Wanna-B-Fanboy

Solid article by Bartley: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-third-wave-analysis-1.6043632 "They dithered with half-measures, ignoring the science and evidence all around them, and eroded public trust while squandering a month-long cushion at the start of the third wave," Souradet Shaw, a social epidemiologist at the University of Manitoba, said in a series of tweets on May 20 after Manitoba Shared Health began to transfer ICU patients out of province. "Instead of developing a clearly articulated and evidence-based strategy to tackle predictable surges, they impugned critics; misled the public through distortions, obscuring data, and accountability, and blamed everyone but themselves."

This NEEDS to be posted. Please.

The cases coming down... good The increase in ICU admissions, recent amount of deaths from Covid and the ages of the deceased are all very troubling...

Here is a very comprehensive thread on the new strain coming out of Vietnam:

She is my inner child's spiritual twin:

Yeah, they need to adopt this position:

I wish Rachel was here

It would have been a political boon to have enacted stay at home orders when the experts said to shut it down...

So... For January to last week...no work place transmission and no school transmission.. everything is safe to protect the economy. This week: oh look there was school and work place transmission... Why does the Conservative government hate its constituents?

But science evolves. The studies originally said 1 in every 260000 people develop VITT from the Astrazeneca shot... real world data shows 1 on 55000... So, if the data is now showing a more robust response with a larger wait time... we can probably safely assume that it probably does. You make decisions based on the best available data at that time. Trust me... if I was given the VITT stats now (1 in 55k) instead of the 1 in 260k I may have made a different decision.... but I can only make the decision based on what is known at the time.

Fair enough- but generally, the general play seems to be cleaner.

Hence the need to vaccinate ALL countries- no one is going to be safe if we continue to allow situations like Brazil, India and Africa. The virus has a MUCH better likelihood of having beneficial (to the virus) mutations that make it more virulent, evasive and deadly if it runs rampant. It would take $50B to help get back to normalcy globally. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/21/imf-urges-50-billion-spending-commitment-to-help-end-pandemic.html KEY POINTS The IMF is calling for at least 40% of the global population to be vaccinated by the end of the year. The IMF wants $50 billion to be spent on faster vaccinations, ultimately generating returns of $9 trillion for the global economy. Only about 9.5% of the global population has received at least one dose, according to Our World in Data. The Washington-based institution said in April that the global economy is expected to grow by 6% this year.

agreed- it's the reason I only watch play off hockey. No fights, easy on the checks and all around cleaner play.

Pallister, this you? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/reality-check-pallister-1.6041376 Some good work here with fact checking the Con talking points about how we got here.

The 2022 GQP platform.

Oh hey - there we go.

Huh... maybe this is why the doctors and health experts were writing about 5 to 6 weeks ago when they wanted more action, sooner... ******* Conservatives and their **** priorities.

Good series- it was war... three games decided by 1 point- each of those points in OT. A lot closer than the result.... but still need this:

Love how cbc was showing how many times the refs were missing the penalties on the Oilers

What is goingbon ? Why are the refs calling so many ticky tack penalties?

When two beautiful things just work together...

With news that Allen Weisselberg trump org former CFO, is going to flip on trump, this might hold true:

Favourite tweet of the day:

For those who have had the AstraZeneca shot and are not sure WTH is going to happen for their second dose, here is a thread and article about what might likely happen with mixing different vaccine types (heterologous prime-boost vaccination).