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Wonderdunce, who was hailed as a social justice hero for not following Trump's lead and banning flights from China, just banned flights from India and Pakistan. Trump figured this one out in the first month of the pandemic, it took Trudeau 16x as long. Will CTV let people call Trudeau a racist on their national news coverage now? Doubt it.

Seems from TV stories? Certainly not from the statistics. We have to address the problem straight: if someone in a vulnerable group made an effort to get vaccinated and still did not get it; while it is readily available to someone not in that group, this is a clear fairness issue. It should have been figured out and someone is paid good money exactly to figure out these things, but as becoming a tradition here, in place of working solutions and real results we get scary stories and heartfelt appeals. Plus hectic, poorly substantiated and hardly sustainable imitation of action.

To get it, but not be hospitalized or die. Older people are still multiple times more likely.

Multiple Studies: COVID-19 vaccines are very effective after the first dose. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-vaccine-first-dose-protection-canada-1.6009822

Yep. That’s why I have no use for the Trump haters. They’re almost all hypocrites and liars.

I ran across a video this morning I found pretty interesting. Maybe you would too. How Sure Are Climate Scientists: Degrees of Uncertainty

The fake news never ends. “A Major Black Eye’: CNN’s Stelter Calls Out Washington Post, NY Times, NBC Over Giuliani Retractions.”

No offence, but my knowledge of the political spectrum runs much deeper than current MSM or Marx and Engels. I was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the Chrétien days when they were far more fiscally responsible and unafraid to stand up for independent Canadian public policy. The current Liberals have taken much of the NDP platform to get more votes and they are scared of China and the US. They’re an irresponsible overspending party that is beholden to special interests. I guess they’re claiming to be feminist, but that’s mostly an inauthentic rhetorical device. Also I’m not an ideologue and don’t buy into “isms”, whether on the left or right. Also I fully support equality, as do the vast majority of Canadians. I don’t support schemes to take money from those who earn it and give it to those who don’t who are deemed more deserving by a committee. That’s where we’re headed under current leadership.

Quite simply put the right hasn't offered up any suitable alternatives. Would love to vote out Trudeau alas you fools keep putting up idiots like scheer and otoole.

BLM's regional chapters are all independent and don't answer to a central authority. But, the founders of the Movement For Black Lives: Patrice Cullours, Alecia Garza and..........I'm forgetting the third now, have had generous corporate and foundation grants dumped over them, and no doubt the donors intended for them to reign in radicals all across America and just run a more limited operation, doing protests and marches and maybe making up a DSA committee or something. But, with everything going on, nobody can control what's going to happen on the streets, and that makes a lot of businessmen who want wave BLM banners and claim a show of support nervous, because they want a nice, respectable BLM movement that won't break windows, throw stuff at CNN reporters and cameras etc..

No doubt...Canadian federal and provincial governments do not want to open that Pandora's box any further. Most of British Columbia was never ceded at all as "Crown land". Keeping the focus on the American narrative buys more time and insulates Canada from the much more dynamic factors at play in the U.S. Canada never had equivalent civil rights conflicts, but it has had labour unrest (riots). The impact of American culture is obvious...I recall watching one arrested Canadian demanding his nonexistent "Miranda rights", something he learned from watching so much American television and films.

Whatever we want to say about Trudeau, it's a fact that he came to power in 2015. Before him there were several governments, both Liberal and Conservative and nothing real was done to address this problem. The facts simply do not support the statement that this is a partisan problem. This is a Canadian problem and a global one as well. On another send off to the developing world; not that it smacks of hypocrisy, it also does not make much sense logically: if developed countries fail to make real and measurable progress, how likely it would be to happen in poorer countries laced with other problems and challenges? It only means relegation of responsibility and an admission that nothing will be done. And that is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And on the last point, what makes you think that after decades of running from responsibility and pointing fingers, politically and internationally, we would be able to come up with a sound, effective and working mitigation strategy? Who would create such a strategy? Politicians? The bureaucracy, always sound and effective? And should we keep on burning the environment and oilsands while trying to catch up with mitigation? How can one have effective mitigation without effective management of emissions and pollution? Ok that's way more questions than answers.

You've come to Canada, planted your ass on the north-west coast, and expect to limit/dictate/bully everyone who disagrees with your NIMBY ideas. Sorry pal, you're the freak . . . wishing people to die in a plane crash or end up in G-bear sh!t. Get a grip on yourself.