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I think everyone should be getting a raise. Inflation is a real problem right now. The supply chain didn't not expect the surge in demand to rebound so quickly in the midst of the pandemic.

Semantics?

That's a helpful analysis. I agree that someone with a BMI over 40 is likely quite unhealthy across the board and would not fare well with COVID.

Cite a Canadian equivalent. I use BMI, because it's an objective standard. I guess you could look at someone, and say they're fat, but that's not as objective about their risks of dying of such a disease. I concede there are mitigating factors to COVID deaths. But because it's a communicable disease, no one lives in a bubble.

Again you're talking about the US. Where co-morbidities are a big problem. But you're basically creating a scenario where if someone dies of COVID but has a BMI of 30 or has a chronic disease, it shouldn't be considered a COVID death. That's ridiculous.

Not yet, for sure. If you live in a building or drive more than 200 km a day, it's definitely not a solution. But for a vast majority of driving it's a great solution. I'll still keep an ICU car (in my case, a hybrid) as a backup and an option for long road trips.

I have an EV and it uses about as much Electricity as my Air Conditioning does. We will need to adopt Nuclear in the future. Much of Ontario's energy is already generated from Nuclear. Nuclear is actually quite safe. People are just spoked by isolated incidents. over the past 40 years.

What definition of obese are you working on?

Comorbidities are a big problem in the US. More poverty, less access to healthy food, a Darwinian approach to preventative health care. In the early parts of the pandemic it was obvious that COVID deaths would be a much bigger problem in the US. Canada still has less than half the COVID deaths per capital than the US.

I'm sure you've read a lot. The loose definition of Co-morbidities is something to note. Lots of normal people have comorbidities.

And that's wrong, if that's what's happening. I know, in Ontario, each death is investigated. They aren't looking to pad their stats. It's Hospitalizations that's the main metric anyway. Deaths has never been as significant as in the US. Well in my previous post I noted that Ontario has found 7 deaths that are questionable. 3 were proven not related to the vaccine.

VAERS doesn't report a causal link. When you have 150 million+ people taking two doses of a vaccine in a matter of a few months, many being in a vulnerable group, the statistical chances some will die of natural causes is an almost certainty. It doesn't mean the vaccine caused the death.

That's a pretty ignorant view. It's from 2019 so I imagine his views on EVs have changed. If you have an EV you probably charge it at home. And many of these charging stations he's talking about are Stage 2 chargers where you leave it to charge and do something else. I'm also certain that, since 2019 a lot of the other elements of emissions has decreased as Canada's grid gets cleaner.

DoFo is all in on mining for Battery components. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-electric-vehicle-mining-ring-of-fire-1.6238261

Which is why these places are having trouble retaining labour.

Using VAERS as conclusive evidence of anything is still funny. But people really believe these are direct causal deaths. So it's actually dangerous. A Canadian example of this. https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-mpp-randy-hillier-apologizes-for-covid-19-social-media-post-1.5655095

I can't watch more than 3 minutes of that guy. He comes off as an old doddering mess. I like how the video says "here's why they're a scam". And says nothing of how they're a scam. You have to get infrastructure to charge an EV, it's not as much as people think. It cost me $800 (charger and installation) and now the value of my home goes up because I have EV infrastructure in my garage. In fact if people have the same plugs for fridges in their garage, they can use that plus for an EV with a $400 charger you can get on Amazon. Most places also have off-peak rates where you can access electricity at a cheaper rate. Also regardless of the price of electricity, the comparable cost of using gasoline to power an Internal Combustion Engine will always be more expensive. The one good point he makes is Gas Tax. How do you make up the difference if everyone uses Gas. It's a bridge we'll need to cross when we get there. Some places charge a fee on Registration for EVs to make up the lack of taxes used on EVs. But right now we're in a climate where governments should incentivize getting an EV. I would have to see the cite. But does that include all the emissions associated with extracting, refining and transporting oil to make gasoline? One of the good elements of electrifying ground transportation would be the efficiency of having your home hydro and transportation energy coming from the same source.

I think the minimum wage is effectively $15/hour already. The Big Box stores and fast-food places pay that. So why wouldn't anyone work for less?

Which is the political analysis here. You may actually get some votes in the Suburbs by raising the Minimum wage. Any Rural person who still thinks $12/hour is a living wage has no where to go on the Political spectrum. We do notice that Far North ridings tend to go NDP. I would suggest people need a lot of subsidization to live in Far North. Like the practice of forcing Air Canada to service Northern Airports at a loss.

In this market, people who make $15/hour are not Middle Class. Why would anyone work for some small business for $12/hour, when Amazon, Walmart, McDonalds are already paying North of $15/hour? When we create a market where businesses can pay as low as they want, then people are forced to use the government to subsidize their income. Food banks, etc. Or just live on the dole full time. Which is the decision many people are making.

If the US is any indication. Low income, Low education, Low skill people actually do vote Conservative.

I'm ambivalent. Ultimately the market will decide. This is a naked vote grab for the Ontario PCs. But the fact that wages are criminal inadequate compared to the price of housing does need to be addressed. And increasing supply isn't the complete answer either, wages need to catch up. It'll be funny next year, when companies pass on Cost-of-Living raises. Will companies try and do the typical 2% when inflation this year has easily been 5-10% or more?

I've heard this, apology for no cite, but the effective Minimum wage is about $17/hour in any place that's worth living. Any job an adult would apply for is already paying more than $15/hour. This is much ado about nothing.

The Toronto cost of living reverberates. In Guelph, an hour outside of Toronto. Rentals are $1,500/month plus. Can't pay that and comfortably live on Minimum Wage. https://rentals.ca/guelph?bbox=-80.40233,43.46956,-80.07103,43.60719&sort=cheapest