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ifiddles said:
did the flu and cold just magically disappear?
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The run of the mill flu is exponentially harder to spread than Covid19.

Given all the precautions we are taking against Covid19 right now the flu is effectively being wiped out because the chain of transmission is being *entirely* broken.

In regular times, unmasked people go around all day coughing and sneezing all winter, touching everything, etc etc etc...and it spreads. This year with everyone wearing masks inside, a lot of cleaning, and a lot of handwashing, it just can't spread.

So yeah, it's mostly disappeared, but there was certainly no "magic" involved.
 
PrivatePilot said:
The run of the mill flu is exponentially harder to spread than Covid19.

Given all the precautions we are taking against Covid19 right now the flu is effectively being wiped out because the chain of transmission is being *entirely* broken.

In regular times, unmasked people go around all day coughing and sneezing all winter, touching everything, etc etc etc...and it spreads. This year with everyone wearing masks inside, a lot of cleaning, and a lot of handwashing, it just can't spread.

So yeah, it's mostly disappeared, but there was certainly no "magic" involved.
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Also flu shots were way way up this year. Given the rest of the measures, that is probably secondary but still helps.
 
PrivatePilot said:
Indeed. I wish people would learn the facts instead of just believing conspiracy theories.
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Agreed. But ******** conspiracy and fake news stories have ramped up considerably and frankly that line of truth v fiction is harder and harder to identify. And it takes more work to sift through the nonsense which people can’t be bothered to do.

And most importantly, the fiction is much better to read as it’s more entertaining. Truth is boring!
 
mimico_polak said:
it takes more work to sift through the nonsense which people can’t be bothered to do.
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Most of us have a lot of spare time right now.

I wish more people would use it wisely and choose to educate themselves instead of believing anything and everything they found online in their Facebook news feeds, or whatever some whackadoodle at a protest is yelling that ends up on YouTube.

The facts are out there.
 
PrivatePilot said:
Most of us have a lot of spare time right now.

I wish more people would use it wisely and choose to educate themselves instead of believing anything and everything they found online in their Facebook news feeds, or whatever some whackadoodle at a protest is yelling that ends up on YouTube.

The facts are out there.
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To be fair to the skeptics, the MOH's acting on political instead of scientific information is horrendous. JT should have whacked Tam in week one when she said it would be culturally insensitive to restrict flights. That crap has no place in her job and permanently smoked her credibility as as objective source of scientific information. It probably made him more enamoured with his visible minority female MOH that was willing to toe the party line.
 
GreyGhost said:
JT should have whacked Tam in week one when she said it would be culturally insensitive to restrict flights.
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Are you joking? That idiot eats that **** up. Peoplekind!
 
PrivatePilot said:
Most of us have a lot of spare time right now.

I wish more people would use it wisely and choose to educate themselves instead of believing anything and everything they found online in their Facebook news feeds, or whatever some whackadoodle at a protest is yelling that ends up on YouTube.

The facts are out there.
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I wonder how many anti maskers and denialists are genuine. I can't help but feel that a lot of them are crap disturbing losers that just think it's a laugh to screw with the system, delivering retribution to all the other people that are lucky*. They never had a decent job, don't have a house or any investment in anything except their collection of empties.

Shut down the Beer Store and LCBO and see them howl.

* The harder I work the luckier I get.
 
My observation having actually talked to people has been that most people that I interact with, understand that getting vaccinated is the only way we are going to get out of this. Some people are nervous about it and may delay ... Fair enough (although by the time they're eligible, there will be a built-in delay of several months anyhow - I'm in the same situation). The antivaxxers and the deniers make a disproportionate amount of noise ... but I think (and hope) they're a pretty small part of the population. I do know some people who have bought into the antivaxx propaganda and think the vaccine is dangerous ... but I suspect that months of not seeing all that many bad things happen may change the mind of at least some of them.

As of right now, somewhere near 100 million doses have been administered worldwide.

With how infectious this disease is (and with the natural tendency of viruses to evolve to become more infectious - we're already seeing this happen), it is highly likely that coronavirus will remain on a low simmer, infecting those who continue to choose not to get vaccinated, for a long time ... possibly a few years.
 
I wonder if we have vaccinated all the healthcare workers and old people at LTC by now, and the gen pop can start getting vaccines?
Or are we relegated to end of 2021/2022?

I have heard they have botched vaccine distribution
 
bigpoppa said:
I wonder if we have vaccinated all the healthcare workers and old people at LTC by now, and the gen pop can start getting vaccines?
Or are we relegated to end of 2021/2022?

I have heard they have botched vaccine distribution
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Not even close to healthcare plus ltc yet. Last I heard they were hoping for ltc this week, healthcare will be much longer.

Jt keeps parroting september but I have seen other forecasts at mid 2022. Useless tit. At least this screwup directly affects his election plan. There is no way he calls an election prior to 100% vaccination.
 
GreyGhost said:
Not even close to healthcare plus ltc yet. Last I heard they were hoping for ltc this week, healthcare will be much longer.

Jt keeps parroting september but I have seen other forecasts at mid 2022. Useless tit. At least this screwup directly affects his election plan. There is no way he calls an election prior to 100% vaccination.
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Trudeau couldn't organize a piss up in brewery. More and more I suspect he is an android being controlled by aliens wanting to take over Canada.

Kiss international travel and possibly have limited Canadian travel until at least 2022 but more likely 2023.

So who do you trust to take over the reign from the bearded one? I am at a total loss.
 
Probably not the brightest idea to be promoting the fact you plan on bypassing the quarantine hotel when you return....but thanks for letting everyone know who you are.

www.thestar.com

Peeved Canadian snowbirds devising plans to avoid hotel-quarantine ‘jail’

For a population whose raison d’être is stress-free winters, the latest COVID-19 rules have brought a mix of frustration and confusion.
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Selfish asswipes. Just one "oh woe is us" ******** story after another.

Get stuffed.
 
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