Covid-19

[JCon]

Well, I won't be taking my family to the theatres or out to a restaurant anytime soon, unless the private businesses step up and say 2x vax are required. 

[iHeart]

So do I still have to apply for my vax card on saturday or is that no longer going to be necessary?

[Super Duper Negatron]

2 minutes ago, iHeart said:

So do I still have to apply for my vax card on saturday or is that no longer going to be necessary?

Sporting events and casinos apparently.

[iHeart]

 

9 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

Sporting events and casinos apparently.

I am eager to go to a casino again (and I would really like to get mozza sticks from the front place and a Schmoo from the Ice Cream Shoppe)  Also it could be necessary if Biden decided to open the border to us

 

Edited August 3, 2021 by iHeart

[the watcher]

47 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

Seriously, what possible downside is there to keeping the mask mandate? Are they not watching as it is gradually reinstated all over the US?

I love the idea of slowly opening things up and returning to normal but the indoor mask mandate should be the last restriction lifted in my mind. It's effective and easy to follow. 

[the watcher]

I also would love to have seen them link lifting restrictions and vaccination rates in each community or RHA  or RM . ( Winkler I'm looking at you ! ) Then you pull enforcement officers from where they are no longer needed and and enforce the hell out of them.  But that would take a large set of Kahunas which our current Gov lacks .

[Noeller]

Welcome to AB-East, apparently.... sorry gang. Con government's gonna Con..... MB/SK/AB all the same, unfortunately. I'm definitely still wearing my mask even though double vaxxed. Prepare to see your case counts shoot up again, tho not as bad as previous waves thanks to vaccines. 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

 

1 hour ago, iHeart said:

I am eager to go to a casino again

I KNEW IT I do miss the casino buffets tho. CanadInn close enuf.

 

Edited August 3, 2021 by FrostyWinnipeg

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

Seriously, WTF is the reason for lifting the mask mandate? What is the compelling reason those ******* people think that trumps science, good morals, competent governance and oh... I don't know- not ******* KILLING people.

 

******* assholes the lot of them. 

Edited August 3, 2021 by wanna-b-fanboy

[Noeller]

2 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

Seriously, WTF is the reason for lifting the mask mandate? What is the compelling reason those ******* people think that trumps science, good morals, competent governance and oh... I don't know- not ******* KILLING people.

 

******* assholes the lot of them. 

"pErSOnaL FReeDoMs!1!"

 

[Tracker]

                                             

[SpeedFlex27]

8 minutes ago, Noeller said:

"pErSOnaL FReeDoMs!1!"

 

More like personal free dumbs. 

Edited August 3, 2021 by SpeedFlex27

[SpeedFlex27]

I can only imagine the vaccine rollout if this guy was Prime Minister. It would have been a disaster. Seventy five per cent of Canadians got at least one shot of vaccine. Here he is pandering to his base of 25%. Not to the other 75%. His PPC won't grow doing that which is a good thing. The man is a freaking idiot.

[Tracker]

2 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I can only imagine the vaccine rollout if this guy was Prime Minister. It would have been a disaster. Seventy five per cent of Canadians got at least one shot of vaccine. Here he is pandering to his base of 25%. Not to the other 75%. His PPC won't grow doing that which is a good thing. The man is a freaking idiot.

An IQ  comparable to that of a house plant has never stopped anyone from running  his/her mouth.

[blue_gold_84]

What a ******* assclown. On the plus side, he's probably polling at 0.05%.

[FrostyWinnipeg]

2 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:

What a ******* assclown. On the plus side, he's probably polling at 0.05%.

Which means he'll be invited to the debates. 

[17to85]

19 hours ago, Noeller said:

"pErSOnaL FReeDoMs!1!"

 

Aka "we need the idiots to vote for us!"

[Mark F]

got together last night to do some guitar playing with a guy I dont know at his place he 62, I am 72.

 

played for an hour and a half, then found out.... hes not vaccinated.

 

left within five minutes.

he had all the bullshit reasons, 

excuses. and then some. medical degree from youtube youniversity..

too bad, it was fun.

#wtf

Edited August 4, 2021 by Mark F

[Tracker]

12 minutes ago, Mark F said:

got together last night to do some guitar playing with a guy I dont know at his place he 62, I am 72.

 

played for an hour and a half, then found out.... hes not vaccinated.

 

left within five minutes. he had all the bullshit reasons, excuses. and then some. medical degree from youtube youniversity..

too bad, it was fun.

#wtf

 

We have to be pretty close to the moronic bedrock of people who will never get vaccinated. The law of diminishing returns is kicking in and there is little to be done to convince them to get the shot.  

[iHeart]

You know i just realized that there weren't any morons of the week last week, either people smartened up or they forgot to show it off, well I guess it may have to be retired since masks aren't that mandatory anymore

[iHeart]

 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

21 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

More like personal free dumbs. 

Freediots

[WildPath]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/mask-analysis-pallister-manitoba-roussin-1.6128662

"I am just so damn sick of how our society has to suck up the consequences of the incompetence of leaders who lack insight, empathy and humility, and the caution that is the hallmark of all those things," tweeted Dr. Jillian Horton, a general internist and author in Winnipeg.

"It doesn't make any sense," said Dr. Glen Drobot, who works in internal medicine at St. Boniface and Grace hospitals. "I fear we're going to be entering into a fourth wave that will be similar to the third wave."

"Not every jurisdiction is, has got the same epidemiology, not every jurisdiction is in the same place. We're in a good place right now — and yahoo to that," Pallister said.

 

Yahoo is right. Just like the yahoos when we somehow escaped the first three waves of Covid despite experts saying we would eventually get hit. Let's hope this is our government's final victory lap over Covid. They even suggested some unvaxxed will now want to get vaccinated because they are no longer protected by public health measures.

[SpeedFlex27]

22 hours ago, Tracker said:

An IQ  comparable to that of a house plant has never stopped anyone from running  his/her mouth.

Bernier gave state secrets to his girlfriend for crissakes so he was thinking with his **** & not his head.  He wants to be PM?  Maybe Leutonia needs a Keeper Of The Budgies. 

 

On 2021-08-03 at 11:42 AM, JCon said:

Well, I won't be taking my family to the theatres or out to a restaurant anytime soon, unless the private businesses step up and say 2x vax are required. 

Do not blame you at all. 

Edited August 4, 2021 by SpeedFlex27

[Tracker]

Dr. Fauci warns the US 'could really be in trouble' from new Covid variant even worse than Delta
   
COVID-19's highly infectious Delta variant has been causing considerable misery in the U.S., especially in red states with low vaccination rates. And according to expert immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci, a COVID-19 variant that is even worse than Delta may wreak havoc in the United States if more Americans don't get vaccinated.

In an interview with McClatchy, the 80-year-old Fauci — who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and is President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser — warned, "What we're seeing, because of this increase in transmissibility, and because we have about 93 million people in this country who are eligible to get vaccinated who don't get vaccinated — that you have a significant pool of vulnerable people."

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 70% of U.S.-based adults have been at least partially vaccinated for COVID-19. That figure is taking into consideration the U.S. on the whole; vaccination rates can vary considerably from one state to the next.

Some of the lowest vaccination rates are in deeply Republican states. The Mayo Clinic reports that the number of U.S. residents who have been at least partially vaccinated for COVID-19 ranges from 75% in Vermont and 72% in Massachusetts to 39% in Mississippi, 43% in Alabama and Mississippi and 49% in Missouri.

A major difference between the current COVID-19 surge that is pounding the U.S. and previous surges is that this one is, according to Biden's administration, a "pandemic of the unvaccinated."

Fauci told McClatchy, "Even if we vaccinated everyone today, we're not going to see an effect until the middle to end of September."

The more COVID-19 is allowed to spread in the U.S., according to Fauci, the more dangerous a variant that is worse than the Delta variant will be.

"If we don't crush the outbreak to the point of getting the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated," Fauci told McClatchy, "then what will happen is the virus will continue to smolder through the fall into the winter, giving it ample chance to get a variant — which, quite frankly, we're very lucky that the vaccines that we have now do very well against the variants, particularly against severe illness. We're very fortunate that that's the case. There could be a variant that's lingering out there that can push aside Delta."

Fauci added, "If another one comes along that has an equally high capability of transmitting but also, is much more severe, then we could really be in trouble. People who are not getting vaccinated mistakenly think it's only about them. But it isn't. It's about everybody else, also."

Dr. Fauci warns the US 'could really be in trouble' from new Covid variant even worse than Delta - Alternet.org