It seems if we only started with the social distancing a little earlier, we would be better able to start opening things up. Manitoba had the advantage of extra time because of our natural physical distancing. We had a couple of hundred cases identified in the first 2 weeks after shutdown, but they were all recent international travellers and they managed to contain them. Since then we've been near zero, with one small outbreak from a truck driver in Brandon. If we keep our borders shut, we can carefully resume business.
North Dakota, by comparison, has been steady 30, 40, 50...now over 100 new cases a day. Once it's established, it seems really hard to get rid of, especially if people don't take it seriously. It is obviously going to spread widely in the U.S. now, so I don't know how long we can continue to keep it out.
Next time, they need to quarantine all international travellers as soon as they discover human to human transmission in a novel virus. Seems like a no-brainer now.