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Old 11-16-2022, 05:20 PM   #1921
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I'd just like to take a moment to acknowledge all the selfish righteous mother####ers who spent 2 years soaking up misinformation, shutting down Ottawa, our borders, and generally being giant dicks to society, for their contributions. We now have governments so terrified(or in our case, pants on head stupid-thanks again for that too) that they won't do what every intelligent health expert is recommending and that even they won't "listen to the experts" for fear they'll have to put up with another round of chaos from the zero IQ brigade.

The result of this is that children are dying unnecessarily, our healthcare system continues to be slammed, and we won't use any tools we have to get through the worst of it. Politicians tremble while they put out milquetoast statements like "make the choice to stay up to date on your vaccinations" and "wearing a well-fitting, high-quality mask can help reduce the risk of becoming sick and help protect others from being exposed. Albertans should be supported regardless of their choice to mask or not." Have some ####ing conviction. So thank a lot mother####ers, enjoy another mound of deaths pilled on your souls. You did it. Congrats.
What 'tools' should the government be using right now in your opinion?

Mask mandates? In what places?

Capacity restrictions?

Vaccine Passports? In addition to Covid shots, would this also include mandatory flu shots for anyone wanting to participate in society?

School Closures?

Closing of non-essential businesses?

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Old 11-16-2022, 05:27 PM   #1922
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Mask mandates are the simplest thing to do.

Not sure how wearing a mask intrudes on anyones life most places it's what 10-15 minutes.
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Old 11-16-2022, 05:33 PM   #1923
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What 'tools' should the government be using right now in your opinion?

Mask mandates? In what places?

Capacity restrictions?

Vaccine Passports? In addition to Covid shots, would this also include mandatory flu shots for anyone wanting to participate in society?

School Closures?

Closing of non-essential businesses?
Mask mandates are pretty easy/painless. Start with that for large venues, schools, transit. No need to shut anything down.

But to write off all tools due to ideology is something only an incompetent leader would do.
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Old 11-16-2022, 06:37 PM   #1924
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Nature published this article two weeks ago: A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat


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as part of this Delphi study, a diverse, multidisciplinary panel of 386 academic, health, non-governmental organization, government and other experts in COVID-19 response from 112 countries and territories to recommend specific actions to end this persistent global threat to public health.
These are their top-ten recommendations, in terms of the overall consensus of agreement among those in the study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s415...398-2/tables/8

On the specific question of mask mandates, that fell under the domain of "Prevention" within that domain, this was deemed the second-highest recommendation, in terms of consensus:

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Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the workplace, educational institutions and centres of commerce should remain a high priority, reflected in public health guidance and supported through multiple social measures and structural interventions (for example, remote work/schooling policies, ventilation, air filtration, facemask wearing).
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Facemask wearing lowers the transmission of airborne diseases, such as Covid-19, this is widely known and widely supported by the evidence. The question now is whether or not this known fact carries enough weight to convince people that facemasking should remain as a policy.
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Mask mandates are pretty easy/painless. Start with that for large venues, schools, transit. No need to shut anything down.

But to write off all tools due to ideology is something only an incompetent leader would do.
I don’t think this is all politicians. There was a CBC poll (sound the leftist klaxon!) the other day and it was about 73-75% of people who didn’t want a mask mandate.
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https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/...ovid19-survey/

This one?
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Old 11-16-2022, 07:04 PM   #1927
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What 'tools' should the government be using right now in your opinion?

Mask mandates? In what places?

Capacity restrictions?

Vaccine Passports? In addition to Covid shots, would this also include mandatory flu shots for anyone wanting to participate in society?

School Closures?

Closing of non-essential businesses?
Cowboy89... Maybe sit this one out bud.
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Old 11-16-2022, 07:05 PM   #1928
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Well that’s 1000 people surveyed and here’s ~133,000 that say the opposite.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1591856131978461184

I don’t think Canadians are excited to return to mask mandates.
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Well that’s 1000 people surveyed and here’s ~133,000 that say the opposite.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1591856131978461184

I don’t think Canadians are excited to return to mask mandates.
Jezzus Christ Slava, a Twitter poll? Come on man.
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Jezzus Christ Slava, a Twitter poll? Come on man.
Given the accuracy of polling, it’s probably about the same!
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Old 11-16-2022, 07:10 PM   #1931
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I just read 5 different articles about outbreaks in schools and it was not mentioned in any of them. Quite the opposite actually. Lots calling for the simplest and most effective measure to be brought back, masks.
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This situation should have the authority telling the average Joe what to do not the other way around. Unfortunately the gov will shirk their responsibility to help the population.
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Well that’s 1000 people surveyed and here’s ~133,000 that say the opposite.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1591856131978461184

I don’t think Canadians are excited to return to mask mandates.
It wasn't even that inconvenient to wear a mask, i thought it was a small price to pay to help reducing the spread.

But i'm biased though, i'm one of the people you were wearing masks to protect, im dead for sure if i get covid.
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It wasn't even that inconvenient to wear a mask, i thought it was a small price to pay to help reducing the spread.

But i'm biased though, i'm one of the people you were wearing masks to protect, im dead for sure if i get covid.
I’ve worn a mask a ton of times over the past few months. I’m not some rabid anti-masker or anything like that. I’m just showing that the evidence there doesn’t seem to show that people are clamouring for mask mandates. And really, if people think kids should be wearing masks or think people should be masked up in general, wear one.
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Again, a Twitter poll isn't evidence. I'm sure if you went looking amoung the anti-mask Twitters and Facebooks you'd see they spammed the poll. There is no way it is the opposite of a real poll with proper methodology conducted by Nanos. This is common sense stuff her, stop presenting it as evidence.
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Old 11-16-2022, 07:42 PM   #1936
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Given the accuracy of polling, it’s probably about the same!
No, that's Trump like typing. You are basically doing the same thing as when the anti-realty types say you can't trust mainstream media.
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Old 11-16-2022, 07:45 PM   #1937
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No you see, Elon Musk introduced special technology that ensures only Canadians can vote on Canadian polls
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Old 11-16-2022, 07:50 PM   #1938
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Lol, it’s also CBC, but sure. I get that you don’t like that result and that’s really why you don’t like the poll.
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So the same twitter that votes to name things Boaty McBoatface, thats the polling you are going with? Ok then.
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Old 11-16-2022, 07:58 PM   #1940
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Bots and trolls flood CBC social media content. I'll wait for actual research group polls to release their data. Twitter polls are unscientific and uncontrolled at best.
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