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Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 9:11 am
by barkingmad
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 10:12 am
by Pinky the pilot
I also see people in cars, alone, wearing a mask.
Likewise here in Waikerie South Australia, as recently as last Friday morning.
And the requirement for masks in Shops etc was dropped several weeks ago.
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 11:36 am
by OFSO
Hairdresser wss wearing mask this morning. And turned the volume down on his system playing something by AC/DC. (Is this relevant?)
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 1:41 pm
by Dushan
You have to remember that Canadian media is subsidized by Canadian government to the one of $600 million in addition to buying millions of government "advertising". Therefore biting the hand that feeds you s not a good idea. they just go with the government narrative. And the government narrative comes form the guy who admires China's basic dictatorship because they can implement policies without opposition.
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 10:41 pm
by Woody
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 5:48 am
by OFSO
Ah yes, Randox. On arrival in UK last December, Mrs OFSOs Randox tester told her she'd only just arrived in the UK from Africa as an immigrant two weeks earlier, and only had one vacination.
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 8:07 pm
by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Two weeks ago, our Province had the worst week for Covid deaths - 6. There were no calls in the MSM for mandates, or even masks, both of which have been stopped.
Yet, when there were no deaths, complete lockdowns were both called for and implemented.
So, what's going on?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-e ... -1.6348335
We had our own little Freedom Convoy in February.
A protest round here normally generates a dozen protesters. Maybe about 70 if it's in a worldwide popular cause.
The Convoy had 500-700 vehicles (police estimate), plus crowds on foot. It was bigger than the Annual Parade.
Nobody would talk to the CBC on camera (and, unusually, they admitted this - local reporter, methinks, probably got fired ;) )
There was no comment by the Premier, but the restrictions started being dropped rapidly a week later. All mention of 'the science' has stopped, both by government and media.
Locally, people have worn a mask only in grocery and retail stores and restaurants. Nobody visiting, nor the staff in, what might be termed 'working man's' businesses, like welding shops and plumbing supplies depots, has ever worn a mask (whether male or female). None of the delivery drivers have bothered.
I don't know anyone who's had Covid, nor do any of them know anyone who's had Covid.
So, that's the tale from our little corner of the world.
p.s. OFSO - I didn't think it was legal to play AC/DC at any volume other than 11. I'm pretty sure it's in the UN Charter....
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 10:33 pm
by Dushan
Welcome back Fox!
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 12:44 am
by Fox3WheresMyBanana
..and Hi! to you too.
Pleased to see the Dreaded Lurgy didn't get you.
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 10:51 am
by Boac
Dushan - good news that you were wrong?
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 11:16 am
by TheGreenGoblin
Coronabollocks can have a long lasting, debilitating , not to say ultimately terminal effect, upon a career, as I discovered when I met up with an old friend who has just been forced out out of his academic job of some 30 years, where he was the head of the philosophy department at a well known South African university for his refusal to abide by policies relating to vaccinations and anti-vax propaganda. He has moved the courts but no avail! It is a shame and I feel for him but he has his pension and a lot of time on his hands to look forward to I guess.
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 11:25 pm
by Dushan
Boac wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 10:51 am
Dushan - good news that you were wrong?
I am glad that I was wrong, but I was only going by what I was told…
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 12:37 am
by John Hill
Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 8:07 pm
Two weeks ago, our Province had the worst week for Covid deaths - 6. There were no calls in the MSM for mandates, or even masks, both of which have been stopped.
Yet, when there were no deaths, complete lockdowns were both called for and implemented.
So, what's going on?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-e ... -1.6348335
We had our own little Freedom Convoy in February.
A protest round here normally generates a dozen protesters. Maybe about 70 if it's in a worldwide popular cause.
The Convoy had 500-700 vehicles (police estimate), plus crowds on foot. It was bigger than the Annual Parade.
Nobody would talk to the CBC on camera (and, unusually, they admitted this - local reporter, methinks, probably got fired ;) )
There was no comment by the Premier, but the restrictions started being dropped rapidly a week later. All mention of 'the science' has stopped, both by government and media.
Locally, people have worn a mask only in grocery and retail stores and restaurants. Nobody visiting, nor the staff in, what might be termed 'working man's' businesses, like welding shops and plumbing supplies depots, has ever worn a mask (whether male or female). None of the delivery drivers have bothered.
I don't know anyone who's had Covid, nor do any of them know anyone who's had Covid.
So, that's the tale from our little corner of the world.
p.s. OFSO - I didn't think it was legal to play AC/DC at any volume other than 11. I'm pretty sure it's in the UN Charter....
I see that 40,000+ deaths are attributed to Covid in Canada but I guess those people did not really have the disease.
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 12:55 am
by Dushan
John Hill wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 12:37 am
I see that 40,000+ deaths are attributed to Covid in Canada but I guess those people did not really have the disease.
Very few of those didn’t have multiple co-morbidities and even if there wasn’t the flu strain called COVID-19 they would have succumbed over two years. The world wide mortality rate didn’t budge 1 one hundredth of a percent over the last two years. We just attributed the cause to a differently named flu strain. Old and sick people die during flu season every year.
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 1:54 am
by TheGreenGoblin
Dushan wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 12:55 am
John Hill wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 12:37 am
I see that 40,000+ deaths are attributed to Covid in Canada but I guess those people did not really have the disease.
Very few of those didn’t have multiple co-morbidities and even
if there wasn’t the flu strain called COVID-19 they would have succumbed over two years. The world wide mortality rate didn’t budge 1 one hundredth of a percent over the last two years. We just attributed the cause to a differently named flu strain. Old and sick people die during flu season every year.
Whatever one's opinions about the the other points made in your post Dushan, let us be clear about one thing, Covid 19 is
NOT a
flu viral strain! The most accurate thing you can say is that they are
different viruses that can affect people, in similar and different ways!
Where is my pedant emoji?
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 9:15 am
by John Hill
Dushan wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 12:55 am
Very few of those didn’t have multiple co-morbidities and even if there wasn’t the flu strain called COVID-19 they would have succumbed over two years.
So they were going to die anyway? Oh well, I guess that is OK then.
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 9:25 am
by Boac
Ignorance is bliss? Dushan - I see you using the Boris Johnson defence
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 7:20 pm
by prospector
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 11:09 pm
by TheGreenGoblin
John Hill wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 9:15 am
Dushan wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 12:55 am
Very few of those didn’t have multiple co-morbidities and even if there wasn’t the flu strain called COVID-19 they would have succumbed over two years.
So they were going to die anyway? Oh well, I guess that is OK then.
Not like we don't have the fact that we carry the ultimate co-morbidity factor in the context of the Minkowski space time diagram with us too. The co-morbidity argument is tautological bull, fit only for the average Daily Mail reader, but surely not worthy of the doughty denizens of this good place?
Re: Coronabollocks..
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2022 9:57 am
by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Canada, as of Monday, will drop all federal vaccine requirements, both for air and bus travel, and employment. Until this announcement, they were still pursuing making vaccine mandates permanent.
The science hasn't significantly changed in 6 months.
Anecdotally, it is because they can't get the workers.
They are still persisting with land border vaccine requirements. There's no science to back this - looks like Trudeau is still bitching at the truckers.
