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Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 01.04.2020 18:20

 ak>> BTW, what about you?

 AH> And you? I hear Moscow is affected as well... (sigh).

For a while I am well. Although, I think that deaths from a long
quarantine can be more numerable than from the virus. Working was the
thing that kept relatives apart. (black humour :).

 ak>> Do you have in Canada COVID19 quarantine for old people? Is it
 ak>> strict of something?

The most crazy thing in it is that Putin has imposed the same measures
across all Russia. I even heard a story about a man who stroll alone
along the sea, and he was caught by the police, for violating self
isolation. ;-) IMHO, most of the local authority in Russia are foolish
and coward people, and they do exactly as they do in Moscow. They can
arrest all Russia without batting an eyelid. Thank God, for a while it
is a house arrest. But the measures are crazy and excessive. As Putin
says "we react in advance". Although we have now quite many infected
people and a very low death rate among them. But nobody pays attention
at the statistics.

 AH> The current rules are subject to change... and various provinces
 AH> may be doing things a bit differently. But from what I see,
 AH> quarantine is required only if a person actually has this disease
 AH> or is returning from SomePlace Else. Others are advised to self-
 AH> isolate, particularly if they are at risk because of their age or
 AH> because of a medical condition which leaves the immune system in a
 AH> depressed state. The distinction is often overlooked in news
 AH> reports.... :-))

The difference is probably in the way how Canadians and Russians
understand the verb "advise". ;-)

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
fido.english_tutor 2020
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