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So, you're saying because you own a business that your life is worth more than mine or anyone else here? That anyone young, old, sick or immunocompromised is on their last legs anyway like Bill O'Reilly said so why save them? That seems to be the common theme of your argument with every post. The almighty dollar vs lives.

How far apart should we be? Use this football analogy...

The key phrase: “will not come back full on” until we have a vaccine. So no, he is not saying things will stay exactly as they are now until we have a vaccine. One possibility could be: schools and businesses reopen but social distancing and stringent sanitization & hygiene remain in place. International borders might stay closed to non - essential travel.

O'Reilly's comments are the natural extension of right-wing thinking where its everyone for themselves and the devil take the hindmost. The Ayn Rand thinking is that only the fittest ought to survive and the value of the individual is only whatever benefit s/he offers to those in power. The problem is that is is no longer an even playing field, if it ever was. Leaving the individual to challenge the huge corporations in court or economics is pure insanity. Sane government is supposed to mediate between all of the competing and often conflicting demands of all the parts of a society to establish a dynamic, balanced compromise to protect the powerless from predation. When government is distorted as it is in the US or Russia or China, the individual is reduced to subservience.

Nichols gave the Bombers instant credibility and competitiveness, and we ought to be grateful for that, but whether it was his limitations or the lack of confidence of the coaches in his game, he just could not take the last step. We will have to see how well he does with his new team.

Huge props to Trudeau again... in my industry, some of those $2000 cheques were received within two day - impressive. Also the small business loan program was online with banks as of yesterday plus they lightened the requirements to prove lost revenue - amazing that we can roll this out so fast and efficiently yet its taking forever to fix the payroll boondoggle.

A tiny bit of good news.. 🥴

Paved the way for a Grey Cup win

I read that many provinces, states and local communities have asked previous health care workers to come out of retirement to help with this grievous situation, and many are returning to help. And good on them. Much appreciated. In the US, have they thought about asking previous Presidents to return?

More super accurate reporting here. Seriously dude, feels ain't reals.

Third day in a row with more recoveries than new cases, still a long way to go before we can get back to anything resembling normal

Respirator.

Do we win this game? Otherwise I've got no interest. *edit* We do not win this game.......avoid at all costs.

I wasn't sure if this belonged in the random video thread or here

Plus, the CFL doesn't have Vince McMahon behind the scenes.

I heard from a friend in Norway yesterday. Next week they are starting a phased in return to school. Elementary (under 10 yrs old there) will go back first as the schools are smaller and local. Middle and high schools require busing and travel from town to town do not opening then yet.

With the uncertainty of whether there will be a season and no XFL as a fallback Im surprised Derel doesn't jump on whoever is willing to give him the biggest signing bonus right now.

I am very much aware of all that. I think the actual scenario is somewhere in between our two points view. Subsistence farmers have not been able to compete with global prices for a long time. I’ll give you just one example: the United States grows massive amounts of corn, yet 80% of that corn goes to their livestock operations and domestic economy. Pretty much the only way working class people in third world countries can afford any North American food, is if it is donated or sold to them at a loss.

I don’t think they will keep schools closed until there is a COVID 19 vaccine available.

As long as we're planning to restructure society it's as good a time as any to restructure the economy in order to prevent corporations from vacuuming up the majority of dollars spent within communities and transferring their profits to other jurisdictions to lessen their tax burden. This is one practice that has gone too far and been allowed to go on too long. The majority of dollars spent within a community should stay within that community and not be siphoned off into the pockets of a few, this would create more vibrant communities and benefit everyone in terms of wealth creation and increased job opportunities.

Wow this one is good.

It doesn't matter. As you may recall, I predicted to you that the agenda would be no normalcy, regardless, until they had a vaccine that would be mandated on us resulting in a huge windfall for Big Pharma. Will this virus mutate? Will we be throwing tens of millions of doses of vaccine in the garbage again like we did with SARS? Will Big Pharma make tens of billions like they did after the bird flu scares in 2006 and 2007? No matter. Right on schedule Trudeau came out with the announcement yesterday. "Canadians won’t be able to return to life as they knew it before the novel coronavirus pandemic until a vaccine is available, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday." “Normality as it was before will not come back full-on until we get a vaccine for this… That will be a very long way off,” the prime minister said during his daily news conference on Canada’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak." “We will have to remain vigilant for at least a year,” he added in French. Not a word about the economy or the effects this policy will have on the health of the nation as a whole. I cannot imagine what the economic devastation will be if we shut this country down for an entire year but there will not be anything normal about it. Our response to this thing, in my opinion, is absolutely insane.

Aren’t third world economies less dependent on the global supply chain? Mainly because they still have a significant number of subsistent farmers, and quite frankly their wants and needs are simpler than ours.

I don’t need to do any shopping - but if a guy who works for a grocery store says prices haven’t gone up - then they probably haven’t.

Well I have said since the get go it's up to governments to prop up the people who need it. It's a team effort, but we got a lot of selfish people don't want to get on board.

On Fox News Thursday in discussion with Sean Hannity, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made an extraordinary statement: That he wants the United States to “cancel” some of the national debt held by the Chinese government as punishment for allowing the coronavirus to spread beyond its borders. “I want to get the medical supply chain back in the United States, and I want to start canceling some debt that we owe to China, because they should be paying us, not us paying China,” said Graham. “So I think you’re going to see a bipartisan pushback against China to punish them so severely to deter them in the future.” Putting aside the thorny legal question of whether a foreign country can be legally held at fault for the spread of a deadly disease, there is a big problem with what Graham is proposing: the 14th Amendment. The amendment, one of the three “Reconstruction Amendments” passed in the wake of the Civil War, contained a clause at the end that was designed to prevent Southern politicians — who historically wielded outsized power in Congress — from canceling the U.S. war debt, which could have shielded the white landowners who led the war effort from having to pay taxes: “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

Two years ago, negative nellies were forecasting the end of the CFL with the AAF & XFL coming onboard. Well, they're both gone now but the CFL still faces a huge challenge as do all established sports leagues of getting thru these scary & dangerous time.

Well where is all this starvation and poverty? Or are you being alarmist and buying the hype and panic being spread by certain circles?

Trump says he only gave Colorado 1% of the ventilators it needs after GOP senator asked for them Longtime Colorado Democrat "outraged" Trump gave fraction of necessary equipment as favor to vulnerable Republican IGOR DERYSH APRIL 9, 2020 4:08PM (UTC) President Donald Trump was accused of political favoritism in the administration's coronavirus response after only sending a fraction of the ventilators sought by Colorado's Democratic governor "at the request" of the state's Republican senator. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, has been pleading for the federal government to provide his state with 10,000 ventilators since last month. "Colorado's COVID-19 death rate is rising faster than any other state right now; the pandemic is spreading so fast that lags in testing are masking the true conditions experienced by Coloradans across the state," Polis said in a letter to Vice President Mike Pence, who is leading the White House coronavirus task force. Not only did the federal government not respond to the request, but Polis also told CNN just days later the federal government seized an order of 500 ventilators bought by the state. "We can't compete against our own federal government," he said. "So either work with us, or don't do anything at all. But this middle ground where they're buying stuff out from under us and not telling us what we're going to get, that's really challenging to manage our hospital surge and our safety of our health care workers in that kind of environment."

O'Reilly just summed up the Trump/GOP philosophy.

I haven't heard anyone advocating throwing caution to the wind. Even Sweden is taking steps to protect and isolate the most vulnerable in their society, the elderly, restricting gatherings of large crowds, and asking their population to be "adult" and not throw caution to the wind. What they're not doing is over-reacting by buying into the media-hype and stripping their citizens of their rights, willingly destroying their economy, bankrupting their businesses, putting troops in the streets, restricting travel, and creating mass unemployment, poverty, and starvation by locking down the whole population for an extended period of time.

In fairness the residents of Pinawa are pisssssed at city folk as the last few years a lot of people have come to the area to go toobin' and have caused a lot of mess and issues with being drunk and littering and leaving the place a mess during summer. I think it's more then the COVID scare.

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/kenora-mayor-wants-manitoba-border-closed-2239301

Signs going up on highways into BC restricting traffic. Highway 16, in both directions. Travel advisory in effect at BC-Alberta Border. Highway 16 Travel Advisory in effect. Avoid non-essential travel over the BC-Alberta border. Next update time Mon Apr 13 at 7:00 PM PDT. Last updated Thu Apr 9 at 11:01 AM PDT. (DBC-17189) Highway 1 Both Directions - Highway 1, in both directions. Travel advisory in effect at BC-Alberta Border. Highway 1 Travel Advisory in effect. Avoid non-essential travel over the BC-Alberta boarder. Next update time Mon Apr 13 at 7:00 PM MDT. Last updated Thu Apr 9 at 12:01 PM MDT. (DBC-17188)

it's not just hospitals that can get overwhelmed. it's supply chains in general if you get a bunch of extra people in an area that aren't normally there. We already see in large cities store shelves that are empty, don't need to put further strain on small communities.

Obama was also campaigning for president 12 years ago right? That's a long time and things have changed since then. He certainly wasn't the establishment choice even if he wound up governing that way.

The language alone in this piece should be your first clue that it's not an objective piece of information. That's why you are wrong. You are taking opinions as facts and not questioning them because it tells you what you want to hear. But this piece is pushing an agenda very obviously. It's not telling you the truth, it's telling you what you want to hear using broad, vague statements and opinions presented as facts.

Espn told White to stop being an idiot

Maybe, at a time like this, do what they are telling you, because you don't know what they know. If it was fine to go to the cabin, they wouldn't be telling you to stay the hell home. Way to many "smart people" who seem to think that they're special and the rules don't have to apply to them because "they know better".

false.

I just watched it last weekend and I nearly cried watching it.......**** what a brutal pancake job by Lemon.

Why the home game against BC? Do you want to watch Matt Nichols get injured over and over again?

The Rider fired there entire training staff after Jones first year. I am sure they might be interested in the outcome of this lawsuit as there was a lot of chatter that it was because they wouldn't clear a player to play when Jones wanted him in the lineup and they were then fired the following offseason. Not exactly the same thing, but similar..

Trump called it right when he said he could shoot someone in the street and his base would still vote for him. He, as all malignant narcissists, has no compunction in lying, cheating, or sacrificing anyone else to gain his ends. Adolph Hitler had the excuse of being a drug-addled meth-head, but Trump is wholly responsible for the death and division he is causing. He would have no hesitancy in advocating violence to his followers.

I think Chevy targets lefites like Joel Edmundson or Brendan Dillon - bigger, D first, partner for Pionk... someone who will beat the crap out of Kane when he runs him

https://3downnation.com/2020/03/19/john-hodges-2020-cfl-mock-draft-1-0/ John Hodge mock draft - don't agree that we take an OL in 2nd round... especially if Noah Hallett is available Walters will pick a special teamer for sure

I'm not watching hockey in July