Could you please not use such inflammatory words as "concentration camp" It's inappropriate on many levels, particularly here on DR1. It's also inaccurate and carries unnecessary connotations that are bound to needlessly trigger and otherwise irritate many here that deserve better. Thanks.
While I used the term, I can’t claim ownership of it. It is a media generated term used by angry Canadians to embarrass the government into rescinding their decision after they arbitrarily removed our freedom of movement, something guaranteed us under our Charter of Rights. Ironically brought back to Canada from Britain by Justin Trudeau’s father, Pierre when he was our Prime Minister.
Some people went so far as to say the Covid hotels are akin to the Canadian Japanese Internment camps implemented during the beginning of WW2. Upsetting to some, no doubt, and not a totally accurate comparison, but true from political perspective because the government arbitrarily implemented the Internment camps to restrict the movement of Canadian citizens of Japanese descent.
If my use of the media generated term upsets you, I apologize. That wasn’t my intent. It may be a bit extreme but it is not totally inaccurate. It was included in my posts to provoke and motivate people into thinking about the loss of their rights and the slippery slope the government put us on. Rights that were also revoked in Britain as well. Rights that are now being threatened in Canada at a provincial level. The slippery slope is getting even more slippery.
The government designated two week isolation centres for actual Infected international travellers were more palatable to the Canadian public. A place for infected Canadians to isolate in safety made sense and they actually helped to flatten the first wave. The government overstepped its political and legal bounds when they implemented mandatory Covid hotel stays for people with negative government certified Covid tests. It’s overkill and ineffective.
They are what they are regardless of what you call them. Upscale commercial jails where your surrounded by security guards for three days and can’t escape.
I admire the DR governments decision to implement the curfew and enforce it in the early stages of the pandemic to limit the infection spread. They didn’t hide behind their political skirts and play pandemic politics like Canadian politicians. Bigger cojones I guess and the DR appears to be doing better than Canada.