Question #1: Where are you located, and how bad is, or was, the pandemic in your location, region, or country?

Canada went into lockdown on March 19, 2020, announcing wide economic and financial support programs. Only essential services were open; the streets were empty. Phased reopenings began in late April 2020, but cases began rising as predicted when autumn brought people indoors. On January 14, 2021, when the death toll worldwide passed two million, more than 689,000 Canadians had been infected with SARS-Cov-2, and Canada ranked fifty-third in worldwide COVID mortalities, with 17,500 deaths in a population of nearly thirty-eight million. Provincial medical officers of health determine when infection rates warrant limitations to the operation of businesses, schools, restaurants, bars, and gyms. In Toronto, racialized groups have higher rates; in Alberta, meatpacking plants with a large migrant workforce were most heavily affected. Indigenous communities with poor infrastructure and overcrowded housing have been particularly vulnerable. The Atlantic East Coast, with a population of 2.44 million people, has been relatively spared, with eighty-one deaths to date. In Nova Scotia, where I live, sixty-five people have died, mostly seniors living in long-term and residential care facilities. The national disgrace is that some 80 percent of all COVID-19 deaths have been among elderly Canadians in congregate residential care. Conditions in those facilities got so bad that the army was called in to assist with their day-to-day operations. Quebec, Alberta, and Ontario have had much higher rates of COVID and less success in tracing community infections. Almost all infections in the East Coast area are related to travel from other provinces. An “Atlantic bubble” created on July 3, 2020, requires travelers to socially isolate for two weeks upon arrival. Air, train, and bus transportation have significantly declined in this region.

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人类学家回答有关大流行的四个问题

问题 1：您位于何处，您所在地区、地区或国家/地区的流行病有多严重？

加拿大于 2020 年 3 月 19 日进入封锁状态，宣布了广泛的经济和金融支持计划。只有基本服务开放；街上空无一人。分阶段重新开放于 2020 年 4 月下旬开始，但当秋天将人们带入室内时，病例开始上升，正如预测的那样。2021 年 1 月 14 日，当全球死亡人数超过 200 万时，超过 689,000 名加拿大人感染了 SARS-Cov-2，加拿大在全球 COVID 死亡率中排名第 53，在近 30 岁的人口中有 17,500 人死亡。八百万。省卫生官员确定何时需要限制企业、学校、餐馆、酒吧和体育馆的运营。在多伦多，种族化群体的比率更高；在阿尔伯塔省，拥有大量移民劳动力的肉类加工厂受到的影响最大。基础设施薄弱、住房过度拥挤的土著社区尤其脆弱。拥有 244 万人口的大西洋东海岸相对幸免于难，迄今为止已有 81 人死亡。在我居住的新斯科舍省，有 65 人死亡，其中大部分是住在长期和住宿护理设施中的老年人。全国的耻辱是，在所有 COVID-19 死亡病例中，约有 80% 是在集体住宅护理中的加拿大老年人。这些设施的条件变得如此糟糕，以至于军队被要求协助他们的日常运作。魁北克、阿尔伯塔和安大略的 COVID 感染率要高得多，但在追踪社区感染方面的成功率却较低。东海岸地区几乎所有的感染都与来自其他省份的旅行有关。2020 年 7 月 3 日产生的“大西洋泡沫”，要求旅客在抵达后进行两周的社会隔离。该地区的航空、火车和公共汽车运输显着下降。