Kurgom

I don't see this. Makar is considered a great player and some fans get excited and have called Hughes better than him in the past, but no one puts down Makar. It's different from the people who refuse to admit Hughes is close to Makar, despite being Canucks fans, and both can be the best defensemen in the league for a while.

I wish Canada had the balls to do this. Even though I personally believe Omicron is going to be the first endemic variant and wont overwhelm hospitals, this is what unvaccinated people need to be treated like. They don't understand anything else.

Also a good number of these people are suffering from Delta, if not all of them.

I mean, it sucks but at this point I'd rather no Canadians go to the Olympics. Even ignoring omicron, the CCP could easily use "5 week quarantine" to detain people forever.

This is what happens in retrospect, but there is always anger and dislike of new mandates.

Delta and Omicron aren't friends, they're fighting for the same hosts. Eventually, a single dominant strain will always appear for a disease because it spreads the best. How Delta made the original Alpha variant extinct, so will Omicron do the same to Delta eventually.

What do the governments actually gain from mandates? I never got this. Mandates are unpopular, lose them money and create a large group of people that think they're being oppressed. What is actually the gain they would have with keeping them?

Google search resulting in everyone saying the same thing > taking your word for 40,000 deaths after 2 years.

So you misremembered something. 40,000 people dying 2 years after injection is a lot different than 40,000 cases of polio a month after injection, 200 of them suffering long term damage and 10 deaths, and this is very core to your argument. Unless you're implying there is some secret recollection of events hidden from the public.

It's how successful ones work. It's hard to be more infectious while being deadlier, because you're going to cut down your infection vectors by making your host bedridden, easily avoided by healthy people, and well dead. Random mutation can turn a virus deadlier, but that deadlier virus will usually be wiped out by the less severe more infectious variants.

I don't disagree, but the numbers used in the study are far from ideal so we can't really take it to mean anything one way or another. I'm sure they'll release a more intensive study in the future.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/12/18/7-deaths-from-omicron-covid-19-coronavirus-variant-in-uk-showing-its-not-the-omicold/ This is the kind of "journalism" that preys on this type of thinking. I'm not saying you're wrong to take this stance, but the media uses proper scientific process to stoke fear. The exact same non-peer reviewed, far from perfect study is brought up 3 times in the same article, just quoting different people tweeting about it, and then it devolves into politics and $&!#ting on fox news, which while justified has nothing to do with the facts around omicron. People just want to be right over everything and like feeling smarter than others. Wear your mask, follow guidelines, this looks like it might be the end. Don't listen to people who get revenue off fear clicks.

How is that strange? First you say we have no evidence of omicron being less severe than Delta, which is true because it's so new (even if the study you posted had no hospitalizations from Omicron, it would be the case), then you say "it's strange, no one can explain how it came to be" when the variant was just detected and there's barely any information on it and where it has been. It would be stranger if we knew how a more infectious, less severe variant that acts more like the cold, infecting the throat and nose more than the lungs, emerged right away. People have gotten too smug over this stuff.

No evidence doesn't prove it's not milder than Delta. This is my problem with you sky is falling posters. You are happy to let everyone know there is no hard scientific evidence that it isn't milder, somehow making it seem like scientists think this is the case? Let people have hope for the first time in 2 years, it's looking like it's becoming endemic. There is no way you can 100% say it's milder, but lots of stuff is pointing towards that being the fact. Science wont be able to say things are mild or not for months due to due process, but everyone can see the huge spikes in cases in certain countries with plummeting hospitalizations, and that's without the horde of asymptomatic people or people who think it's just the common cold.

Blah blah blah blah, all your opinions are based on false information someone fed you. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/ 'In April 1955 more than 200 000 children in five Western and mid-Western USA states received a polio vaccine in which the process of inactivating the live virus proved to be defective. Within days there were reports of paralysis and within a month the first mass vaccination programme against polio had to be abandoned. Subsequent investigations revealed that the vaccine, manufactured by the California-based family firm of Cutter Laboratories, had caused 40 000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children with varying degrees of paralysis and killing 10." Please, find any sort of documentation bringing up those numbers you stated. I can't find anything! The reality is these long term side effects appearing years down the line because of vaccination are a myth that don't exist! Bad vaccines are a thing and can kill you, they'll kill you fast though.

This is a bad metric, they don't know how many Omicron infections there actually are in Denmark right now. To me all you need to do is look at South Africa's recent surge which is almost certainly caused by Omicron, and there being no spike in deaths unlike the previous surges. Deaths do lag behind infections, but not this long. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/south-africa-omicron-coronavirus/ So far, no one has done anything near as in depth as South Africa on this variant, so I'll trust them.

"Hope he rots in a Mexican jail." Oh he will, then he will be back in Canada and re-offend, this time killing his victim, because he was thrown into a wolves den instead of attempting some sort of rehab to make him not a blight on society. A boxer who probably takes punches to the head with enough force to kill a lot of normal people having no self control? Maybe what we should get out of this isn't "good thing he's in jail, problem solved."

I'm pretty sure I have the new variant. Sore throat, runny nose, headache, fever that lasted half a day. It's hard to take anyone seriously about the new variant with all the conflicting messages and different places taking completely different stances on it. NFL wants to let COVID positive players play, we're cutting our arena capacity in half.

The "first alarm" is a tornado watch, which happen countless times in tornado alley. If you want every business to shutdown during torando watch, you're going to have packed roads full of sitting ducks if a tornado happens during the watch. Keep being outraged though. It'll help. Or you can calm down and read an actual article that isn't bull$&!#. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/13/kentucky-tornadoes-candle-factory-search-survivors Even this article has a pointless "why were they working" question with absolutely no professional backing this line of questioning. Trying to make it seem like the workers were told to keep making candles while the torando was coming, which is patently false. Nothing in any article states that these people were told to leave shelter and work during the torando warning. There would be many, many more dead if that were true. Use of vague language (first and second "alarm" instead of saying tornado watch and tornado warning) and pushing their own ideas with no support. Great "journalism." This line is supported by absolutely nothing in the article it's in. Sirens only happen during tornado warnings, which started 20 minutes before the factory was hit, not 3-4 hours which was the torando watch for multiple states.

If anyone left the building after the "second alarm" they would have died. Tornado watch isn't tornado warning, and the tornado didn't spend 4 hours moving towards the factory like this article implies. Whoever wrote that article doesn't know how tornadoes work, or is purposefully ignoring it to try and paint an even worse picture for outrage.

Right, how they scream at rich countries for "vaccine hoarding" because poor countries don't have the infrastructure to actually store mRNA vaccines. Go google "vaccine hoarding" and see how much bull$&!# is perpetrated by the WHO. Great organization, totally not compromised.

I've been vaccinated since last June. The GP will eventually learn how terrible the WHO is. Don't worry, ask your doctor what they think about them. The sooner the WHO is out of the picture, the faster the world can make an effective organization for infectious disease control.

Please tell me how the UN is controlled (a word I never used) by X. Then I show you how UN delegates make stupid statements constantly for internal propaganda. The WHO is a bunch of doctors who could easily be coerced into saying the wrong things. You're not very smart and no I'm not going to interact with you any more.

The WHO isn't the UN isn't the security council. I'm done, go ahead and be terrified of the next variant the WHO freaks out about. The UN has had these problems since the 70's if you even cared to look.

Then why even talk to you, you're obviously never going to realize the UN is mostly just a place for countries to talk about how evil the west is for internal propaganda. Similarly, the WHO can continue to stoke fear and spread misinformation and you'll still trust them.