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No, that's not the reason for the restrictions. The reason has been repeated over and over already on the media. If there were no restrictions, the health care system would completely collapse. The hospitals would be inundated with Covid patients and other people would be turned away. There are emergencies every day and people need help.

The restrictions cannot be ended for the simple reason the health care system would completely collapse. We would have no place to treat people in emergencies which happen constantly everywhere. So the choice is live with restrictions or face the possibility of total chaos and disaster with no health care system. Funny how so many people just don't get it.

A famous native women Mohawk political activist by the name of Kahn-Tineta Horn said white man will pay and pay and keep paying. She was absolutely right about that. I am sure white man will never stop paying, especially as long as we have liberals and left around or people willing to write the cheques on taxpayer's money.

Liberals and NDP lean heavily toward Marxism. Liberals are more accurately described as hard-core progressives or woke liberals. They just agreed to pay 40 billion dollars to natives who were taken into foster care and allegedly deprived of their culture. This is unheard of in any other place on the planet. It's hard to see how much more radical Liberals could be. This staggering amount of money will be taken from ordinary taxpayers today who had absolutely nothing to do with taking FNs into foster care and they were placed there in order to protect them. There was no other place to put them. There are other things that prove the radical nature of the Liberal government. Things you might or might not agree with.

When people vote for the Liberal party and Liberals bring in a very radical agenda, it's hard to see how that is "moderate".

If you not a conservative in thinking, that only leaves Marxist-leaning liberal or NDP.

Now that is a maze of thoughts to figure out.

Trudeau should stick with Bhangra dancing. He's better at that than anything else.

Seems to me you claimed to be conservative, but you sure put a lot of energy into defending Trudeau.

This video clip of Trudeau dancing beats them all. Justin Trudeau Bhangra Dance in India | Full Video - Bing video

When I was on a high school course in literature, the instructor, who was previously a journalist, told us every journalist is biased one way or another. It is just a fact of life.

No. The world view people hold is closely related to their beliefs in God and the Bible. You will find that most climate change alarmists, all Communists, and most Socialists do not believe in God or the Bible. The fact is most secularists, Marxists, Communists, Socialists, oppose Biblical Christianity, God, and the Bible because it exposes their error and unbelief. Humans by nature are corrupt and choose darkness rather than the light which God has given us in his word, the Bible. So the Bible and religious discussion is entirely relevant to politics and world affairs. Secondly, nobody is forcing you to believe anything on a forum. You have the freedom to refute anything. Here is a link of a video you can watch discussing the climate change issue in connection with world views. My honest belief is that the Bible and biblical Christianity present the proper world view. It can't be separated or excluded from world affairs, climate change or politics. Saying one should only mention the Bible or something in a religious context on a certain thread is denying freedom of speech to everyone and trying to relegate them to the fringes. It is a form of censorship. That is not how freedom of speech works. A Biblical Approach to Climate Change (part 1) - Media Center - creation.com

Of course it matters if people die for whatever reason. So you are saying the world should not take any action to try to stop the pandemic spread? Sounds irresponsible to say the least. But what would be your plan? You seem to know more than the experts.

Marxism, Socialism, wokeness, progressivism is flourishing in Canada and most are asleep and aren't even aware or they openly support it. The people in some central American countries and Cuba were asleep at the wheel too and many supported the Communist revolutionaries. They paid the price with tens of thousands of lives lost and their freedom gone. They now live in poverty. In Venezuela the people thought they were being wise when they elected Socialists. The Socialists destroyed the economy. Socialists then turned around and took away everyone's freedom and brutally imposed totalitarianism. Now the people are starving and trying to flee. Quote Economics: Why is it that reporters keep scratching their heads about Venezuela's descent into extreme poverty and chaos? The cause is simple. Socialism. End it and you will end the misery. When the New York Times wrote about Venezuela's ongoing collapse a year ago, it described how the country was suffering "painful shortages … even of basic foods," and how "electricity and water are being rationed, and huge areas of the country have spent months with little of either." Here is how the Times explained the reason for Venezuela's dire situation: "The growing economic crisis (was) fueled by low prices for oil, the country's main export; a drought that has crippled Venezuela's ability to generate hydroelectric power; and a long decline in manufacturing and agricultural production." There's no mention — not one — of the fact that Hugo Chávez tried to turn Venezuela into a socialist paradise, policies that his successor Nicolás Maduro has continued. The Times' coverage is par for the course. Unquote What Caused Venezuela's Collapse Is No Mystery — Except To Economically Illiterate Journalists | Investor's Business Daily (investors.com) Of course the left wing media try to put a different spin on. We live in a world of lies.

So? It is still a lot of people. The number of deaths is about 5.5 million people which is possibly more than the population of British Columbia.

Someone referred to you as he but your photo is a she. Are you male or female or binary or one of the other dozen or so? What pandemic plan are you talking about? This is all new for the world and they are doing the best they can.

Your figures don't mention 2021. The total number of deaths is 5,449,423. There would also be far more than 5 million who suffer from long Covid or ongoing medical / health problems as well. how many died of Covid in the world? - Bing This is one result of the pandemic. The pandemic has caused trillions of dollars in damage to the economies of the world and continues to do so.

Most of the Canadian population was not even around in the mid 20th century when a lot of the FN kids were apprehended by child welfare and put in foster homes. We had nothing to do with what past provincial governments did decades ago. Secondly, I can't see how rescuing FN kids from a situation of neglect or domestic abuse was a bad thing. It wasn't considered wrong in those days. But today activists and the left consider everything white man did in the past as criminal or wrong. It's all part of the cancel culture / progressive woke movement and the red power movement to make white man pay and pay forever.

Another aspect to the $40 billion dollars the government has said they will now pay out is how do these federal liberals, NDP and bureaucrats now reason that the taxpayers of today, who had nothing to do with what went on with child welfare/foster homes in the past, now must pay tens of billions of dollars in compensation? How are we as taxpayers responsible to pay for past errors if in fact they were errors by provincial and federal governments? The federal minister Hajdu spoke today about the colonization, racism, etc. of the past. But how does she automatically assume the 37 million Canadians are guilty of these things or anything? It seems absurd to me to force Canadians to pay out billions of dollars for past governments allegedly denying native children their culture. These children were neglected on their reserves or the victims of domestic abuse and alcoholism. But liberals and activists are all pointing the finger at the Canadian population today and seem to be saying it is our fault and we must pay for it. These kids were in fact rescued from dangerous and dire situations. There was no other place or resource to take them. Paying them tens of thousands of dollars simply because they were removed from their reserves to protect them just doesn't seem to make any sense. I might be able to see the rationale of setting up foster homes on reserves and let the natives look after them themselves from now on, but making Canadians pay a penalty for historical events just doesn't seem reasonable. Canada is the only country on earth that is paying out this kind of money for this kind of thing. This has never happened before.

As someone on the older side with heart problems, I would have to vote no to returning everything to normal. Why? Because I would like to stay alive. I take all possible measures to avoid Covid, but one only do so much and sometimes I have to go to places where there are other people. I do so cautiously with a mask as close to N95 as I can find. Spend most time at home, but I still have to go out sometimes for essential things/reasons. I don't really want to wander into a mass of people spreading Covid around. I might also might need the use of the hospital and would not like to see the medical system collapse or be overrun with Covid patients. It's bad enough now that the medical system is putting cardiac and cancer patients on hold, claiming they are "elective" surgery patients. The word "elective" is dishonest and deceptive. Many of them are urgent cases who have just as much right to health care as anyone else. Reportedly thousands have died waiting. Canada' public health care system is ignoring treating everyone and everyone has a right to health care. So much for the "public" health care system. I would give it a rating of 2 out of 5. They have to find a way to treat everyone in a timely manner.

There are lots of Marxist leaning people in Canada. The government is full of them. The Liberals have even been pushing for a way to control people's speech on social media by using the Canadian Radio Television Commission to control social media companies to control people's speech on the internet. As usual the Liberals tie their sinister new laws in with some law that sounds benign like helping or protecting Canadian culture and heritage.

No man is an island. We each have to do our part to protect the health care system and society as a whole.

That's fiction. Everyone is required to do their part to protect everyone. Same reason we must obey stops signs, speed limits, and traffic lights and wear seatbelts. It's not rocket science. Everyone wants and depends on a public health care system. That's the system we have. Therefore we have to do our part to protect it and make sure it's there for people that need it. No man is an island unto himself in society. Sometimes, we have to do certain things to protect others.

You didn't mention that the health care system is in danger of being over-loaded by Covid patients. That is the problem. If the health care system is overloaded, people who need heart or cancer surgeries are being shuffled aside and dying while waiting. Other emergency cases as well may not be able to get treated because of the overwhelming number of Covid patients. That is why everyone should get vaccinated. It is to protect society as a whole.

This went further into religion because I was talking about liberal policies which are against the Bible. I am sorry if it disturbed you. It was not meant to offend anyone. Since my beliefs are based on what the Bible teaches, I must refute liberal ideology on that basis. There is no other answer to it. If you say I can't speak if it has reference to the Bible or religion then you are effectively denying my freedom of religion and freedom of speech. It can't be a free society if conversations cannot include all points of view, including religious ones. If we do that, we become like China, exactly what many of us oppose. That would be totalitarianism and speech control. Just because there is a thread for religion that doesn't mean one cannot mention the subject under other headings. If my point is relative to the topic, I should be allowed to speak it and others show their agreement by replying to it. But you can't always box religion into a certain category if it is related to the topic at hand somehow. Again that is speech control and denial of freedom.