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Ridiculous and dumb? Ridiculous and dumb? Ridiculous and dumb? Ridiculous and dumb?

False. "Calgary continues to be a hotspot, with 553 cases, up from 385 on Friday. "We've doubled in one week, that's exponential growth. If we double again in one week and again in one week, that means two weeks from now, we will have more active cases in Calgary than we had at the height of the crisis in April. So this is bad. We certainly have more cases now than we did in March when we shut everything down," Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Monday." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-climbing-covid-19-cases-1.5656951 Overall in Saskatchewan: 58 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances. 340 of the cases are from the Far North, 211 are from the Saskatoon area, 124 from the North, 120 from the South, 87 from the Regina area and 80 from the Central region. 133 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. 331 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 300 are in the 40-59 age range; 167 are in the 60-79 age range; and 31 are in the 80-plus range. 51 per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males. 15 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date. https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2020/july/20/covid-19-update-july-20 Even in Manitoba, 10 of 18 new cases cannot be considered a "vast majority". Words matter, especially when targetting a group of people.

I'd add Kim Campbell to your principled list, although she didn't have time as a leader to prove how reasonable she actually was.

Who do you trust for news then? Your proof is an anecdotal local crime story and yet you want to defund a multi-platform organization that does important news reporting from around the world and offers Canadian stories, talent, and perspectives that you will not find anywhere else. I really don't think the bias lies with the CBC in your case.

Sometimes the bias is stronger in the viewer than it is in the broadcaster.

I'll also add that the Liberals have changed the appointment process to the Board of Directors so that an independent body (Independent Advisory Committee) performs the recruitment, review and appointment process. Someone is forgetting that Harper appointed 9 Conservative donors to the 12 member board and we're still living with a chunk of them because they serve 5 year terms. https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/news/2020/06/minister-guilbeault-announces-new-appointments-to-the-cbcradio-canada-board-of-directors.html https://thetyee.ca/News/2016/04/27/CBC-Board-Member-Resigns/?nnw-28999-1 (Board member resigns to seek Conservative Party Presidency).

It's a global pandemic and you are looking at it through a very narrow lens. California and Michigan had their **** together and look what happened. I don't understand how your Manitoba solution resonates with opening things up. Opening things up means opening up tourism too. How do you think that's going to go? And we didn't overwhelm the nursing home system. That's where people died. People got sick taking care of them. Some nursing homes refused to release clients to hospitals. Long term care and COVID-19 are actually 2 different issues and yet you keep conflating them. Manitoba is so fortunate to be in the situation it is and people are clambering to screw it all up. If you are the self-proclaimed lefty you purport to be, you'd be more concerned about the wealthy living off the government through tax-evasion than you are about the working poor who have caught a break.

At least Susan Collins will vote for him.

The cognitive dissonance is astounding. "According to the Poll Tracker's aggregation of all publicly available polls, the Liberals have the support of 40.3 per cent of decided voters, an increase of just over seven percentage points since the October vote. The Conservatives, under outgoing leader Andrew Scheer, trail with 28.4 per cent, a drop of six points."

The answer hasn't changed since this started. If health care systems are overwhelmed, we are in trouble. People don't need to die from COVID-19 (even though they are) for this to be a significant health threat regardless of your (or my) politics.

Reaganomics halted a progressively narrowing wage gap and lead us to where we are now. He fired 11,000 striking union members which made it ok to declare war on unions. The middle class has never recovered. He ignored the AIDS epidemic and when he wasn't ignoring it, advanced the notion that it was a sinners' disease. He revoked the Fairness Doctrine which lead to the establishment of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh etc. He campaigned on the idea that government is bad and doesn't serve the people's interest. He repealed the Mental Systems Act which lead to the homelessness or incarceration of thousands of the mentally ill. His administration was statistically the most corrupt ever. 138 members of his team were investigated, indicted or convicted for their roles in various scandals. He deregulated the Savings & Loan industry which would lead to the subsequest Savings & Loan crisis. Was basically the initial funder of Al Qaeda when he funded Afghans opposed to Russia because he hated communism that much. Reagan was an FBI snitch during the McCarthy years. He created the Office of Public Diplomacy which manipulated media with White Propoganda. Please do your own research on this - terrifying. His administration used EPA Superfunds to influence elections. As mentioned, Iran-Contra. He vetoed sanctions against Apartheid South Africa. He also said this: "Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did," Reagan, then the governor of California, can be heard saying to Nixon during a phone call following China's recognition by the U.N, “To see those — those monkeys from those African countries — damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes.” https://www.salon.com/2019/08/01/that-racist-reagan-recording-just-confirmed-what-my-community-already-knew/ etc. Almost everything wrong in America now can be traced back to the Reagan years.

Remember, the Bible Never Mentions a Building Called ‘Church’ The Church was never meant to be a place. POSTED ONJUNE 24, 2019 6 MINUTE READ JOHN PAVLOVITZ Recently, I wrote this piece, encouraging people who love God but who for any number of reasons find themselves outside of a traditional church. A number of Fundamentalist Christians objected. So I thought I’d take a few moments to share why the Church as a building was never the point to Jesus and the early Church: Jesus teaches Kingdom, not building. The Gospel biographies are filled with evocative, vivid parables, all about the Kingdom of God. They were Jesus’ central teaching. But this kingdom He speaks about is not a where but a when. It is the state of the world when people acknowledge God; when God is honored and worshipped and respected—the Kingdom is present. Throughout the Gospels, you can find Jesus teaching on the characteristics of His Kingdom people as they reflect the character of God in the world. The Church was never about brick and mortar. It was always greater than that. It was about a way of being in the world. https://relevantmagazine.com/god/remember-bible-never-mentions-building-called-church/

I'm being pedantic about the use of the word "essential". Important is not the same as essential. I am in full support of the sense of community people gain from religious-based gatherings, but I don't condone the attack on science and medicine that these religious leaders are making.

If church services are essential, why am I as an atheist doing just fine during the pandemic and how have I survived 50 years of largely not attending services?

"If we stop measuring unemployment right now, we'd have very few people without jobs, if any." - Robert Reich

More record highs in average new cases reported for some states 12:15 p.m. A host of states in the western and southern United States have seen coronavirus cases climb in recent days, raising fears of a new wave, as infections dwindle in other states that were initially hit harder. That trend continued in some states Wednesday. Oklahoma registered another record for single-day new cases (259); its rolling average for cases has hit records five days in a row. California set another record in its rolling average, while North Carolina’s average dropped by one case, breaking a streak of 15 new highs in a row. Florida reported 2,610 new cases Wednesday, second only to Tuesday’s 2,783, while the state’s seven-day average rose to a new high for the 10th day in a row. Florida’s new-case average has risen 78 percent from a week ago. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) earlier this week blamed testing patterns after the state recorded a series of record highs, saying more testing in “high-risk environments,” including farms with migrant workers, jails and long-term care facilities, has boosted the numbers. State agriculture authorities quickly denied that agriculture is a “primary driver” of infections, and a Miami Herald investigation found that a recent upward trend in cases could not be traced to just testing. Texas’s coronavirus hospitalizations have risen six days in a row, according to state data, reaching a record of 2,793 on Tuesday — up nearly 11 percent from the record set Monday, though state health authorities noted that the latest numbers reflect both new cases and positive diagnoses for nearly 1,500 Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates whose cases were not previously incorporated. The state’s hospitalizations are concentrated in the Houston and Dallas areas and are up about 85 percent since Memorial Day. Some officials in places experiencing surges of cases have sounded alarms, warning people not to let up on precautions and raising the prospect of tightening restrictions to encourage social distancing. Others, such as DeSantis, have said they will not resort to another shutdown, while the vice president has dismissed fears of a “second wave.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/17/coronavirus-live-updates-us/#link-PB2EIEB74RGGXGBSCSAXRBXMHI

I missed this story from last September: Pronghorn Sighting A First In Over A Hundred Years Published: Saturday, 21 September 2019 12:00 Written by Ryan Funk Many have spotted a rarity here in Southern Manitoba, a one in a million sighting of a pronghorn. Pronghorns are ungulates (mammals with hooves) that spread across Western and Central North America. Here in Canada, their primary range is southwestern Saskatchewan, southeastern Alberta, and occasionally southwestern Manitoba. The first sightings of a potentially individual male were in mid-June by Kaleida south of Manitou, the latest sightings were in the same area as of September fifth. Although not confirmed as the same individual a pronghorn was also spotted north of Winkler. According to Derek Bobbie Conservation Officer and Manitou District Supervisor, when speaking to farmers in the area, it's been over a hundred years since the last pronghorn sighting in the region. https://discoverwestman.com/local/pronghorn-sighting-a-first-in-over-a-hundred-years

Antifa ain't the problem. Police detain armed militia members after man is shot at Albuquerque protest By Katie Shepherd June 16, 2020 at 4:42 a.m. CDT Protesters in Albuquerque wrapped a chain around the neck of a bronze statue and began tugging, chanting “Tear it down,” shortly before sunset on Monday. Their efforts to pull down a monument of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate suddenly stopped as four shots rang out. Most people instinctively turned toward the noise, videos from the scene show. A few screamed. Just yards away, a group of militia men sporting militarylike garb and carrying semiautomatic rifles formed a protective circle around the gunman. The gunshots, which left one man in critical but stable condition, have set off a cascade of public outcry denouncing the unregulated militia’s presence and the shooting, although police have yet to announce an arrest or describe exactly what happened. The victim is also unidentified. “The heavily armed individuals who flaunted themselves at the protest, calling themselves a ‘civil guard,’ were there for one reason: To menace protesters, to present an unsanctioned show of unregulated force,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) said in a statement. “To menace the people of New Mexico with weaponry — with an implicit threat of violence — is on its face unacceptable; that violence did indeed occur is unspeakable.” ..... On Facebook, the group has shared materials encouraging people to arm themselves, promoted military training on infantry tactics and “ambushing,” and shared multiple posts opposing the leveling of monuments to Confederate figures in the South and Oñate in New Mexico. Members of the group recently told the Eastern New Mexico News their aim was to protect businesses from damage during protests. They claimed they had been in contact with police and were following guidance given to them by officials. Militias like the New Mexico Civil Guard and other armed, far-right counterprotesters have been a controversial presence at Black Lives Matter protests across the United States. At an Albuquerque protest earlier this month, video of police talking to an armed militia group spurred allegations that officers were coordinating with the group in an official capacity, although police denied the claim. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/16/albuquerque-militia-shooting-protest/

In Florida, home to millions of retirees, 1 of every 4 covid-19 deaths has been associated with a long-term care facility. Nationwide, the virus has killed at least 26,000 nursing home residents, according to numbers released June 1. Most deaths worldwide have occurred among people older than 50 and those with underlying health problems, as they are often most vulnerable to respiratory disease. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/?itid=sn_coronavirus_2 Is it a long term care facility problem in Florida if 75% of the people dying from COVID-19 don't live in one? Incidentally, these numbers match pretty well with the U.S. national figures.

People are saying he wears diapers.

There were a LOT of people in the States saying "F it" before the BLM protests started. The increased infection rates in 22 States likely don't even include many protesters yet as they only started 8 days ago.

And by extension, overwhelm health care. Italy proved that concern was real by resorting to field medicine decisions on who to save.

Not sure which clouds you're yelling at this time, but if you're talking to me, I did no such thing. All I'm relating is that there are more people effected in more ways than you are suggesting by saying this is a "nursing home problem". Because many long-haulers are either recorded as having mild symptoms, or not recorded at all, there is no definitive way to tell how many there actually are.

I hate to pile on, but this is simply not true. It's a nursing home issue, it's a health worker issue, it's a meat packing plant issue, it's a poverty issue, it's a homeless issue etc. etc. I don't know if anyone has heard the term "long-haulers" yet, but it's a group of people who have suffered with symptoms too mild for hospital treatment, but too severe to function on a day to day basis - for weeks and months. Because they haven't been hospitalized (or in some cases, diagnosed), the statistics don't include them. COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months The disease’s “long-haulers” have endured relentless waves of debilitating symptoms—and disbelief from doctors and friends. Story by Ed Yong JUNE 4, 2020 Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. For vonny leclerc, day one was March 16. Hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson instated stringent social-distancing measures to halt the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, LeClerc, a Glasgow-based journalist, arrived home feeling shivery and flushed. Over the next few days, she developed a cough, chest pain, aching joints, and a prickling sensation on her skin. After a week of bed rest, she started improving. But on day 12, every old symptom returned, amplified and with reinforcements: She spiked an intermittent fever, lost her sense of taste and smell, and struggled to breathe. When I spoke with LeClerc on day 66, she was still experiencing waves of symptoms. “Before this, I was a fit, healthy 32-year-old,” she said. “Now I’ve been reduced to not being able to stand up in the shower without feeling fatigued. I’ve tried going to the supermarket and I’m in bed for days afterwards. It’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced before.” Despite her best efforts, LeClerc has not been able to get a test, but “every doctor I’ve spoken to says there’s no shadow of a doubt that this has been COVID,” she said. Today is day 80. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-coronavirus-longterm-symptoms-months/612679/

I see what you did there. 2 points!