From my point of vue, working at an elderly caring home that is currently infected, I find it totally stupid that they stopped visitors only to allow anyone and anything to come to work in close proximity with the elderly people without any protection.
Why stop them from seing their loved ones only to let the employees to bring the disease to them? it was only a matter of time before this hapened, and I told them so a month ago. No one beleived me.
They could have allowed visitors but make them wash their hands, keep social distancing and wear a mask. They SHOULD have make every care giver wear a maks when ever they were anywhere close to a resident. When feeding, cleaning etc. That would have done it and we would not have the horrid contamination we see now in so many elderly caring homes. In one of them in Montreal there is currently a criminal investigation because 31 elderly dies in short time and some where found dead soiled in shit. They were not fed, not cleaned.
I don't know if there is such situation in the USA..I doubt it.
Of course Canada is doing better than France, for now. You are in Manitoba and you don't have too many cases. I live beside Montreal, and we are starting to look like Italy here. I don't see Quebec fairing any better any time soon. People here are not disciplined, not very intelligent about it. At my work place, the manager, especially one, is still getting within a feet from the administrative staff although this is illegal. I took a photo of her talking with our receptionnist on April 2, and she's way too close, and she does it all the time. I am very tempted to post it on Facebook for everyone to see...
From my point of view, I find that Canada is not really doing that bad.
Here in Manitoba we immediately closed the schools and did the prevention (stay home etc.)
I'm an immigrant from France and when I see how it has been mismanaged in Europe, I'm really sad for my homeland but so happy to be here with you! In France, a lot of people don't even respect the instruction to stay at home. They're selfish and arrogant so it's no surprise there is so many dead.
So yes... the situation could be better managed here in Canada, but when we look at the United States, I think we are pretty good on this side of the border. Just NY have 180k+ Confirmed COVID people... and this is just starting.
Stay save my friends.