Further spread in Canada
Yet Another Hospital Closing: another hospital in Toronto has been closed and a couple of thousand people have been added to the quarantine list. There is a sense of some panic beginning to emanate from the top people at the health unit in Toronto; they're beginning to be concerned that the disease has run away in Toronto, I think.
Reports from China are that entire cities are being shut down because of the effect of this, and people are raising serious questions about why the authorities didn't start screaming for help on this back in February when it first came to light in Quandong province. The disease has been reported in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and in other major metropolitan centers (the Chinese student that lives in my house is from Beijing, and he's freaking out a bit).
I wonder if the quietude on the issue in the US is because they're concerned about the effect widespread knowledge of this might have on public support for the war effort? Sending them out without face masks would fit with that... if people started seeing people coming out of hospitals in face masks, it would end up in the news, and that could perhaps blow the lid off the issue in the media.
