These people vote ladies and gentleman. And they won't hesitate to vote away your civil liberties.
Democracy without a constitution and a justice system upholding and protecting individual civil liberties is really just mob rule. Even in the United States, the alphabet soup agencies and the police routinely take liberties with the Constitution.
I've seen RationalWiki. The guys who run that place are a bunch of liberal cucks. I had a conversation with one of the contributors and he represented the worst elements of modern liberalism.
It amazes me how PSWs and nurses in care homes are made to wear shitty paper surgical masks that do fuck all to stop them from infecting the residents. You don't wear the same mask in a nursing home that you wear to a supermarket. They should at the very least be wearing N95/KN95 respirators in nursing homes.
It's the same in the hospital. Only in the COVID ward maybe you'll see staff wearing proper PPE. In the cancer ward they're wearing the same shitty paper surgical masks.
The vagina bearers are not happy either. I just had a conversation with a liberal woman on reddit who complains that husbands don't pull their own weight around the household in terms of household chores and such. I told her that it's because the men that women want are in short supply and she has to compete with a whole lot of other women for the men she wants. And so the men she wants are going to be cocky because they've got options. If you don't want a loser man who believes in gender equality and most men are losers now, what do you fucking expect?
Women want more than to just be dicked down by Chad. That's why they feel empty inside. So while incels may have nothing and women at least have Chad's dick, they become depressed and suicidal. If women changed places with incels for a day, they would rope or go ER. There's no comparison to an incel's loneliness and rage. But women are still miserable.
My sister is in her mid-40s, never married, no kids and she regrets squandering her fertile years, so I know this demographic well.
Elon Musk got richer because he's benefitting from the transition towards the move away from oil.
Elon Musk has criticizes the COVID restrictions when he's talked to the media. And he's talked about it on Joe Rogan's podcast. Elon Musk and his wife Grimes were hanging out with Joe Rogan, Dave Chapelle, the club owner, etc. maskless with no social distancing at a comedy club and Twitter went crazy.
Unless we have a constitution that guarantees individual civil liberties, the virtue signaling about democracy makes me sick. What is so morally righteous about the majority agreeing on something to the detriment of a minority? I thought SJWs were all about minority rights? ;) SJWs focus too much on identity groups when they talk about minorities rather than focusing on individual rights.
Yeah I agree with Elon. If there was a rational Wikipedia, the COVID-19 pandemic would be under the list of mass hysterias article along with the Salem Witch Trials. Salem, Massachusetts was a democracy too...
87% of the COVID deaths in Ontario are aged 70+. The vast majority of people 70+ are retired. Retired people only really have to go out for groceries and the pharmacy and run the occasional errand while working people expose themselves to the public for 40+ hours/week. Why can't retired people just stay home while everyone else gets on with it? The government can literally put elderly people living in multi-generational households in hotels instead of making young people unemployed and giving them CERB. The government can pay for the elderly's Instacart delivery fees if they're so terrified of going to the supermarket. Even though there is a dedicated hour for seniors in the morning.
Here in Peel Region where cases are out of control compared to the rest of the province, our deaths per capita rate is actually average or slightly above-average at best compared to the rest of Ontario. Multi-generational household spread is a major problem here, the elderly have a higher cases per capita rate than the rest of the province. But the elderly in Peel have significant lower CFR% compared to the elderly in the rest of the province. It's almost like living with your children and grandchildren gives you the will to beat COVID compared to living in a nursing home.
Because Doug Ford has no balls. Politicians care about getting re-elected more than doing the right thing. He is terrified of losing the suburban Karen voter who won him seats in the 905. My older brother for sure is going to vote for Doug Ford again in 2022 because he wants lower taxes. But he's also terrified of the prospect of our dad catching the WuFlu. I literally just described every middle-aged Tory voter in the suburbs. If Doug Ford re-opens and hospitalizations and deaths go back up, the suburban Karens are not going to vote for him again. The Ontario Liberals will try to position themselves as the sensible centrist alternative to the loony NDP and they'll steal the suburban swing vote from Ford.
So, you know what they already have in works before us, before anything even happens.
I predict the variants won't have any real impact in Canada until September. Flu-cold season is winding down.
If the government wanted to cook the books to scare the shit out of us, cases wouldn't be down so drastically from the early January peak. Influenza peaks in January. Coronaviruses probably do too. The virus is behaving how you would expect. Virus gonna virus.
Dr. Eileen de Villa is fearmongering about the variants because she doesn't want to let go of her relevancy. If life went back to normal, we wouldn't listen to her anymore. All these scientists who get invited onto CBC, Global News, CTV News, CP24, etc. to talk wouldn't be getting those steady paycheques anymore for these appearances if we went back to normal.
This bitch is fucking crazy. If these variants are so contagious, why have cases dropped by half in Toronto since early-mid January? Toronto was averaging over 1,000+ cases per day then. Now Toronto is hovering above 500 per day.
Does this bitch know how economics works? Does she think that people are going to stand being locked down for the rest of our lives?
Luckily I don't think the MOH in Toronto has much power. If Doug Ford wants to re-open Toronto in a couple weeks, Toronto is going to re-open.
Most young people don't even vote. Reddit is not representative of most young people. There's also nothing about Stephen Harper or Andrew Scheer's platform that appealed to young Canadians in urban metros. Are the Tories going to do something about the housing crisis? No. Are the Tories going to bring back jobs to Canada? Noooo. So most young people stay home on election day. And the ones who do turn up to vote are the soyboys on reddit who are passionate about SJW shit.
Harper had ten years to sell me and my generation on the Tories and he failed. So I voted for meme candidates in 2015 and 2019. From 2006 to 2015 all I noticed is that housing became far more expensive and that the job market became more competitive for workers because of all the immigrants and visa workers they bring here. And outsourcing of jobs abroad. Just like the trajectory from 1993 to 2006. And the trajectory from 2015 to 2021. It's the same trajectory. 33% of registered voters did not vote in 2019. In the Ontario provincial election 43.33% of registered voters did not vote. Why should young people vote for politicians that ignore our needs? This pandemic especially has highlighted how much our country fucks over young people and bends over backwards for boomers.
Cases have been going down all over the Northern temperate climates, not just the United States. It's literally the weather. Influenza and presumably coronaviruses peak in January in Northern climates. Americans seem to think that everything resolves around their politics. They just put Western Australia into lockdown over 1 case or some shit. And Trump has been gone for awhile. People are just neurotic about communicable disease. bUt cAnCeR Is nOt cOnTaGiOuS! People have been watching too much Contagion and Zombie Apocalypse movies.
It looks like a botched hit job. How do these gangs get their target wrong like that? Can't black people tell each other apart?
wait until the valentine's day commercials. "Young People, Don't Fuck" The past 10.5 months has been middle-aged people and boomers finger wagging at young people for having fun. They're also going to discouraging household mingling on Family Day.
It's true that men 35-54 have a higher disagree rate (with the stay at home order) than Men 18-34 and Men 55+. 68% of them agree with the stay at home order and restrictions, 30% Disagree.
https://www.campaignresearch.com/news-updates
However from my personal experience from what I've seen in RL and on social media some of the biggest pro-lockdown cucks I've seen are middle-aged married men who hasn't lost a paycheque. These type of men are often married to Karens. They tend to be concerned about their aging parents during this pandemic. The doctors, scientists, etc. I see on social media are all middle-aged married cucks who haven't lost a paycheque. I also have a gay friend in his early 50s who is for the lockdowns. He works from home so he hasn't skipped a beat, he knows he's over the hill anyways and gave up trying to get Chad. And he's over the casual sex thing.
I think the Men 35-54 who hit disagree tend to be single (it's a terrible time to be single now. Shit is closed, neighbors snitch on you for having social gatherings, women are neurotic about the virus, .etc) or unhappily married (lots of divorces during the pandemic), tend to have lost their job during the pandemic or lost their business. The confirmed bachelor conspiracy theory Uncle on Facebook is usually a male 35-54. So it doesn't shock me that the male 35-54 category has the most disagrees.
What's going to stop wealthy Canadians from investing their money into foreign assets or the housing bubble? Just simply lowering taxes isn't going to lead to more domestic job creation and more housing supply. The value of homes are increasingly far more than the actual supply of housing because the government refuses to open up the green belt and we keep importing shit loads of immigrants. If you go on Google maps and zoom out from the concrete jungles of Toronto, Peel, Halton, York, Durham, you will find a ton of green.
Here is an example of how trickle down economics is bullshit. Let's say you want to invest in bitcoin. Most of your money ends up in the hands of CCP Chink miners. China has cheap electricity. Miners use their comptuers and electricity to mine crypto-currencies. They sell these crypto-currencies for money. And then eventually ends up selling you those crypto-currencies that were mined by CCP Chinks.
It's literally been 10.5 months and the internet was screaming at young people for having social gatherings during the summer. If they can't give people a break in the summer, it's literally never going to end.
The government eased restrictions in May-August last year. But even when those restrictions were eased, the finger wagging by the mainstream media and on social media continued.
Bankrupting the country is essential for the next step.
Oh yes the "Great Reset".
Ultimatley, you still believe our representatives have our best interests at heart and are doinf the best they can with the hand they've been dealt. That's not the case.
I didn't say that. Our representatives care first and foremost about getting re-elected. And to do that in Ontario and probably in your Quebec too you have to win the suburbs. Who is the typical suburban voter? 40-50 year old married homeowner who is terrified of their parents catching the WuFlu and doesn't appear to mind the staycation for now. Most people are T4 wagecucks and don't own a small business that's getting destroyed by the lockdowns. Fucking 77% of men 18-34 in Ontario polled being for the stay at home order. Probably because a growing number of young men are incels with no life who are content to just stay home and watch Netflix, play video games, eat UberEats, jerk off to OnlyFans and blacked, etc. while collecting a $1800/month direct deposit from the government. The irony is that women 18-34 are slightly more opposed to lockdowns than young men according to the polls. I bet you the 17% of women 18-34 who disagree with the stay at home order all want to ride that Chad and Tyrone cock carousel in their prime. But middle-aged women (35-54) are more supportive of lockdowns than middle-aged men because they've already been ran threw or they married a beta or something and have become resigned to staying at home and watching Netflix and ordering UberEats with hubby.
You have no understanding of history.
And you don't have any understanding of macro-economics. Running a huge deficit is a political risk for Trudeau and other politicians. It's not something to take lightly. Huge deficits are going to result in a lot of austerity and/or inflation in the future. It's a huge gamble politically. Trudeau, Ford, Legault, etc. did what they did because they felt their hand was forced from public pressure. Trudeau was afraid that the opposing parties would bring down his minority government if he didn't roll out the CERB/CRB/CEBA/EI expansions or put in place the travel restrictions. Ford, Legault, Pallister, Kenney, etc. were afraid they would lose in the next provincial election if they didn't lock down.
There is no scam. Canadians are authoritarian cucks who don't want to come to terms with their parents'/grandparents' mortality or even their own mortality for that matter and they want the world to stop for them. We live in a nanny state culture. Canada is not a libertarian society. In the face of a public health emergency, instead of doing whatever it takes to protect their parents/grandparents or protect themselves, they'd rather the government force other people at gunpoint to stay home. Instead of obese diabetics (who are at risk from COVID) taking personal responsibility for their own health and lose weight and lower their blood pressure, they want the government to force people at gunpoint to stay home.
It's tempting to just blame it on the government because you think the problem goes away if the people violently overthrow the government. But no the problem is the cucks around you. And they vote. Look at how they just gave a majority to the NDP in BC. We are outnumbered. We are losing the culture war. And you don't want to come to terms with that. Even in small town, rural Ontario the people there freak out about COVID. It's just more pronounced here in the suburbs, the land of the Karens. If you had actual conversations with 40 year olds, 50 year olds in your neighbourhood, you'd find a lot of them are scared for their parents right now. And they don't give any fucks about (you) and your civil liberties. This is a fuck you, got mine society. People care more about themselves or their parents/grandparents than they care about (you). Until people get sick of the staycation, things are not going to change.
It's fucking retarded to have the old eat the young. If your own parents/grandparents care more about their self-preservation than your future, then they're not worth trying to save IMO. But this is the world we live in. I think in the future the people who are negatively impacted by these lockdowns are going to come to resent their parents/grandparents. Old people and their children/grandchildren fearing their mortality expecting the world to stop for them is the height of selfishness. Yet people are called selfish for wanting to have human touch. Our culture is diseased and our priorities are warped.
And it's normal for the mainstream media to keep fearmongering about COVID. Fear = ratings. If Swine Flu or SARS ever took off, they would be doing the same shit they're doing now.
The Salem Witch Trials were a democracy, not a government conspiracy. Democracy doesn't always mean respecting individual liberty. Democracy often leads to mob rule. And that's what we are seeing with the pandemic. The core problem with Canada is the disregard that the citizens have for civil liberties. The citizens cheer when the government forces people into quarantine camps ffs. Canada is an example of what happens when you have a democracy without an iron-clad Constitution that protects individual rights. The basis of the United States Constitution was to protect the individual from mob rule. And even then the US Constitution is slowly being burned.
So you believe that covid is so ubiquitous that nearly the whole population is carrying it and therefore cannot contract influenza?
I wouldn't say nearly the whole population is carrying SARS-CoV-2 but there's no way that only 2.1% of Canadians have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. That number is way higher. It's just that most people with mild symptoms never bother to get tested. And asymptomatic people have no clue they have it unless they go get tested because they know they've been "exposed" to someone who did test positive.
Would that not imply, seeing as most are seemingly healthy, that covid is then not dangerous at all to the vast majority of the population?
It's statistical fact that SARS-CoV-2 is mild to asymptomatic for 95+% of the population. The case hospitalization rate in Ontario is 5%, the case fatality rate is 2.3%. And since May 24th when Ontario broadened the testing criteria, the hospitalization rate has been 4.2%, the ICU admission rate 0.7%, the fatality rate 1.8%. Before broadening the testing criteria on May 24th the hospitalization rate was 12.7%, ICU 2.8%, fatality rate 8.1%.
And there's a ton of people who have the virus who never got tested so the hospitalization and death rates are even lower than that. I suspect it's more like 99+% mild or asymptomatic but there is no way to know that unless the government ships every person an antibody testing kit and makes it mandatory to upload your results to the government every 14 days. But we don't live in that kind of police state... yet.
Would it not make more sense that influenza has been rebranded and continues to spread and like all years, is fatal to a select few? Could it not be possible that to make covid appear far more deadly and to justify further power grabs, that influenza infections and deaths are being added to this "novel" disease?
As for your theory, any results posted from 2018 or prior in mainstream media confirm that coinfection is common.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/well/live/can-you-get-two-colds-at-once.html
Even with COVID-19, medical journals confirm coinfection is documented.
Back in the summer scientists including Fauci were warning about the possibility of flu and COVID-19 co-infection. So why on earth would the government be motivated to hide flu positive tests from the population when they were fearmongering about possible co-infections?
Do the two cold viruses you can get at the same time have around the same R0 value (basic reproduction number) though? SARS-CoV-2 has a much higher R0 value than seasonal influenza. Viruses with higher R0 values have a competitive advantage for resources (host cells).
The government would not deliberately destroy the economy for muh power or shit and giggles. Politicians are locking down because this is what the public wants. Canadians are the furthest thing from libertarians. We have a Nanny State culture in Canada. Even the USA has a nanny state culture in blue and purple states. Trump downplayed the virus and Trump lost many of the purple suburban swing voters. Polls are overwhelmingly in favor of the stay at home orders here in Ontario. BC just re-elected the NDP in late October.
The challenge that we are facing is a culture war against individual liberty. Our society is shifting too far into the direction of collectivism. In the old days people were able to accept that old people were going to die. But now we have a culture where people don't want to come to terms with their parents' mortality and we want to play God. What we have in society is not a science problem, what we have is a philosophical, moral problem. Our society decided to prioritize the old over the young, to have the old eat the young.
Go out there and have conversations with people in RL about lockdowns. Maybe in your bubble most people don't support lockdowns. But I know friends and family in RL who support lockdowns. I live in the suburbs. Maybe you live in some small town or rural area in Quebec where it's different. But the suburbs here are full of Karens who are terrified of the prospect of their parents dying from COVID. And in the urban metropolitan areas like mine (Toronto) we get a ton of seats in the legislature. Libertarianism is an alien ideology in Canada. We have a culture where people turn to the government to solve their problems. In the midst of a public health emergency, instead of doing whatever it takes to keep their parents safe or themselves safe if they themselves are scared, they want to have the government force other people by gunpoint to stay home so that they feel safe. Instead of obese diabetic people losing some weight and eating right to lower their blood sugar, they want the government to force other people to stay home to keep them safe.
Most Ontarians polled being for the stay at home order and restrictions. We deserve this cultural enrichment. I'm surprised it isn't happening even more tbh.
Yeah with bitcoin's mempool being crowded with a bunch of transactions these days and the transaction fee to get confirmed being like $6-9 US, doing micro-transactions on-chain isn't feasible anymore. Bitcoin is cheaper than sending a SWIFT wire transfer internationally. Domestic EFT bank transfers within Canada are either free with an online bank or they're included at a cost of $4-5/month with a Big 5 bank. And Visa/Mastercard fees for merchants are cheaper for merchants except for very large purchases. But beyond that, bitcoin is not very useful anymore. And the same can be said for ethereum these days with it costing $5 to confirm a regular transaction in 12 minutes. If you want to execute a smart contract, it can cost considerably more than that. These cryptos can't scale on-chain unless they increase the block size.
Bitcoin and ethereum fees are expensive. They should accept litecoin or something of that nature. It costs $5 USD just to ensure that an ethereum transaction gets confirmed. A litecoin transaction fee is like a few cents or less.
Republicans have often shit all over civil liberties as well. See: Government surveillance after 9/11. See: Civil forfeiture. If a cop suspects you of selling drugs with no evidence, they'll just take your cash and use it to buy stuff for the police department. I've known people who have been arrested by alphabet soup agencies for selling crypto-currency for cash without a MSB loicense.
Politicians on both sides have long set fire to the US Constitution. Don't get me started on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. And even if what the federal and provincial governemnts is doing isn't justified by the Charter (there is a provision there about reasonable limits or some shit), the judges do whatever the feel like here. You can claim a medical mask exemption (and the by-law says you don't have to provide evidence) and the police will arrest you anyways in Ontario. And the judges will probably back up the cops.