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Does no one fucking go over algorithm results before instituting them? Holy fucking negligence Batman
Or any of those working from home who was chosen to get the vaccine stand up and say "let others get the vaccine first since I work from home".
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and icing on the cake, lady driving a newer chrysler 200 infront of me... jumped out of her car, dropped her pants, did an immediate squat and did probably the longest public relief ever...... steam and all.
looks like an honest screw-up
unlike that pos mayor who's blatantly disregarding the order
what did he do?
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and icing on the cake, lady driving a newer chrysler 200 infront of me... jumped out of her car, dropped her pants, did an immediate squat and did probably the longest public relief ever...... steam and all.
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Does no one fucking go over algorithm results before instituting them? Holy fucking negligence Batman
According to the article they did, but the higher ups decided "/shrug"
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“While leadership is pointing to an error in an algorithm meant to ensure equity and justice, our understanding is this error was identified on Tuesday and a decision was made not to revise the vaccine allocation scheme before its release today.” The council asked for a timeline for vaccination of the residents and transparency regarding the algorithm.
One department head has asked that everyone in her department who won the vaccine lotto to pass it onto a patient facing member instead
Reminds me of how when corona was first announced, the inquiries of private jets went up like 1000%.
Almost seems like the upper class won’t help the middle class when shit really hits the fan. Good thing we didn’t give them all the power.... oh wait.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Of course then there's 2 of my coworkers who went down to the US to spend Christmas with their in-laws. I thought the border was supposed to be closed but apparently not.
Supposedly Canadians are allowed to fly into the US, they’re just not allowed to cross the land crossing. There are also flights to Hawaii from Vancouver that just started this week, you don’t have to quarantine in Hawaii if you get a covid test done before leaving.
I think she's fortunate her punishment was not the maximum of 2 years in prison. In other articles, it mentions she removed the tracking device. Don't fuck up in a foreign country. Especially, as an American. People don't like your country very much.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will be appealed, their attorney said Thursday.
Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued. They had both pleaded guilty, but their attorney, Jonathon Hughes, said he will argue for a less severe sentence next week.
“They’re two young people who have never been in trouble before,” he said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “This is the first time they’ve had interaction with police, the courts, prison.”
Mack, who is enrolled as a pre-med student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, arrived in the Cayman Islands on Nov. 27 and was supposed to undergo a two-week quarantine as mandated by the government, which electronically tracks anyone who arrives in the British Caribbean territory. However, she broke quarantine on Nov. 29 when her boyfriend picked her up to attend a water sports event, Hughes said.
After their arrest, a judge ruled the couple had to provide 40 hours of community service and pay a $4,400 fine. In addition, Ramgeet was ordered to a two-month curfew that would start at 7 p.m. But the prosecution appealed, arguing the punishment was unduly lenient and would not deter other possible violators. A higher court decided in favor of prosecutors, ruling on Dec. 15 that the couple be imprisoned immediately.
The Cayman Compass newspaper reported that Judge Roger Chapple said during Tuesday’s sentencing that the decision to violate safety measures was born of “selfishness and arrogance,” adding in its report that Mack spent seven hours out in public without a face mask or social distancing.
“This was entirely deliberate and planned, as evidenced by her desire to switch her wristband the day before to a looser one that she was then able to remove,” he was quoted as saying, referring to the electronic tracking device.
Hughes said the sentence is the first of its kind, adding that Mack’s family is concerned: “They’re worried for her because she’s in prison in a foreign country on her own. While this is something she brought on herself, it’s very distressing for her.”
The couple have been together for seven months. Hughes said he doesn’t know how they met. He noted that Ramgeet is a competitive jet skier like Mack’s father.
The girl’s grandmother, Jeanne Mack, told the AP that she reached out to U.S. President Donald Trump and received an email from a staffer saying the White House would look into the matter.
In her phone calls from prison, “the minute she starts talking, she starts crying,” she said. “She’s afraid that once she makes it back to the States, everyone will hate her.”
Mack, who lives outside of Atlanta, said her granddaughter decided she wanted to be a doctor at age 10 and asked for a suture kit at her birthday a couple of years later.
The couple are the first to be sentenced under an amended law targeting COVID-19 violators. The original law called for a $2,400 fine and up to six months in prison, while the recently amended law calls for a $12,000 fine and up to two years in prison.
Under the original law, a Canadian couple found guilty of violating coronavirus measures were ordered to pay a $1,200 fine each.
The Cayman Islands, a territory of nearly 62,000 people, has reported more than 300 coronavirus cases and two deaths.
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Ugh I hate how they all seem to repeat the same lines 99.9/.8% survivor rate (because they use the world population as their denominator, instead of the # of infected) and they all bring in nazis/gestapo ffs
I love people who try to convince others of their beliefs but can’t even be bothered to spell lockdown properly twice in a row...
It’s not even a lockdown, you can go pretty much anywhere you want, just not everything is open and you need to wear a mask. Boohoo my liberties. None of these people have ever lived anywhere or experienced any place that actually restricts freedom.
Ugh I hate how they all seem to repeat the same lines 99.9/.8% survivor rate (because they use the world population as their denominator, instead of the # of infected) and they all bring in nazis/gestapo ffs
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I think she's fortunate her punishment was not the maximum of 2 years in prison. In other articles, it mentions she removed the tracking device. Don't fuck up in a foreign country. Especially, as an American. People don't like your country very much.
lucky it wasn't in thailand cuba or some shit hole country
then again how smart is a teenager on vacation with her bf several years older, seems like trouble with or without restrictions
Glad to see the death rate decreasing, but that's thanks to the interventions/efforts of most of us, and still a far cry from 99.8-9 that these guys like to throw out
I think she's fortunate her punishment was not the maximum of 2 years in prison. In other articles, it mentions she removed the tracking device. Don't fuck up in a foreign country. Especially, as an American. People don't like your country very much.
Lol, do stupid things win stupid prizes. I hope they deny the appeal, this is a good life lesson for her and ultimately maybe she'll learn something going forward.
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I love people who try to convince others of their beliefs but can’t even be bothered to spell lockdown properly twice in a row...
It’s not even a lockdown, you can go pretty much anywhere you want, just not everything is open and you need to wear a mask. Boohoo my liberties. None of these people have ever lived anywhere or experienced any place that actually restricts freedom.
People that think wearing a mask indoors is oppression have truly lived a privileged life.
Was reading article on CBC this morning and it has a few extra words written in that article.
But did he break a law?
However, if the premier did have his son and daughter-in-law over for Christmas dinner and then let the entire world know about it, there's probably nothing Solicitor General Mike Farnworth or Attorney General David Eby would do about it.
That's because most of B.C.'s public health orders focus on regulating the activities of businesses and organizations rather than private households.
The province has orders around gatherings and events, food and liquor serving premises and mask mandates in indoor public spaces. These cover all sorts of activities, including sports, gyms and recreation facilities, restaurants and bars, and many other places.
The only exception is in the gathering and events health order. It says people can't hold "an event at a private residence," unless it meets certain exceptions, none of which seem to apply to the Horgan household.
They have a link posted to a Gatherings of Events. So from reading this pdf, page 7, A) - 2 - 6: "Despite sections 1,3 and 4, if the two persons referred to in section 5 regularly interact with one another, as well as with the occupant, they may be present for social purposes at the same time in the private residence or vacation accommodation of the occupant"
As I said in a previous post, I interact with my parents every other day to pick up my dog after work.
Their guidelines have you jumping back and forth and at the end I give up and fall back to that specific line on 2-6.
Really wish they'd make things a lot easier - If you don't live there, don't go. No ifs ands or buts.
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