My worry is that the 22nd wave is going to be really, really ugly.
Article below:
"The third wave is inevitable," Colin Furness, an expert in infectious disease epidemiology from the University of Toronto, told CTV News Toronto. "And I think the third wave is the big one for us."
"It killed between 1 and 4 million people worldwide, and 116,000 in the US in a time with half the population. It was a leading contributor to a year in which the US saw 62,000 excess deaths.
Globally, it might have been five times as deadly as Covid-19, as measured by deaths per capita. It was unusually lethal for younger people: 40 percent of deaths had occurred among people younger than 65, whereas the average age of death Covid-19 is 80 with only 10-20% of deaths under the age of 65.
What’s striking is how public health officials handled the pandemic. It had a diametrically opposite response than policymakers pursued in 2020. One might assume that this was due to negligence and a lack of sophistication in understanding the need to lockdown. Surely they didn’t know 65 years ago what we know today!
Actually, this is completely false. Public health experts did in fact consider school closures, business closures, and a ban of public events but the entire ethos of the profession rejected them. There were two grounds for this rejection: lockdowns would be too disruptive, disabling the capacity of medical professionals to deal competently with the crisis, and also because such policies would be futile because the virus was already here and spreading."
Had some wonton, smoked some opium, chatted about non-related topics for a bit, went home.
"World Health Organization adviser Jamie Metzl criticized the organization’s investigation into the origins of the coronavirus for not taking a serious enough look at the possibility of an accidental lab leak and saying that “the actual investigation was done by Chinese authorities. And so, the W.H.O. investigators were basically receiving reports from the Chinese officials.”
Metzl said, “Well, the investigation itself was very short. It was two weeks of quarantine and two weeks of meetings, but the actual investigation was done by Chinese authorities. And so, the W.H.O. investigators were basically receiving reports from the Chinese officials.”
Dairy farmers and dirt farmers don't have much in common. And what they do have in common doesn't amount to much. Jughead knows nothing about farming, he only knows the art of grifting.
That's fair.
Not sure the reason(s) behind her hidden neck, but obviously it's just speculation at this point. Maybe she has a grotesque neck, full of hickey marks, boils, lacerations, no one really knows, other than to say if she had a beautiful neck, she'd show it. But she doesn't. Because it's hideous.
I think the real crime here is that they are marketing that slop as maple syrup when in essence it was actually low-grade tractor oil.
Ford is absolutely furious about an 11 million dollar fraud, while Canada gets frauded out of 2 billion in cerb money, and trudeau couldn't give 2 craps.
If only covid could make Montréal citizens cleaner.
It's one of those questions that answers itself.
Good to memorize the wording of that meme, for when family and friends stop by.
Major Trump hater, and conservative hater arrested for endangering people's lives. Go figure.
Typical boomer loser and all-round selfish liberal asshole.
Our free Healthcare works out to approx $5000 per citizen a year.
Unless we don't pay for doctors, nurses, ems, etc, and maybe I missed that memo.
We also have a huge, inefficient government with lots of useless mouth-breathers taking a cheque each month, which works out to, on a municipal provincial and federal level a huge % of "employed" Canadians.
Those in jail aren't considered unemployed, they're just there, I suppose. Mental institutions, same thing.
And you could make a case that cops, military, and lots if other examples don't produce, they only absorb tax dollars.
In other words if you think our unemployment rate is where it's at you're out of your mind.
Fix typo in headline.
News such as this is actually a positive for right-leaning members of society. It's such a disgrace that even lefty types are secretly disgusted by it. Normies know this isn't normie. It's indefensible.
In other words, it's a great big "we told you this would happen" moment.
At this point, and as bizarre as this sounds, the only thing that will save western society is a complete breakdown of western society.
And we are well on our way.
And the proud boys are a cia honeypot, and Gavin is a cuck.
Agreed. The internet is now owned by a small consortium of big companies. A few massive companies that write the laws, in their favor, of course.
Obviously, if the Canadian govt wanted to end Chinese espionage, they would immediately halt all flights and admissions from China.
However, the Canadian govt won't do that because they are scared of the optics. In other words, perception trumps reality, in this case.
China knows this, and they will keep stealing at will because our govt, and by extension us, have no guts.
Agreed. We live in a world where grifters and frauds are our leaders, and the naturally talented and smart are shunned.
This regulated internet is so much fun. Much better than 10 years ago when we had virtually unlimited freedom from govt oversight.
The "wealth effect" has a ways to go yet. The 1.9 trillion Biden bucks will take a while to filter through the financial system, so bitcoin will hold on for a while. Dogecoin, on the other hand, is a crap show.
Down is up right now, nothing seems to make sense.
If a company is in trouble, they slash dividends or temporarily cancel them.
A quarter billion handout is a subsidy and plain taxpayer theft.
If a company can't raise money through bonds or product or whatever, they need to be put down like a rabid dog.
At this point in the show, what data don't the authorities have on us?
When someone invests their life savings (money they have saved from their entire working career) in a scheme that promises 45% annual return, and then loses all their ?, it is they that should go to jail for being an absolute stupid idiot.
This is true, of course.
Mockery and ridicule are our best defense, at this point.
Mockery and ridicule are like snakes in the brain for the easily controlled left. They can't take criticism, it makes them go off the rails every single time.
Weaponize mockery and ridicule, use it often, practice every waking minute.