The coronavirus

dignin

HughFreakingDillon said:

daily average nearly 500 new covid cases here. it's nuts. religious rally at the city legislature anti-maskers on saturday. fuck these people. 

Is that up or down for you guys? I haven't been following Manitoba's numbers.

HughFreakingDillon

they loosened restrictions when we were getting about 50-70 cases per day and the test positivity was about 3%. then about 4-5 weeks after that, shit exploded. averaging 500 cases per day, test positivity is now about 14%. so we're in full lockdown, kids k-12 are remote learning until May 30. 

people are fucking stupid. even though restrictions were loosened, we were still smart about it and kept to the guidelines. our chief medical officer kept talking in press conferences, imploring parents to stop having fucking sleepovers. SLEEPOVERS. during a pandemic. morons. so that's why we're in this full lockdown shit again. 

this is why I laugh when I see anyone say lockdowns don't work. anyone who says lockdowns don't work is completely out to fucking lunch (or maybe canadians just listen to our public health professionals?). our case load and test positivity are a direct result of whatever restrictions we're under. no question about it. free reign? CHAOS. lockdown? low cases/positivity. 

HughFreakingDillon

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/16/media/sanjay-gupta-cdc-mask-messaging/index.html

Dr, Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, says CDC made a critical error in their messaging about masks last week. 

mcgruff10

HughFreakingDillon said:

daily average nearly 500 new covid cases here. it's nuts. religious rally at the city legislature anti-maskers on saturday. fuck these people. 

Is 500 cases for your city/province/country?  To me 500 cases for a province or country would be incredibly low and zero need to panic.  In nj we are finally under 1000 cases per day and life seems to be getting back to normal.  

oftenreading

mcgruff10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

daily average nearly 500 new covid cases here. it's nuts. religious rally at the city legislature anti-maskers on saturday. fuck these people. 

Is 500 cases for your city/province/country?  To me 500 cases for a province or country would be incredibly low and zero need to panic.  In nj we are finally under 1000 cases per day and life seems to be getting back to normal.  

It’s cases in the province of Manitoba, which has a population a wee bit smaller than New Jersey. About 1.3 million vs about 9 million, so 500 cases isn’t great. 

BC reported 494 new cases on Friday with a population of about 4 million. We’re trending downward, thankfully. 

Weston1283

I’ve always thought that the number of cases was somewhat irrelevant due to testing expanding by the day

Covid deaths are at their lowest 7 day average since the pandemic started in the states, and that’s the number that matters to me

Pap

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HughFreakingDillon

mcgruff10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

daily average nearly 500 new covid cases here. it's nuts. religious rally at the city legislature anti-maskers on saturday. fuck these people. 

Is 500 cases for your city/province/country?  To me 500 cases for a province or country would be incredibly low and zero need to panic.  In nj we are finally under 1000 cases per day and life seems to be getting back to normal.  

500 per day is huge here. adjusting for population, that would be more than 5 thousand cases in Ontario per day.

it's less about the number of cases (but that does of course factor into it) and more about test positivity and how filled our ICU's are getting. we're getting near capacity in that area. 

with our test positivity being at nearly 15%, I recall early on in the pandemic we were told it would be cause for panic if we got to 3%. 

HughFreakingDillon

Manitoba is now able to lay claim to the worst per capita covid infection rate in North America. Hazzah. 

Zod

HughFreakingDillon said:

Manitoba is now able to lay claim to the worst per capita covid infection rate in North America. Hazzah. 

It wasn't that long ago that we had an uptick in BC and were worse than Alberta and the other prairie provinces.   I guess it comes and goes which province/state is the worst depending when that government decided to lock more things down (or in the case of the US when the Vaccine became widespread). 

HughFreakingDillon

Zod said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Manitoba is now able to lay claim to the worst per capita covid infection rate in North America. Hazzah. 

It wasn't that long ago that we had an uptick in BC and were worse than Alberta and the other prairie provinces.   I guess it comes and goes which province/state is the worst depending when that government decided to lock more things down (or in the case of the US when the Vaccine became widespread). 

it's just kind of funny to me how our Premier continues to:

a) claim Manitoba had the tightest restrictions of any region in Canada (false-I recall a friend in Vancouver told us they weren't allowed to leave their yard at one point except for essentials)

b) it's all Trudeau's fault, for, pretty much everything. 

23scidoo

I had a tired day but after reading some of the posts here, my mood getting better..
the best was that about PJ should ask vaccination passport from the members or something like that..lol..

"Now it's tomorrow and everything has change"..

dignin

HughFreakingDillon said:

Manitoba is now able to lay claim to the worst per capita covid infection rate in North America. Hazzah. 

Took that from us here in Alberta. It's a mighty feat to fuck up more than us and our government.

HughFreakingDillon

dignin said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Manitoba is now able to lay claim to the worst per capita covid infection rate in North America. Hazzah. 

Took that from us here in Alberta. It's a mighty feat to fuck up more than us and our government.

I said to my wife that I thought it was a big mistake to open up as much as they did back in March. But I get it that they have to weigh public buy in, but man, did they ever fuck this up. 

benjs

I'm planning on booking my shot in Bobcaygeon, for the exclusive reason of being able to sing "it was in Bobcaygeon, where I got my vaccination".

lastexitlondon

Pj should  play evacuation but. Vaccination instead.  

HughFreakingDillon

benjs said:

I'm planning on booking my shot in Bobcaygeon, for the exclusive reason of being able to sing "it was in Bobcaygeon, where I got my vaccination".

LOL that's awesome Ben

static111

benjs said:

I'm planning on booking my shot in Bobcaygeon, for the exclusive reason of being able to sing "it was in Bobcaygeon, where I got my vaccination".

Awesome!

HughFreakingDillon

and you just know Gord would have sung that lyric at their next live show, right after Vaccination Scar. 

Weston1283

Can’t believe Charlie is actually doing this but... Massachusetts moved their reopening up to May 29

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/17/metro/baker-update-mass-reopening-timeline-monday-amid-relaxed-face-mask-rules-nationwide/%3foutputType=amp