If 70% of the tests are false positives, that would shrink the denominator (cases) by 70% and therefore increase the case fatality rate of SARS-CoV-2 by 233%. Which would mean the virus is more lethal. I don't believe SARS-CoV-2 is very lethal.
I think it's far more likely that infections are far more prevalent than the actual confirmed cases and that this is a fairly weak virus for the vast majority of the population. While there are a lot of neurotic lunatics going to get tested, there are a lot of people with mild to no symptoms who refuse to get tested as well.
A PCR test run at 40x may catch old dead virus of people who were infected at some point. But it's not going to catch influenza (completely different virus class) or the cold (only 15% of colds are caused by coronaviruses. And the PCR test looks for a very specific genetic sequence unique to SARS-CoV-2, not all members of the CoV family). But beyond that, I'm pretty confident that this is fairly widespread just like the flu and cold used to be before they mostly disappeared off the face of the earth. Viruses compete with each other for hosts. It's normal for a dominant strain to win out over the others. Just like when a black person has a baby with a white person, the dominant black genes are more prominent in the phenotype.
The all-cause mortality data from Statscan in Ontario and Quebec shows that there was a significant spike in all-cause mortality in April and May. In one week in April there was a +24% increase in all-cause deaths year-to-year. So there is reason to believe there is a virulent bug going around. It's just not the Spanish Flu that the media makes it out to be. And this virus is only really potent for a minority of elderly and immuno-compromised people. Even most 90+ year olds won't need to go to the hospital. But it's potent enough to make a noticeable difference in the all-cause mortality stats and the ICU and acute care admissions.
I understand the anti-lockdowner instinct towards testing because positive tests are used as a justification to lockdown by the media, "the science" and government. But the truth is SARS-CoV-2 is circulating in society. It's just not as potent as the media, "the science" and government make it out to be.
The Government of Canada forced Canada Post to stop distributing Your Ward News (James Sears' paper) in The Beaches neighbourhood in Toronto. So I'm surprised that they actually went as far as suspending employees for not delivering the Epoch Times. Considering that Falun Gong are considered by the left to be a hate group.
In fact James Sears was sentenced to one year (6 months each) for 2 counts of willful incitement of racial hatred. He's out on bail and is appealing the case.
It's amusing to me that people in Rural Saskatchewan where the low density makes it hard for respiratory viruses to transmit are so terrified of this virus and just want to live the rest of their lives at home. lmao. It's my community that is a COVID hotspot. Not these rural towns. With this hype about the South African strain being resistant to the vaccine, our politicians are never going to lift these lockdowns. Or they are going to do lockdowns every fall and winter. This is the world we live in now because people are scared bitches.
We build homeless shelters. We give them free food. We give them free healthcare. We finance programs to get them of the streets, but yeah, we don't give a shit about them because you said it.
If we meaningfully helped homeless people, then why are they still homeless? lmao.
Rural areas receives more in provincial and federal funding than it contributes. Rural areas depend on the urban areas financially. When our country implodes financially, it will impact the funding rural areas get. By choosing to cater to a small minority of the population (the minority of geriatrics who are impacted by COVID), society is going to get culturally enriched by other minorities who feel aggrieved. Society choosing which minorities to cater to over the majority is ridiculous. In this instance, society is choosing to cater to a small portion of old people at the expense of the young. Society didn't seem to give a shit when other minorities (homeless people are a minority in society which is suffering substantially for one. The life expectancy for homeless people is like 50) were getting fucked. But we roll out the red carpet for old geezers.
The only scared one here is you, because you are failing. Failing at life.
When Canada goes to shit due to these massive debts funding the lockdowns and the coming austerity, you'll be on the street unemployed in rural Saskatchewan sucking indigenous cock for cash to survive.
There are literally people opening up restaurants in lockdown zones and not a single thing of what you're saying is happening. These people are fighting. They are trying to get around the hurdle.
They literally arrested Adam Skelly from Adamson BBQ. What do you think would happen if he resisted arrest? They would have did him like they did George Floyd.
And none of this happens in Canada. It happens only in your head. You make up excuses, like you did your whole life.
If you don't pay the fines, the government will attempt to seize your assets to pay for the fines. And if you resist allowing the government to seize your assets, they will shoot you.
No, you are soft because you can't adapt and overcome a single hurdle in your life.
Says the scared little bitch that wants society to shut down to protect your geriatric parents.
Good luck getting culturally enriched by Tyrone, Jamal and Muhammad when Canada's economy goes straight to shit blowing your wad at fighting this "pandemic" and we end up with massive unemployment. It'll be open season for criminals.
Let's see how hot shit you think you are when you have a gun to your head forced to suck a nigga dick for Black Lives Matter.
When the government can fine you for breaking the rules and then attempt to seize your assets if you refuse to pay the fines and then shoot you if you resist letting the government seize your assets, then yes it is the government that is stopping people.
Your ancestors worked 18 hours on fields to sustain their families. For thousands of years every generation went to war. For thousands of years every generation was plagued by poverty and diseases. This is life. What you want is easy mode. That everything is served to you on a silver platter. There are still people dating and finding new partners, there are still people socializing. They adapt, you don't. And that's why you will die with no one to remember you.
So we are soft for wanting to live our lives but not the 85 year old whiny geriatrics who want society to shut down for them?
Are you dying right now? Will the lockdown enacted by Ford kill you? What you are sacrificing is your time and money, but not your life.
And all these scenarios you make up in your head like women having difficulties finding partners and so on are just bullshit. There could be a pandemic with a 99% chance of death and men would still jump over fences for pussy.
There is more to life than eating, drinking, pissing, shitting. This is not living. This is mere biological sustenance. Forcing house arrest onto people isn't living. Plunging young people into poverty and austerity to save a bunch of geezers is not living. Look at Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
I hope that a bunch of black and Muslim goons culturally enrich these pro-lockdown Canadian cucks for years to come for destroying the quality of our lives.
I wonder if you would make the same arguments if Covid had the same characteristics as the Spanish Flu. If Covid was dangerous for the healthy 20 to 40 year olds.
Even if this was aerosolized Ebola, I'd rather risk my life to pursue happiness than "live" socially isolated inside. And that's my motherfucking God damn individual human right. If people want to be scared and stay home, they can go do that.
How have all the Muslims and blacks not rioted in Montreal yet?
Even white boys are chimping out in Holland right now. Probably in France and Italy too.
Wage cucking is a scam. Why contribute to a society that fucking hates you and just wants to exploit your labour while forcing you to stay on house arrest just so that only 0.04% of society dies from some virulent virus instead of like 0.2% of society. ?
Oh and we're not being sacrificed to save the tiny minority of the population that actually dies from COVID-19? Think about the young single woman in her early 30s who wants to date and start a family. She is losing a year+ of her prime reproductive years in finding a mate due to these lockdowns. People are losing their jobs. Businesses are going under. People are being socially isolated. It's not mentally healthy to be a shut-in. Why do the rights of a small minority trump my rights? If you're old or immuno-compromised, stay home as much as you possibly can. Why do you gotta force everyone to stay home? Canada is what happens when the pendulum of society swings too much into "collectivism" over individualism. And "collectivism" really just means that some individuals (the small minority who die from COVID-19) matter more than others. Which is why I'm quite cynical of "collectivism" and accusations of selfishness. I'm selfish for wanting to go date and enjoy my life. But these people are not selfish for wanting the world to stop for them?
Future generations are going to be paying a huge price for these lockdowns with inflation and/or austerity as well because of these lockdowns. But somehow the small minority of people who die with COVID-19 matter more than our young? The old should eat the young?
You're asking people to abandon their parents. To put the state and the economy before family. This change in culture would be the change that leads to communism.
How would that be putting the state before family? They are literally using the force of the state to force us to stay at home because they're afraid that if we allow social gatherings and non-essential trips that their parents/grandparents are going to be far more likely to catch the virus and die.
They want to hold society hostage for selfish reasons. I'm not forcing anyone at gun point to go outside. If you want to voluntarily stay inside, reduce your economic activity and hurt the economy, so be it, Jedi. They are forcing me at gunpoint to stay at home.
Economy is not some detached thing. Lives depend on the economy.
Reddit is filled with demoralized people who just want to collect free money and not work.
The economy even before the pandemic was dog shit. Us young folk are rightfully demoralized. Though it would make more sense for the Canadian government to encourage domestic entrepreneurship and hiring Canadian labour. And providing a disincentive to investing in foreign assets, hiring abroad, and real estate speculation. A lot of foreign capital is driving the housing bubble as well. We're also displacing our youth with cheap foreign labour via mass immigration.
The Tories have never bothered to reach out to millennials and zoomers. They just tell them "fuck you, got mine, pull yourself up by your bootstraps millennials and zoomers even though we shipped your opportunities to China and abroad. Go overdose on fentanyl or kill yourself if you don't like it. We're going to have our premiers lock you down as well and kill you even harder. Oh wait what's this demoralized incel doing running over 26 people with a van? shocked pikachu face" So no shit when you have Liberals offering young people free shit, they are going to take it when the alternative is Tories say "fuck you, got mine."
If you got yours and your mentality is "fuck you, got mine", good for you. But there are a lot of millennials and zoomers who haven't seen theirs yet. And they are going to vote to take from you if our politicians don't fix our broken economy. That's what Tories fail to understand about why they keep getting blacked by black face Trudeau east of Manitoba and in coastal BC.
Hey, I agree with what you're saying but screaming "it's just a bunch of 90 year old grandmas and grandpas that die of Covid, who cares" doesn't win elections.
Hence why I stated in my OP that the problem is cultural. The solution is not going to come from the Conservative Party or the PPC or anything like that. You have to change the culture. We live in a nanny state culture.
A 93 year old relative of mine (by marriage) with Alzheimer's Disease died in a nursing home with COVID-19. My first thought was "the pneumonia put him out of his misery. He wasn't at peace living with Alzheimer's Disease." Even though it's not politically correct to think that way, Alzheimer's Disease is a really bad disease to live with day-to-day. A grandfather of mine lived with Alzheimer's Disease for over a decade before he died.
At the end of the day, 0.0408% of Ontario died with COVID-19. Even in hard-hit Belgium which tops the death charts it's 0.1802%. Our society is making a mountain out of a mole hill. And passing on a massive debt to our future generations over this shit.
I don't know how to reach the doomers and get them to think rationally about the situation. That's the core problem here. They are driven entirely by emotion (primarily fear). This is why my autistic ass with my math could never be a politician. How do we get people to stop freaking the fuck out? Every death is a tragedy. But when people want to take away my civil liberties to extend their lifespan or that of their parents/grandparents, that's where they are crossing the line.
Yassin himself is a Syrian refugee. Meaning his family arrived here less than 6 years ago. It wouldn't surprise me if his parents never bothered to learn English. Just take a job at Paramount Fine Foods, do business only at Arab establishments and you can earn a pay cheque and pay taxes knowing just Arabic.
If you commit suicide as a Muslim, aren't you going to hell? If there even is a hell in Islam.
It would make sense that the family would want to keep this hush-hush and wouldn't want an autopsy.
To be fair, the family doesn't owe society an autopsy or an explanation unless they killed the man themselves. It just pisses me off that the government is marking him down as a COVID death and the media is politicizing his death.
There isn't a conspiracy. If you have had conversations with Canadians in RL, you would know that this country is full of a bunch of scared cucks who are begging for the government to protect them from this virus. Every single member of my family is a scared cuck. Except for my crazy conspiracy theorist uncle. I'm sure my family thinks I'm the new generation of crazy conspiracy theorist uncle of this family.
Canadians have willingly decided to trade away liberty for safety in the worst possible way. Anyone who lives in a society has had to agree to trade away some individual liberty for safety. But we have swung the pendulum way too far into the safety direction in our society.
Canada has a nanny state culture. Instead of people making the personal decision to stay home as much as possible, they want to force other people to stay home so that they feel protected. My dad is terrified just to go to a grocery store, to a dentist office, to his optometrist's office. Fear cuts off the part of the brain that allows you to think rationally. Just like how people on the far-right have an immediate fear response imagining a vascular black man (or a vascular black penis) within a 6 feet radius of their daughter, people who are terrified of the virus have that same response when you're within 6 feet of their personal space. A vascular black penis to a far-right guy or the virus to someone terrified of it is like witnessing a Lion in the jungle staring at you. Fight or flight response activated. Remember when liberals would joke that conservatives are ruled by fear and have over-active amygdalas? Well liberals have over-active amgydalas when it comes to pandemic influenzas and coronviruses.
Canada doesn't have a top-down problem. Canada has a cultural problem. Politics is downstream of culture - Andrew Breitbart. Getting rid of Justin Trudeau, Doug Ford doesn't solve the problem. Some other cuck will just bend the knee to what our culture demands of them.
No I don't think Toronto is 84% non-white. Not even Peel Region is that non-white. Peel is 63.2% non-white. Toronto is definitely whiter than Peel, especially Brampton.
In Peel Region South Asians are 31.6% of the population but make up 58.7% of the cases. And whites make up 36.8% of the population but only 12% of the cases.
https://www.peelregion.ca/coronavirus/case-status/
The covid disparity is because wypipo are more likely to have work from home jobs. And brown people are more likely to be essential workers.
I'm not sure what Jagmeet is trying to say. Is he suggesting that brown people should be given quotas for work from home jobs and more wypipo should be given essential worker jobs?
The irony is that if we didn't have mass immigration of brown serfs into Canada, more white people would be essential workers and there might actually be more white people hospitalized and dying from COVID. And Jagmeet would then be happy at seeing all the dead white people.
Oh so this is brown on brown? lmao. Why am I not surprised. How is it racism though? Ramesh Sangha is also Indian and he's also a Sikh too! He's just not an extremist piece of shit. I commend Mr. Sangha for calling out the extremists within the Sikh community.
Yeah something seemed fishy about that situation. Yassin looks like a perfectly healthy 19 year old man. I wouldn't expect him to die from COVID. His problem appeared to be mental health.
This virus has an elevated mortality rate if you are 65+ or immuno-compromised. This is clear from the all-cause mortality data and excess mortality data released by statscan. But if you are a young and healthy 19 year old guy, it's like having the flu or a cold.
So if they see COVID-infected shit being flushed from your house the government will have the police raid you and take you to a quarantine camp.
The people who are really getting screwed are women in their early thirties who are single but want a family. The government is taking away their last few fertile years all so some half-demented geezer in the nursing home can have a slight extension on their life.
And you never hear single women in their 30s speak out against these lockdowns. They are silently suffering. Because they fear the reprisal of doing so. Being called selfish, possibly doxxed and fired for being anti-lockdown.
I'm happy that the white man is chimping out against these lockdowns at least somewhere on this planet.
The white Canadian man is a very docile submissive creature to authority.
24% year to year in that particular week is not the same as up 24% from the previous week. And it wasn't just that one week that saw a significant year-to-year spike. It was all of April-June that saw significant year-to-year spikes. The statistics are available on https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1310081001. They have all-cause statistics and breakdowns on specific causes of death statscan.
Here is some Excel data for weekly all-cause mortality from January-June 2018-2020 in Ontario.
You look at dat increase in all-cause deaths from April-June 2019 to April-June 2020 year-to-year and you tell me there isn't a virulent bug going around. When April-June 2020 was when the COVID deaths were coming in. https://i.imgur.com/N9eg7Dl.png
This bug is definitely more potent for elderly and immuno-compromised people. It's just not what the media makes it out to be. The media has my dad (72) believing that his immune system is going to over-react to this virus and kill him. Even though the CFR% for his age group (70-79) in Peel is 4%. And the IFR% is undoubtedly lower than that. And it has dropped significantly compared to the days when we barely did any testing. From Sept 23 2020-Jan 22 2021 (when we were doing lots of testing), the CFR% for his age group was only 1.82% during that period. The hospitalization rate (mostly acute care, very little ICU) was 10.14%.
People with mild to no symptoms often never bother getting tested. So it's dishonest when the media conflates CFR% with IFR% and CHR% with IHR%. I suspect a lot of old people especially never bother to get tested if they have mild symptoms. Because they assume it's just a cold or a flu or allergies. Because they think that COVID has a 100% hospitalization rate for old people because they get their information from the liberal mainstream media. They don't download .csvs from Ontario.ca and statscan and create pivot tables with rolling averages and charts like an autist such as myself.