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You want both at the same time? That would really suck big ones.How are we going to get the flu if we're suppose to be getting rid of covidaren't they like, contracted the same way
blackcamaro
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What’s the plan if we don’t get a vaccine?
I’m pretty confident we will but some in here seem pretty content to stay at home and ride this thing out, so what happens if we don’t?
Don’t get me wrong I’ve changed how I live up to this point. No social visits or activities, cancelled my gym membership and haven’t eaten inside a restaurant since this started (lots of take out though). Just a few things but what I consider high risk with low reward. Going to work is a similar risk but I’m happy to do it.
Pretty sure I’ll be loosening my personal restrictions sometime the beginning of 2021 one way or another though.
I’m pretty confident we will but some in here seem pretty content to stay at home and ride this thing out, so what happens if we don’t?
Don’t get me wrong I’ve changed how I live up to this point. No social visits or activities, cancelled my gym membership and haven’t eaten inside a restaurant since this started (lots of take out though). Just a few things but what I consider high risk with low reward. Going to work is a similar risk but I’m happy to do it.
Pretty sure I’ll be loosening my personal restrictions sometime the beginning of 2021 one way or another though.
How are we going to get the flu if we're suppose to be getting rid of covid
The experience of the southern hemisphere was that they hardly had a flu season, due to the measures taken against coronavirus. It's pretty likely that this flu season for us will be mild for the same reason.
You really don't want to be battling two viruses at the same time.
As far as Rexall is concerned ... The province ordered more flu shots for this year than last, but evidently demand is some 4 times higher than at the same time last year, so supply is constrained. Shoppers has only been booking appointments for which they had supply available. Rexall ... doesn't look like they did that. All the appointment-cancellations that I heard of in the news today related to Rexall. YES demand is outstripping supply, but booking appointments that they couldn't fill is on Rexall.
Chances are a vaccine will turn up pretty much on schedule. How long will it confer immunity for and how long it takes to get to a doctors office, clinic or vaccination area is anyone's guess. If it needs very low temperature refrigeration then it gets a bit more difficult.
The logistics of vaccinating everyone on the planet are mind boggling. However, we can absolutely do it. Let's look at polio for instance...prior to the orange idiot acting like a baby with the WHO, that organisation had practically eradicated polio in the entire world through vaccinations. This is also why Trump withdrawing from the WHO is sheer lunacy.
We get used to wearing masks and never shaking hands again, and for any event that involves being indoors, having fewer people, more spaced out, and better ventilation. For anything that involves travel, get used to getting tested before doing so. Or else, this happens: Coronavirus: Belgium's hospitals on the brink as caseloads soar | DW | 31.10.2020
Australia and New Zealand are very close to banishing this virus; they did it by stringent lockdowns. Many places in Asia are very close; they did it by wearing masks and aggressive contact-tracing. It CAN be done.
We got the flu shot thanksgiving weekend, preregistered etc.. First we went to a Shoppers on Queensway (on the Saturday) 30 minutes after they opened and we were told it was a 2+ hour wait, we left. The one near our home got them in on Sunday, 20 minute wait and all done. We went early knowing it was going to be a problem. In recent years the wife and kids usually get them, I do not (laziness). I did when my former employer offered them at work, current one does not do it.
Our thoughts this year (and why I was less lazy), you don't want both at the same time. But, you also don't want to get the flu and think you have COVID (imapct to work, school etc.), so better to not get it. At the same time if you take all the proper COVID precautions you should not get the flu...
Our thoughts this year (and why I was less lazy), you don't want both at the same time. But, you also don't want to get the flu and think you have COVID (imapct to work, school etc.), so better to not get it. At the same time if you take all the proper COVID precautions you should not get the flu...
The problem is the herd immunity concept, valid or not, and with no one having their feet in the fire there isn't pressure to find a long term solution.
Trials
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USA might not be able to comply with that, they can't even seem to get a handle on holding a fair and proper election at the moment.
All it would take is a mating pair of anti vaxxers.
The old Tuberculosis Sanitorium is now an old age home.
The Public Health Agency of Canada, has just started sending non-stop reminders that I should go and get a flu shot.
I thought it was weird that when I booked last month, I couldn't get an appointment until almost a month later. S.N.A.F.U.
Looting?
A friend has his own one man business and just got a couple of days work from the federal government at between $4,000 and $5,000 a day. It should be a third of that but with Covid nothing seems to be scrutinized. With his true expertise he would be lucky to get $40 an hour as an employee.
Another similar private sector job is seeing prices of $8,000. It should be half that.
It's starting to sound like old Russia grocery shopping. Go to the store, line up, take whatever they have and pay whatever they ask.
This is going to be an expensive winter with the bills arriving sometime in 2023.
A friend has his own one man business and just got a couple of days work from the federal government at between $4,000 and $5,000 a day. It should be a third of that but with Covid nothing seems to be scrutinized. With his true expertise he would be lucky to get $40 an hour as an employee.
Another similar private sector job is seeing prices of $8,000. It should be half that.
It's starting to sound like old Russia grocery shopping. Go to the store, line up, take whatever they have and pay whatever they ask.
This is going to be an expensive winter with the bills arriving sometime in 2023.
Trials
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Ruh Roh. Mutated virus on mink farms. Denmark locked down people and slaughtering all minks. Poor fuzzy things. Will this finally be the end of fur trade? Wiping out the nations livestock and starting from scratch is an epic task that may not be financially viable.
www.cp24.com
North Denmark in lockdown over mutated virus in mink farms
More than a quarter million Danes went into lockdown Friday in a northern region of the country where a mutated variation of the coronavirus has infected minks being farmed for their fur, leading to an order to kill millions of the animals.
www.cp24.com
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