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Sure changed his tune. Exactly the same panic and hand-wringing as last year (in which I participated...) - a deal will get done, there was never any doubt.

Everyone likes hutterites just before Thanksgiving ha... Ugh... I see some of my cousins on facebook posting 'don't blame the hutterites'... I guess it is becoming an issue in Manitoba now. Sorry to hear that.

Hey I’m sorry but that’s just the way it is now... we’ve had no cases for three months and everyone calls the health inspector if you organize any event in the Yukon... people freak out about US license plates, etc thats actually my point about covidiots and generalizations

Me and my kind abide.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-covid-update-tuesday-july-21-1.5657582 good example... I read a bunch of Facebook comments about wear masks dummies and a bunch of criticisms of the general populace but four cases outside colonies is well within the planned reopening numbers we are turning into a society of ‘deniers’ or ‘I told you soers’ it’s sad to watch...

If Grand Beach July long had resulted in 20 of 29 cases - this board would be going ballistic... that is exactly my point swift current is not contained yet and the colony south of Calgary has very mixed messages coming out of there colonies remain an issue as do oil rigs, nursing homes, meat packing plants - now that I really think of it that is what bothers me... MBB and the media are targeting the general populace as teetering out of control and being covidiots... it’s actually these clusters that make the data seem worse So tracking the oil field guy and tracking the Manitoba colony outbreak should be good news stories - ie that the system is working - instead every second post is ‘omfg Covid is coming for the second wave... I told you so’ Noeller’s post is a good example - the scientist extrapolatesour cases to become exponential until disaster yet in the same thread I’m reading that hey the spike in the colonies is under control and no worries... but that spike is what made the data look ‘exponential’ Anyway blah blah

That’s solid... especially after the name controversy ha

The stats you are quoting are overall stats - we were talking about the new spike... anyway I was making a point about generalizations and now you’re acting hard done by... thankfully i didn’t latch on to the ‘visible minority’ comment

Look, man, if it helps you sleep its cool but the fact that you totally left out Manitoba stats kind of makes my point. Citing the 962 covid cases literally has nothing to do with the current outbreak after lockdown restrictions eased and you know that. I mean sure there are now covid cases linked to a gathering in Alberta and all those same people stopped at places all along the drive to and from - and some colonies refused to social distance or cooperate with medical experts... but yes, there are other places that have covid besides colonies They are not the only factor but without Hutterite colonies, our weekly numbers are super low - anyway, my point was about covidiots and the use of that term... enjoy your day.

There will be fans in the stands by September... 5000 or 10,000

Maybe Edmonton Engines... and then we could use the Indian Motorcycles logo

But there was a time when wearing a red onion on your belt was perfectly acceptable... and who am I - an onion lover - to judge those or be judged on behalf of those who teary-eyed settlers who came before me. Now if it was a shallot - well there's no excuse for that.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/16/816707182/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s Yeah so... this is kind of depressing... US border is not opening any time soon.

Back in my day, 80% was a vast majority... I understand that times change but to me 80% will always be a vast majority - it was in the 1950s and it didn't hurt no one back then dadgummit. Next you'll tell me wearing an onion on my belt offends some social activist slacker.

Ahh the computer model approach... got it I would have a high degree of caution comparing Canada to Florida and Arizona... but I will keep this in mind and look again at end of August if we’re at the predicted 300-400 cases per day mark - I doubt it personally to say we are in an exponential increase ignored the fact that society was essentially closed in June and now it is not - to expect the infection rate to remain low or zero is just not realistic we are well under R1 right now and most infections outside of clusters are in the 20-30s - no reason to panic

Making a weak joke that you are 'more informed than Floyd' is actually the definition of kissing ass... but whatevs. Name is changing, luckily we don't have to debate this anymore. However... this is EXACTLY the argument for changing the name... ha Making a tiny effort to change a name that has negative connotations is 'doing better now and in the future'... You truly are baffling.

And you do realize that this is your response to everyone who doesn't agree with your specific opinion at a given moment... but its part of your charm.

What's with all these hub city bids... how is this not decided already??

How so? The numbers are ridiculously low in relation to population and most covid spikes are clusters that can be handled... What would a fair number be for cases in Alberta in relation to the population?

The virus already mutated it seems - in BC, they were hit with a 'washington strain (likely derived from China)' and the 'Italy/EU strain'... the China and Iran strains had minimal impact This is why I don't believe we will ever have a proper vaccine - I think we are behind the game no matter how fast we move... As for the spanish flu, yes I completely understand the severity but its also a very very different virus in very very different times... so the second wave is almost irrelevant to covid in Canada... we lose sight that covid killed 1600 people outside of nursing homes - to the general populace, covid is a minimal threat - its still a serious virus but this is not the spanish flu.

Speaking of deflection... the conversation is about recent outbreaks not cases in total. In the post you quoted... I just agreed that there is a covid cluster in Sask's far north due to a funeral and then I cited an article that states 20 of 29 cases in Manitoba are related to Hutterite colonies... is this not the 'vast majority'? Now you are claiming that the latest 'flare up' in Alberta is primarily in Calgary and that there are not a significant number of cases related to Hutterite colonies? A source would be good since you are now accusing me of spreading false opinions. You are portraying my claims as though I am saying 'hutterite colonies' are the 'only' covid hotspots... I am just saying they are the only covid hotspots where we don't use the term covidiot... i.e. the Calgary restaurant goers for example. I like facts to be honest, always willing to admit I'm wrong... willing to read your sources.

It is very hard to have a critically minded discussion when any questions regarding covid are so easily filed into a 'Trump redneck conspiracy' narrative... its a sad state of affairs these days. Aside from the Spanish Flu - for which we only have random anecdotal evidence about a mystery illness - there is no real scientific evidence that a massive second wave is coming. The 'second wave' will be clusters over the next couple years and the entire point of flattening the curve was not to eradicate covid but to prepare our health care system. Yet we speak like the second wave spanish flu is coming to kill millions... when in fact the 'first wave' of covid only killed 1600 people outside of nursing homes. Yet pointing out this basic fact leaves me open to being a conspiracy guy for saying its a nursing home issue (contained location with long term exposure). We pick and choose what info we want to hear - both sides are doing that - sometimes we say that you have to follow the science and other times we use the spanish flu bogeyman...

Florida and Texas just didn't bother to report while almost all other states were showing spikes, they were dribbling along with 'no cases'... so there's no way to know now, I would think its still the first wave - I suspect they will just stop reporting again anyway.

No one ever actually claimed you were 'hiding anything' or making excuses... so I'm not sure what your point is? I'm not attacking your colony specifically, I am pointing out the double standard on this board - the comments are mild and supportive when it comes to the colony issues... for everyone else who gets covid - 'they are an idiot and stupid'... Its interesting.