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the vindictive totalitarian assholes will get around to that eventually their hatred and fear is all gas and no breaks they scapegoat anyone to deflect blame from the Soviet Bread Line Health Care it's never the governments fault, just the people they fear and loathe no amount of reasoning with them will change their minds

I will simply say I am against government surveillance through cell phones, internet, computer, social media, or any other electronic means. Once it is established there would be no limit to how far big brother would go.

From a study from July 2021 by John P. A. Ionnidis: Your chances of dying from Covid if you are infected with it, in the following age groups is: 0-19 = 0.0027% 20-29 = 0.014% 30-39 = 0.031% 40-49 = 0.082% 50-59 = 0.27% 60-69 = 0.59% Over 70 = 2.4% IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) is: 0.15% which accommodates for over or undercounting of overall deaths (but they are most likely OVER counted.) IFR of seasonal influenza is currently: 0.1% In fairness, Dr. Ionnidis is opposed to prolonged lockdowns. But I think you can see why.

China has always had much higher tariffs on American products than vice versa Trump simply returned the favor, and the Chinese still had higher tariffs, even so China started the trade war, America simply took decades to retaliate, and not even proportionately when they finally did if you think China is the pro-free trade country of the two, you couldn't be more wrong they are vastly more protectionist than America quit projecting your own ignorance on me

Obesity is responsible for 1 death in every 10 deaths, and beats covid by a long shot in regards to dying. 1 out of every 4 Canadians are considered obese. It does tax our health system, to the tune of 9 bil a year in 2021. It is a life choice one has to make, it can be that can be turned around by good diet and exercise, But one must decide to take action. Obesity in Canada - Obesity Canada It may not be contagious, but it is a disease, atleast by the medical field. almost 1/2 of our current health care budget. And while we do have a special tax on Tabaco, and booze, we don't tax other poor choices, sky diving, bungie jumping, Sugar, in things like pop candies, chocolate etc, process flour. Do we tax prisoners in jail, One has to ask how much more are we going to punish people who have made a choice, they are forced to stay at home for the most part, alot have been fired from jobs, forced to move provinces, can not collect unemployment, or CERB, or any other benefit now we want to place a tax on them, after the taxing what is the next step, what is it that so call normal Canadians are willing to force upon other Canadians like they were leapers... and at what percentage of the population has to be vaccinated to stop all this bullshit ?. It just keeps getting piled up on, and those that are staying home doing their part sooner or later they are going to stop as well,

It would be more logical to apply this to the 50-80 age group as they represent 68.3% of ICU patients and 50 -80+ represent 75.8% of hospitalizations. If the problem is cost on health care, these are the people. https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html (not in favor)

@Colin Norris Hey Colin, remember when you said that I was a liar for suggesting that the Dems supported rioting? Are you a man or a mouse, Colin? C'mon, squeak up! Is Kamala a Dem? Was the woman who called CHAZ "The Summer of Love" a Dem? ....... crickets

“It is quite obvious to me that you do not believe in rights and freedom and choice at all. Taxing someone in Canada for not being vaccinated is criminal and discrimination and a crime against humanity. It violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian Constitution, the Nuremberg code, and the Canadian Human Rights Commissions charter of rights.” You are absolutely right on this. People haven’t figured out that restrictions are probably permanent. We allowed this to happen by taking our freedoms for granted. New excuses will emerge to impose restrictions. Wake up!

How do you plan for the next variant when you don't know how infectious, vaccine resistant or severe it will be? - Do not allow anyone in the country, evaluate the next variant globally. If the variant is from within, restrict outside zone travel. What do you suggest to support our system that we aren't doing? - Basing our decisions on data, for example the majority of those under 40 years old are low risk, allow every low risk person to determine their own interaction outside their home. Those that are high risk, slowly introduce them into society once the hospitals are at low capacity. Encourage social interactions with those of low risk to those of low risk, allow immunity to build, do not allow time for the virus to mutate drastically. Open the economy. Help those that are high risk, food, resources and assistance. Invest in treatments for COVID, invest in ICU equipment and hospital staff ( specifically covid trained care technicians). What do you suggest? -Create incentives to work in hospitals, create incentives for Canadian companies to shift into medical equipment development, create incentives for training centers around covid hospital care for basic tasks, unloading the professionally trained. Bring back unvaccinated medical staff. Invest in vaccines, ones that are for the next global or local variant. Are you prepared to pay for a huge permanent expansion in health care just to handle once in a lifetime pandemics? - absolutely, but realistically as long as Canadian staff, Canadian companies and Canadian materials are used, the funds will just recirculate back into the economy anyway. Would you have been prepared to pay for it before we ever heard of Covid? - I did and have, and have no issue paying for health care given I have access to it 24/7. In the longer term, focus more on treatment and effective vaccinations, keep the economy and socialization open, both for finical health and for mental health. Fortunately viruses tend to decrease in severity. Everyone is an expert when it comes to hindsight. - sure, but 2 years later things are worse not better. Magic wand do you think governments can wave to fix this tomorrow?- not an expectation, but a plan for say 1 or even 2 years is better than no plan, just react.

French speaking video at the bottom, every time CBC/Radio-Canada and other credible news outlets, from 2010 to now, reported full emergency rooms in Québec. Quebec has the worst ICUs in all of the Western World according to a report. Google translate this article; https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/785058/attente-urgence-delai-quebec-performance-commissaire-sante Quebec emergencies post the worst performance in the Western world The Health and Welfare Commissioner, Robert Salois, gives Quebec a very unenviable record of waiting times in emergency rooms in the province. In a report made public Thursday morning, the commissioner notes that 35% of patients who presented to the emergency room in the past year have waited more than five hours before being treated, while this proportion stands at 15 % in Ontario, 5% in Germany and the United States, and 2% in Switzerland. To correct this problem, the Commissioner made nine recommendations. He suggests, among others; improve front-line access by opening family medicine groups on evenings and weekends, to adjust the number of doctors available when traffic is high, to give more responsibilities to nurses (more details at the bottom of the page). https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/785058/attente-urgence-delai-quebec-performance-commissaire-sante This is a systemic problem, not at the individual level. It is a problem with the healthcare management in general.

My terminology is accurate and I challenge them to prove otherwise. It's not hard to appear more intelligent than most of these.

Yes, if it isn't 100% we ain't takin it. Pray tell, what medication or vaccine is 100%

Did you know that Quebec hospitals were at 300% capacity in certain emergency rooms at this time of the year, every year, since at least 2010?

I don't agree with what Quebec is doing. But Covid is deadly, and vaccinations save lives. If the unvaxed were only endangering themselves, there'd be a lot less concern about them. But they create a situation that allows the virus to overwhelm our health care system. Despite the poor math skills of anti-vax, it remains the unvaxed that are putting pressure on our health care system.

About 3 million Canadians have tested positive for Covid; 30,000 died from it. 29 million people have been vaccinated with 55 million doses administered in total; there have been 194 deaths post-vaccination. But dying after a vaccination does not mean that the vaccination killed someone. Ultimately, Covid hurts a lot more than vaccination.

Preserve what we can of the health care system. Being able to provide life saving surgery to women with ovarian cancer, organ transplants, etc. We are losing healthcare professionals because of the system being over whelmed.

Unless "the program" is a) clearly defined and explained b) reasonable c) agrees with factual evidence and incorporates collection of objective evidence for monitoring and evaluation of its success d) is open to critical questioning e) withstands reasonable critical questioning f) has mechanisms of feedback and correction that's for a minimum, it is not a social program, it has little or nothing to do with individual responsibility, social contract, common good etc any number of default cliches why you have to while they are not obliged but is an authoritarian dogma. And the only responsibility a conscious and responsible citizen has toward any authoritarian dogma is to expose it, bring it out in the open and demonstrate it for what it is, not what it pretends to be. Every failure and atrocity in the history was justified by some common good. Endless repetition will not uncover anything new here.

The truth hurts.

Canada is a totalitarian state. Get out from behind your iron curtain.

In answer to the original question, the reason Canadians allow themselves to be overly influenced by China is because they don’t value freedom enough to resist the influence.

Queenmandy said that, not me.

Some folks say . . . . tracking by vaccination serum. The Federal Govt. is not your friend. ?

So the program plans to keep COVID around forever? There is no goal for pre covid life? "The steps are vaccines and restrictions to slow down infection rates so the system can continue function." Well it does not do that. https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html Cases and hospitalizations rates are the highest they have ever been, the program is failing.

The program is to keep people out of hospitals so our health care system can function for everyone, not just covid patients. The steps are vaccines and restrictions to slow down infection rates so the system can continue function. This has been explained ad nauseam but some people are really poor listeners.

I'm a big believer in energies. The highest vibration always wins. Stay positive, awake & aware and on course and we can all be victorious over the power and money grubbers.

These "vaccines" are not vaccines. They do not prevent infection and transmission. Stop l-ing by repetition (Dr. Goebbells old recipe)

Sure is. Arruda quit right when the announcement about a fine being levied on the non-vaccinated. He was also criticized for saying things like "Masks may cause a false sense of security", and also that it might be a good idea to let people get Omicron. These comments are similar to mine, and fly in the face of the totalitarian shut-down narrative.

1. Corruption and misuse of public funds. 2. They are all here through investigation journalism from left wing sources. 3. They are protected. 4. It is not hatred. Saying a government official is corrupt and revealing money scandals are part of a healthy democracy. 5. Do you support the coup in Kazakhstan and a war with Russia?

so what? you aren't even punishing the people who run up the costs just people whose behavior you don't like you're resentment of choices you don't like is not grounds for taxing people this is just vindictive and evil totalitarian shit you endorse just because you don't like someone's choices is not grounds to treat them like Jews in Nazi Germany

Heart disease kills three times as many Canadians as covid every year. When’s the fatty tax being introduced?

It is your choice you are obese Citizen. You should pay an extra for your extra bacons.

It has everything to do with it, you can't give anyone obesity by breathing on them. The vaccine is keeping people out of hospital at a ratio of 7 to 1 in BC. The unvaxxed are kicking the shit out of a health care system that is already short staffed because of Omricon. Maybe it's time the unvaxxed started taking responsibility for their choices because the rest shouldn't have too.

I have mixed feelings about this. I took two shots and got the covid. I am all for vaccination but, there is one catch. The wording regarding the responsibility of the big pharmas regarding their vaccines seems clear to me. Although they are responsible, you are the one that needs to prove it and it must be almost out of any reasonable doubts. I took the choice to trust them anyway but, I respect those who do not. If it was more clear that the companies accept their responsibilities, then I would be easily in favor of such measures.

For most it is. It’s just choices they don’t like making. The others could get a medical exemption I guess.

So what if an obese, vaccinated person ends up in the hospital? Tax them too I guess because choices were made there as well

Might want to check your numbers if you care about accuracy. Just a suggestion Clearly Quebec is trying to be just like France and piss off the unvaccinated. Maybe this will be the first step to annexation!!

I think this is wrong. I may disagree with the anti-vaxxers, but that doesn't mean I think they shouldn't be allowed to make their own choices, even if I think they're dumb choices. Exclusion from some public spaces was appropriate, and is enough 'stick' for my taste. Fining people is just one step too far, imo, solves nothing and makes these even more convinced they're some kind of martyrs.

There's a bit of truth in what you say, namely that democracy is freedom. However, to suggest Trump wanted to get rid of it is idiotic. I would also point out that there is a growing socialist presence in the Democratic party. Socialism is not freedom.

I already made you look stupid in the posts where you replied to me directly, now I'm just making you look stupid in posts that you directed at other people. And yeah, I guess I'm already there but it's so much fun.

Maybe you should read that again , never suggested at all that he was a dictator in office bright boy, his attack on the capital was to make him a dictator , my friend that was more then clear in my statement. You comment is gibberish meaningless and already explained.

Article for the China lovers. China accused of harassing its critics in Canada and abroad China accused of harassing its critics in Canada and abroad (msn.com)

You described a negative feedback loop: the more obvious it is that it's not working, the more effort you put in to not notice. And all the way to the continuity break then with luck, a commission and a belated apology in some decades. And all over again. But wait now we're working with population-level immunity. No, can't go wrong, never did.

You have 40 posts here Colin Norris. Nationalist has 178. How do you know what Nationalist was saying back when Trump was appointing SCJs?

I don't know what you're talking about concerning "closure of 24 booths in the south" but I notice you're hesitant about offering a link. Generally when people do that it's because there's more or less to it than what they're suggesting and they're hoping nobody will notice. As far as one of us being mistaken on the nature of democracy, I suggest it's you. Democracy is not opening up election rules to allow one party (in this case, the Democrats) to exploit them. Rules need to be fair while being as open as possible to both sides and secure from outside intervention. This is what the recent Republican tweaks attempt, following the Democrats taking advantage of the pandemic and unclear rules in 2020 to rig the election. (Notice, I didn't say fraud, so don't try to divert me there. Others of your ilk have tried. Didn't work for them. Won't work for you.)

they survived without China and their trade for a long time prior to China opening up why can't they now, because you didn't like Trump retaliating to China's tariffs? lulz

Maybe instead of Trudeau spending a billion dollars on useless vaccine passport enforcement, he should be allocating that money to improve hospitals. I think he will go down in Canadian political history as the most damaging and power-grubbing PM we've ever had.

I can't even express how much I love this excuse. It's like an entire Quentin Tarantino movie packed into one sentence.

It is a criminal enterprise.

This is the same as when Trudeau pays the We 'charity' to host events and then they make propaganda for him and his mommy gets $300K from them. The media's mild-to-zero curiosity is telling.