TreeBeard

My mistake. They overlapped in around 1918. Point still stands.

What were medical care and hospitals like in 1915? Were there ambulances and taxis? Who was left to try and deal with it when many of able bodied men were overseas fighting? Was the virus deadlier than COVID?

God help us…. if this is the case, Nazis will have taken over, vaccines will have proven to be a hoax, and the earth is probably actually flat.

So, if COVID killed 10x more people than it did, it would be “deadly” in your view. Interesting. Approximately 10 times more deaths as COVID from the Spanish flu, although the numbers for that pandemic are only estimates and the range is quite large. Of course, the world was less populated then. And, luckily, the COVID vaccines prevented a lot of potential deaths. In the USA, about half of the 620,000 deaths could have been prevented if more people were vaccinated. https://globalepidemics.org/vaccinations/ I haven’t seen a study for other places, or worldwide, yet.

If this is the criteria to be able to say “deadly”, is any disease deadly? Please name a deadly disease.

Where did I call her a racist? You keep saying this. Do you understand that saying “this idea expressed is racist” is not the same as saying “the person who expressed this idea is a racist” ?

Nope. People are allowed to say racist things. What racists want is for their views to not be criticized, mocked or discredited as idiotic.

2000 in MB. Some proportion of then in Winnipeg. So why would bodies be laying out in the street if 1500 (?) people died in Winnipeg of a deadly virus that acts slow enough that people can call 911, or take a taxi to get to the hospital? Hell, a rickshaw pulled by turtles could get someone with COVID to the hospital before they keeled over and died in the street.

But why would you think that you should be tripping over the numbers of dead bodies? In a place like Winnipeg, Manitoba having around 2000 dead for the entire pandemic, what about these numbers makes you think people should be tripping over all the dead strewn out in the streets of Winnipeg?

I know you do. Because you change the definition of words to suit whatever you’re arguing. But, I didn’t say the writer was a racist. I said the writings in the essay are racist ideas. No. Good people don’t award racist and misogynistic writings to begin with and only backtrack when they’re caught. The UCP who did the selection are not good people. They seem to like these writings, but are too cowardly to admit it when the more sensible public (and some of their own MLAs) turn against them.

I’m not one of the ones looking for dead bodies…. But why would you think that you should be tripping over the numbers of dead bodies? In a place like Winnipeg, Manitoba having around 2000 dead for the entire pandemic, what about these numbers makes you think people should be tripping over all the dead strewn out in the streets of Winnipeg?

Said by racists to deflect from their vile views.

Where are the bodies? Is this a serious argument? I’ve only heard this line of argument from people making fun of anti-vaxxers. I didn’t realize that it was something you folks actually said!!

Summary of the above post: “People didn’t line up for vaccines…” *shown picture of people lined up for vaccine* “Ok, people lined up, BUT CONSPIRACIES!!!”

White replacement theory, which was alluded to in the essay, is an inherently racist crackpot nonsense. Your long, nonsensical post trying to justify racist ideas was all a red herring.

lineup for a COVID vaccine jab. Source: Macleans Magazine

The experts want us all dead!!! OMG! Only the anti-vaxxers can save us!!

Missouri has gone so far as having their heath department track women’s menstrual periods who attended an abortion clinic. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/missouri-health-director-tracked-menstrual-periods-planned-parenthood-patients-n1073701

Any miscarriage now becomes a criminal investigation until such a time that the religious men with power can ensure that the woman didn’t abort, but actually had a miscarriage. You can be sure that they won’t be taking a woman’s word for it.

The essay definitely mentioned it. Are you intentionally ignoring that part? ok, let’s pretend that part isn’t in the essay. Now we agree that, if the racist parts are ignored, then the essay is no longer racist.

I’m proud of that region’s elderly population for being brave and dying with dignity and going out on their own terms, ignoring the fake morality of the bible thumpers. You can choose to suffer all you want. You don’t get to choose for others.

Cuz Nazis? You forgot that part…

Except the comments from the essay did seem to be racist. The “white replacement theory” garbage deserves to be called out as racist nonsense.

We agree. And I bet @BeaverFever agrees too. Except you labelled them as misogynist. And racist. Redefining both those terms to mean something that they’re not.