COVID-19 'Pandemic'

JLM

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NHL has announced some sort of season restart in August in a couple of Canadian hub cities.

I can't believe that anyone would care to watch NHL hockey. On TV. In August.

It seems to be somewhat tone deaf to me.


I would say it's quite possible given the fact that other activities are restricted! Think things through before blurting out shit!
 

taxslave

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NHL has announced some sort of season restart in August in a couple of Canadian hub cities.
I can't believe that anyone would care to watch NHL hockey. On TV. In August.
It seems to be somewhat tone deaf to me.
Makes more sense than watching one in the middle of winter when you can see enough ice just looking out the window.
 

petros

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Disney World reopened in Florida for the first time in nearly four months. In the past month, COVID has hit Florida hard, and has led America in new cases for 6 of the past 10 days. I guess the powers that be consider the Tourism industry more important than human lives.
Epcot. 9 people showed up.
 

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The number of confirmed cases of COVID in the United States has officially reached 1% of the population. This also means that up to 10% of Americans have antibodies for COVID, as most people who come down with the virus remain asymptomatic, or experience only mild symptoms.

In comparison, only 0.28% of Canadians have been confirmed to acquire the COVID-19 virus.
Have you been tested yet ? Are tests readily available to the general public ? Are you comparing apples and oranges 🍊?
 

Hoid

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Have you been tested yet ? Are tests readily available to the general public ? Are you comparing apples and oranges 🍊?
Comparing a country with universal healthcare to a country without universal healthcare is indeed apples and oranges.
 

pgs

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How am I comparing apples and oranges?

Please elaborate.
Testing is being done at much higher levels in the two countries , like I asked have you been tested yet , the reason we only test those showing symptoms, in the U.S. testing is widely available . If Canada tested the same percentage of people there is no reason our percentages shouldn’t be similar , we did nothing different from Americans in all other areas . Sure one would expect their larger and more concentrated cities and other demographics might make them some what higher .
 

Hoid

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Universal health care is a figment of your imagination. What we have is near universal medicine.
America does not have the figment. That's they are unable to defeat this sickness and why comparing them to us is pointless.
 

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Comparing a country with universal healthcare to a country without universal healthcare is indeed apples and oranges.
Right there is no benefit for a Canadian hospital to inaccurately portray their numbers . In the U.S. much emergency funding is directly tied to Covid , it is to their financial advantage to be free with the numbers .
 

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Right there is no benefit for a Canadian hospital to inaccurately portray their numbers . In the U.S. much emergency funding is directly tied to Covid , it is to their financial advantage to be free with the numbers .

The US combine all results, including antibody tests, more money to the individual states this way.
 

Hoid

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Right there is no benefit for a Canadian hospital to inaccurately portray their numbers . In the U.S. much emergency funding is directly tied to Covid , it is to their financial advantage to be free with the numbers .
America has no universal healthcare.

Poor people are not supposed to have it, because if they got it for free why would they work to get their own?
 

Hoid

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Poor people do get free medical care in the US. Just like you get here. The rest of us pay for it.
The word healthcare is used to describe a system.

They don't have one - as the response to covid has so well illustrated.
 

taxslave

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The word healthcare is used to describe a system.
They don't have one - as the response to covid has so well illustrated.
In what passes for your ind maybe. But in fact they do have a very good health care system. Never have to wait 18 months just to see a specialist. You can get a new knee in a matter of weeks instead of years like in Canada.
 

JLM

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Today Florida smashed the record for COVID-19 daily cases for a state at 15,300. That is 3,000 more than the old record that New York set in April.

New York went on full lockdown.
Flordia just opened Disney World, and plans to open all schools as soon as possible.


This will not end well.


On another note we haven't heard much from Walter lately, IRONICALLY! :)