Coronavirus
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bustaheims
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Florida is going to get us all killed. It's the stupidest state in the union.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQU4nktphko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQU4nktphko
Phileas Fogg
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bustaheims said:
?I had a long talk with President Xi two nights ago,? Trump said. ?He feels very confident. He feels that again, as I mentioned, by April or during the month of April, the heat generally speaking kills this kind of virus."
I guess 32 degrees in Florida not hot enough.
Phileas Fogg
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Nik said:
What I find most troublesome is that some of the issues with communication have given more ammunition to conspiracy and anti vax groups. Public health has had difficulty at times coming off as a trusted authority, and that's being exploited.
At some point you know the govt is going to be pressured to open the border. It's super unlikely they get herd immunity before that time imo. I don't know why they don't either push harder for masks. They need to push a campaign to really win over people. The PR job they're doing on making sure people take reasonable precautions is pretty bad imo. Yesterday with patios open my local pub didn't bother to adjust table placement to increase space. It's ridiculous. I have a hard time thinking that in 4 weeks from now that this momentum will continue, especially with an estimated Rt above 1 for Ontario right now.Nik said:
A friend of mine is one of the people who contracted COVID in Montreal after a person who was positive went to a bar. Ugh. Please, everyone, if you do go to a bar remember to keep your distance and stay outside. But really, don't go to a bar. Help out by ordering take out and drinks if you want. Ugh. This is a tough day.
Bender said:
The line in that article was referring to Trump's 83 million followers.
Bender said:
Ontario might be heading to stage 3, but I'll be sticking around in stage 2 for probably the rest of the year. The idea of bars, indoor dining, theatres, or gyms just seems crazy to me still. Cases are going right back up again in both Alberta and Quebec after those all re-opened.
I mean, it seems pretty obvious that that's what was going to happen. We don't have to reinvent the wheel, why does it seem like each province is going through COVID for the first time worldwide? We have enough data to know what's safe and what isn't and yet we're still pushing to open things that are unsafe.CarltonTheBear said:
L K
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Day 1 of mandatory masks in my county.
Out to get garbage tags from the gas station only to find a 50+ year old guy screaming about how he doesn't need an "expletives inserted here" mask because this is a load of "expletives" bull poop.
It's all ok folks. Baseball gets to be played in Toronto!
Out to get garbage tags from the gas station only to find a 50+ year old guy screaming about how he doesn't need an "expletives inserted here" mask because this is a load of "expletives" bull poop.
It's all ok folks. Baseball gets to be played in Toronto!
Highlander
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Bars etc been open in BC since early June, tables and chairs apart, social distancing being observed big time, plexi between booths, people constantly sanitizing, so we have been out several times. My son is a Chef at a top local course, doing way more volume than they expected. No cases in the kitchen (which would close things down) and little to no increase in cases in the region.CarltonTheBear said:
It seems in the bigger centres, people want to get to know other people and do the chat up stuff. This kind of behaviour is not social distancing and in your face with strangers meetings.
I had some friends in AZ go out to dinner the other night. The resto was owned by a guy from Toronto of all places. No social distancing on the patio at all, crammed in like sardines, so they opted to go inside where no one was sitting in order to eat their meal.
In other breaking news, UK sporting events will open to the public on October 5th.
Peter D.
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CarltonTheBear said:
Stage 2 opened what, just over a month ago? The numbers are trending really well in the right direction, but this seems hasty.
Seems like the province has things under control, and people view it as a free-for-all again. I'm not comfortable, for instance, taking my kids to dine in a restaurant, and I sure as heck find the experience to be extremely lessened seeing the wait staff wearing masks.
Also got word from our ball hockey team organizer that there is a weekend tournament at the end of August. Yeah, not too fond of playing a physical sport with a bunch of guys who don't know how to contain themselves, not to mention being shacked up in a hotel for the weekend with a bunch of those same guys from different regions of the province.