Aristides

Anyone with indexed incomes or pensions don't really care. The BoC can't raise rates to fight inflation because our governments and Canadians in general are so far in debt, they couldn't service a 2% increase in rates. We have borrowed ourselves between a rock and a hard place. But then, so has most of the western world. What is really disturbing is Canadian personal debt is in the top three or four countries when it comes to debt to income and debt to GDP ratios.

MP's are paid $182,500, (which is plenty) not $400,000. They only get more if they hold special offices or positions. So $8,300 before tax. Regardless of what you may think of MP salaries, cutting them in half would do nothing to reduce the inflation the rest of us experience. Cost of living increases just keep you where you were last year. Unfortunately not everyone gets them. I've been retired since 2006 on a fixed pension and other than COL increases in OAS, I haven't had a raise since then. I depend on my investments to make up for inflation which they haven't because of declining interest rates. GIC's now pay less than half what they did when I retired and you will pay premium for a decent bond with a reasonable rate, if you can find one.

So what's your solution. Switzerland isn't much bigger than Vancouver Island. They don't have to do things like medivac ICU patients 800 km from Ft. St. John to Vancouver.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/election-auditors-say-they-have-data-that-maricopa-county-officials-were-accused-of-deleting/ar-BB1gRKOZ So it was bullshit.

How many health care systems in other countries have you used? You just rant about generalities.

Exactly, you don't know so you just make it up.

I didn't bring it up and it isn't just our country.

According to a Japanese study it cost $1539 USD a day to operate an ICU bed at a Japanese university hospital in 2006, so $50,000 CAD to operate one for the average 21 day stay for a Covid patient in 2021 is very believable.

You don't answer, you just rant.

Austria is #6 in per capita health care spending, Canada is #11.

The Canuck's Brandon Sutter is a Covid long hauler. He got it last season with the rest of team but is still out indefinitely because of symptoms. Not anecdotal. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nhl/canucks-e2-80-99-brandon-sutter-e2-80-98out-for-a-while-e2-80-99-with-long-covid-symptoms/ar-AAPoaQ7

Didn’t answer any of my questions but I get it. Everything that is wrong with the world is because someone else is over paid or incompetent. Kind of let’s you off the hook for everything.

I know, everything that is wrong in the world is because someone else makes too much money.

I guess some people need tripping over corpses to understand there is a problem. They would be right at home in 14th century Europe.

A small hospital In Oklahoma just had an internally hemorrhaging Covid patient die because they were unable to find them a bed that had the facilities to handle this case. They canvassed 40 hospitals in four surrounding states.

That’s on top of the requirement for all the non Covid ICU patients. Do you think they all disappeared when Covid arrived? Why is that so hard for all you deniers to understand. Do you honestly think getting rid of a few high salaries would be enough to pay for hundreds of more ICU beds and the highly trained people to staff them? How much is it worth to you to have those beds and staff standing by in case there is a pandemic? Austria spends about 10% more per capita and is a small centralized country without Canada’s logistical and regional problems. Does Austria have a single health care system or ten separate provincial systems plus federal systems for territories? How much does their management make? Same goes for Finland.

Actually you did. There is no way no how you can be compared to European Jews of the 1930's and 40's. You just make yourself look foolish every time you and other anti vaxxers bring them up. You have the option of getting vaccinated or living with the restrictions of not being vaccinated, they had no options at all other than try to flee for their lives with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Not being able to go to a restaurant or concert is not the same as being sent to a death camp so do yourself a favour and not try to make a connection.

I read it and if you weren't making the comparison to Jews, why did you bring it up? It's true the Nazi's used public health as an excuse to persecute Jews but than has nothing to do with the anti vax movement and it is insulting to insulate that it does. People who won't get vaccinated aren't getting beat up, losing their property or being thrown in concentration camps. 1. What could you possibly think is remotely comparable between the plight of a Jew in Nazi Germany and a white anti vax conspiracy theorist in Canada? 2. What public health measures do you think European Jews could have followed for the Nazi's to stop persecuting them?

You are drawing a direct comparison between people who won't get vaccinated to Jews who were being persecuted for their ethnicity.

So. What is it about vaccine policy that you think is based on race?

Doctors and nurses are telling us every day. Over 40 unvaccinated Covid ICU cases have had to be airlifted south from Northern Health. Surgeries and other treatments have been postponed indefinitely, so don't break a hip because you will have to wait weeks for an operation. What else do you need?

I didn't put you in a box. Did I call you an antivaxxer? Point is, it is the unvaccinated who are still driving this pandemic and putting the health care system under stress.

In BC, 68% of ICU cases are not fully vaccinated. 68% from 16% of the population. It is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated. What argument do you have left?

It's true that Alta and Sask couldn't sustain a resistance to the virus.

If you look you will find a similar decline in cases in Canada between early May and the middle of June. From 9000 a day on May 3rd to under 1000 on June 10th