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It's looking like Shinzo Abe will be pronounced dead soon, the language being used by the NHK seems to be prepping the nation for grieving.

That's good and all but I don't think reality soon becoming going to your doctor and having a conversation about when the government will let you kill yourself is going to be a positive for mental health in this country. Usually therapy and doctors get the people whom struggle with these thoughts to keep their mind on other things. Kids see this and know it's morally correct to end your life if you are suffering from depression badly enough.

Because depression is not incurable and most of the times it is "incurable" it's due to a lack of effort towards change by the individual. I was guilty of this in the past, if you told 20 year old me "yeah but it's OK to just give up and die if you still feel bad a year from now" I would not be here. As mental health becomes an even more important part of young people's lives going forwards, this is not something you want them to be thinking of as an option or resolution. Society telling them yes, it's okay to kill themselves, how can you not see the effects this will have on the most vulnerable people?

I can't get over how stupid this is. You hospitalize someone for a suicide attempt, they are bipolar depressed. You say; we're going to treat you with these meds and therapy, but you'll need to work your ass off just to live a normal life like everyone else; or just give up and be even more depressed and in 5-6 months we'll let you kill yourself. What do you think a depressed person will do in such a situation? How is this being considered?

You can't overstate the effects of a society saying "if you (think) you're &^@#ed up enough, just end it" on mentally vulnerable people. Telling depressed people that suicide is in fact an option is never a good idea. This is a bad idea for so many reasons, how it got so far shows a huge disconnect between the people making policy around mental health in Canada and Canadians suffer or suffered from poor mental health.

Omicron is already ravaging Shanghai, it's out of control. This is going to be a really really rough year for China.

Internal propaganda. People willing to rape and murder for the glorious motherland in foreign wars.

Don't fall into the same trap Benning did and rebuild, properly. Hughes, Bo, Pettersson and Demko can be here for 10+ years each, keep them and get what you can for Miller. In 5+ years you will see the dividends from this in serious cup runs.

Blatant cheating and favoritism, is anyone surprised?

Recycling plastic is an actual scam, and should be done away with. It all ends up in a landfill in Asia. Homeless people should be paid by weight for picking up garbage and keeping places clean.

Don't blame HK. The people in charge are the same ones that ordered peoples pet's dogs and cats to be beat to death while they were under forced quarantine. That country is a mess.

So 0.006% of the population is in the hospital, the sky is falling. Most of them because of Delta as well.

Reality. Everyone I know has gotten Omicron, from my elderly grandparents to my nephews. You probably had it but didn't notice with how infectious it is.

There's about 4 different arguments going on in this thread, none of them are reasonable and make any sense, while COVID isn't putting anyone in the hospital right now. This thread is like a fever dream.

Lying about numbers, letting people starve, people eating cats to survive, pregnant women having miscarriages because they're denied health care due to lock downs, beating peoples family pets to death. If one good thing has come out of this pandemic, it's that people have really woken up to how evil the CCP is. Nothing they do is sensible, right or for their people.

I see people say "hopefully it doesn't mutate to something worse" as if suddenly Omicron cases will suddenly start making people's kidneys fail. I think this all comes from a game where you make a virus and can "evolve" it so that everyone infected suddenly gets new symptoms. That's not how real viruses work, if a random mutation does occur that makes it more deadly, it will still have to spread and compete against other variants. It's very unlikely that a variant that mutates into a very deadly disease will spread well enough to do anything besides kill a few people unexpectedly and fizzle out. It's probably happened already with people in this pandemic; unique, deadlier variants that weren't sequenced because they only infected a handful of people while the major variants starved it out.

Sales of plastic garbage bags go up, production goes up, in the end there's barely any real different. Plastic is so ingrained in modern life people don't really understand how hard it is to make meaningful changes to our plastic waste. Feel good change that wont amount to much. Even the plastic straw ban did more than this, much more.

https://www.newsweek.com/united-nations-giving-names-uyghur-dissidents-china-opinion-1649060?s=09 This is why people hate the UN now. This is why no one trusts the WHO. It's a broken organization that is only used by authoritarian regimes as a propaganda arm now.

I think it's time people admit Crosby isn't on the same level as OV. Crosby has been really good, and could have competed with OV over his career, but he's more comparable to Malkin than OV who has just kept going and dominating for 16 years now. Injuries and slowing down, something that OV just doesn't have issues with, make it so Crosby isn't a real generational talent, the only generational talent post 04 lockout was Ovechkin imo.

Anecdote but my entire family got (probably) Omicron. Positive COVID test on my sister. The women have had it rougher than the men, but the worst it's gotten is a temperature with a stuffy nose and cough. I've been better for a few days now.

Japan is kicking COVIDs ass currently to the point where they're confused how they're doing so well.

Pettersson is a blue chip prospect that might be a league leader in points one day. McDavid is the best player in the world, and has been for years. Makar and Hughes are comparable no matter how much people want to make it seem like Makar is some generational talent that Hughes can never eclipse. Using hyperbolic comparisons doesn't help your argument. Pettersson is never going to be McDavid, Hughes is already close to Makar and might end up being better, might end up being worse, who knows they're both too young right now to tell.

What you have to understand is China today is very different from China even 5 years ago. When the state would push "diversity" propaganda with people dressed up in fake ethnic outfits, it would be seen as what it was in the past. Now it's considered "cool" with the youth to be a part of such things. Western educators are being run out of the country, education in English is being attacked, almost all of the problems in the society are blamed on foreign influence now. Xi Jinping thought is a required University program to graduate, and it's taught in schools. No one is immune to nationalism and radicalization. Meng was touted as a hero when she returned no worse for wear. China has been becoming a nationalistic hellhole at breakneck speeds. The country is so large that you can still go there today and not see it at all if you stay in the right places, but the attitude of Han supremacy is slowly seeping into even places like Shanghai.

It's hard to compare anyone to OV. The guys a physical freak produced from the soviets marrying Olympics athletes to each other. Crosby has injury problems which will only get worse with age, Ovechkins body is made of steel and he plays full season after full season. By 2026 I think there will be too much competition for Crosby, if he's even playing then, to make the team.