Mark H.

A natural disaster would have the same effect in any of those countries. As would a major recession, where we stopped buying their mass - produced goods. Covid 19 just exposed it more than it ever has been exposed before. The real question is - what are we going to do about it?

When we look back to General Strike of 1919, we can see that it did bring some change for the working class. However, looking at the planet as whole today, it becomes clear that we are shifting back to those conditions. In some countries, the change never did come.

One thing is certain - it's about time meat packing plants stopped flying under the radar. They used to pay higher wages and provide better working conditions - thus they had long term employees. Now, they have 80% - 100% employee turnover every year. And none of their 'savings' have been reflected in the price of meat.

Their last loss was self - inflicted; at this point, I have no reason to believe it won't happen again. We know several Americans who come up here to ice fish every year - they are reasonable and intelligent people. They don't want to vote for Trump, and they don't like the alternatives, so they probably won't vote at all.

Think about what they're doing at work while you're not there - open your eyes!

Interesting. See, I never thought of most of those as conspiracy theories, I have always thought of them as factual stories.

I did a lot of reading on this back in 1999 - even wrote a paper on it for my grade 12 English class. Right up until we reached the year 2000, banking computers were supposed to shut down, the power grid was supposed go down, etc. etc. They said many countries had taken the steps you describe, but it would all be null and void because places like Russia had not upgraded, and any contact with them would compromise our IT systems. Just to clarify - that’s what I was referring to.

Here's my experience with conspiracy theories: First, I'll list a few off the top of my head: 1. All our computers will crash when the year 2000 arrives 2. 911 was an inside job 3. The Titanic didn't really sink, they sunk another ship to claim the insurance on Titanic 4. No one has ever landed on the moon - it was all trick photography There are 100s of others, but I will stop there. Just looking at those four - they have all been disproven My question is simply this: can you give us something that was originally labelled a conspiracy theory, that was later proven to be legit?

The comments below this article are quite entertaining. It's disturbing what people choose to believe, but still good for a laugh (and a half).

Discussion? You post an article and say absolutely nothing about it unless someone disagrees with it. And yes, you do post largely from sources that are well - known as conspiracy theorists. If there really is something to discuss, then why don't you lead the discussion, since you're the one who posted the info in the first place.

My sincere apologies. Had it concerned a man, his scotch, and a lab in China, I might have reconsidered.

Any further posts from confirmed conspiracy sources will be removed.

Precisely - but when he cited the High River packing plant as one of his examples - that was the tipping point. Even the most dedicated conspiracy theorist has to be aware of what happened there.

An FYI for whoever is interested in knowing more about the author of ^^. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky

Anyone who would attempt to claim that the Cargill meat packing plant should not have been shut down, even though there were dozens of cases, just lost most of their credibility.

Exactly. There are some provinces that are higher when you base the testing rate on population, but they are not drastically higher.

And MB. has had days when around 1000 people were tested - Alberta has 4x the population of Manitoba I am not sure why Manitoba's numbers seemed to be viewed as inaccurate or some kind of conspiracy. We have been taking the same social distancing measures as other provinces, and we really only have the one large urban centre. The rest of the population is more dispersed and less likely to have a major infection outbreak. IMO, Manitoba's numbers are about what you'd expect.

Manitoba’s number of tests is not low, it is basically average. When you look at tests done per 1 million population, BC, Ontario, Newfoundland and New Brunswick are all lower than Manitoba. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec are significantly higher than other provinces.

He probably has a section titled ‘the calculus of death.’

Or, when we they argue it has a similar fatality rate to the flu, because many who have COVID 19 are unidentified. I suppose they think every single case of the flu is recorded?

He was the starting QB for my first ever live Bomber game - looked good in the pre-game warmup.

His name is Chris. 😂😀

Of course not. The strategy seems to be 'wait a day or two, then say the same thing again.'

We will clean IGF with toothbrushes, if that is what you wish, oh Colonel.

That team was always able to make up for lack lustre starts with fiery comebacks. Until the last game...