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A level 1 charger is useless for most EV charging. It can work for Plug-In Hybrids that have small batteries supported by an ICE Engine. For a full EV you'll need a 30amp 7.5 kwh Stage 2 charger. That'll get you a full charge in around 6 hours. Then you have DC Fast Chargers (that usually cost money to charge) which can charge in less than an hour. You'll need an electrician to run a NEMA connection to your garage, or where ever you'll keep your car and a charger. They sell for as low as $300 on Amazon. And you really don't need a high-end version as all EVs convert your home's AC current to DC current. That's a pretty good investment, as now your garage has EV compatibility. Also, just about every EV released in the last few years has a range of over 200 kms. Mine has a Range of 300 kms and it's on the lower end. But if you're driving over 200 kms a day, perhaps an EV isn't for you. . . yet. But it can work for a vast majority of drivers. A 200 km daily drive can't be good for Work-Life balance or Mental Health. Mine is 90-100kms and even that is tough with a family. It's tough to square the circle that we can't do anything about Climate Change because China still uses Coal. . . but also is a world leader in Clean tech. I think North America should get in the game. They'd be good jobs.

What happened to freedom of choice to wear a seatbelt or not?

A vaccine passport is a very workable solution.

Because you're a public health expert right? What level of ICU occupancy would cause alarm for you? Weren't you the one that recently opined that our daily numbers, this summer, are significantly more than last summer? The truth is, the fully vaccinated numbers are more in line with last year's numbers. But the unvaccinated numbers are exponentially higher. And all that before the weather turns cold.

Considering the reality of Ontarians from December to June. These last two month have been sort of like a panacea. The Unvaccinated are poised to ruin all that. Which is why they're the ones who will bare the costs of this Fourth Wave. Not Independent Business, Not the Vaccinated, and Most certainly not the students who aren't eligible for the vaccine.

No we don't. Which is good. But teachers definitely all need to be vaccinated for that very reason. Kids can be effective vectors. And even Vaccinated people can be good vectors. It's actually easier, than ever, for unvaccinated people to get the virus. In that point, I was more referring to people under 40.

Hospitalizations due to COVID is on a steady uptick. And driven, almost exclusively by the unvaccinated. Not a crisis situation yet, but going in the wrong direction. School hasn't started and the weather is still really nice. We already have a nursing shortage due to the stress previous waves caused. Plans have to be made to limit the exposure unvaccinated people have to the virus is Hospitals get overwhelmed again. 8% of Ontario is still a lot of people. We also know that Delta effects younger people a lot more than the earlier strains of the virus.

Not if you're vaccinated.

Except for the Carbon Tax, I agree. But harassing his campaign is not a good look for those that are on the fence.

From Friday. I guess, in between being harassed by Anti-Vaxxers. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-promises-1b-vaccine-passports-1.6155618

Cite. And what did "I" lie about? Coal is the power source of the developing world. In North America it's quickly being removed as the power source of choice. It only makes up 7% of Canada's Electricity production. Mostly in backwater Alberta. LNG is an exponentially better option.

DoFo is finally on the right side of History. https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-will-unveil-covid-19-vaccine-passport-system-source-confirms-1.5563835

AFIK most Property in Canada is NOT owned by the government. My home is owned by a highly profitable bank that charges me 3% interest paying off the loan I took out.

That's a load of crap. EVEN if making the battery was that damaging (more damaging than extracting Oil from the Tar Sands?) It's a one time cost. Where an ICE car is polluting at many stages in the fuelling processing the entire lifecycle of the vehicle. Hydrogen could work but the infrastructure isn't there and it's comparably as expensive as Gasoline. EVs are more appealing because, just about everyone that can afford one, has the capability of charging them at home.

Well you live in a backwater. Places with proper power grids have switched to Nuclear or LNG. BTW something you don't comprehend is that an EV motor is exponentially more efficient than an ICE Engine. So EVEN if the power you're getting is coming from the worst Coal there is, it's still being used for transportation way more efficiently than wasting 50+ litres of energy dense gasoline.

Not true. Because you can no charge your car at home when you're sleeping. EVs only weakness is on long roadtrips. And that's quickly changing. For daily commutes, joy rides, or daily errand running, an EV is a much more appealing option. As you say, you have to plan and locate DC Superchargers, as opposed to filling up at a gas station.

You fundamentally don't understand what Communism is.

It's coming at a Political cost. https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-approval-rating-falls-covid-delta-variant-ravages-florida-1616533 https://truthout.org/articles/desantiss-poll-numbers-plummet-as-florida-deals-with-terrifying-covid-numbers/

Florida is not beating COVID. Deaths are as bad as they've ever been there. And their vaccination rate isn't terrible. Florida's problem is their Governor is making all other public health measures illegal. It's also stinking hot there so everyone is inside. It's effectively like our Winter. They moved the Goalposts on vaccination rates because of Delta. It's disappointing that we probably won't be done with masks until next Spring. Unless, of course, they mandate vaccines.

That remains to be seen. I'd like to think it is. But with Delta, who knows when Schools come back and the weather gets colder. We won't lockdown again because we'll have vaccine mandates before all that. Many private businesses have already implemented them.

No they aren't. They're simply reporting figures found in the other link I posted. https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/case-numbers-and-spread It suggests both. The rate is far lower amongst vaccinated, especially when you consider the percentage of the population that is fully vaccinated. However I opined in another thread yesterday that infection could be just as rampant amongst the vaccinated population as unvaccinated, but vaccinated people experience symptoms far less so rarely need to be tested. One figure I've never seen is the "reason" for a majority of tesetests. Is it because you have symptoms and need a test to rule out COVID-19 to return to work, school or child care. Is it testing for travel? Is it random screen where infection isn't suspected. My child had to be test twice last fall to go back to Childcare because he had some COVID-19 symptoms. Both tests were negative. I don't have a cite. I'm making an assessment that cases amongst the unvaccinated have skyrocketed with Delta. Considering the unvaccinated make up around 1/4 of the population you can speculate that numbers would be 4-times as high if no vaccination was available. This can be observed in US states were the vaccination rate is low. COVID cases and deaths are almost as it's been throughout the Pandemic. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/mississippi/ And Hospitalization is up too. https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/covidnet/COVID19_5.html

I don't think you've demonstrated that it's completely inaccurate. Regardless the daily count is a snapshot. As you mention, we have no idea how many people got infected and didn't experience symptoms or had mild symptoms they hid. It's a pandemic when Healthcare services are strained to cope with the number people people with serious illness. It's endemic when it doesn't matter how many get infected because only a fraction experience serious illness. Very few vaccinated people experience serious illness even if they are infected.

From Today's Ontario COVID numbers. https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-reports-678-new-covid-19-cases-no-new-deaths-1.5562092 Unvaccinated people make-up less than 1/4 of the population but 3/4 of the cases. More than 90% of the people in Ontario ICUs are under or non-vaccinated. https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/hospitalizations If you extrapolate these results we'd be in another lockdown situation without the vaccines.

That can be the case for a variety of test. Also the case counts are a somewhat irrelevant lead indicator if they don't result in a spike in Hospitalizations and/or death.