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Your new name is OftenLiberal. So Del Duca or Horvath?
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Isn't that a Federal initiative? I'm sure you don't really have any practical methods for funnelling all money used to keep people financially solvent during shutdowns to prop up Healthcare. I suppose it's a fine idea, in theory. ?
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I look forward to see you advocate for a party that wants to raise taxes this June. I believe the capping of the pay came from the previous Liberal government. So there's that.
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Layton never had leadership. He also wasn't a Provincial leader. Ford doesn't want to do these lockdowns, but he knows that he stands to lose more politically to allow the Healthcare system to collapse. Omicron is a different animal. Unquestionably it's far less severe than Delta and other variants. The crisis is not that people are getting seriously sick, all at once. It's that everyone is getting mildly sick all at once. Nurses and Doctors are going home sick because they're testing positive. Short of having a reserve corp of Nurses to fill in only when a virus like this hits, I'm not sure what could have been done.
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He's doing fine comparatively. Quebec is back in curfew.
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I suspect you'll be voting for the NDP in June.
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DoFo knows that the people he's pissing off by Locking down have nowhere else to go but to him. I don't think Ontario has a PPC. Those on the Left are very quiet. The only thing they'd want to say is that we should have shutdown before Christmas.
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I was, but you had people lingering on Ventilators for weeks to months. This was the issue back then. They've conceded that's not what's happening here. It's just the volume of cases and lack of staff, because everyone is going to get this thing. I'm not saying Hospitals are doing this to pad numbers. If someone gets COVID in the Hospital, that's a bad thing. But it's evidence that Omicron isn't making people deathly ill, when they get it.
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Cite? In previous waves, people would be admitted with acute respiratory illness caused by COVID. I'm thinking that's not happening with Omicron. With the number of Nurses missing work because they've tested positive, it's indicative of patients being infected while in the hospital.
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The real metric we need to be tracking is the number of patients in Hospital that were already in hospital for an unrelated reason before testing positive. The rate of Hospitalization, testing positive, tripled in a week. I suspect many were already in the hospital. This would also be instructive of ICU capacity. If people in the ICU are suddenly testing positive for Omicron, then it skews how many people are experiencing critical respiratory illness from community spread.
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I would suggest forcing people to go home with the sniffles, because technically it's COVID, is the main culprit. Again, the concern is not deathly sick people over-running the Hospital and staying there for weeks. It's patients, in hospital for something unrelated to COVID testing positive or Healthcare workers testing positive. I'm eager to see the updated statistics Ontario will release today.
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That's just conjecture. Do you have stats on the number of people who quit because they refused to get vaccinated vs who just couldn't handle dealing with waves of deathly sick people for capped pay? The issue is Healthcare workers testing positive. I would suspect an unvaccinated worker would be the most likely to succumb to absenteeism considering how easy Omicron is to get.
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Ontario hasn't published stats since Friday. Cuz Holiday. The only stats we're getting is from Christine Elliot's Tweets. They need to be clear on how much Omicron is ACTUALLY burdening the Healthcare system. It seems the main threat is Healthcare workers testing positive and needing to go home. AND NOT waves of very sick people flocking to hospitals. Imagine enforcing 5-10 days of isolation for the common cold? If you handed me a RAT (Rapid Antigen Test) right now, I wouldn't take it. Let's assume we all have this thing. This is what we've been waiting for. A mild endemic virus.
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I'm pretty sure there'll be limited, if non-existent, enforcement on gatherings. Not sure about businesses though. I feel bad for recreational facilities and dining establishments.
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The Blockchain is some wildly inefficient and energy intensive way of determining ownership. Whoopdee!
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Why should they? Isn't the Hallmark of Crypto that it's unregulated? This is why Elon Musk and pump and dump Cryptos at will. Even on Saturday Night Live. I've talked to people who are into crypto that have multiple layers are IRL security to ensure their crypto can't be stolen. Like a code on paper that only the owner has access to.
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Well you're completely wrong. . . so there's that. The measures saved lives, masks helped control the infection, everyone's healthcare was challenged this was a Global pandemic. The limitation for healthcare for other chronic diseases was a result of the acute nature of COVID and the taxing of healthcare systems globally. It's not just Canada. Almost every country saw a stressing of healthcare at multiple points during this pandemic. -
Ultimately this pandemic will end. We all knew this. So to act like you knew what's up from the jump is laughable.
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I'm done with with all this like anyone. I'm encouraged by the early Hospitalization data with Omicron. Oh wait, you don't want to have a substantive COVID debate, you just want to call people sheeple. Gotcha!!!
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I really like this guy's videos. He's a voice of calm in all the chaos around this. We do now have about a month of real-world Omicron data, and I don't think I've seen any instance of it crippling Hospitals. Yesterday the Ontario Top Doc reported that, of 4,500 confirmed cases of Omicron, only 15 required hospitalization and none have required ICU intervention. I guess the concern is if Boosters will sufficiently protect vulnerable populations as Omicron spreads throughout the population.
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The big issue with Omicron is that it's spreading so fast that testing infrastructure is being taxed. Someone with symptoms could wait several days before they know if they're positive or not.
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Both South Africa and the UK have seen Hockey Stick spikes in Omicron cases without an appreciable spike in deaths and/or hospitalizations. Germany, on the other hand has not seen a spike in cases due to Omicron but is seeing a sustained period of increased Death and infection that can only be explained by persistent Delta going back to early November. Omicron supplanting Delta should be a good thing.
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Omicron really isn't where the Anti-Vaxxers should be spiking the football. Broad vaccination is likely what's keeping Omicron from causing more damage. The jury is still out on this, but early signs are that Omicron likely won't cause severe illness in most people. If ICU occupancy does spike, it will be instructive to see the ratio of vaxxed to unvaxxed. I was saying this to MH in another forum, but I think much of the unvaxxed are younger and likely won't experience severe illness. I still think restricting the unvaxxed from certain indoor gatherings is a good thing. Especially with Omicron that will infect anyone who's in a room with an infected person. We're hearing that N95 masks are the only thing that will stop an Omicron infection.
