Hotel quarantine is not preventing the spread of COVID-19

If you fly into Canada, you have to stay in a hotel at your own expense until your COVID test comes back negative. For starters, it’s pretty late to start getting tough on the border: Hard lockdowns on the border would have done wonders to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Canada if done in February, 2020. But 12 months later, we’ve got a pretty robust amount of this disease already running wild within our borders, and it’s not at all clear how many new infections are coming because of arriving travellers violating our prior policy of mandatory self-isolation.