Cost of living is going to raised artificially high. There is a global movement to phase out natural gas boilers for electric ones. This will drive up electric consumption massively, and heating bills in the UK have already become ridiculous from this sort of policy.
Meanwhile the third world won’t follow these rules, and will advance economically.
In fairness, it’s a different disease. Measles for example can have epidemic outbreaks with 90% vaccination. With covid, there’s very little long term data. I expect this goal posts to be moved in a few months.
This is the give phase in the give and take. We’ll be locking back down in the fall I imagine.
They’ll say the science has changed, new variant, new data, and if we get this last 10% then we can all have our rights back
Additionally, Ontario is the trial state for a lot of this.
There are technical reasons that lots of betas / new software get tried out in Toronto first (such as Google street labs, which got canned). It’s a first world, large city, with broad demographics. So from a corporate perspective, it serves as a great litmus test to see how different things demoed there will be received in other markets.
I think this is why Ontario has been the tip of the spear as far as policy goes. See what they can get away with, then roll out to other provinces.
The official reasoning for this, is likely that 70% is the threshold for herd immunity, though in the US that was supposed to be natural infection + vaccination. The other aspect is that the threshold isn’t actually established yet - so when strains break through or people keep getting infected, they’ll raise the percentage and say that it’s due to “new science”.
Secondly, while there are some cases of children transmitting the virus, there’s a decent bit of evidence that it doesn’t spread as well in children, especially younger children. Something to do with T cells and the thalamus.
So there’s an argument to be made that vaccinating children isn’t going to have a big impact on reducing spread. The other element is that children are the lowest risk group for infection, and so distribution should focus on inoculating adults as they are more likely to have negative outcomes.
The third factor is that if our demographics are like America, we’ll see voluntary vaccination heavily taper off around the 65% mark. That’s about the percentage that want it. So if you tie full rights to 70%, you have to get a good chunk of the people who don’t want it to take the shot.
This is part of the reason they’re saying “be social, tell people you’ve gotten it, if you know somebody who is hesitant get them to talk to a friend who had it”. The aim is to put social pressure on those who don’t want it to get it, that the vaccine is our “ticket to freedom” (expect to hear this phrase more). Of course, once more of the “hesitant” people get it, their will be greater social pressure among those people to give in and get it too.
Don’t even need to read the article. It’s always systemic racism. It can never be medical differences between the races.
The role of vitamin D is called fake news by our health minister. However, there is plenty of evidence that black people in North America are vitamin D deficient. This is mechanistically shown through melanins role in vitamin D, and there are also environmental factors like HCFS consumption.
Additionally, here in Alberta, virtually every black person (seemingly mostly Muslims) is covered head to toe when they are outside. Sometimes they’re even wearing gloves. The people who most need sunlight exposure are not getting it.
Interesting this is all tied to adult vaccination rates. In the US it’s petering off in the 60% range. So they’ve made these goalposts such that they’re beyond the people who want to get vaccinated
Hinshaw wouldn’t give actual numbers yesterday about how many empty vaccination slots we have, or why people in their sixties aren’t taking up doses more
The main reason is that if you find out that you are positive, you alert other people you’ve been around, so that they then also isolate and help “stop the spread”.
If we had access to early interventions like HCQ or ivermectin, then it would be a different story. You, and close exposure contacts would preemptively start using the drugs to improve odds of a positive outcome.
We should be a lot more concerned over chinas ability to attack via hacking than their military. They’ve been playing the long game for a while with advanced persistent threats. If they remotely take out our power grid, hospitals, and other infrastructure we’re in real trouble.
If this is the case, and our leaders know it, we need expensive, slow, infrastructure replacement, and until that’s done our hands are tied.
Cheap credit for short term approval. Most businesses haven’t folded, most individuals haven’t gone bankrupt.
We don’t have full vaccination, but by deviating from the manufacturer recommendations to get as many first doses as possible, people have a sense that they’re getting something for themselves.
The majority of media is favorable for Trudeau. Most people don’t understand the WE scandal, or SNC lavalin, or JWR scandal. They have legal weed, and quite frankly Trudeau is better at appealing to a young millennial audience. He has the nicest hair. He has a carbon tax - and most people don’t realize it’s functionally a wealth redistribution tax.
The majority don’t look too deeply at anything besides headlines and surface level coverage. Most people aren’t reading the national post. More people than ever get their information from the national subreddit.
The reality is that gibs buys votes.
It’s a 4:1 ratio of adverse effects with respect to women and men, according to the official numbers from the Canadian government
Which vaccine did she get?
I genuinely believe that masks are cutting off oxygen and making it worse. The masked drivers don’t seem to be paying as much attention
But maybe they were just deficient to begin with
Every peer I have with kids, had them by accident. I have one friend who is 30 who wants kids, and his 27 year old live in girlfriend just wants to make money, travel, and be in an open relationship.
At this point I’m planning on joining a church somewhere when things open up. I don’t belong to any sort of community anymore, and it seems like one of the last venues where I could meet someone who wants a meaningful relationship, family, and wants to commit to it
Lots of these people saw what their divorced parents went through
Canada helped develop it. This was the vaccine Trudeau was pushing for, and the reason why we were late to sign on for other vaccines.
Then astrozeneca gets to charge profit for their shots
The irony of this is that when we take someone into Canada, their carbon dioxide footprint increase 10x
Well, they’re tracking the number of doses administered, and they track the percentage of people who have one and two doses.
lol Manitoba can’t have outdoor gatherings. TrUsT tHe ScIeNcE
It’s going to cost you around 3k in hotels and flights (including quarantine hotel) but you can fly to Texas, get the J&J shot there, and fly back to Canada, quarantine, and you’re good to go. One and done, adenovirus based.
There’s 300k J&J in Canada, but the shots won’t be released for at least a few more weeks, and they’re only for 30+. So you’d still have to find a pharmacy willing to break the rules (not impossible, this was happening with AZ for a while) and give it to you.
They may have all been 15+ and we don’t know if they were eaten
The rate of transfer in a vaccinated infected person is supposedly much less than an unvaccinated infected person (according to them)
But I also have known a number of people who had mild cases, had symptoms, and everybody they were around who went and got tested, didn’t end up getting sick.
Jesus Christ... this is right up there with Patty Hadju calling vitamin D fake news