National Post: TDC_ARTICLE_START Jialing Zhang has the usual complaints for someone flying into Canada under new quarantine rules. The Montreal resident waited hours at a time on the phone from China trying to book a quarantine hotel room, racked up hefty cell-phone bills in the process and feared that without a reservation she’d be barred from her flight. Zhang, who was visiting a gravely ill mother in Beijing, is fine with the new requirement. But unlike most Canadians, she says she’s seen hotel quarantining done much more efficiently, more safely and at less expense for travellers. Her 14 days in a Chinese hotel on the outbound trip — with extensive infection precautions, attentive staff and high-tech organization — left Zhang scratching her head at Canada’s “very casual” three-day version. “I feel like (China’s) quarantine actually meant something,” said the 33-year-old. What’s being done in Canada, on the other hand, seems “just for show.” The payoff for China was a society operating more or less normally, where eating out at restaurants, going to the salon or seeing a movie are all possible, she noted. Zhang acknowledges that much of what China is doing to keep COVID-19 at bay, including mobile phone apps that inform authorities if someone may have been infected, would not fly in democracies like Canada . TDC_ARTICLE_STOP Incorrect! Literally what "muh commie" China is doing is just common sense, and would be massively popular here. You have to quarantine in a hotel both here and in China, but in China it isn't a fucking joke. After they've made sure that you've quarantined, you can do whatever the fuck you want, because THAT'S HOW YOU SOLVE A FUCKING FOREIGN DISEASE. In contrast, here in Canada, you still have to go to a quarantine hospital, THAT YOU FUCKING PAY FOR, and then because this is a total joke (((they))) still get the ability to have tons of arbitrary restrictions to destroy small businesses. TDC_ARTICLE_START “Forced quarantine is already a very difficult move in North America. I totally understand that,” she said. “(But) there are things they could learn, if not from China, then from Japan, from Korea. There’s no cases there any more. … Are we really that prejudiced in North America, thinking that we know the solution, we know what’s best?” Countries such as China, South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand that have similar quarantine rules for incoming travellers have among the lowest rate of COVID-19 infection in the world. Canada’s efforts, though, are complicated by more than just its relaxed experiment with hotel isolation. To keep a massive trading relationship with the United States operating, truck drivers and others crossing the border daily are exempt from any sort of quarantine requirement. TDC_ARTICLE_STOP See, this is exactly what I mean when I say "arbitrary restrictions." These are totally arbitrary restrictions designed to, as I have detailed numerous times before, destroy small businesses and transfer their assets to billionaires. We've got small businesses within Canada being shut down for not being one of the x industries allowed to operate, but truckers can just go all the way up and down Canada and US. In a real country, the truckers would not be allowed to leave the country. Now of course, anyone who is affected negatively by real, necessary efforts to fight this disease would be massively compensated. TDC_ARTICLE_START Born in China, Zhang moved with her family as a small child to Australia, where she is a citizen, and has been working in film post-production in Montreal the last three years. She made an emergency trip to China in October after her mother suffered a major stroke and doctors feared she might not survive. (She is doing much better now.) The daughter knew little about the country’s quarantine policy, but there was no requirement to book ahead and flight attendants briefed passengers on the plane to southern China’s Guangzhou. Key to the whole, paperless process, she said, was a QR code generated by WeChat, a mobile texting app that virtually everyone in China uses. Once on the ground, there was no choice of hotel; passengers were assigned one and taken there by bus. The cost, not including meals, was the equivalent of about $820, less than Zhang just paid for three days with meals at a hotel near Toronto Pearson airport. “Every step you go, they check your temperature, your QR code, make sure your documentation is ready,” she said. “Once you get to the hotel, they would .. spray this disinfectant on your suitcases, your shoes.” Guests were given temperature checks twice a day. Passengers could pay for room service at about $14 a day or order from outside restaurants, something not allowed in Canada. Guests at the Canadian hotels have complained about hours-long delays in receiving meals and angry confrontations with staff. Requests for help were forwarded to staff at Zhang’s Guangzhou hotel through WeChat, and usually brought a response within minutes, she said. But hotel employees wore full personal protective equipment — what Zhang called “bio suits” — rooms were thoroughly disinfected after use and only quarantined travellers were allowed in the hotel. In another Guangzhou inn, guests are served primarily by robots, she said. TDC_ARTICLE_STOP Listen to how much better Communist China is than us, in every way. Then think about that sentence a few times. Let it really mull over in your mind. TDC_ARTICLE_START The designated hotels in Canada host a blend of quarantined and regular guests, while staff are protected only with face masks. “It’s kind of concerning because we’re all checking in at the same reception,” Zhang said about the Toronto airport hotel where she’s staying. “I feel they really need to be protecting all those hotel staff, and I just feel they’re not doing that. It’s not helping with the spread.” Once Zhang got to Beijing, where her parents live, “everything was so normal,” she said. Still, before entering businesses people had to undergo temperature checks and display their QR code to verify they’re COVID-negative, as well as scan the building’s own code to make contact tracing easier, she said. TDC_ARTICLE_STOP My rage almost cannot be contained. Keep in mind when you see stupid astroturfed anti-meeeaask guys who are also doing the "muh Chyna Baaad", bullshit. Look at how much better Communist China treats its citizens than our (((Puppetocracy))). BTW in case you thought I was kidding about the whole "paying for your Covid Quarantine Hotel," part. CTV: TDC_ARTICLE_START TORONTO -- An Ontario woman who went overseas to attend her father's funeral says she feels gouged by the government's "ill-conceived" hotel quarantine plan that cost her $3,458 for a one-night stay. Cristina Teixeira says it has been a nightmare to return to Canada. "The stress that we were put under is inconceivable," Teixeira told CTV News Toronto over the phone Monday. "As a Canadian citizen, I can tell you this is wrong on so many levels. We've never experienced something like this." TDC_ARTICLE_STOP 1) China's response to the pandemic is both not absurd, as well as technologically impressive (robot waiters, quarantine phone apps). 2) China's response to the pandemic is massively less intrusive than ours. (One day quarantine, then normalcy + daily thermometer checks). 3) Our response is so fucking retarded that it can only be described as malicious. Eg. Truckers allowed to cross borders every day, barbershops in Canada forced to close, movie studios that FUCKING DO HAIR WORK allowed to stay open. 4) And of course it is malicious, designed to destroy small businesses and transfer their assets to the ultra-rich. 5) No, goy, this isn't going away with the vaccine.