Aristides

Just looked at GoFundMe, the account is still up and people are still donating as we speak Highway cams are provincial, not federal. There are two convoys, one anti vax and the other about BC road conditions. They are not related and the CBC reported on both of them in separate articles. From the CBC article on the road condition convoy Any US truckers coming in support will have to be fully vaccinated. Don't you check anything?

There you go, you have no clue so that makes you think you are qualified.

You can't be fired for having HIV but you can go to jail for not telling a sexual partner you are positive.

No it isn't. Your vaccination status says nothing about your personal health. You could be an Olympic decathlete or at deaths door. Things like vaccination passports protect the unvaccinated by keeping them out of places they could be infected. It's all about protecting the health care system from people who don't care about it.

Actually it is. Your vaccination status has nothing to do with your personal health. I suppose you don't think people who are HIV or HEP C positive should have to tell sexual partners either.

No, it's real because you have to compete with private industry for talent. You just think you are entitled to the same for less. You are getting it for less because high level government jobs don't pay anywhere near what the private sector gets to oversee similar sized operations. The largest health region in BC is Fraser Health with 1.8 million people. The CEO makes a total compensation of 400K a year to oversee a health care region with a budget of over 4.6 billion a year. Cheap if you compare it with the private sector. He isn't even in the top ten of BC government official salaries.

How do you think their salaries compare to private sector CEO"s and COO's of companies with 22 billion dollar operating budgets?

Bla, Bla, Bla. So this is really a matter of ideology with you, not reality. I get it, anyone who makes more than you is over paid, even if you have no clue what their actual job entails and are completely unqualified to do it.

That's the only time you will see a maximum sentence in Canada and only because it is the only sentence available. Most murder charges are second degree because the burden of proof is so high with first degree. The sentence is still life but judges have a lot of flexibility when it comes to parole eligibility. Maximum sentences are a joke in Canada, they never happen except for murder. Apparently there is no way you can commit any crime in such a heinous manner that it warrants the maximum sentence for that crime.

Still on that same mantra I see. Like CEO's and PHO's work for nothing in other jurisdictions. They may be well paid but their salaries are a minuscule fraction of the total we spend on health care. Even if they each make a million a year, combined they would make 1/11,000th of the total health care budget in BC.

We don't put people behind bars for a long time. We don't like to put them behind bars at all.

Winge, winge. Americans spend twice as much per capita.

I agree but how much of a premium are North Americans prepared to pay to buy local. One problem we have that the US doesn't is our domestic market isn't large enough to support many of these industries without exporting.

Talking to a local cop. He says in his 15 years he has never seen the ER in our regional hospital this bad. Not even close. Wards closed because of Covid, everything stacking up in ER's operating with a large number of their staff infected or isolating.

How about a few effective solutions then, other than firing administrators and whining, because that's all I hear from you.

Hospitals are already saying the because of large numbers of ER and ICU staff being infected they are having to move in personnel who are not trained in those positions. You don't want people with infectious diseases in those positions period, even if it is just a common cold. You can shoulda, coulda, woulda after the fact all you want but that is the reality.

The US already has chip manufacturing, Intel etc but most of the specialized automotive chips come from outside of the US. Intel doesn't make them nor it does the capability at this point. Taiwan Semiconductor is one of the biggest manufacturers of automotive chips. 60 Minutes did a segment on it a few months ago. The president of Taiwan Semiconductor said that when the auto industry started cutting back production at the beginning of Covid, the chip manufacturers switched production to other types of chips and now car manufacturers are wanting to up production it takes almost a year for the chip manufacturers to fully switch back. So what if the US is building more capacity, it will do nothing to fix the current shortage. Who wants to make chips in Canada? Should we offer big incentives for companies to come here or form a bunch of crown corps to make them. Can we be competitive in world chip manufacturing without having to subsidize the crap out of companies? Remember Bombardier?

It makes a hell of a lot of difference if they are seriously ill with something else and the staff gives them Covid on top of what they have already.

You haven’t answered my question.

It's common knowledge this virus can be spread asymptomatically. If you had to show symptoms to be infectious this thing wouldn't be going through the population the way it is. What exactly do you think a positive test means? Would you take the chance of giving Covid to a close relative that you loved who is already seriously ill just because you tested positive with no symptoms? Would they want you anywhere near them?

Do you read your own stuff?

What do you want to do, give hospital patients who are already seriously ill Covid courtesy of the people who are looking after them?

You would be happier if they were 100% full? What about all the health care workers who off because of this? Who is looking after them?

Maybe. Hospitalizations are still at record levels.

I know several double vaxxed people who have had it ranging from their 20's to 40's. Symptoms varied from quite mild to being knocked flat on their ass for a week. None have wound up in hospital.