[News] UPD: 25 members of the Canucks test positive for COVID-19

[Flame On]

Originally Posted by ricardodw

I see, the US providing the bulk of the funding for NATO and the United Nations indicates to you that they are not open to working with other nations.

Canada was able to step up and enter some sort of mixed up Agreement with China who has a China first policy along with absolute atrocious human rights, gender, religious, income equality record.

Never once did our leaders step up and ask to be part of operation warp speed and spend our billions of vaccination tax dollars on the viable US plan. It would have been an admission that Trump administration was not completely stupid or evil.

There would be no possible negative reaction from the US to Trudeau stepping up and asking to provide 10% of the funding for operation warp speed for priority delivery of the vaccine to Canadians.

For the good of the Canadian people our leaders should have been doing everything possible to jump on Operation warp speed. Rather they let the Canadian people bear the burnt of their never ending lock down policy to exert whatever minor influence they had over the US election.


Right now the actual real Canadian vaccination plan is getting the surplus vaccines after the US is fully vaccinated.

The US is the process of vaccinating everyone and coming out of lock down.

The US based players on the Canadian teams must be wondering what the heck they are doing on a Canadian team and calculating the impact of going for a quick trip to their US homes to get vaccinated and put up with the quarantines on getting back into Canada.

What a crock of BS.

[transplant99]

This is what is happening on the lower mainland..from an MD.

The hospitals are much busier last 72 hours. Significant increase in COVID cases especially in younger people who are coming in around day 10 from initial disease onset. Presenting really sick. Needing 100% oxygen to stay alive teetering on intubation sick.

It’s many patients in that 20 to 50 year old group. Most do not seem to have co morbidities. This will go very badly if people don’t wise up. Don’t travel right now. At this pace of admissions our covid unit will be over capacity before Tuesday.

[Drake]

@benkuzma:
Been told reported number of positive COVID-19 cases with Canucks isn't entirely accurate. The number is under 20. There haven't been severe symptoms. Most experiencing mild headaches, fever, fatigue and lethargy. No reports of vomiting, few with worse symptoms better. #Canucks

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Drake

@benkuzma:
Been told reported number of positive COVID-19 cases with Canucks isn't entirely accurate. The number is under 20. There haven't been severe symptoms. Most experiencing mild headaches, fever, fatigue and lethargy. No reports of vomiting, few with worse symptoms better. #Canucks

Was just about to post this.

Kuzma is a pretty solid reporter. Wouldn't put something like this out there unless he had it on lock. Which then brings up the question of who is feeding Dreger bull####.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Drake

@benkuzma:
Been told reported number of positive COVID-19 cases with Canucks isn't entirely accurate. The number is under 20. There haven't been severe symptoms. Most experiencing mild headaches, fever, fatigue and lethargy. No reports of vomiting, few with worse symptoms better. #Canucks

What is this? Does he mean that those who were showing the worst symptoms have started to improve?

[combustiblefuel]

Originally Posted by Johnhitbox

Not entirely eliminated it, that's a virus that is spread by kids, more then covid is. Kids aren't always going to follow the rules and that's a good thing. We need to stop trying to stop the spread of viruses. Imagine what the next flu season will look like.

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You do know we only had 36 confirmed cases in canada . Most developed countries are seeing more than a 90%+ decrease in influenza.
More people took the flu vaccine this year and combined with covid restrictions .

It's ironic that people keep pushing "It's just like the flu" yet covid keeps pushing hard and influenza has been virtually eliminated.

[combustiblefuel]

Originally Posted by Poe969

The variants spread a lot easier and faster, masks alone aren't enough. Eye/face protection is crucial along with washing your hands after touching basically anything and everything. The Brazil variant is supposed to be the worst yet, I feel sorry for everyone involved and hope they can find a way to contain this. This is why isolation is key with this, its spreading like wildfire.

This^

I would add you should be wearing 2 masks now .

[BowRiverBruinsRule]

Originally Posted by Flame On

What a crock of BS.

I have to agree. BS.

[FlamesAddiction]

I saw Damien Cox spazzed out on Twitter. He suggested that the Canucks will be a rested team because of COVID when they come back. Several people called him out for the comment, including Eddie Lack who had COVID.

[flames_fan_down_under]

Damien Cox is an absolute idiot.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I saw Damien Cox spazzed out on Twitter. He suggested that the Canucks will be a rested team because of COVID when they come back. Several people called him out for the comment, including Eddie Lack who had COVID.

Lack didn't just call him out. He shat on Damien Cox entire existence. Eddie was not having it.

If the Canucks do play again this year (they should not) they're going to be out of shape and in rough shape at the same time. It's going to take an off season + to get back their conditioning.

[Iggy Snipe]

My wife just recovered from one the variant strains. She was staying with her sister who also was infected with it during her recovery, as they had both tested positive after going out for a glass of wine a few days earlier. We had her leave our home to go isolate with her sister, instead of staying in our basement.

AHS has "released her", meaning she returned home today from isolation away from us.

My Kids and I have all tested negative and feel fine, which was very lucky.

She now has a lingering cough/tight chest, shortness of breath, and fatigue. She has been told this could last a long time after she has "recovered". She was out of breath walking up the stairs today.

All I am going to say is, Covid is no joke, and it affects everyone differently. For some its nothing more than a short stint with a cold, others it is literally life threatening.

Im guessing a bunch of these NHL players will not be able to play at a high level again this year because of breathing issues. It is extremely unlikely that all of them will be able to play hockey in the next few weeks.

My wife was 32 years old, extremely healthy with ZERO health issues. Before my wife caught covid, I was not a person who truly understood Covid. You read about it, and see the awfulness of it on the news, but once it hits your family, it becomes real fast.

[DeluxeMoustache]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1378513629067112450

[XeO]

Originally Posted by flylock shox

It's this Brazil variant. It seems to be different.



The group that I know that came down with Covid recently in Whistler - where that variant is prevalent - had fevers, headaches, fatigue, loss of smell, but curiously no coughs.



I'd speculate that the lack of a cough may be a reason it transmits more easily, as people think it's likely something else (like a bad sleep or hangover) whereas a cough would give the game away early on.



Everyone from the group I know has recovered now (except for one person to whom it was passed fairly recently), but none had a symptom-free experience with it. (I should add that BC doesn't seem to tell the average Joe whether they had a variant or not, but the timing/location of their infections, along with the symptoms, strongly implicates the Brazil variant IMO).

The Brazilian variant spreads more easily because of two reasons. The first is like the other variants, people who have been infected have higher viral load in their nose, which means they breath out more concentration of it and thus there is a higher chance of passing it on to another person. The second reason is the Brazilian variant also has the N501Y and K417T mutations which helps the virus attach to human cells easier

[D as in David]

There is a possibility that a playoff bound team could suffer a similar fate just prior to the playoffs starting. If that team was unable to put together a healthy team to start the playoffs, would the NHL look to the next closest team outside of the playoffs to step in or give a first round bye to the opponent?

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by D as in David

There is a possibility that a playoff bound team could suffer a similar fate just prior to the playoffs starting. If that team was unable to put together a healthy team to start the playoffs, would the NHL look to the next closest team outside of the playoffs to step in or give a first round bye to the opponent?

Curious about this also. I think the organization gets exemption to call up unlimited minor leaguer players before you give the berth to another team.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Lack didn't just call him out. He shat on Damien Cox entire existence. Eddie was not having it.

If the Canucks do play again this year (they should not) they're going to be out of shape and in rough shape at the same time. It's going to take an off season + to get back their conditioning.

Didn't Dallas have pretty much their whole team out and came back on fire? Also, seems things could be exaggerated we should wait for facts.

[Reggie28]

Originally Posted by D as in David

There is a possibility that a playoff bound team could suffer a similar fate just prior to the playoffs starting.

That may only be a reasonable possibility for Canadian teams. It looks like MLB teams are beginning to reach the 85% vaccination level.

As vaccine eligibility requirements have started to loosen in many states around the country, a few baseball teams have announced plans to vaccinate their personnel before Thursday’s opening day.

The St. Louis Cardinals are expecting to have access to the Johnson & Johnson shot before they begin their season.

The Houston Astros intended to fly from their spring training facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., to Houston on Monday to get vaccinated, instead of traveling directly to Oakland, Calif., for their series against the Athletics. The St. Louis Cardinals are expecting to have access to the Johnson & Johnson shot in Ohio before they begin their season against the Cincinnati Reds.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.wsj....ba-11617070127

The Cardinals were hopeful to have doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine available to them when they arrived in Cincinnati on Monday night. Manager Mike Shildt confirmed on Wednesday that at least 85 percent of the club’s traveling party was able to receive the vaccine.

Members of the Cardinals' traveling party included the following Tier 1 individuals: players, coaches, trainers and some front-office members, among other staffers. All were given the choice to receive the vaccine this week.

The Cardinals are the first team with a publicly known amount of organizational members vaccinated, though other teams around the league have similar plans or have individual vaccinations already underway.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.mlb....-vaccines.html

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by D as in David

There is a possibility that a playoff bound team could suffer a similar fate just prior to the playoffs starting. If that team was unable to put together a healthy team to start the playoffs, would the NHL look to the next closest team outside of the playoffs to step in or give a first round bye to the opponent?

So you're sayin' there's a chance

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Didn't Dallas have pretty much their whole team out and came back on fire? Also, seems things could be exaggerated we should wait for facts.

Yeah, they won four straight out of the gate. Since then they have been 9-12-10. They have four wins in their last ten, and are presently down 1-0 in Carolina while being outshot 29-16 through two.

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