City dwellers continue to flood parts of cottage country, despite repeated warnings to stay where they are.
Hundreds of people are flooding rural areas to “ride out the pandemic”, but area politicians warn that they are risking a spread of the coronavirus in places with limited medical services, which will suddenly overwhelm the healthcare system.
Medical experts say while they understand the desire of cottagers to flee the city, they also warn “this is exactly what this virus needs in order to propagate.”
They add mortality rates are actually higher in rural Canada, partly because of the long distance to trauma centres.
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Premier Doug Ford said last week, “There’s no one that loves the cottage more than I do, but I’m not going to my cottage. They don’t have as many acute care beds as we do in the city. We don’t want to put that burden on the people up in cottage country. So please, just stay at home.”