Mark H.

I was talking to someone the other day who believed the whole thing was a hoax. He said he knew someone who died of cancer but the hospital put ‘corona virus’ on the death certificate - said it was a lady from Manitoba. It took me less than a minute to determine that she could not possibly be one of the 7 Manitoba deaths (based on the date of death & her age didn’t match either). So yeah, if people can believe crap like that, they sure won’t be concerned about social distancing.

For other issues, that's true.

The whole thing is still nothing but a hoax and an overreach to many. And I include Canadians in that statement.

That’s not unique to the CFL. Any of those other issues, they just have some things to work on, but to be in any way homophobic is a death sentence.

That's a broad brush stroke - it's very possible to be religious and believe fully in science and medicine as well.

The Liberals have the next election in the bag, if that's the best he can come up with.

No, it's a completely fair comparison. Germany has an enormous population relative to their land mass. They have high numbers of immigrants and refugees - they are a cultural melting pot. The U.S. has the affluence to be more successful, but too much money is flowing to the top.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7065196/rcmp-search-missing-girl-drowning-spring-coulee-june-14/

And Hilary Clinton was supposed win handily, according to this exact same source.

I would trade the quality of those broadcasts for being able to watch all the games.

That’s happening. Kids are back in school here, borders are loosening up, restaurants are opening, etc.

1. We all understand your frustration. 2. There really wasn’t any way for government or law enforcement to effectively and peacefully stop the protests. 3. There was really no way for Dr. Roussin to say the protests were a bad idea and shouldn’t have happened. Perception is 9/10s of reality, and some would have perceived such comments as racist.

Oh excellent, those are fine ideas. Not to take this thread too far off topic, but the usual portrayal and perception of Tommy Douglas is very interesting. When one knows that he believed in and promoted eugenics, statements such as the one above ring rather hollow.

I was not even aware of that, but I am not surprised at all. We get 'some' of the same treatment. Eg. I have never stolen anything in my life, but I have been followed in some stores.

I can absolutely believe this, and I'll tell you why. As most of you know by now, I'm a Hutterite. We are sort of the perfect test case for the spreading of germs. We eat communally three times daily (buffet style), we sit just a few feet apart in church, and when it comes to the children, there literally is no separation at any time. Now, when schools closed on March 23, we all started eating at home, one person from each family went to get food, and this was coordinated so that we had low numbers of people in the kitchen at any given time. School was online / home school and church was over the public address system. People from other communities could not visit us, and vice versa. During March and April, which tend to still be prime cold and flu season due to weather and temperature variations - can you guess what happened? I'm sure you can - colds and flus were (and still are) drastically reduced, almost non - existent. We probably won't be able to maintain these practices indefinitely, but some of them will certainly stay in place.

Ok man, good comeback. For the record, I was done with Mack after his first year.

I guess if we need another answer as to why the protests were allowed - they were OUTSIDE. OUTDOORS. NOT INDOORS.

Well, that’s because the answer I gave is the only one available right now. They rolled the dice, and now we’ll wait and see if anything happens. As far as the U.S. is concerned, Trump shutting down the protests due to Covid 19 would simply be hypocrisy at its finest. The media would roast him on a spit - to a crisp.

Ok, fair comments. 👍 Some of the procedures you mentioned are in place at schools, so changes in other work places should not be far behind, or already in place. Where it gets tricky is when people have pre - existing conditions and/or compromised immune systems. Also, not all of our elderly citizens live in personal care homes.

I think they basically just decided that #BLM protests were too important and they didn’t want to deal with the optics of shutting them down. I think they’re rolling the dice on this one.

Either Cinderella is a fairy tale or Winnie the Pooh consists of real life events.

Precisely. Which is really exactly what the experts were hoping would happen! I mean, if we had thousands of cases, I guess some people would be saying that’s their fault too.

Because no specifics for how you would protect the elderly are ever stated. You would have to do a lot more than tighten restrictions at personal care homes.

You asked if we were going to see a spike in Covid. I said 'it depends on where the gathering is.' I wasn't referring to the rules of less than 50. There are many places where probably nothing much is going to happen.

Ok, which ones should have been listened to? Because different approaches were taken (or none were taken) and infection rates were higher United States, Italy, Sweden