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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
Careful, you're cherry picking. I never said healthy athletes were a reason to assume things are safe. It is called responsible journalism to convey messaging that would be helpful and accurate. Your damn right conveying messaging that not a single athlete has had any complications or prolonged symptoms (including elderly coaches) would be a very positive thing right now. Respectable outlets blindly publishing articles and videos of people running for the fences is every bit as irresponsible right now.
There's plenty of evidence out there beyond Quebec going off the deep and contributing to this being far more of a concern that it MAY need to be in Canada.
Infact, highly regarded medical professionals are already confirming there is no need to assume severe illness is about to skyrocket with Omicron, especially for highly vaccinated countries like Canada when South Africa, a country with poor uptake in general, saw no discernable spike in critical cases through this variant.
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I never cherry picked anything - quite the opposite, I am suggesting we need to avoid cherry picking.
All I said was that we should maintain the current, safe standards until we have sufficient evidence to be confident that the Omicron strain is in fact less dangerous.
And no, we don't yet have sufficient evidence.