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The problem is that the WHO is fighting covid19 using the measures used on the 1918 H1N1 influenza virus. Covid19 is not that virus. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus (H1N1). The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide. Covid19 has infected 83,716 of the world's 7,800,000 people, or 1.07% of the world's population. Of the resolved cases 3% died. In 1918 3.3% of the world's population died. So far with covid19 0.02% or the world's population has died. Clearly we need a response tailored to this infection, not one that ended 100 years ago. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html#:~:text=It is estimated that about,occurring in the United States. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The reason that ww1 lasted so long, was the abandonment of the infantry square. European wars were traditionally fought by the opposing sides forming battle formations within sight of each other, and fighting like men. They would happily shoot each other until one side decided they would sooner be some place else. In 1914 the cowards dug ditches, and hid in them. This meant that if one side attacked the other, they became the better targets, and the results were generally unsatisfactoy. It became largely a war of attrition.

Why do you keep saying that when you know that it isn't true? Do you have memory problems, or just like to tell stories? There are 384 hospitals in Ontario, and 1235 hospitalizations for covid19. 3.3 per hospital on average, of these 337 are in intensive care, slightly less than one per hospital on average. I know that we have visited this before, so I must assume that you are deficient in some capacity. If a hospital can't provide the necessary beds, perhaps they could treat cut fingers, or sprained ankles in an area set aside in a community center, or temporary shelter, and make space available in the hospital. I don't know how to make that simpler for you. https://www.statista.com/statistics/440923/total-number-of-hospital-establishments-in-canada-by-province/ https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data

It would be very helpful if you could provide your definition of capitalism. One of the principles of capitalism (or more properly free enterprise) is the invisible hand theory introduced by Scottish economist Adam Smith in the 18th century. Definition The unobservable market force that helps the demand and supply of goods in a free market to reach equilibrium automatically is the invisible hand. Description The phrase invisible hand was introduced by Adam Smith in his book 'The Wealth of Nations'. He assumed that an economy can work well in a free market scenario where everyone will work for his/her own interest. He explained that an economy will comparatively work and function well if the government will leave people alone to buy and sell freely among themselves. He suggested that if people were allowed to trade freely, self interested traders present in the market would compete with each other, leading markets towards the positive output with the help of an invisible hand. In a free market scenario where there are no regulations or restrictions imposed by the government, if someone charges less, the customer will buy from him. Therefore, you have to lower your price or offer something better than your competitor. Whenever enough people demand something, it will be supplied by the market and everyone will be happy. The seller end up getting the price and the buyer will get better goods at the desired price. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/definition/invisible-hand The benefit of free enterprise is that people are self motivated, and there is not a need for a large bureaucracy, which can consume resources while providing no goods or services. The downside of unrestricted free enterprise is that it distributes wealth unevenly, and doesn't provide by itself provide infrastructure (roads, electrical services sewers etc,), healthcare education and other things hat need to be provided by and for everyone. Free enterprise needs to be partnered with government, which taxes those able to pay them, and use the proceeds to provide the community with needed services. Soscialism is a belief that wealth should be distributed more fairly, and there is an emphasis to tax more, and provide more services with less, or even no need for those receiving the benefits to pay for them. The downside is that it reduces the incentive for people to work as hard at providing goods and services, because they keep less of the benefits from their labours. Socialism also requires a larger bureaucracy, and results in more government control Communism is the belief that all a nation's resources should be owned collectively with everyone sharing equally and the government providing all needed services and resources evenly. The downside to communism is that it provides the least amount of personal incentive. It also usually results in a very large bureaucracy, and a small elite power group with aauthority over almost everything. One problem that I saw with communism, was while visting Cuba. The Soviet Union was a major sponsor of Cuba, but when their economy was failing Cuba lost much of it's funding. Their respocse was to rely more on tourism. Under communism everyone was paid the same wether you were a bartender, or a doctor. The difference was that bartenders got tips. Many doctors stopped practicing medicine to become bartenders, lawyers became taxi drivers etc.. The great reset is a plan developed by a small elite power group tht meets in Davos Switzerland every year in January. It is called a plan to build a better post covid19 world. Of course this elite wants to controll this project. They are of course not elected by anyone. The meeting brings together some 3,000 business leaders, international political leaders, economists, celebrities and journalists for up to five days to discuss global issues, across 500 sessions. The WEF's mission is stated as "committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum

The assertion was that the climate change controversy led to more taxes. I assumed bcsapper meant that it increased our tax burden. If that is not what he meant then I was mistaken. You seemed to counter this by saying that marginal tax rates have gone down. I said that marginal tax rates are not a measure of our tax burden, and even the amount of tax we pay is not a true measure of our tax burden. Not paying your bills doesn't make them go away, and we are not paying our bills. I was trying to address what I believed to be a mistaken assertion. If that is a drift then I am guilty of that.

Are you confusing marginal tax rates with tax burden? Marginal tax rates are the amount of tax payed in different tax brackets, and are reduced when tax brackets are adjusted to account for inflation. The average tax burden for Canadians has dropped this year, because average income has dropped this year. This is of course a temporary situation, because federal debt has risen substantially, and income is way down. The debt is up, and corporate taxes are way down. Personal income taxes will have to rise, and services like healthcare and education will need to be cut to start paying off the debt. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/tax-freedom-day-2020-report#:~:text=In 2020%2C the Balanced Budget,Day arrives on July 26. Canadians are right to be thinking about the tax implications of the $315.2 billion in projected federal and provincial government deficits in 2020. For this reason, we calculated a Balanced Budget Tax Freedom Day, the day on which average Canadians would start working for themselves if governments were obliged to cover current expenditures with current taxation. In 2020, the Balanced Budget Tax Freedom Day arrives on July 26.

An update on carbon capture https://interestingengineering.com/new-carbon-sphere-production-method-creates-better-carbon-capture-technology New Carbon Sphere Production Method Creates Better Carbon Capture Technology The spheres are formed at 800°C. Carbon capture technology allows the re-capturing of carbon from the air as well as the collection of carbon from various emissions sources. One of the most vital components of this process is the production of carbon-capturing spheres. These spheres function by capturing carbon from the air and converting the CO2 into solids. This allows the CO2 to easily be stored and kept from polluting the atmosphere in a gaseous form. Researchers at Swansea University have developed a new way to produce these carbon spheres that can be scaled effectively. Carbon spheres in their own right range in size dramatically. They can be anywhere from a few nanometers to a few micrometers and are commonly used in many environmental treatment processes like water treatment, gas storage, and even drug delivery. Source: Saeed Khodabakhshi/ Science Direct One of the largest issues surrounding carbon spheres is that they are often expensive or impractical to produce, limiting their applications. A team at Swansea University's Energy Safety Research Institute has made a major advance in the practicality of production for these carbon spheres. Utilizing an existing manufacturing technique known as chemical vapor deposition, or CVD, they were able to apply a thin coating to materials to create the spheres. They also altered the temperatures at which the vapor was deposited, in the range of 600 to 900 degrees celsius. RELATED: HOW CARBON CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE Ultimately the team found that the process works best at 800°C and utilizing the CVD method gave the spheres significant carbon capture capacity. The spheres, which work by absorbing carbon through small pores, had their surface area increased by the deposition temperature, making them more efficient. This new method of making and producing carbon spheres is significantly easier than traditional manufacturing techniques. In a statement to Swansea University, lead researcher Dr. Saeid Khodabakhshi of the Energy Safety Research Institute at Swansea University said about the discovery, "Our research shows a green and sustainable way of making [carbon spheres]. We demonstrated a safe, clean and rapid way of producing the spheres. Crucially, the micropores in our spheres mean they perform very well in capturing carbon."

Punishment if used properly is meant to be transformational. When we punish our children, it is done to teach them that there are consequences to their actions. Hopefully it helps them them to make better choices, and become more thoughtful, well balanced people. What if God still sees those who have been sentenced to eternal punishment, and doesn't give up the right to redeem those he thinks have seen that they need to change? What if the fire is eternal, but the sentence conditional, and intended to mold, not destroy?

Agreed. We can both however agree that our elected leaders have done major damage to us all. But if those commie shites killed us all with their vaccine, who would they have to oppress?

This we can agree on. As for vaccines, they have eliminated smallpox, almost wiped out polio and made the childhood diseases of mumps, chicken pox and measles that I grew up with, a rarity among Canadian youth today. I hope that enough of the population get the vaccine to keep you safe my friend. As for the pandemic I do not believe it to be a hoax, but rather a gross misunderstanding of the threat. I don't know how so many intelligent people can be so dumb. The harm they have done is immeasurable, and the good could fit into a thimble.

The answer is rapid at home test kits. Where are Canada’s rapid at-home coronavirus tests? Infectious disease experts have been asking themselves — and public health officials — this for months. “If every Canadian had that in their medicine cabinet, we might be able to test our way out of this,” said Colin Furness, an infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto. On this specific front, the United States is one step ahead of Canada. On Tuesday, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) authorized its first rapid test that can be performed entirely at home and deliver results in 30 minutes. The single-use test kit, from California-based Lucira Health, allows users to swab themselves to collect a nasal sample. The sample is then swirled in a vial of laboratory solution that plugs into a portable device. Results are displayed as lights labeled positive or negative. According to company-run trials, Lucira’s coronavirus tests were able to accurately detect 94.1 per cent of infections, as well as 98 per cent of healthy, uninfected people. ttps://globalnews.ca/news/7469571/coronavirus-canada-rapid-at-home-tests/

On this specific front, the United States is one step ahead of Canada. On Tuesday, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) authorized its first rapid test that can be performed entirely at home and deliver results in 30 minutes. The single-use test kit, from California-based Lucira Health, allows users to swab themselves to collect a nasal sample. The sample is then swirled in a vial of laboratory solution that plugs into a portable device. Results are displayed as lights labeled positive or negative. According to company-run trials, Lucira’s coronavirus tests were able to accurately detect 94.1 per cent of infections, as well as 98 per cent of healthy, uninfected people. ttps://globalnews.ca/news/7469571/coronavirus-canada-rapid-at-home-tests/

I have not been to rallies, because I choose to obey the law. I may not like the law, and given a choice, I would prefer not to inhale the air that I had just exhaled, but you can't choose which laws you approve of, and discard the rest. It was my hope that people would see a need to change the law. At any rate I don't believe in blocking traffic, harassing people on ferries, resisting arrest and assaulting police officers, but party on dude. I was hoping that people would see that locking our children out of their schools and telling them that they might die was not in their best interest. I was hoping that people would see that running massive public debts while driving our businesses into bankruptcy resulting in massive unemployment was not proper fiscal management. I was hoping to convince people that fighting this virus blindly in the dark was not preferable to increased testing which would shed some light on the problem and help us to focus our efforts where they would do some good. I was hoping to convince people that isolating our elderly, and leaving them to die from the affects of loneliness was not right. I was hoping that people would see that isolating victims of domestic abuse with their abusers, and closing the shelters that are their hope of escape looked bad on us. I was hoping to convince people that closing our hospitals and watching people dying on while waiting for promised procedures that could save their lives was wrong. It seems that people don't want to listen. John Horgan became the most popular premier in Canada, called an unnecessary early election, and won the majority that had eluded him in the previous election. Dr. Bonny Henry became a folk hero, appearing multiple times a day on tv and having people adoring her and calling for her to be awarded the Order of B.C., and the Order of Canada. Justin gave billions of dollars to the people who will now need to repay it, and became everyone's friend. It seems that the people like what they see and are willing to keep doing what we are doing, and wait as long as necessary for the vaccine. That is their right.

The reason some people are breaking the rules set by our governments is that, they make no sense to them. When the virus was first discovered people were told that it was catastrophic, and that bodies were piling up on the streets. Most people believed this, but some said, if there are bodies piling up on the streets, how come I don't see them? Some people don't believe anything that the government tells them, and believe that the world leaders are conspiring together to enslave us all and take complete control of everything. I have seen our leaders, and don't believe they are clever enough to pull that off. I believe that the WHO totally misdiagnosed the covid19 virus, believing that it was a repeat of the 1918 H1N1 flue virus. It is not. The 1918 H1N1 virus infected one third of the world's population, and one tenth of those infected died. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html#:~:text=It is estimated that about,occurring in the United States. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide. Covid19 has so far infected 81.2 million people worldwide or one ninety sixth of the world's population. The number of deaths is 1.77 million, or one fourty fifth of those infected. Our governments are fighting a pandemic which ended 100 years ago. https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+deaths+worldwide&rlz=1C1GGRV_enCA911CA911&oq=covid+deaths+world&aqs=chrome.0.0i433i457j69i57j0l6.8794j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 The 1918 virus infected people of all ages, and people with strong immune systems, and people with weak immune systems. This required a general lock down. Covid19 mainly affects older people with weak immune systems. 75% of the deaths from covod19 are in people in long term care homes, meaning that a targeted response would have been far more effective than a general lock down. According to the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at Ryerson University, by 24 November 2020, long-term care (LTC) and retirement homes reported 12% of the Canadian totals of COVID-19 cases and 75% of total deaths. https://hillnotes.ca/2020/10/30/long-term-care-homes-in-canada-the-impact-of-covid-19/. These people were in effect already locked down, and not seeing people outside of their bubble, but the government decided to lock down everyone else. In Canada to date there have been 555,000 cases, which is one in every 82 people. Of the resolved cases 466,000 have recovered and there have been 15,122 deaths. This means that 96.5% of the people recovered. That makes 99% of the people not in long term care homes have recovered. https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+cases+canada+current&rlz=1C1GGRV_enCA911CA911&oq=covid+cases&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j69i59l3j0i402l2j69i60l2.11279j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 People are not seeing the catastrophic damage that the media, and our governments are telling us is out there, but are seeing massive damage caused by the lock downs. They are tired, and frustrated after 9 months of ill advised restrictions, and some are fighting back the only way they know how. Masks have become a symbol of the restrictions, and some see wearing them as a sign of agreeing with them, and this becomes the focus of their anger.

This was posted over 5 weeks ago. Why is the government not addressing it? https://globalnews.ca/news/7469571/coronavirus-canada-rapid-at-home-tests/ Posted November 18, 2020 12:13 pm Where are Canada’s rapid at-home coronavirus tests? Infectious disease experts have been asking themselves — and public health officials — this for months. “If every Canadian had that in their medicine cabinet, we might be able to test our way out of this,” said Colin Furness, an infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Why is this not a priority?

There are costs to not testing. There is of course the human suffering, but also financial costs. The federal deficit is estimated at $381billion for this year. Thar means that each of the 18 million federal taxpayers are on average accumulating $1,763, per month of debt. The Ontario government is also running a massive deficit, making it well over $2000 per taxpayer per month. If you think that waiting six months for most of the the population to be vaccinated won't hurt, then you should think again. I believe that we deserve better from those elected to serve our best interests. They need to do better.

We should try. At home testing has not been authorized in Canada. A post on Health Canada’s website says the agency has “authorized the sale and importation of COVID-19 tests only for use by health care professionals or trained operators.” “However, we are open to reviewing all testing solutions,” the website reads. “This includes approaches that use self-testing kits, to enable individuals with or without symptoms to assess and monitor their own infections status.” https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/11/26/rapid-at-home-covid-testing-remains-a-dream-for-canadians.html “I believe that Canada would have the capacity to make home tests if the government pointed its focus that way in regards to funding them,” said Dr. Funmi Okunola, president of Kojala Medical Enterprises Ltd, and a Vancouver-based family physician and COVID-19 medical adviser.

https://www.cbc.ca/greathumanodyssey/content/iceage/135k/index.html#:~:text=Beginning 195%2C000 years ago%2C the,continent would have become uninhabitable. Beginning 195,000 years ago,the global climate entered a period of cold and dry conditions that lasted for 70,000 years, a phase called Marine Isotope Stage 6. In interior Africa, this shift triggered drought conditions so severe that much of the continent would have become uninhabitable. Genetic studies of modern human DNA tell us that at some point during this period, human populations plummeted from more than 10,000 breeding individuals to as few as 600. Homo sapiens became a highly endangered species; we almost went extinct. This “population bottleneck” means that all humans alive today are descended from this tiny group of survivors. The result: our species has less genetic diversity than a single troupe of West Africa chimpanzees. One tool to help is Carbon capture. https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/09/27/carbon-capture-technology/ Today, there are 43 commercial large-scale carbon capture and storage facilities all over the world. Out of these, 18 are in operation and 16 are industrial. According to the International Energy Agency, globally more than 30 million tons of CO2 is captured from large scale carbon capture, utilization, and storage facilities every year. Over 70 percent of this is done in North America. However, industrial facilities are capturing less than one percent of the CO2 that is required to meet the Paris agreement targets for 2040, says a 2018 report compiled by the Global CCS Institute. The good news is that, over the years, the technology has evolved to a level where there are no technical barriers to effectively storing CO2 permanently on a large scale. If used more widely, experts claim it could go a long way toward meeting the ambitious climate targets that were set in the Paris Agreement. https://qz.com/1718988/algae-might-be-a-secret-weapon-to-combatting-climate-change/#:~:text=Our hearts collectively burst for,dioxide out of the air. Trees and algae sequester carbon dioxide naturally. Trees “consume” it as part of their photosynthesis process by “absorbing” carbon into their trunks and roots and releasing oxygen back into the air. Algae replicates the same process but “absorbs” the carbon in the form of more algae. Algae can consume more carbon dioxide than trees because it can cover more surface area, grow faster, and be more easily controlled by bioreactors, given its relative size. Bioreactors can contain large amounts of algae and optimize for its growth (and related sequestration) cycle in a way that is easier than trees and takes the overgrowth of algae, dehydrates it, and ultimately puts it to use as fuel or biomass.

More testing means finding out where the problem is. You wouldn't want to do cancer surgery without finding where the tumor is. We need a more focused and informed use of our resources, not a scorched earth approach.

You know nothing about people like me. If you read my post you would see that I don't agree with lock downs, and am looking for a solution to end them. You on the other hand do nothing, sitting on your ass, and not looking for a solution to anything, calling everyone fools, thinking that somehow that doesn't make you look like one. Grow up and try to do something positive, even if it makes you puke.

If you think that these buffoons could pull off a hoax or conspiracy good luck. I wouldn't be surprised to find out they need help tying their own shoes. I think they are totally unable to understand the real situation, and are messing up big time. Our children will have to live with the consequences for decades.

If we could test everyone, and isolate those that have covid19, and their close contacts, we could end restrictions in two weeks. After 9 months, why is there so little testing? I am sure that providing tests would cost less than $300 billion.

The reason I would like more testing to put an end to this whole lock down business. Covid19 is not a hoax, but it is a gross exaggeration. The politicians say that it is catastrophic, dire, but never put it into perspective. There are currently 77,305 active cases in Canada, that is one in every 499 people in the nation. Why lock down 498 people that don't have the virus, when one person has it. Test everyone and isolate the one who has it, and their immediate contacts, and let everyone else live freely. The virus is killing thousands, the lockdowns are killing tens of thousands. The deaths from the virus are not avoidable, the ones from the lockdowns are totally avoidable. Dr. David Nabarro special envoy for the WHO on covid19 says that lock downs are causing a doubling of world poverty, and a doubling of world wide child malnutrition. He calls lockdowns a global catastrophe.

Is climate change real? Of course it is, the climate is always changing. It was changing long before mankind was around. Odd as it might sound a warm climate is actually better for mankind. Beginning 195,000 years ago,the global climate entered a period of cold and dry conditions that lasted for 70,000 years, a phase called Marine Isotope Stage 6. In interior Africa, this shift triggered drought conditions so severe that much of the continent would have become uninhabitable. Genetic studies of modern human DNA tell us that at some point during this period, human populations plummeted from more than 10,000 breeding individuals to as few as 600. Homo sapiens became a highly endangered species; we almost went extinct. This “population bottleneck” means that all humans alive today are descended from this tiny group of survivors. The result: our species has less genetic diversity than a single troupe of West Africa chimpanzees. At the end of the last ice age 14,000 years ago there were an estimated 7,000,000 people on earth. The warming of the earth since that time has made farming possible, and let us develop in ways that weren't possible before, and there are now more than a thousand times that many humans alive today. Of course we are adding carbon to the atmosphere, but that doesn't mean our demise. People are working on solutions as we speak. One tool is carbon capture. Today, there are 43 commercial large-scale carbon capture and storage facilities all over the world. Out of these, 18 are in operation and 16 are industrial. According to the International Energy Agency, globally more than 30 million tons of CO2 is captured from large scale carbon capture, utilization, and storage facilities every year. Over 70 percent of this is done in North America. However, industrial facilities are capturing less than one percent of the CO2 that is required to meet the Paris agreement targets for 2040, says a 2018 report compiled by the Global CCS Institute. The good news is that, over the years, the technology has evolved to a level where there are no technical barriers to effectively storing CO2 permanently on a large scale. If used more widely, experts claim it could go a long way toward meeting the ambitious climate targets that were set in the Paris Agreement. Trees and algae sequester carbon dioxide naturally. Trees “consume” it as part of their photosynthesis process by “absorbing” carbon into their trunks and roots and releasing oxygen back into the air. Algae replicates the same process but “absorbs” the carbon in the form of more algae. Algae can consume more carbon dioxide than trees because it can cover more surface area, grow faster, and be more easily controlled by bioreactors, given its relative size. Bioreactors can contain large amounts of algae and optimize for its growth (and related sequestration) cycle in a way that is easier than trees and takes the overgrowth of algae, dehydrates it, and ultimately puts it to use as fuel or biomass. This is a relatively new process, but we usually get better at things the longer we work at them. Don't count us out yet.

A very Merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear