COVID-19 'Pandemic'

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For Canada, a novel virus adds an extra 15,000 deaths above the average
compared to normal flu season year.

I had H1N5, it was a 10 week ordeal that if older wouldnt have ended well.
 

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The facts will become clear with time.

My issue is that extreme actions were taken based on wild projections that 10s or 100s of millions WILL die from this pandemic.... Turns out, those projections were spectacularly wrong and now many nations are left with the fall-out of the situation.

What bothers me most is that everyone had the perfect real-time experiment(s) with Sweden, Japan, the Netherlands, etc and could have very easily altered course, however, that is/was not the case and we will be paying for this folly for generations.

There will be huge ramifications and the ill effects of this are on no one's radar... Yet
That is why we will be in election mode by summers end .
 

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Partly because she's obviously a fast learner and mostly because she has a lot of common sense. While the disease has different aspects from others, things like sanitation and contagion are common to all of them and common sense is helpful too. Trump could have insisted on the same three or four basic rules for safety but he chose to be a "good guy" and opt for a better chance of reelection rather than look after the people. The proof is in the pudding! :)
Really ? Did you order your designer boots yet ?
 

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“Dr. Henry was on the front lines in Toronto in 2003, has been in the front lines of Ebola outbreaks in West Africa, is a co-author of the Canadian Pandemic Plan and was key to the responses to both H1N1 and the 2014 Ebola response,” he said.

Kendall said Henry headed the B.C. Centre for Disease Control on an acting basis during H1N1 and is the author of “Soap and Water and Common Sense,” a guide to staying healthy in a microbe-filled world.

Henry, a public health and preventive medicine specialist, joined Toronto Public Health in September 2001 and in 2003 was the operational lead in the response to the SARS outbreak in Toronto.

She worked internationally, including with the World Health Organization and UNICEF on a polio eradication program in Pakistan and to control the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. Henry is an associate professor at the University of B.C.’s faculty of medicine."

globalnews.ca/news/6647555/bonnie-henry-coronavirus-hunter/
And she wears nice shoes .
 

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For Canada, a novel virus adds an extra 15,000 deaths above the average
compared to normal flu season year.

I had H1N5, it was a 10 week ordeal that if older wouldnt have ended well.
Yes catching a disease can be deadly .
 

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“Dr. Henry was on the front lines in Toronto in 2003, has been in the front lines of Ebola outbreaks in West Africa, is a co-author of the Canadian Pandemic Plan and was key to the responses to both H1N1 and the 2014 Ebola response,” he said.

Kendall said Henry headed the B.C. Centre for Disease Control on an acting basis during H1N1 and is the author of “Soap and Water and Common Sense,” a guide to staying healthy in a microbe-filled world.

Henry, a public health and preventive medicine specialist, joined Toronto Public Health in September 2001 and in 2003 was the operational lead in the response to the SARS outbreak in Toronto.

She worked internationally, including with the World Health Organization and UNICEF on a polio eradication program in Pakistan and to control the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. Henry is an associate professor at the University of B.C.’s faculty of medicine."

globalnews.ca/news/6647555/bonnie-henry-coronavirus-hunter/


I doubt if there's a bad thing an intelligent person could think of to say about Bonnie Henry, while there's always something stupid, the idiots could think of. She deserves the Order of Canada in my books.
 

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Trump was also the first to ban flights from Covid hotspots and the left called him racist for it then did the same thing several WEEKS later.


I didn't mind Trump too much as a politician which he should have stuck to. His true colours showed up when he started expounding on Covid and bleach and Lysol. The man's both an idiot and a lunatic.
 

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I doubt if there's a bad thing an intelligent person could think of to say about Bonnie Henry, while there's always something stupid, the idiots could think of. She deserves the Order of Canada in my books.
She is an example of what true professionalism should be.She has done and is doing a fantastic job. I credit her and her team for how well BC has done to date. I also credit the majority of British Colombians who followed the protocols and complied with the regulations put in place. She does not have an easy job. Of course human nature being what it is.... there are those that think the rules don't apply to them. They are the irresponsible ones.
She is also a good educator........explaining things as the information about the virus emerged.. Her calm demeanor helped too. We are very lucky to have her .