Covid Pandemic

[SouthSardiswx]

I guess the anti vaxxers and anti maskers want to destroy our country's economy.
The longer this pandemic goes on the more we free fall in debt unreal were doomed we'll never recover.

[Glacier]

700+ cases today and 10 deaths in B.C. when will it end, they say 79% are fully vaccinated in B.C. l don't see it slowing down so demoralizing.

And just think, BC is doing Far better than the world average! Even Alberta is doing better than the world average. And Gibraltar is 100% vaxxed, and doing worse than every country on earth except Peru and a handful of eastern European places.

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[Forrest Gump]

And just think, BC is doing Far better than the world average! Even Alberta is doing better than the world average. And Gibraltar is 100% vaxxed, and doing worse than every country on earth except Peru and a handful of eastern European places.

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I guess China has 0 deaths and 0 cases.

I suppose Japan is the big surprise considering their high population in such a small area.

[SouthSardiswx]

I guess China has 0 deaths and 0 cases.

I suppose Japan is the big surprise considering their high population in such a small area.

This whole thing is weird your right Gumps China you dont hear much now infact where it all started remember it was huge news about Covid at the beginning now it's like it hardly exists there,
Or there suddenly all immune to it.

[SouthSardiswx]

And just think, BC is doing Far better than the world average! Even Alberta is doing better than the world average. And Gibraltar is 100% vaxxed, and doing worse than every country on earth except Peru and a handful of eastern European places.

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l know Glace l'm thankful living in a country that cares about it's population during this pandemic l wouldn't want to be anywhere else it's just the idiots that don't get the science.

[Glacier]

I guess China has 0 deaths and 0 cases.

I suppose Japan is the big surprise considering their high population in such a small area.

China isn't testing, so "no cases" LOL!

[SouthSardiswx]

China isn't testing, so "no cases" LOL!

That's correct Glace l recall hearing that.
So what are they hiding then.

[Typeing3]

l know Glace l'm thankful living in a country that cares about it's population during this pandemic l wouldn't want to be anywhere else it's just the idiots that don't get the science.

Australia cares so much about its population during this pandemic that their prolonged excessive lockdowns are gradually turning some parts of the country into an authoritarian police state. Instead of questioning anything lets instead blame those "idiot" protesters who don't get the science, right?


Australia Traded Away Too Much Liberty
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... cy/619940/

Up to now one of Earth’s freest societies, Australia has become a hermit continent. How long can a country maintain emergency restrictions on its citizens’ lives while still calling itself a liberal democracy?

Australia has been testing the limits.

Before 2020, the idea of Australia all but forbidding its citizens from leaving the country, a restriction associated with Communist regimes, was unthinkable. Today, it is a widely accepted policy.

The nation’s high court struck down a challenge to the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. “It may be accepted that the travel restrictions are harsh. It may also be accepted that they intrude upon individual rights,” it ruled. “But Parliament was aware of that.”

The government of South Australia, one of the country’s six states, developed and is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in the free world to enforce its quarantine rules. Returning travelers quarantining at home will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person.

In New South Wales, Police Minister David Elliott defended the deployment of the Australian military to enforce lockdowns, telling the BBC that some residents of the state thought “the rules didn’t apply to them.” In Sydney, where more than 5 million people have been in lockdown for more than two months, and Melbourne, the country’s second-biggest city, anti-lockdown protests were banned, and when dissenters gathered anyway, hundreds were arrested and fined, Reuters reported.

Australia is undoubtedly a democracy, with multiple political parties, regular elections, and the peaceful transfer of power. But if a country indefinitely forbids its own citizens from leaving its borders, strands tens of thousands of its citizens abroad, puts strict rules on intrastate travel, prohibits citizens from leaving home without an excuse from an official government list, mandates masks even when people are outdoors and socially distanced, deploys the military to enforce those rules, bans protest, and arrests and fines dissenters, is that country still a liberal democracy?

Australian police use facial recognition to make sure you're home during COVID quarantine
https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/09/1 ... quarantine

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday that AI-based technologies like facial recognition could "have negative, even catastrophic, effects if they are used without sufficient regard to how they affect people’s human rights".

While Bachelet stopped short of calling for a total ban on facial recognition technology, she said governments should halt the use of facial scanning in real-time until they could prove the technology was accurate, non-discriminatory and met privacy and data protection standards.

Under the system being trialled, people respond to random check-in requests by taking a 'selfie' at their designated home quarantine address. If the software, which also collects location data, does not verify the image against a "facial signature", police may follow up with a visit to the location to confirm the person's whereabouts.

Dan Andrews will ban ALL public transport for six hours this weekend and hand out $5,500 fines to stop anti-lockdown protesters from storming Melbourne
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ourne.html

A public transport ban will be in place and massive fines issued in an attempt to stop anti-lockdown protesters from storming Melbourne's CBD this weekend.

Parts of Victoria's transit network will shut from 8am to 2pm on Saturday to prevent thousands from gathering for a planned protest against the state's Covid lockdown restrictions.

Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said police would be patrolling trains to ensure commuters had legitimate reasons to disembark with a $5,500 fine for anyone caught unlawfully entering Melbourne CBD.

Horrific moment policemen shove woman to the ground and pepper spray her face as she lay hurt on the road - as protest over lockdown erupted into violence on the streets of Melbourne
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tests.html




https://twitter.com/_evelynrae/status/1 ... 1738167301
Some comments from Melbourne residents:

Pushed to the brink by an out of control government. People's lives ruined, losing their businesses, their homes and livelihoods. The threat of huge fines for protesting still didn't stop them which shows you how far the government has pushed them.

We have been in lockdown for 250 days. Read that again. Our kids have been at school for 8 out of 90 weeks ( approx)... we are in hard lockdown with curfew and ability to travel only 5 kms from home and 2 hrs of exercise a day. These & more protests & strikes should & must continue. We have done “ the right thing” for 2 years and have been given crumbs.

[PortKells]

Definitely not a good situation in Australia. There has to be a balance. Covid zero isn't possible.

[PortKells]

And just think, BC is doing Far better than the world average! Even Alberta is doing better than the world average. And Gibraltar is 100% vaxxed, and doing worse than every country on earth except Peru and a handful of eastern European places.

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I don't tend to compare us to most places as we have more wealth, access to health care, education, etc. Also the Gibraltar thing is just silly. Show me the death rate after they got their population vaxxed, otherwise it appears you might have an agenda. The vaccines are quite clearly working at about the efficacy they were expected to work. Very few hospitalizations and deaths, and those who did were generally immunocompromised or immuno suppressed.

[John]

I don't tend to compare us to most places as we have more wealth, access to health care, education, etc. Also the Gibraltar thing is just silly. Show me the death rate after they got their population vaxxed, otherwise it appears you might have an agenda. The vaccines are quite clearly working at about the efficacy they were expected to work. Very few hospitalizations and deaths, and those who did were generally immunocompromised or immuno suppressed.

I find myself agreeing with you so much lately it’s weird

[SouthSardiswx]

I find myself agreeing with you so much lately it’s weird

Yup Kells knows his stuff John always enjoy his reads from politics health and sports Trex as well. see we all can get along John.

[SouthSardiswx]

I find myself agreeing with you so much lately it’s weird

O.k.

[PortKells]

I find myself agreeing with you so much lately it’s weird

Haha I'm just trying to come across a lot less prickly which may or may not have been an issue...last year was so stressful at work and otherwise I was just burnt out and ranting about stuff non stop, twitter style. I'm staying off of facebook and whatnot because that place really gets me bent out of shape and fast.

[Forrest Gump]

O.k.

Quick , go check to see if John has a fever.