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   brewnoser to All   
   Covid quarantines - locks on the outside   
   10 Feb 21 14:52:45   
   
   From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   Jeezus - if only there was somewhere to send people like this into *permanent*   
   isolation. I keep looking at all those islands in our north surrounded by   
   starving polar bears . . . .   
   ________________________   
   Toronto Star - Wed., Feb. 10, 2021   
      
   After police charged a man with forging COVID test results at Pearson, a Peel   
   doctor worries travellers could try to ‘game the system’   
      
   A Brampton emergency room physician says the allegation that a man forged   
   COVID test results to evade detection at Pearson airport is concerning as   
   others may try to “game the system.”   
      
   Dr. Tushar Mehta’s concern about the public risk posed by exposure to   
   international travellers came after Peel Regional Police confirmed they have   
   charged a 29-year-old Stratford man with using a fraudulent COVID-19 document   
   at Pearson while trying to    
   enter the country, at around 7 p.m. Monday.   
      
   Stricter rules have recently been put in place for international travellers.   
      
   “If people start finding out that you can game the system, then it could   
   become normal practice,” said Mehta, an emergency room physician at Brampton   
   Civic hospital. “That’s a problem.”   
      
   Mehta’s level of worry is amplified by the ongoing risk posed by the   
   potential entry of new and more contagious variants on international flights.   
      
   “There can be systemic issues with how to verify that somebody has proper   
   documentation,” said Mehta, who has also worked in Brampton COVID testing   
   sites.   
      
   Const. Danny Marttini said the man — who entered Canada on an international   
   flight, though she wouldn’t say from where — raised the suspicion of   
   Canada Border Services Agency officers and public quarantine officers at the   
   inspection point after he    
   tried to pass off the alleged forged paperwork as a negative test.   
      
   A more detailed probe of the COVID document revealed that it was fraudulent,   
   and it was, in fact, a positive test result, Marttini said.   
      
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