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  1. 2 minutes ago, JM_ said:

    it hasn't been that easy of a process for other diseases, not sure that this situation would be easier, I expect the controls to be even tighter. 

    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.

  2. 5 hours ago, JM_ said:

    Assuming that the proper controls were in place - how is this any different from any other incurable (at the moment) disease?

    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?

  3. 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?

  4. 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.

  5. On 4/1/2022 at 1:15 PM, nuckin_futz said:

    I don't see Covid in China getting completely out of control. They are quick to enact shutdowns.

    Omicron is already ravaging Shanghai, it's out of control.

     

    This is going to be a really really rough year for China.

  6. 20 hours ago, UnkNuk said:

    But will hosting these Olympics change anyone's mind about China?  Is someone going to say "Hey, that was an exciting snowboard competition.  Maybe the CCP isn't all that bad!"

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

  7. 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.

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  8. 12 minutes ago, Shayster007 said:

    No, reality is 324 in hospital and 90 in ICU. To put that in hockey terms for you, that's 14 NHL teams entire 23 man roster currently laying in a hospital bed because of covid, in our province alone.

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

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  9. 1 hour ago, -DLC- said:

    China locking down cities with 1,000,000 people for....3 asymptomatic cases.  Did I just hear that correctly on the news?

    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.

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  10. 2 hours ago, Timråfan said:

    Omicron spreads easier so hopefully no sinister mutation pick that up.

    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.

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  11. 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.

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  12. 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.

  13. 10 hours ago, wallstreetamigo said:

    I am a fan of hockey. The Canucks are my team but I can recognize that other talented players and teams are better.

     

    Under your logic, saying Petterssen is better than McDavid makes someone a “true fan”. In reality it just makes them an idiot.

    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.

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  14. 5 hours ago, Boudrias said:

    I been to China a couple of times. The people do what they have to to get by. Most people where ever they are do the same. The poster suggesting that the Chinese people would react negatively about a boycott might be true for some. It is not a homogenous society. Tiananmen Square did happen and the Falun Gong movement does exist. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students go outside of China for educations. Not all are agents for the CCP. Can the CCP control their thoughts when they return to China? My nephew taught in China for 2 years and found the people OK. Parents were very involved in their children's education. It was viewed as a major stepping stone to a better life. 

    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.

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  15. 6 hours ago, DeNiro said:

    Look at Ovechkin.

     

    Hes 36 and having one of his best seasons ever. You don’t think he’ll be on that team Russia in 4 years?

     

    Crosby is cut from the same cloth. As long as he’s healthy he’ll still be performing at age 38. Players like him are so smart they’ll find a way to contribute even as they slow down.

     

    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.

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