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[Alwx]

I read yesterday at that hotel quarantine group on Facebook, where people share their stories and concerns and take pictures of rooms, food and cockroaches. Most people complain about food being cold, tasteless, small portions.

 

[Western Mountain Man]

Looks like some are really desperate to come here. Probably not concerned with the quarantine hotels or rules.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canada-fraudulent-covid-tests-border-1.5966707

 

[Western Mountain Man]

I read yesterday at that hotel quarantine group on Facebook, where people share their stories and concerns and take pictures of rooms, food and cockroaches. Most people complain about food being cold, tasteless, small portions.

I hope they leave a good review !

 

[solman07]

Can we get exemptions if heavily pregnant? I'd rather not have my wife stay there when we have our own place ready to go when we land.

 

[Canada2020eh]

Can we get exemptions if heavily pregnant? I'd rather not have my wife stay there when we have our own place ready to go when we land.

Probably not.

 

[pc8922]

Looks like some are really desperate to come here. Probably not concerned with the quarantine hotels or rules.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canada-fraudulent-covid-tests-border-1.5966707

If you look slightly beyond your bias, some of them were already from Canada to begin with.

From the article you shared :

"It was reviewed by public health officials, and in the end, a 45-year-old Edmonton man was arrested and charged with using a forged document.

A similar incident happened on the evening of Feb. 8. This time, a 29-year-old Stratford, Ont., man was arrested on the same charge."

Forgery should be punished. I personally expected the number to be much higher than 30.

 

[Western Mountain Man]

If you look slightly beyond your bias, some of them were already from Canada to begin with.

From the article you shared :

"It was reviewed by public health officials, and in the end, a 45-year-old Edmonton man was arrested and charged with using a forged document.

A similar incident happened on the evening of Feb. 8. This time, a 29-year-old Stratford, Ont., man was arrested on the same charge."

Forgery should be punished. I personally expected the number to be much higher than 30.

Thanks for the clarification.
We surely don't want to catch covid from scammers trying to enter the country.

 

[his*marty]

I wonder how they know its a forged document...? I'm curious to know if someone got a forged document because they tested positive or because they couldn't get one within 72 hours...

 

[Western Mountain Man]

Looks like some Hotels are taking advantage of the quarantine rules.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7736522/covid-hotels-quarantine-rules/

 

[armoured]

Looks like some Hotels are taking advantage of the quarantine rules.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7736522/covid-hotels-quarantine-rules/

Terrible journalism. Not even an attempt to get response from the hotels, government, anyone apart from what the travellers claim.

It's like they wrote an article from Facebook memes.

 

[Western Mountain Man]

Terrible journalism. Not even an attempt to get response from the hotels, government, anyone apart from what the travellers claim.

It's like they wrote an article from Facebook memes.

Yea,
The hotels are keeping quiet due to concerns regarding reputation and the government is keeping quiet due to concerns
regarding privacy. So, listen to what some of the travers have to say.

 

[armoured]

Yea,
The hotels are keeping quiet due to concerns regarding reputation and the government is keeping quiet due to concerns
regarding privacy. So, listen to what some of the travers have to say.

Sorry, it's still terrible journalism. If they asked the hotels or government about this and got no comment, then fine, go ahead - quote the travellers and then say the hotel refused to respond.

But this is just terrible, awful, lazy, irresponsible journalism - because clearly the journalists didn't make the slightest effort to confirm or deny any aspect of the story - just repeated what some traveller said. Ok, it's plausible there's some issue with the pricing or confusion - but that doesn't absolve a journalist of the responsibility to actually check. Because frankly it's far more plausible that the traveller made a reservation for a hotel room that was not a room under the quarantine rules, just a room, or somehow otherwise confused somethign and that it wasn't the hotel's fault.

And frankly that's obvious because there is no way in Canada that a hotel room near an airport with food included would cost $80 a day. A room, three meals a day, food included, delivered to the room, for $80? And also qualifying under whatever rules the government has for these quarantine hotels (There aren't that many)? No way. It's obviously not 'true' in the sense that factual as reported by this journalist.

Otherwise it's pretty much no different than a journalist quoting a single Yelp review and making a story of it. That's not journalism, that's just clickbait social media garbage.

 

[Western Mountain Man]

Sorry, it's still terrible journalism. If they asked the hotels or government about this and got no comment, then fine, go ahead - quote the travellers and then say the hotel refused to respond.

But this is just terrible, awful, lazy, irresponsible journalism - because clearly the journalists didn't make the slightest effort to confirm or deny any aspect of the story - just repeated what some traveller said. Ok, it's plausible there's some issue with the pricing or confusion - but that doesn't absolve a journalist of the responsibility to actually check. Because frankly it's far more plausible that the traveller made a reservation for a hotel room that was not a room under the quarantine rules, just a room, or somehow otherwise confused somethign and that it wasn't the hotel's fault.

And frankly that's obvious because there is no way in Canada that a hotel room near an airport with food included would cost $80 a day. A room, three meals a day, food included, delivered to the room, for $80? And also qualifying under whatever rules the government has for these quarantine hotels (There aren't that many)? No way. It's obviously not 'true' in the sense that factual as reported by this journalist.

Otherwise it's pretty much no different than a journalist quoting a single Yelp review and making a story of it. That's not journalism, that's just clickbait social media garbage.

No need to apologize... Words of a true Canadian.

$80.00/day did seem to be a little too good for around Pearson airport but maybe they are offering some special deals for students?
That's even better than any Motel 6 in my area, though Calgary has some really good quarantine package deals at room rates.

Perhaps the journalist was not diligent enough but if you were able to see what many travelers are expressing in other languages then
it becomes much more of an " eye opener " .

 

[armoured]

$80.00/day did seem to be a little too good for around Pearson airport but maybe they are offering some special deals for students?

Maybe the simple answer is that it's just pure manure?

Perhaps the journalist was not diligent enough but if you were able to see what many travelers are expressing in other languages then it becomes much more of an " eye opener " .

I'd welcome a proper piece written by a journalist who is diligent enough to do his/her actual job and do some real reporting.

 

[Alwx]

It is actually trudeau's government that is garbage. If you go on Facebook page for hotel quarantine, there's lots of complaining and lots of pissed off people. Lots of people are very upset. The question is what should people do when government create dumb rules that are clearly wrong? The history has proven that government is more than capable of this. Even contemporary governments. Canada is not immune to this.The thing is this is not going to deter people who are forced to travel because of personal circumstances. If they made it a reasonable price that is regular hotel rate , it wouldn't create more covid, this is what this dumb government needs to understand. But they choose to give special treatment to NHL players, athletes, diplomats and other prevelleged groups and abuse the vulnerable.