Ford won't even make the announcement himself. He desperately wants to not be seen as responsible for lockdowns so he's doing the bare minimum possible and then knee-jerk reacting whenever anything gets bad but only for as long as he thinks will not get him blamed.
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Ford won't even make the announcement himself. He desperately wants to not be seen as responsible for lockdowns so he's doing the bare minimum possible and then knee-jerk reacting whenever anything gets bad but only for as long as he thinks will not get him blamed.
Every second sentence in his statements also involve blaming the feds for Ontario not having enough vaccines.
Ford won't even make the announcement himself. He desperately wants to not be seen as responsible for lockdowns so he's doing the bare minimum possible and then knee-jerk reacting whenever anything gets bad but only for as long as he thinks will not get him blamed.
Every second sentence in his statements also involve blaming the feds for Ontario not having enough vaccines.
Sounds like blaming the ringmaster for not setting up the net when you decided to walk the tightrope.
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JeanHeartbroken papa bearGatineau, QuébecRegistered Userregular
Ford won't even make the announcement himself. He desperately wants to not be seen as responsible for lockdowns so he's doing the bare minimum possible and then knee-jerk reacting whenever anything gets bad but only for as long as he thinks will not get him blamed.
Is that why they're calling it a shutdown instead of a lockdown?
I'm not sure I understand the distinction beetween those 2 terms....
"You won't destroy us, You won't destroy our democracy. We are a small but proud nation. No one can bomb us to silence. No one can scare us from being Norway. This evening and tonight, we'll take care of each other. That's what we do best when attacked'' - Jens Stoltenberg
Ford won't even make the announcement himself. He desperately wants to not be seen as responsible for lockdowns so he's doing the bare minimum possible and then knee-jerk reacting whenever anything gets bad but only for as long as he thinks will not get him blamed.
Is that why they're calling it a shutdown instead of a lockdown?
I'm not sure I understand the distinction beetween those 2 terms....
Who the fuck knows. It's just random fucking words attached to whatever they pull from their ass on any particular day.
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JeanHeartbroken papa bearGatineau, QuébecRegistered Userregular
Well, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who's confused!
"You won't destroy us, You won't destroy our democracy. We are a small but proud nation. No one can bomb us to silence. No one can scare us from being Norway. This evening and tonight, we'll take care of each other. That's what we do best when attacked'' - Jens Stoltenberg
What is there to be really surprised about Ford's say on 2 bill from the feds to out towards "deficient" instead of paying like workers and offering small businesses loans to like stay open but not pay workers it's obscene
But there's a vocal amount of rich people who wanna fly around the world spending workers wealth and infecting local populations and that's the demographic that has decided the entire pandemic strategy
Yeah, traffic didn't seem any lighter today. Lockdown starts tonight?
Starts at midnight in Ontario, yes.
The new measures are already effective in Gatineau & Québec City. I went out to get groceries today. Trafic was the same as any other Friday.
The one difference I've noticed in the past couple of days is than I'm seeing a lot more people wearing masks outside now. It used to be very rare even as recently as a month ago.
"You won't destroy us, You won't destroy our democracy. We are a small but proud nation. No one can bomb us to silence. No one can scare us from being Norway. This evening and tonight, we'll take care of each other. That's what we do best when attacked'' - Jens Stoltenberg
A local Pina Styling business owner just equated wearing a mask with the experiences of Residential School survivors, doubled down on their position when challenged, deleted their challengers and then just deleted the whole thing hoping they wouldn't get caught. They got screen shot caught. You might say the communities that host this business are just a wee bit pissed off given how we're mostly First Nations out here and how the pandemic has impacted a mostly tourist economy with one ICU within 45 minutes distance.
I'm just obsessing over daily stats now, which I know I shouldn't do. But after a massive a quick spike in the second half of last week and a quick re-re-confinement of the out-of-control regions before Easter weekend, the number of daily new cases seems to have plateau'd and even show an ever-so-slight downward trend. Makes me hopeful the third wave won't be as bad or as long as the second wave.
Also, restaurants had stocked fridges in preparation for Easter weekend, hoping the holiday dine-in traffic would make up a bit for their losses in the first quarter of the year. The sudden and unexpected closing-down of everything hit them hard, and even the mayor came out urging people to order as many take-out meals as they could eat to help our restaurants. And people listened. Restaurants are reporting record levels of take-out sales, some saying their fridges got ransacked over the weekend (in a good way). I'll take the good news!
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JeanHeartbroken papa bearGatineau, QuébecRegistered Userregular
I'm just obsessing over daily stats now
Let me show you one exponential everyone can get behind
"You won't destroy us, You won't destroy our democracy. We are a small but proud nation. No one can bomb us to silence. No one can scare us from being Norway. This evening and tonight, we'll take care of each other. That's what we do best when attacked'' - Jens Stoltenberg
Mine is tomorrow at 1:20. I hear from co-workers who have already been it's 20 minutes or less and 15 of that is spent toodling about on your phone while you wait to see if there are any side effects.
Lo, I have been stabbed. Pfizer, before I even cleared the buildng I had texts and emails with my follow up in July and my vaccination record. One of the nurses is a former co-worker and they gave me a nice info sheet. 6 more minutes and I can go about my day.
Lo, I have been stabbed. Pfizer, before I even cleared the buildng I had texts and emails with my follow up in July and my vaccination record. One of the nurses is a former co-worker and they gave me a nice info sheet. 6 more minutes and I can go about my day.
The building is a sea of blue and grey hair.
Just wait a few days before you go back to licking doorknobs, yeah?
The pandemic theatre by politicians has gotten very tiresome. Like, we all know you've done the math and decided what level of sickness and death is acceptable to keep an acceptable level of capitalism going.
The pandemic theatre by politicians has gotten very tiresome. Like, we all know you've done the math and decided what level of sickness and death is acceptable to keep an acceptable level of capitalism going.
It's Ford; for him, the acceptable level is "however much is necessary to convince the voters that this is all Trudeau's fault."
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The pandemic theatre by politicians has gotten very tiresome. Like, we all know you've done the math and decided what level of sickness and death is acceptable to keep an acceptable level of capitalism going.
Please. They haven't done any math (they aren't that smart or organized) and this has nothing to do with capitalism. They are a bunch of dumb goobers ricocheting between whatever stupid solutions pop into their heads to the immediate problems in front of them. Lockdowns are unpopular. The pandemic raging out of control, and especially stories about the pandemic raging out of control, are also unpopular. You want to get reelected. Ergo you bounce back and forth being locking down (or whatever dumb word you wanna use for it you think might be less politically damaging) and opening up depending on which thing you fear is making you more unpopular at that very moment. There is no thought or long-term planning or data-based analysis going on here.
I’m not even talking specifically about Ford , who I very much doubt does any math. Or even Horgan here in BC, but I know Adrien Dix our health minister is not stupid, and I don’t think PHO Henry is either.
But right now their lack of agility and transparency with the public makes them look clueless . Our Premier got an election and a majority government and Dr. Henry got a book deal with the publisher her sister works for and a shoe named after her and they seem to have given up on protecting the health and lives of the most Citizens they could at this point.
I’ve begun to view Public Health like corporate HR departments, existing to make people think they are being taken care of when the true goal is extracting maximum labour for minimum cost.
If this "new" "lockdown" does not include enforced moratoriums on all inter-city travel, so many of us near the GTA are still fucked. I live in cottage country. Guess where all the infected rich people go when they cannot do whatever they want in TO? I suppose, this time, if they are forced to stay in their cottages, we should be "safer", but like that will happen and it only takes a few to cause a new major outbreak here and we are dealing with our own problems in that way.
I am so GOD DAMNED TIRED...
This world needs a new philosophy. No more, "Could be worse..." I say SHOULD BE BETTER!
If this "new" "lockdown" does not include enforced moratoriums on all inter-city travel, so many of us near the GTA are still fucked. I live in cottage country. Guess where all the infected rich people go when they cannot do whatever they want in TO? I suppose, this time, if they are forced to stay in their cottages, we should be "safer", but like that will happen and it only takes a few to cause a new major outbreak here and we are dealing with our own problems in that way.
I am so GOD DAMNED TIRED...
That was frustrating in NS last spring. Halifax was locked down fairly tight, but the small towns were flooded with people who "needed to" check on their other other home regularly. I'm worried about a repeat as the weather improves.
Alberta just shut down that one megachurch that spent most of the last year deciding public health orders are for everyone else since they get in the way of phat tithes.
Alberta just shut down that one megachurch that spent most of the last year deciding public health orders are for everyone else since they get in the way of phat tithes.
Erecting barriers around it and the works.
After they had their massive Easter weekend, yeah.
Alberta just shut down that one megachurch that spent most of the last year deciding public health orders are for everyone else since they get in the way of phat tithes.
Erecting barriers around it and the works.
After they had their massive Easter weekend, yeah.
Can't piss off your base TOO much
I'm wondering if that was the source of the variant superspreader event the province spent the weekend downplaying. .
Alberta just shut down that one megachurch that spent most of the last year deciding public health orders are for everyone else since they get in the way of phat tithes.
Erecting barriers around it and the works.
After they had their massive Easter weekend, yeah.
Can't piss off your base TOO much
I'm wondering if that was the source of the variant superspreader event the province spent the weekend downplaying. .
The easter weekend would just now start to show up on the charts, we'll see if it takes off in the next few days
Alberta just shut down that one megachurch that spent most of the last year deciding public health orders are for everyone else since they get in the way of phat tithes.
Erecting barriers around it and the works.
After they had their massive Easter weekend, yeah.
Can't piss off your base TOO much
I'm wondering if that was the source of the variant superspreader event the province spent the weekend downplaying. .
Too early for it to be that . Takes a good week before the numbers would start showing
From Easter proper, sure, but Friday or Saturday Alberta said there was a P.1 superspreader event somewhere in the province but they didn't feel like talking about it quite yet.
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Sounds like blaming the ringmaster for not setting up the net when you decided to walk the tightrope.
Is that why they're calling it a shutdown instead of a lockdown?
I'm not sure I understand the distinction beetween those 2 terms....
Who the fuck knows. It's just random fucking words attached to whatever they pull from their ass on any particular day.
But there's a vocal amount of rich people who wanna fly around the world spending workers wealth and infecting local populations and that's the demographic that has decided the entire pandemic strategy
So like can't buy a home east of Toronto unless you have half a mill saved up, guess what the averages wages are
Far below that
All the old waterfront property owners are making out like bandits tho
Made me sure glad I had to watch half my coworkers get laid off yet again even tho we actually followed rules all along.
Yeah, traffic didn't seem any lighter today. Lockdown starts tonight?
Starts at midnight in Ontario, yes.
The new measures are already effective in Gatineau & Québec City. I went out to get groceries today. Trafic was the same as any other Friday.
The one difference I've noticed in the past couple of days is than I'm seeing a lot more people wearing masks outside now. It used to be very rare even as recently as a month ago.
Also, restaurants had stocked fridges in preparation for Easter weekend, hoping the holiday dine-in traffic would make up a bit for their losses in the first quarter of the year. The sudden and unexpected closing-down of everything hit them hard, and even the mayor came out urging people to order as many take-out meals as they could eat to help our restaurants. And people listened. Restaurants are reporting record levels of take-out sales, some saying their fridges got ransacked over the weekend (in a good way). I'll take the good news!
Let me show you one exponential everyone can get behind
Source of the graph : https://vaccintrackerqc.ca/
The building is a sea of blue and grey hair.
Just wait a few days before you go back to licking doorknobs, yeah?
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It's Ford; for him, the acceptable level is "however much is necessary to convince the voters that this is all Trudeau's fault."
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Please. They haven't done any math (they aren't that smart or organized) and this has nothing to do with capitalism. They are a bunch of dumb goobers ricocheting between whatever stupid solutions pop into their heads to the immediate problems in front of them. Lockdowns are unpopular. The pandemic raging out of control, and especially stories about the pandemic raging out of control, are also unpopular. You want to get reelected. Ergo you bounce back and forth being locking down (or whatever dumb word you wanna use for it you think might be less politically damaging) and opening up depending on which thing you fear is making you more unpopular at that very moment. There is no thought or long-term planning or data-based analysis going on here.
But right now their lack of agility and transparency with the public makes them look clueless . Our Premier got an election and a majority government and Dr. Henry got a book deal with the publisher her sister works for and a shoe named after her and they seem to have given up on protecting the health and lives of the most Citizens they could at this point.
I’ve begun to view Public Health like corporate HR departments, existing to make people think they are being taken care of when the true goal is extracting maximum labour for minimum cost.
Full stay-at-home order, no indoor shopping except for grocery stores and pharmacies.
Apparently we're on track to have more people in hospital than at the worst of the second wave, which is cool and great
I am so GOD DAMNED TIRED...
But let's not close patios!
we did it everybody!
That was frustrating in NS last spring. Halifax was locked down fairly tight, but the small towns were flooded with people who "needed to" check on their other other home regularly. I'm worried about a repeat as the weather improves.
Erecting barriers around it and the works.
After they had their massive Easter weekend, yeah.
Can't piss off your base TOO much
I'm wondering if that was the source of the variant superspreader event the province spent the weekend downplaying. .
The easter weekend would just now start to show up on the charts, we'll see if it takes off in the next few days
Too early for it to be that . Takes a good week before the numbers would start showing