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More like your children will have to ask people like gates to have children.
Enjoy as you lose your freedoms and police show up at night to take you out of your home.
More like your children will have to ask people like gates to have children.
Enjoy as you lose your freedoms and police show up at night to take you out of your home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=981Wmic6kmI&t=600s
Are they being taken to the hospital because they just flew back from somewhere?
Why couldn't they just bring test kits if they think they're positive?
^^heavy is the head that wears the crown, my friend.
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What’s Ontario’s situation? They’re at ~350 cases per day which seems pretty good given the population. There are *suburbs* around Toronto that have higher population density than downtown Vancouver.
pretty good compared to hot spots in the US or say taiwan that has higher urban density WITHOUT shutdowns and manage subsequent undetectable days?
there may be some merit that public mask-wearing in East Asia is not as stigmatized whereas top health officials in North America were publicly shaming those that did just few months ago
i dont claim that's the reason BC is doing slightly better than other regions but not sure we can claim relatively early success with the explanation 'because Canadians aren't dicks'
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Can someone explain to me what the argument is here? Is Richmond being more of a ghost town and quick to wearing masks supposed to be reminiscent of them caring more about their fellow man than other people in BC?
Can someone explain to me what the argument is here? Is Richmond being more of a ghost town and quick to wearing masks supposed to be reminiscent of them caring more about their fellow man than other people in BC?
Something about farts....?
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Gold is the money of kings;
Silver is the money of gentlemen;
Barter is the money of peasants;
But debt is the money of slaves.
-Norm Franz
Can someone explain to me what the argument is here? Is Richmond being more of a ghost town and quick to wearing masks supposed to be reminiscent of them caring more about their fellow man than other people in BC?
Yeah man. I’m not even commenting on that article. Seems like some racist bait trapping
Trying to figure out the answer to this questions. If both my wife and I have COVID, and she is asymptomatic, are we okay with kissing and hugging each other? Or, are we just trading more COVID particles, making the situation worse?
A look at the quarantine camps where the HK govt sends incoming travelers from parts of Asia and Africa. Note that they don't send people from EU or NA or China, Japan, or Korea here. Despite those places all being in the top 10 for corona cases.
Pakistan is #20 for instance, Nepal #133, but people from there can't quarantine at home, they have to go to this place:
Trying to figure out the answer to this questions. If both my wife and I have COVID, and she is asymptomatic, are we okay with kissing and hugging each other? Or, are we just trading more COVID particles, making the situation worse?
IIRC, severity of symptoms and length of infection seems to be based on viral load. So in your case you want to prevent contact as much as reasonably possible. I can't imagine someone with symptoms being in the mood for kissing or anything beyond that anyway
More like your children will have to ask people like gates to have children.
Enjoy as you lose your freedoms and police show up at night to take you out of your home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=981Wmic6kmI&t=600s
Took a look at that form 2 that the mental health worker was talking about and it's for a psychological evaluation under the mental health act
A look at the quarantine camps where the HK govt sends incoming travelers from parts of Asia and Africa. Note that they don't send people from EU or NA or China, Japan, or Korea here. Despite those places all being in the top 10 for corona cases.
Pakistan is #20 for instance, Nepal #133, but people from there can't quarantine at home, they have to go to this place:
Seen this recently as well. My father is absolutely going off on how the Chinese have been treating Africans in China right now.
Have people been noticing the emergence of COVID doubters to a higher degree as of yet? You have Elon Musk using his stage to decry the legitimacy of the virus in the first place, along with other conservative news networks, and media spaces, along with QANON.
I had an ear beating earlier today from the owner of a restaurant I frequent, where she believes the entire thing is a complete hoax. I had to stop her midway and shake my head letting her know my girlfriend has been working in the COVID unit at VGH, and that it is very much not a fake thing.
I'm starting to hear friends of mine tout this same idea here as well.
It's very strange and interesting to see how this "Covid is fake" narative that is starting to really grow legs, who would've known that Bill Gates of all people, would be considered a now tyrant.
It's all very disheartening to see how internet propaganda has been able to successfully gaslight so much of our population, what is the overall agenda here?
Seen this recently as well. My father is absolutely going off on how the Chinese have been treating Africans in China right now.
Have people been noticing the emergence of COVID doubters to a higher degree as of yet? You have Elon Musk using his stage to decry the legitimacy of the virus in the first place, along with other conservative news networks, and media spaces, along with QANON.
I had an ear beating earlier today from the owner of a restaurant I frequent, where she believes the entire thing is a complete hoax. I had to stop her midway and shake my head letting her know my girlfriend has been working in the COVID unit at VGH, and that it is very much not a fake thing.
I'm starting to hear friends of mine tout this same idea here as well.
It's very strange and interesting to see how this "Covid is fake" narative that is starting to really grow legs, who would've known that Bill Gates of all people, would be considered a now tyrant.
It's all very disheartening to see how internet propaganda has been able to successfully gaslight so much of our population, what is the overall agenda here?
I don't know if I posted it earlier in the thread, but this was bound to happen if we successfully "flattened the curve". There just seems to be a pretty large percentage of people who can't really think critically, and think that everything is some weird conspiracy. Maybe we're in a simulation, and some brains just can't handle it? Who knows.
Then again, there is a lot of misinformation being spread by some pretty influential people. I know you listen to JRE, so you must be as disappointed as I am when he went from being one of the better mainstream sources for info on the virus (when he had Osterholm on, and later Hotez, and repeated their advice) to practically being a "covid denier" who thinks people are only susceptible to it if they're tired or lacking vitamin D.
Musk is even more disappointing, because he's supposed to be a smart guy. Yet he concludes that because the lockdowns were effective, and the death rate was kept in check, that means it was never a threat to begin with. Oh I get that the billionaires want to keep being able to make money, and the lockdown is costing them a lot, but is that all it takes to turn one of the (purportedly) brightest minds into a complete moron?
Yea the guy smart but he seems to always have something to prove. He ain't happy unless he's part of the solution or invents some crazy contraption and take credit. Seen this pattern over and over, it is disappointing yes.
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Now that I read more, they "flattened the curve" and flattened the ability to pay their healthcare workers and other essential services.
Whelp I guess better die from your state being unable to fund hospitals than dead from COVID-19. Time to resell those ventilators.
First in line for firing are frontline healthcare workers according to their governor in an attempt to blackmail congress. Well shouldn't you have thought about all unintended consequences before making your decision.
California is a good barometer of what you will see in the coming months. Widespread provincial and municipal shortfalls and budget cuts. Unless they get a bailout, you will probably see defaults as well. You think public services are underfunded now? Well you haven't seen anything yet.
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