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It is a proven scientific fact and the statistics prove that the unvaccinated are more likely to spread Covid than the vaccinated. But if you are another one on here that don't accept the medical expert's advice, not much anyone can say to you. You have lots of company here.

What about the hospitals that are at the breaking point and the health care workers that are burnt out? Would you rather let Covid have run wild, kill thousands more people, and completely destroy our health care system? Doesn't sound like you have really thought this through or are ignoring reality.

I'm not sure what you mean by everyone. The restrictions were targeted where the Covid spread is the most likely to occur.

Don't tell me you're another science denier.

Nobody has freedom to spread Covid to other people. That's what the health restrictions and mandates are all about. If you can't agree with the basic premise that freedom has it's limitations maybe you should be living in Alabama or some southern state that more closely aligns with your idea of freedom. Lots of them hate government, don't trust any authority, and think they should be able to spread Covid to anybody.

In case you didn't know it, it is illegal to grab people, push them around, or physically force them out of a public park. It is considered as assault. He could have laid charges but chose not to, probably because of the hassle involved. These are thugs who have taken over downtown and parks and you support that kind of thing. Supporting illegal behavior is a sign of a problem that needs to be dealt with.

These are not "protesters". They are anarchists and thugs who are plugging up the streets of Ottawa with trucks, insulting people, taking over parks, and making life miserable for honest citizens of Ottawa to try to get their way. At some point they will have to be arrested and towed away.

Did you read the article or are you blabbering at the mouth after a few beer?

Read the article. Downtown Ottawa residents describe stress and anxiety of living with ongoing trucker protest | CTV News

Tim Abray physically assaulted by protesters in an Ottawa public park. Downtown Ottawa residents describe stress and anxiety of living with ongoing trucker protest | CTV News

Was on this morning's CTV news. "A Centretown man says he was assaulted by demonstrators while trying to take pictures in Confederation Park on Monday. Tim Abray has lived in the Centretown area for a decade but described the past four days, as “pretty challenging.” Abray says he decided to go for a walk on Monday around noon. “I took a walk down the (Queen Elizabeth) Driveway to see how many trucks were still here.” When he got to Confederation Park near the National Arts Centre entrance he says, “I was asked to leave.” IN PICTURES 'Freedom Convoy' descends on Parliament Hill Related Stories Calling Ottawa protests 'peaceful' downplays non-violent dangers, critics say 'All options are on the table' to end truckers' protest: Ottawa police chief Volunteers get groceries for Ottawa woman trapped by trucker protest Here's what's closed in Ottawa due to the trucker protest Gridlock in downtown Ottawa as trucker protest now 'scaled down' He describes the next moments after being approached by demonstrators. “They asked me if I was a supporter or not, and I said I was just here having a look and that I live in the neighbourhood. They told me to leave, and I said, ‘I don’t think so, this is where I live and anyone is allowed in the park,’ and he physically grabbed me and removed me from the property,” he says. Abray says he still had his video recording at the time. “I immediately went and spoke to police officers onsite,” says Abray. “It is clear they are not interested in a conversation, they are interested in a confrontation, and this is what we have been living with all weekend.” Abray says he is not interested in pressing charges. Stress and anxiety for downtown residents Residents who live in Centretown describe the past four days as extremely loud, frustrating, and stressful. Sarah Mack lives in Centretown has says it has been constant gridlock outside her apartment all weekend and into Monday. She says she has trouble concentrating and working from home. “It has been nothing short of a nightmare. They were setting off fireworks all throughout the night. It was getting dangerously close to my windows.” Mack says her cat has also been stressed and has thrown up because of anxiety. Mack says she has also been verbally assaulted by some demonstrators. Mack says with no end in sight to the protests, she is making plans to leave. “I am exhausted. With this having no sign of ending at any point I don’t know what I am going to do, what choice I have but to leave the area.” There are community Facebook groups that are trying to help residents get supplies. Laurena Nash says, “We are organizing trying to get parents noise cancelling headphones for their babies, or noise cancelling devices for rescue pets who have lots of anxiety…we are trying to do what we can because there is a lot of anxiety and stress out there.” Other residents telling CTV News Ottawa that some people have not being able to get groceries or leave their homes because of safety concerns. Meanwhile, police continue to ask residents to be patient. Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly says Neighbourhood Resource Teams will be back in neighbourhood on Tuesday. “Our commitment is to redeploy uniformed members, our neighbourhood resource teams, that were previous deployed into the Market area, Lowertown, Sandy Hill, Centretown communities, redeployed out of the operational demonstration command centre that we have had for the past five days.” Sloly says the officers will help residents feel safe. “Their primary duties and focus is to create a sense of confidence and safety of those communities. And those are the communities that have been the most directly and negatively affected over the last five days.” Sloly says the police services goal is, “as quickly as possible we will try to return this city to a sense of normalcy.” Downtown Ottawa residents describe stress and anxiety of living with ongoing trucker protest | CTV News

Exactly. Who was the intelligent designer who created the laws of the system? This is the fundamental question that secular humanist scientists have not been able to answer. Read this article at creation.com "Quantum leap of faith by Alexander Williams World-famous physicist, author and evolutionist Paul Davies has for many years now been producing popular science books that probe beyond the bare facts of cosmology and seek an understanding of what lies behind the marvellous workings of the universe. In his recent book about the origin of life1 he found it necessary to use the word ‘miracle’ to explain it. His miracle however was not that of a sovereign personal Creator, but of a clever universe that somehow is able to do the impossible. In a recent article in New Scientist,2 Davies proposes a new solution to the problem of the origin of life—a quantum computer. Paul Davies. He acknowledges at the outset that, despite the continuing claims of Nobel Prize winning evolutionists, the known laws of physics, chemistry and biology do not explain the origin of life. The theory of chemical evolution that stemmed from Miller and Urey’s 1953 production of amino acids from an electric discharge in a mixture of oxygen-free gases ‘did not stand up to scrutiny’. While the Miller-Urey work has shown that ‘amino acids are written into the laws of nature, large and highly specialised molecules such as proteins are certainly not. … Throwing energy at amino acids will not create delicate chain molecules, just as putting dynamite under a pile of bricks won’t make a house’. He goes on: ‘We now know that the secret of life lies not with the chemical ingredients as such, but with the logical structure and organisational arrangement of the molecules. … Like a supercomputer, life is an information processing system. … It is the software of the living cell that is the real mystery, not the hardware.’ But where did it come from? Davies framed the question this way: ‘How did stupid atoms spontaneously write their own software? … Nobody knows …’. In a materialist world (one without any supernatural Creator), the only world that Davies recognises, there are only two possibilities — chance and determinism. Determinism is the idea that there is ‘an in-built bias — even a conspiracy — in nature to create life’. But Davies points out that there is no evidence of such bias in the laws of physics, chemistry and biology. He rules out chance, because the odds against the chance formation of the complex organisation of life ‘are breathtakingly huge’. He therefore turns his attention to the nature of information. He acknowledges that ‘biological information is not encoded in the laws of physics and chemistry … (and it) cannot come into existence spontaneously. … There is no known law of physics able to create information from nothing.’ So he proposes that ‘there might be some sort of principle that could explain how information can be garnered from the environment and accumulated in macromolecules.’ He considers ‘molecular Darwinism’ as a possible mechanism, the idea that natural selection could occur at the molecular level, but he then dismisses it because natural selection only works on living self-reproducing systems. And he also acknowledges the important point that imperfect molecular machinery would scramble information. How did stupid atoms spontaneously write their own software? … Nobody knows … His vote goes to the recently discovered and little understood realm of quantum computing. A quantum computer can theoretically produce all possible solutions to a problem simultaneously. In practice, it would be ‘exponentially faster than classical systems’ at processing information. His argument is as follows. ‘The riddle of biogenesis is essentially computational in nature — discovering a very special type of molecular system from among a vast decision tree of chemical alternatives, most branches of which represent biological duds.’ That is, if there were a soup of molecular building blocks that could assemble themselves into macromolecules, a quantum computer could quickly calculate which ones would be biologically useful, and in what role and configuration. He does not say how this might happen, and ends the article at this point. I wonder if indeed he will pursue the idea. Quantum computing, not even properly achieved yet in practice, would represent the pinnacle of current human technological achievement; to invoke this principle as the driving force behind the origin of life is an implicit admission that it requires intelligence to produce information. This is a conclusion that he is no doubt aware of, but to invoke intelligence to explain the origin of life means facing up to the fact that there is a Creator. In summary, Davies has not contributed anything new to the origin-of-life debate. Refreshingly, he does acknowledge that chemical evolution provides no explanation at all, a position well established by creationists.3 And he does focus on the primary role of information, but on this subject creationists most decidedly hold the high ground.4 His latest attempt seems to be nothing more than grasping at a straw that might just hold the case together for evolution. It is therefore a tacit acknowledgment that otherwise, the evolutionary cupboard is bare. " The reality is there is no rational explanation for the creation of the universe and life apart from an intelligent designer or Creator, who we call God. There never will be because it is one of those things that science cannot explain. There is no need to ask or demand that an explanation for how God created everything be made because God has not chosen to reveal that to his creatures. But the obvious complexity of the universe and the fact of it's existence should be enough to convince anyone that God is the Creator. The Bible tells us in Romans ch1 that the reason many cannot see that or are unwilling to admit God is the Creator is because they are blinded by sin. We are all born with a sinful, fallen nature and unless God opens our eyes, we cannot see the truth.

Just watched an interview with a citizen of Ottawa who went for a walk and entered a park in Ottawa. He was suddenly out of the blue aggressively pushed around by several men from the so-called convoy and who were hurling all kinds of insults at him and forced him out of the public park. This is not a protest. It is an occupation by thugs and terrorists and the Ottawa police and leaders are doing nothing; just sitting back and watching all this go on.

I opposed any of those radical extremists. I have no use for extremists.

You still don't get it. The health restrictions and mandates are perfectly Constitutional because the Government has the power to take whatever action is necessary to protect the people in an health emergency.

A lot of folks on here obviously reject the science and medical experts on the battle against Covid. For once I agree with Trudeau that they need to listen to the science. Absolutely nobody will be convinced by the so-called freedom convoy. It is full of loud mouth, aggressive, rude, people who have no idea what peaceful protest means. They protested on Friday, Saturday and made their point, but they don't quit. They are making the lives of people living in Ottawa miserable because they are blocking roads, refusing to leave, acting aggressively, and not letting people go downtown, not letting people go to work in those areas or go about their business. This is a clear sign of what kind of people we are dealing with. Demanding, unreasonable anarchists breaking the law by parking many trucks and other vehicles everywhere far beyond the time limit and refusing to leave. They also are honking their horns continuously as if this sends some kind of rational message. Disturbing the peace continually. They are abusive and have no respect for others. They think they can browbeat the government into submission this way. Tragic.

No such thing as unlimited rights of the individual; never has been.

This is what a real freedom convoy looks like.

You think government and anyone who disagrees with you is lying. Not much anyone can say. You will have to carry on in your delusions. You simply don't want the facts or anything that changes your mind.

That's true. Just make sure it fits as tightly as possible and try to make sure it is sealed as best as possible around the edges and over the nose. I know some masks don't fit very tightly. Try to find a good fitting mask.

Get a better mask. N95. I have never used cloth masks. Always use something close to or similar to N95. Bought a few ten or fifteen years ago for shop work. But you should be able to find them on the internet or possibly in a drugstore or hardware.

That's what's called FALSE EQUIVALENCY!

You call government leaders and health authorities liars? How rational is that? Where do you get your knowledge from, conspiracy theorist websites?

As I have said many times, nobody claims the vaccine stops transmission. We were never told it would completely stop transmission. Experts tell us it reduces transmission. Big difference between stops and reduces. The reason for mandates for various jobs and the reason for passports is to reduce the transmission. Vaccinated people are less likely to be carrying the virus because the body builds a resistance to the virus. It offers the best protection from spread along with masks and other measures.