COVID-19 'Pandemic'

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This data is damning not just for Trump, but also for de Blasio and Cuomo, in the human cost.

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pgs said:
That is already the case out here . Most are no longer staying in nor maintaining social distance . I have noticed many caravans of RV’s circling the wagons along the Coq, and Coldwater rivers . I understand it is the same in Alberta , even though the parks are closed people flocked to crown land and camped wherever they found room .
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Federal parks are set to reopen. Pacific Rim opens June 4 with some restrictions. Long Beach will be open, Incinerator Rock remains closed because it is small. Not sure about Green Point campground. We have been using Long Beach as a lay down since November and now we have to move everything to Radar Hill.
 
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I know this has been going around as a Facebook meme for a while but it is an interesting question for those that trust the government.
If the Corona virus is so deadly why are the homeless camps not totally devastated? Poor health, overcrowding, should be prime breeding ground and yet it is not happening.
 
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taxslave said:
I know this has been going around as a Facebook meme for a while but it is an interesting question for those that trust the government.
If the Corona virus is so deadly why are the homeless camps not totally devastated? Poor health, overcrowding, should be prime breeding ground and yet it is not happening.
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And what makes you think it's not happening? The fact that you aren't seeing it in the press?
 
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taxslave said:
I know this has been going around as a Facebook meme for a while but it is an interesting question for those that trust the government.
If the Corona virus is so deadly why are the homeless camps not totally devastated? Poor health, overcrowding, should be prime breeding ground and yet it is not happening.
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Have they run out of tin foil around your parts?
 
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taxslave said:
I know this has been going around as a Facebook meme for a while but it is an interesting question for those that trust the government.
If the Corona virus is so deadly why are the homeless camps not totally devastated? Poor health, overcrowding, should be prime breeding ground and yet it is not happening.
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Reporting on the rich and famous sells more newsprint.
 
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LILLEY: Toss Canada's top doc for giving bad advice

Dr. Theresa Tam needs to go.

There is no question about it: Canada’s top doctor, the chief medical officer and adviser to the government in the midst of this pandemic, has been wrong more often than she has been right, and for that reason, she needs to be relieved of her duties.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, like politicians across the country, has said time and again that he relies on the advice of his top doctor to inform policy.
This week, Tam has reminded us that in the early days of this pandemic — when her advice was needed most — she failed the PM and the whole country by providing bad advice.

“Could you have done it faster? Possibly,” Tam said when questioned on the timing of border closures by the House of Commons health committee on Tuesday.
Pressed by Bloc Quebecois MP Luc Theriault, Tam was only slightly more definitive.
“In hindsight, yes, I think people could have acted faster,” Tam said.
It’s fine for Tam to say in hindsight she could have advised the government to close the border sooner, but it’s not like she wasn’t told about the option.
Days after Canada publicly announced the first case of COVID-19 on Jan. 25, I called for stronger border screening for flights from China — then the hot spot for the virus. Countries around the world were implementing measures and it was widely discussed.
Canada waited too long to close borders: Tam
Cautions accompany Canada’s slow emergence from COVID-19 lockdown
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Tam was dismissive of that idea, happy to have people answer a question on a computer screen asking if they had been to Wuhan in China and giving them a pamphlet if they answered yes.
Other countries instituted stricter measures, more robust screening and then eventually border closures long before Canada and have better results to show for it.
While Canada currently sits at 16.27 deaths per 100,000 of population, countries that didn’t follow the path that Tam adopted from the World Health Organization fared much better.
According to the global mortality data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, Taiwan has just 0.03 deaths per 100,000; Australia, 0.40; New Zealand, 0.43; and Japan 0.61.
Canada may be doing better than the United States and vastly better than Europe but we are not doing as well as we could have and part of that is due to Tam’s advice and the actions of her agency.
She dismissed border controls as counter-productive, she implied they were racist and lectured the country about being inclusive. Not surprisingly, her annual report, released last December just before COVID struck, was titled “Addressing Stigma: Towards a More Inclusive Health System.”

Tam and the Public Health Agency of Canada should have been preparing Canada for a pandemic but were focused on anything but.
How else do you explain that the agency spent more $5.6 million on climate change storytelling-type projects last year and only $3 million on funding the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile?
“We actually do not focus on PPE,” Sally Thorton, a vice president at public health, told a Commons committee last week.
Yet, they were set up to — in part, at least — focus on PPE for pandemics but chose not to over the last few years. Under Tam’s watch, health officials reduced the size of the stockpile to the point that it only had 100,000 N95 masks on hand when the pandemic struck.
Now there is a federal directive to Canadians to wear masks in public throughout the spring and summer.
Tam, who once dismissed the idea of wearing a mask in public, now says it is “recommended as an added layer of protection.”
A stopped clock is right twice a day; I’m not sure Tam can make the same claim.
She, like some of her provincial counterparts — I’m thinking Ontario’s Dr. David Williams — have provided more bad advice than good and too often contradicted themselves later on.
Given her track record and the very real impact her advice has had on the lives of Canadians, Tam needs to be shown the door at the earliest opportunity.
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Tecumsehsbones said:
And what makes you think it's not happening? The fact that you aren't seeing it in the press?
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If they reported on that, they may face some pressure to actually do something about it.


Here in Toronto, they have broken up most of the tent camps and put some of the homeless in the empty hotel rooms.
 
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Avro52 said:
Fire the Asian feminist woman but not the white man?
Lilley is funny.
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Which White man is the top Doc? Tam is just a puppet? They are trying to get Canada's Whiteman back from Geneva to answer questions on the WHO handling of the outbreak and information sent to Canada, but he doesn't want to answer questions.
 
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Mortgage delinquencies surge by 1.6M in April, the biggest monthly jump ever

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...e-delinquencies-surge-1-6-m-april/5231835002/

The same thing will happen in Canada (is happening) in Canada, although to a lesser degree.

People will lose their homes, that is the sad fact. Billions in Canadian household debt payments are now being deferred but that can't last forever.

North Island College is laying off 30% of their staff. Jobs are drying up and people are going to be in a financial bind.
 
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Twin_Moose said:
Which White man is the top Doc? Tam is just a puppet? They are trying to get Canada's Whiteman back from Geneva to answer questions on the WHO handling of the outbreak and information sent to Canada, but he doesn't want to answer questions.
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Right at the end he offhandly mentions the top doc in Ontario....no mention of him being fired.

Why?
 
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Hoid said:
Mortgage delinquencies surge by 1.6M in April, the biggest monthly jump ever
https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...e-delinquencies-surge-1-6-m-april/5231835002/
The same thing will happen in Canada (is happening) in Canada, although to a lesser degree.
People will lose their homes, that is the sad fact. Billions in Canadian household debt payments are now being deferred but that can't last forever.
North Island College is laying off 30% of their staff. Jobs are drying up and people are going to be in a financial bind.
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