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Boges

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  1. It's sort of like when people defend the Bible as the literal word of God . . . by citing the Bible.
  2. Are you being order to though? Or are you ordering trans people to go away so you don't have to confront idea that they may feel like they're "gender" does't match their sex? TBH I'm seeing more aggression from those that don't want Trans issue being discussed at all.
  3. How can you tell that? And what is a soul defined as? Do viruses have souls?
  4. There were duelling protests at schools yesterday, across Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rallies-gender-schools-1.6972606 Do we really have hard evidence of schools encouraging students to be Trans? Is it even possible for a school to facilitate an underage student to transition to another gender completely ignorant of their parents? I'm not seeing it. Is the questionable curriculum simply the fact that they acknowledge there are LGBT families and people do feel they were born the wrong sex/gender? What evidence is there of Grooming? Or is this caustic debate simply about pronouns and how some Provinces are telling teachers that they have to let a parent know if a child wants to go by a different pronoun. If a child really believes that being Gay or Trans will cause them harm, then no a parent shouldn't be told. It's just a pronoun. It's not removing their genitals. I'm certainly reinforcing traditional gender stereotypes with my children. But kids grow up differently than I was, we need to embrace that somewhat and not freak out like these people protesting yesterday.
  5. I think we all "want" to believe that there's something beyond this. I certainly don't discount it because, as you say, it's something we all instinctively embrace. But no, there's no definitive proof of anything beyond the life we have. Does the ant you smush live beyond this world? What about the bacteria that have lived on this earth for millions of years, do they all have souls? Is the afterlife only set aside for humans because God has created us to be caretakers of this world? Then what of early humans that certainly weren't dominant creatures in this world? Nor did they embrace any form of monotheistic religion. Did the Dinosaurs have souls? Those are rhetorical questions, obviously, but it complicates the narrative of a Heaven or Hell set aside for those that don't accept Christ as their personal saviour which seems like the certainty that a lot of Christian abide by.
  6. The whole premise of overturning Roe v Wade was to make this a "State's Issue". Passing a National ban would prove that entire talking point complete hypocrisy. 45 at least as the self awareness to realize that. Some believe abortion, at any stage, is murder. If you believe that then you can consider it a criminal law thing where murder is illegal so abortion should be. But there's scant agreement that Abortion is murder. A fetus is not a human. A National Abortion ban would be completely unenforceable.
  7. Unifor makes a deal with Ford. Competitive advantage over the UAW? 

    1. OftenWrong

      OftenWrong

      Sure Boges.

      And a little of that old graft never hurt anybody, right?. ;) 

  8. The Provincial directive was for removing damaged books. PDSB went rogue and started removing books for cultural reasons.
  9. Yes because the OP of the thread asks if we will comply with further COVID restrictions. There's a faction out there that would love to see Masks mandated in crowded indoor settings again.
  10. People don't want to use them. It's natural to cover your face. I get this sentiment from Maskers that it's a form of public service to protect the weak and immunocompromised. So this has moved beyond a COVID measure. If a Hospital or a Healthcare clinic mandates their use, fine. But it should never be mandated again, unless we see some sort of pandemic of a novel disease.
  11. Mask wearing is normalized in Asia. That's fine, so are a lot of things that aren't here.
  12. I have issue with normalizing masks outside of a public health emergency.
  13. I'm sure it won't happen, but did you see Teresa Tam yesterday? https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2263051331790 She wore a mask while being alone on stage. She basically said she wants people to normalize mask wearing for the respiratory illness season, not just for COVID. This is what I'm somewhat concerned about.
  14. We don't know what the next pandemic will be. As I said, I'm sure it will be easier to make people stay in their homes if the disease has a 30% fatality rate. Again related to the OP, we'll no doubt see a spike of COVID and other respiratory illness as we enter the Cold season. We should reject all attempts to force people to mask or reduce access to public spaces. COVID is a known quantity now.
  15. I concede to that. Then again the premise of the thread is asking "Should we comply to any further restrictions". I would say NO! with luxury of hindsight, of course. I would say many of the restrictions did more damage than good.
  16. I think, in hindsight, that was the complication with COVID. Not enough people experienced the dire version of the virus for enough people to actually fear it. During the Spring of 2021, when Ontario passed a Stay-at-Home order and there were reports of healthy people in their 40s and 50s dying, I was pretty freaked out by it. But that's about when the vaccine was coming online and uptake was pretty good. But an analysis of the numbers indicate that young and healthy people, by and large, never should have feared dire consequences from the virus.
  17. And I was one that supported the measures at the time, with those same talking points. But there were other places that weren't as strict as parts of Canada and were there true incidents of otherwise healthy people dying being of a rush of COVID patients? And a rationing of care? We don't really talk about that much anymore. Sweden was the poster child for this. But now, after the pandemic, they fall way down the list for per capita deaths. Many other countries that had more restrictions had more death. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
  18. That was the fear peddled at the time. And I was down too with that talking point. It made logical sense. But, in hindsight, it was a level of social overreach that I'm not comfortable with. If one determines that modest social methods like masks and capacity limits can drastically reduce the cost to the healthcare system, what's to stop governments from just making that the status quo? A year ago, we saw pediatric hospitals overwhelmed. Not by COVID, but RSV and the common cold making a comeback because children has spent the previous 2 years being locked in their homes. The #bringbackmasks movement was strong. Governments held off, thank God. I suspect we'll see more of it this fall when respiratory infectsion, no doubt, climb as the weather cools. I hope it only comes from the fringe.
  19. We know the Lockdowns worked. But they came at an extraordinary cost. - Stunting Children's Education - Dividing families based on feelings of the rules - Up-ending our Economy by essentially killing the Hospitality sector and propping up different sectors. That's the main reason we have an inflation problem right now. Was it worth it, when we find out that vast majority of those that died were prone to dying from a variety of other things anyway.
  20. Perhaps, but it created a whole litany of other problems.
  21. You'd have a more compelling case if you didn't refer to that doddering old man. ? Here's a MSM Article. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/oregon-and-utah-announce-mandated-gps-trackers-in-electric-vehicles-to-tax-drivers-per-mile-driven/ar-AA1fsvR8 In Utah they'd charge 1¢ a mile. So if you drove 20,000 miles a year, you may have to pay $200 a year. It's not nothing, but it certainly doesn't erase the savings from being able to charge your car at home. I suspect Insurance Companies will mandate GPS trackers for all cars long before tracking EV drivers to get a few hundy a year being common place. Many insurance companies incentivize customers now by installing a GPS tracker or having an app that gauges how you drive and "can" give you a discount for safe driving. We all know that will eventually turn into a mandatory system where they know the true risk of insuring you by mileage and driving style.
  22. If the death rate was like 30% like in the movie Contagion, or made you bleed from your face like in the movie Outbreak, you wouldn't need to pass laws to make people stay at home. That's the thing about COVID. As a Novel virus, it made a lot of people very sick and "culled" a lot of people that were already old, sick or disabled. But very few young healthy people died from COVID. So making people comply with public safety measures became, and to some extent still is, a morality play about protecting the vulnerable. It would be insightful to have an objective analysis done to determine how close were hospitals from collapsing really?
  23. If, heaven forbid, they brought back mask mandates for public indoor places. I'd comply simply to not be "that guy". No one likes that guy. I don't think that'll ever happen because the absurdity of mask mandates without some sort of capacity limit or social distancing is pretty evident to most people. It wasn't the masks that brought down COVID infections during waves, it was the fact that governments closed everything! I don't think they'll ever go back to making children wear masks, that seemed rather cruel. I most certainly will never comply with government's telling people how many people can be in a person's home again. That did more damage than good. . . in hindsight of course.
  24. I am pretty sure the land DoFo and Co. took from the Greenbelt were not going to high density real estate, which is something the province desperately needs.
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