[JamisonM]

> Do you think that the fact Thunder Bay had fewer than 100 COVID cases might have been because of their access to the COVID database, and their ability to enforce the Quarantine Act?

The premise here is that the police force needed to search the COVID database 150 times a day to enforce the quarantine act and that when asked why they were searching so frequently they were afraid to tell the federal government that they were using the queries as a tool for enforcing the law.

I am pretty sceptical of that theory.

Of course since they lost their access more than a month ago there have been a handful of new cases.. so it seems like we also have some empirical evidence that undermines this theory.

I'd love to hear a plausible explanation for 150 searches of the COVID-19 database per day in community with just over 100K residents and a police force of around 320 employees for the purposes of genuine police work.

[arcticbull]

> I'd love to hear a plausible explanation for 150 searches of the COVID-19 database per day in community with just over 100K residents and a police force of around 320 employees for the purposes of genuine police work.

A dashboard that refreshes every 10 minutes.

I’d love to hear a plausible explanation for what malicious thing they could do with that data.

[JamisonM]

It does not seem very plausible that a small police force built themselves a dashboard that refreshes and then when asked why they were making so many requests by the federal agency didn't explain that they made a dashboard and instead refused to say what they were doing.

A plausible explanation for what they were doing with the data that was malicious was that they were looking up friends and neighbours to gossip about/harass for being COVID-19 positive. It seemed obvious to me that this was the most probable explanation from the start.