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Too bad they didn't close the border on the mainland early on in the pandemic. Not that it would have necessarily stemmed the flow (considering mainlanders were still travelling everywhere in Jan 2020), but it just shows how scared 777 is of crossing winnie the poo and his ccp lackies.
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There's a saying in Cantonese, loosely approximates as "minced into meat patty". As gory as it may seem, I can't help but wonder how close the elephants were to turning the "suspected" poacher into a meat patty?
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They are now, but that wasn't the case up until somewhat recently - in fact, the fact that AZ became so available (plus the "clot" issues/approaching their "best before date") is likely the key game-changer. If not, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they stuck dogmatically to their original age-based plan.
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Edler To Have Hearing Today [Update: Suspended 2 games]
6of1_halfdozenofother replied to -DLC-'s topic in Canucks Talk
I'm suspecting our D will experience a possible "addition by subtraction"... -
Instead of using age as the primary determinant of vaccine priority, the PHO should have been using risk of spread as the key factor in deployment of the vaccine. Sure, age makes sense from the perspective of those who are in assisted living and care facilities being the highest risk, but once you're dealing with a mobile population, age should no longer be the primary determining factor. The fact that the variant strains are now demonstrating how younger people are now the ones becoming more sick and in need of attention should have been a warning sign that the age-based plan isn't/wasn't going to work effectively. Add in the fact that the HAs initially didn't want to (or perhaps they were too ignorant to) provide neighbourhood positivity statistics (there are ways to share this info without divulging personal information or identifying specific people) only tells me that they really have n.f.c. what they're doing. They should have given priority to vaccinate those who have public-interfacing jobs - teachers, bus drivers, grocery store personnel, hospital/medical and dental clinic staff and practioners (including home care staff), service-oriented jobs, first responders, etc. - after the elderly living in institutions have received their dosages. They did at least give priority to some rural communities where outbreaks were happening and where the indigenous population was significantly high; where health care services were/are relatively poor or non-existent, so I'll give them that. However, if it weren't for the AZ "clot" concerns, I doubt our PHO would have changed their approach on vaccine deployment and would have stuck dogmatically to the age-based approach. I just hope someone can give Dr. H and her team a shiny nickel for them to buy a clue. </rant>
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more importantly - does the vaccine have a slight blue tinge...?
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Edler To Have Hearing Today [Update: Suspended 2 games]
6of1_halfdozenofother replied to -DLC-'s topic in Canucks Talk
In other words, what you're saying is that the league will give him the Marty McSorley suspension. -
Goodbye Hong Kong. Nice knowing you....
6of1_halfdozenofother replied to Lancaster's topic in Off-Topic General
I think it was the "World Events Thread" that I mentioned that I wouldn't be self-identifying as HKer in the upcoming census, but in light of the movement referred to in the article below, and the fact that I do have some (albeit tenuous) link maternally (and even more tenuous link paternally) to HK, I may go ahead and identify as a HKer. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3129745/declare-yourself-hong-konger-not-simply-chinese-canadian My cultural background (including my upbringing), my mother tongue, my exposure to Hong Kong and its world view (as well as its historical place in the world) - all of these far exceed my "identity" link to the current mainland "cultural norms" and their attitude towards their place in the world (and I definitely do not share their politics or choice of governance). Sure, I share a common history to the mainlanders that perhaps stretches back thousands of years, but so do many Asians that have self-identified as other nationalities. -
I think a lot of the problem with the local HAs has to do with critical mass - there's not enough population density/population base in each of the HAs to be able to make the bulk purchases (or hiring) necessary to stock up on important supplies (or personnel) at a reasonable cost. The licensing of medical professionals, as you mentioned, is handled provincially, and this is due to the fact that provision of health care is a provincial responsibility; much like how professional engineers or lawyers are also governed by provincial law. Good luck trying to get the provinces to release their jurisdiction on this to the feds. Drug and medical device regulation is addressed at the federal level. Effective treatments are often dependent upon the ability to access the appropriate and efficacious drugs and medical interventions/devices by health care providers (provincially and locally), both physically and financially. When you have that many layers of government with their hands in the cookie jar, and when funding is not sufficient at any level, there are bound to be inequities in provision of service - both in terms of quality and ability. Sadly, when governments approach taxpayers with an empty palm, the most common reaction of the taxpayer is to tell the government that we're already taxed to death and to piss off.
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I know some of you also follow the CBC (especially those who think of it as some vile left-wing commie mouthpiece looking to subvert the Canadian population ), but for the benefit of those interested in the effect of the vaccine on the female population, there was an article on their website today involving many local experts: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/women-covid-vaccines-1.5991026 For those who are squeamish about bloody articles, this spoiler is especially for you.
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Doesn't sound like you've been to Japan recently. For a few cities with millions of people each, the streets in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto are exceptionally clean. They take so much pride in keeping them clean that one day I was impressed to find three Kyoto city workers - one was clearly a foreman while the other two were labourers - crouched on the stairs of a subway station with small brushes and garbage bags in hand, scrubbing the tiled walls and steps on their knees and picking up debris as they went along. In comparison, Canadian cities are shamefully more like cesspools.
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I know it's generally frowned upon to provide a link to an external website here without providing at least some quote or excerpt of what you're wanting to discuss from that external website, but I'm hoping the nature of this link I'm about to provide will receive a waiver to that requirement. I happened to stumble upon this in the course of working today (yes, my work does involve visiting websites to a certain degree ), and in the interests of providing a URL to a site where experts are discussing many things academic and real-life, I'd like to share this one called "The Conversation Canada", which is run by the Academic Journalism Society, whose goal is to bring academic/research output to the public using an open platform to help people better understand what research is being done, what the findings have been, and promote discussion from an objective point of view. They provide a summary of what their goal and vision is here: https://theconversation.com/ca/who-we-are They have a dedicated section to discuss all aspects of the pandemic, and it can be found at https://theconversation.com/ca/covid-19 Enjoy!
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Do I think the system can be better? Yes. Unequivocally yes. Hell yes. &^@#ing rights. How? Well... FIrst of all, it's too far above my pay grade for me to come up with the answer. I also haven't got much of an understanding of the underlying system to be able to make meaningful statements of how to fix or improve the system. My education only takes me so far, and my education did not cover health systems - theoretical or applied. Besides, if I gave you an answer on how to fix or improve it, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't even want to participate in my own proposed system, because I can tell you right now that any answer I were to provide would be the result of me talking out of my ass.
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IMHO, this is very short-sighted. Forget Toronto - in places like Hong Kong, they'll nail it right down to the apartment block or public housing unit where cases have been found, and even in some cases, they'll provide unit numbers within those apartments (because transmission can happen via the aerosols travelling through sewage pipes, which sometimes vent into apartment units), so whole sides of the apartment block may be impacted and residents of those units are asked to get tested. As much as I disagree with how HK's government is running things politically (especially the fact that they were a transmission hub early on in the pandemic - before the pandemic was called - because they refused to close the border with their overlords to the north), their pubilc health officers at least have had experience dealing with SARS back in 2003, and have institutional memory on how to deal with minimizing spread of an aerosol-transmitted virus.
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My deep down desire and evil wish is that Gaudette remains stealth contagious, and despite the quarantine he needs to go through in order to join Chicago's team, he gets them all sick as well, and then they get their opponents sick, leading to a major cluster&^@# chain. That'd learn the league for not shutting things down as they should have this season (long before the bug hit the Canucks, even).
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Great to see our neighbours to the south going the Sailor Moon route...
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Agreed - it should be onesies: all day, every day!