Aristides

Did any of you guys ask the same question of Trump and his family? Thought not.

Communist states are single party. Last I looked we had five parties represented in Parliament.

Endemic just means we can't get rid of something, it is not a destination that magically solves our problems.

Of course there is a risk, that's why you have to hang around for 15 minutes after any shot.

Actually too many are focusing on their pet grievances and ideologies when the real problem is the virus.

You aren't training people to install parts on an assembly line. People aren't machines. If you are happy with someone with 12 weeks training looking after you when you are critically ill in an ICU, fill your boots but leave me out. "I think he is having a stroke. Oh, no one taught me about that, all I know is basic covid." Close the border. Sure, there are 30,000 trucks crossing border every day carrying trade and essential goods. We are investing in vaccines, haven't you been paying attention but that also takes time and how do you develop a vaccine specifically for a variant that doesn't exist yet? Tell us please. How much extra have you put into healthcare and how did you do it? Did you pay extra tax or donate to charities and take the tax deduction? I do that, but it's to medical causes I choose, not the health care system in general. Everything you suggest is coming from hindsight.

We do need to invest but I have already explained how long it takes to train staff. What do we do now to get us through the time it takes to train them in mass? You want highly specialized people who take even longer to train. No country has been able to keep the variants out, not even Australia and New Zealand, island nations with some of the strictest travel limitations and domestic restrictions. The idea of keeping it out of a country with a 5000 Km border between it and the most infected country in the world that is also our largest trading partner is ridiculous. Who are low risk? I know two double vaxxed healthy people in their thirties who are at home very sick from this. Yes there are people at higher risk than others but how this effects you is still largely a matter of chance for reasons we don't yet understand. We will see how large the tax increases people will stomach after this becomes history because everything you list will be expensive. Everything you list is long term, none of them do anything for our present situation.

We all know there is nothing in between asymptomatic and death. It's one or the other.

I personally know two people who are quite sick with this but not in hospital. Both in their 30's, double vaxxed and damn glad of it.

Yes, if it isn't 100% we ain't takin it. Pray tell, what medication or vaccine is 100%

Missing what point? BC is an American, just pointing out that Americans did it to the Japanese as well. As a matter of fact, over 80,000 were second and third generation Americans.

So did Americans. 2/3 were American citizens.

BINGO!

How do you plan for the next variant when you don't know how infectious, vaccine resistant or severe it will be? What do you suggest to support our system that we aren't doing? It takes a minimum of 4 years to produce a nurse, doctors take much more and they are in demand everywhere in the world. What do you suggest? What magic wand do you think governments can wave to fix this tomorrow? Are you prepared to pay for a huge permanent expansion in health care just to handle once in a lifetime pandemics? Would you have been prepared to pay for it before we ever heard of Covid? Everyone is an expert when it comes to hindsight.

Proactively planning for what? We were doing great and looking at the end of the tunnel until Omricon came along.

We don't know do we because the virus keeps changing. We can only react to what it does and hope our steps control it enough to keep our health care system from collapsing. There may be no pre covid life as we knew it.

It will be challenged in court and determined to be constitutional or not. There will be no law suits handing out tons of money.

Sure we can, everyone wants a pre covid life. We would all like a pre 9/11 life as well.

What is your end goal and how do you propose to accomplish it? It's about time people understood that we humans are along for the ride with this virus. We are not in control, we can only react to what it throws at us next. I know that is a somewhat foreign concept for modern humans but it is reality.

So what do you suggest, genius?

The program is to keep people out of hospitals so our health care system can function for everyone, not just covid patients. The steps are vaccines and restrictions to slow down infection rates so the system can continue function. This has been explained ad nauseam but some people are really poor listeners.

I'm not invoking anything but it's pretty obvious you don't give a crap about all the people going without treatments and surgeries because of selfish unvaccinated people clogging up hospitals at a rate that far exceeds their percentage of the population.

Better than just paying people to get vaccinated.

Whining about others with no ideas of your own does nothing. Pulling together is about putting personal wants and needs aside for a common good, not having them accommodated.

Like I said, you don’t want to know. Why do you think you are owed some kind of guarantees? All you do is whine about others.