You know this guyStrangelove wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 11:41 amDoes he preach 'the end is near' and shit?
Fire and brimstone?
Advocate for the homeless?
He has me intrigued.
We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
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"When you come to a fork in the road, take it" - Yogi Berra
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it" - Yogi Berra
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Old folks and Indians make terrific guinea
Can we call you lab_rats19?
Can we call you lab_rats19?
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I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
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I agree with you on that UW, and I personally expect restrictions to be eased well before reaching herd immunity, notwithstanding the variants. I was referring to Mëds' suggestion of the pandemic being a ruse for the government(s) to put in place measures to control and watch it's population.UWSaint wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:35 pm I had a conversation with an acquaintance in the public health sector about 20 years ago. I was trying to make a simple the simple point that if we could extend life expectancy or reduce risks all the way up to spending 100% of the nation's GDP, we wouldn't do it. Because there's more to life. She stared at me blankly. Public health is everything, right?
It doesn't take a conspiracy to notice that there are tradeoffs in all of the policy & enforcement. There are lines we wouldn't go past to have a marginal risk reduction on something something that isn't going to wipe out the human race (or anything close to that). Our lines are different, but they are there.
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I have no doubt our governments are taking full advantage of the pandemic to increase their reach into private lives and will do their best to keep that in place.
BC PHO published new guidelines for schools on March 30, our local school board sent all parents letters with much stricter measures. They did a copy paste job from the BC CDC, them changed the wording ever so slightly and insidiously.
"Should" became "will", " may" became "must"
Stay vigilant.
BC PHO published new guidelines for schools on March 30, our local school board sent all parents letters with much stricter measures. They did a copy paste job from the BC CDC, them changed the wording ever so slightly and insidiously.
"Should" became "will", " may" became "must"
Stay vigilant.
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I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
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Per, perhaps one day you might see that the relative "disorganization" of the United States is a feature, not a bug.
Deconstructed, that sentence means "the goal is to reach herd immunity, then we can remove all restrictions." Question -- if the virus continues to evolve and looks like the flu in the future, where a vaccine is annual and whose efficacy has a great degree of variation based on how well the vaccine makers predicted which strains would predominate -- in other words, a situation where herd immunity never truly exists -- would you still advocate for restrictions?Per wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:51 am The goal should of course be to eventually remove all restrictions, but for an interrim period, until we have reached herd immunity, this could be a start that could be a life saver for the restaurants, hotels, sports teams and the entertainment industry, while not leading to yet another surge in covid cases.
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Yeah, long term effects don't instill the same fear into old folks as they do for the young whipper snappers.
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Not yet
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The CDC just issued a travel warning to Canada
Eric Feigl-Ding
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BREAKING—wow,
@CDCgov has just issued a Level 4 “Very high” warning against all travel to Canada.
“Travellers should avoid all travel to Canada. Because of the current situation in Canada even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants”
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1 ... 65123?s=20
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Getting my pfizer or moderna shot next week.
I'm getting it as I already had covid-19 in October, fuck that was horrible, it's like the flu just 4x worse and it takes a couple months after to regain your energy, nevermind the long-term effects they are still studying.
I'm getting it as I already had covid-19 in October, fuck that was horrible, it's like the flu just 4x worse and it takes a couple months after to regain your energy, nevermind the long-term effects they are still studying.
Can the Canucks just win a Cup within the next 5 years.
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I registered for it this morning. I tried online registration but the system was messed up and wouldn't accept my health care number. So I phoned them and same problem but after about fifteen minutes waiting on the phone while dude talked to management they put it through anyway. Apparently this has been a problem since they changed their software program a few days ago.
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I'm getting my 2nd (Moderna) in 2 weeks. Lucked into a shot a Walmart of all places last month.
Doc: "BTW, Donny was right, you're smug."
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Nice, seems some people who just walk up to pharmacy in a store might get a lucky dosage, like this lady who was just getting her groceries at the Real Canadian Superstore, and she got her first shot!
she went by the pharmacy kiosk to ask about the process to get on the waitlist for the AstraZeneca vaccine.
“And she said to me, actually we had a no-show so you can get it now,” Leroux said.
“I said to myself, ‘I’m here, let’s do it.'”
Leroux said she had to show ID proving she was between the ages of 55 and 65 years old.
The pharmacist, she said, told her that any leftover doses are given out to people who are present and eligible at the end of the day.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7737514/covi ... c-walk-in/
Can the Canucks just win a Cup within the next 5 years.
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^ That's pretty much what happened for us - we went to see 'what the process was' and the pharmacist heard we were from 'out of town', so she asked if we wanted the shots today, since they had a couple left over. Hell yeah! No side affects from the first one at all. I've heard the 2nd can give some flu-like symptoms, but these can (potentially) be helped with some vitamin D and plenty of hydration before and after.
Doc: "BTW, Donny was right, you're smug."
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Canada is delaying 2nd doses for 4 months after initial dose.Cornuck wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:58 am ^ That's pretty much what happened for us - we went to see 'what the process was' and the pharmacist heard we were from 'out of town', so she asked if we wanted the shots today, since they had a couple left over. Hell yeah! No side affects from the first one at all. I've heard the 2nd can give some flu-like symptoms, but these can (potentially) be helped with some vitamin D and plenty of hydration before and after.
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