Editor:
As a community health-care provider, I am aware of the details of the measures taken by our local health-care system to keep the Sunshine Coast as safe as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. The low incidence of positive cases here, with no cases related to community spread, demonstrates that these measures are effective.
However, the increasing population – related to folks occupying their secondary home full time and more visitors -– means the risk rising of escalating cases here, despite the repeated message from Dr. Bonnie Henry to restrict unnecessary travel.
I was especially curious to notice the message board installed on the bypass last Friday greeting the off-loading ferry traffic from Horseshoe Bay to restrict travel to “essential only.” Aren’t the horses out of the barn at this point in someone’s journey?
The sign would be much more appropriately placed on the way into Horseshoe Bay to alert the public about the messaging around travel, perhaps triggering last-minute second thoughts on the trip to our, so far, safe haven.
Stay safe, close to home, kind and calm.
Mary Findlay, Gibsons
