“Is it time to build the Canadian Shield?”

COVID STRATEGIC CHOICES publishes: Understanding The Canadian Shield (Dec 30th, 2020)

https://covidstrategicchoices.ca/

This strategy is designed to shield Canadians and our economy from both COVID and the unintended consequences of the fight against COVID.

Determined action over the next few weeks could save 5,000 lives, create 320,000 jobs, and generate $37 B of economic growth in 2021 compared to Canada’s present, failing COVID mitigation strategy.

For decision-makers, there are 3 key actions:

Sustain an effective lockdown until COVID cases are low enough that testing, tracing and isolation can work effectively.
Relax restrictions only to the extent that new COVID cases continue a steady decline of 17% – 25% per week. In the fight against COVID, if you are not winning (i.e., new cases are not going steadily down) you are losing. Any new increases will likely lead to a 3rd set of lockdowns in the spring.
Proactively assist the individuals, businesses and communities most affected by these policies.

CovidStrategicChoices is an initiative to further analyze, deliberate and define the ideal strategy to manage the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The members of this initiative are listed below.

Considering the key choices available to Canada, we seem to have three distinct paths forward; i) the current path (which is faltering), ii) much stricter measures (much like the Melbourne Model) and lastly, iii) the Canadian Shield model (a strategic choice tabled by our group of experts).

Browse our thought process behind the Canadian Shield:

Should we consider the Canadian Shield?
Economic analysis of the different strategies
International best practices for managing COVID