable.

 

[Luke The Drifter]

I checked on room availability last week for beginning of December and there was lots of open rooms. Wont take long and that retard running the show in BC will have that shut down as well, also the thing with pipelines is they continue to move as the pipeline progresses so they wont be around Valemount very long, thats a short lived influx of cash for that area. Another winter of full retard reactions to an overblown flu might push a bunch of people out of the sport, that coupled with the liberals/NDP shutting down industry all over means less money which means those said people may never take the sport back up again. Another death blow sledding just doesnt need

Don't kid yourself, TMX is almost at a standstill. Tons of delays, setbacks and government red tape have turned it into a complete soup sandwich. As well there is a large man camp that is housing a good majority (or at least it was) of the guys and gals working the pipeline.

I really hope BC (and Alberta for that matter), don't go into another lockdown. People are on edge enough as it is...

 

[acesup800]

I don’t remember sledding getting shut down. Just grooming.

Which makes zero sense. How does grooming create risk? I would think it will be in the best interest of the clubs to keep grooming or I would be asking for my trail $$ back.

 

[retiredpop]

In Alberta last spring they effectively shut down sledding by closing the staging areas and handing out big fines to those who disobeyed. $1200 too steep for a day of sledding for me. I might be staging along the road if that happens again. Truck and trailer will be social distanced from others of course.

 

[Bogger]

In Alberta last spring they effectively shut down sledding by closing the staging areas and handing out big fines to those who disobeyed. $1200 too steep for a day of sledding for me. I might be staging along the road if that happens again. Truck and trailer will be social distanced from others of course.

I guess it depends on where you stage... In AB Beach our town staging area is at the 50+ club so they could not enforce no parking/staging there.

Lots of places up around Whitecourt, Fox Creek, Swan Hills where a guy could park almost anywhere and jump onto the trails. At the AB Beach staging area in Stanger Hills they could maybe force us to shut down the washroom facilities but they could not shut down the staging and fire pit area, it's all outside.

 

[Teth-Air]

I just finished a mandatory 14 day isolation because I was potentially in close contact with a confirmed positive case a few weeks ago. My bud who tested positive was sick with flu like symptoms for 2-3 days and quickly recovered. Because there was the potential for me to be a "spreader" I respected the 14 day isolation period, could not go to work, had to use up a bunch of personal and vacation days and worst of all the isolation was brutal. It's one thing to hunker down and limit interactions, social distance, wear a mask etc.... When you are forced to isolate and can't go get milk, buy parts, go to the dump, pick up food etc.... And this was all AFTER a NEGATIVE test result.

I can see how isolation would impact someone with pre-existing mental health issues. I don't believe that "Mandatory" lockdowns are a good solution. I've said from the beginning, protect the vulnerable and let the rest run free, many will get it and quickly recover many will not get it for any number of reasons. I think Atlantic Canada is in for a rude awakening when they finally do open up their "Bubble" and a few cases get in, I think they are just delaying the inevitable.

Am I the only one who is confused why you would isolate for 14 days when your test came back negative? Our employees come back to work after a negative test. If everyone stayed home for 14 days after a negative test why are we testing? It should then be just isolate after you come in contact with a sick person??

 

[pano-dude]

Which makes zero sense. How does grooming create risk? I would think it will be in the best interest of the clubs to keep grooming or I would be asking for my trail $$ back.

Without grooming 99%of the sledders won't ride.

 

[Bogger]

Because I was a "close contact of a confirmed case" my test results were irrelevant AHS enforces a manditory 14 day isolation when there is contact with a confirmed positive case..... I don't agree with it, once I got my negative test I should have been good to go and it would have saved me a week away from work. It just proves to me that they have zero confidence in the reliability of thier tests.
Saturday - Event with Potential close contact
Sunday - Individual was informed by their workplace of a coworker positive case
Wednesday - Individual received positive test result & contacted myself and others at the event on Saturday - Removed myself from work
Thursday - Tested at 1pm
Saturday - Received negative test confirmation BUT... AHS enforceable isolation in effect for 7 more days

 

[Teth-Air]

Because I was a "close contact of a confirmed case" my test results were irrelevant AHS enforces a manditory 14 day isolation when there is contact with a confirmed positive case..... I don't agree with it, once I got my negative test I should have been good to go and it would have saved me a week away from work. It just proves to me that they have zero confidence in the reliability of thier tests.
Saturday - Event with Potential close contact
Sunday - Individual was informed by their workplace of a coworker positive case
Wednesday - Individual received positive test result & contacted myself and others at the event on Saturday - Removed myself from work
Thursday - Tested at 1pm
Saturday - Received negative test confirmation BUT... AHS enforceable isolation in effect for 7 more days

Ouch that sucks. All our people were not directly in contact with infected people, only in the same area.

 

[Bogger]

Ouch that sucks. All our people were not directly in contact with infected people, only in the same area.

I was likely not "close contact" but if anyone at that event was it would have been me. I could not guarantee 100% that I was not "close contact" so it would have been irresponsible of me to just assume and ignore. Obviously our protocols were good as there was zero transmission from our event but I was erring on the side of caution. From now on I will be much more careful to maintain physical distance when socializing so that if anyone else I know gets it I can confidently and with certainty claim I was not a "close contact"

 

[dgjordan]

Without grooming 99%of the sledders won't ride.

which is great news for us guys who like to ride and dont care if the trail is fawked or a highway.

more pow for the real riders!

 

[Billy Boy]

Manitoba just announced a code red shut down as of this Thursday Nov 12. Massive shut down of the Manitoba economy for four weeks!!

 

[Bogger]

Manitoba just announced a code red shut down as of this Thursday Nov 12. Massive shut down of the Manitoba economy for four weeks!!

BUT.... schools will remain open