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  1. I do, played soccer there as a kid at the field in front of the school. I believe it had a dorm for the native students before they pulled out. I had a few friends that went there. Because of zoning I went to Peden Hill that was the outskirts for a while too - we used to motorbike, ski doo all around that area right up to Ginter's and then back to Starlane and Charella gardens. 10 year old kids riding motorbikes with no parental supervision. Shooting guns as well.
  2. Used to go there as a kid with my Dad. Was always busy. Had everything. And the service was old school helpful/friendly.
  3. other corona viruses act this way.
  4. I was not talking about herd immunity and agree with you on the point made about the evidence regarding it. And regarding immunity we are in agreement as well. Immunity could more than likely be just a temporary or partial one. You get and then down the road or whatever you catch it again but with less symptoms. Japan as you probably know has been doing something closer to Sweden - voluntary social distancing. Like every place you need to look at local situations. BC is no like Quebec. Tokyo is more of an outlier here. In Tokyo in early April they had 2 days where infection rates were around 30% of all tested - they only test people who meet the guidelines. It is now down to 7% infection rate for Tokyo. Where I live which has a population of 9 million in a space smaller than the lower mainland the number of recorded infections has been about 1200 since Mid January. Obviously a lot more were infected. There is one prefecture which has yet to have a recorded case yet, or just 1. An area where I have family ties has a population of 1.4 million and has 38 cases since January 16th. They were only under a State of Emergency for 2 weeks. My wife flew from here 3 weeks ago to Vancouver.
  5. From what I have read there has never been a successful corona virus vaccine. The super clusters are well identified - confined spaces, poor air circulation, and people in close contact. The close contact involves kissing, singing, cheering and so forth. We have to learn to live with this and it is going to be trial and error. All the experts are pretty much in agreement with this. For example schools do not appear to be problematic. So one step is to open them up with guidelines and then watch and see if things are okay. That is what gov't are doing now with the easing of restrictions. Open beaches and then watch. That is all we can do. And people just need to manage hygiene. I am in Japan and i can tell you that the 2 meter rule is impossible. There is a small restaurant near my house. It is very famous so much so that they do not take reservations nor cards. The owner is 70 plus years old. The place sits probably 25 people, and it is shoulder to shoulder. The customers are mostly men and probably average age 55 - you can smoke there and it is heavy drinking. It has been open the whole time and is packed every night from 5-10. The virus is going to be here for a long time and so what happens is that most people get it and show mild symptoms and then if they contract it a few years later again than the symptoms are even less.
  6. Just look at downtown Vancouver. All those shops cater to tourism. This summer and winter are busts. Next summer there may be a vaccine or whatever but people's earnings have been hammered and will be for a long time. We just walked into a 3-4 year depression like situation at minimum.
  7. Sweden, Iceland are to name a few countries where primary schools have been open the whole time. Japan hasn't been a complete shut down either. This is an interesting site if you click on visualize evolution https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse
  8. there is a group on this site that always present that moralizing false dilemma - life versus economics (livelihood). The research is very clear on what recessions and depressions do to people's lives and health. The current research shows that closing primary schools cuts infection by around 2%. Numerous regions and countries have kept these schools open the whole time. That is fact. Social distancing is a variety of tools and measures. You need to sort the effective ones from the ineffective ones. Keeping millions of kids at home and forcing at least one parent not to work is more damaging than reducing infection by 2%. Not all kids or teachers may be able to go to school but that overwhelming majority would be fine. A study came out two weeks ago that showed hard lock downs were not any more effective in stopping the trajectory than light ones. You are right when people get to look at this closely there are going to be some very big surprises. By that time most won't even care to look.
  9. Correlation is not causation
  10. No not at all. I have been a member of the board since 06.
  11. The recent 'obscure professional outlier' is a Nobel Laureate from Stanford in the Schools of Medicine (Michael Levitt). The other video I posted is with Johan Giesecke. What does wikipedia say about him? From 1995 to 2005, Giesecke served as state epidemiologist of Sweden. After this, he was Chief Scientist at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control from 2005 to 2014. As of 2020, Giesecke is a member of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards of the World Health Organization,[3] and also works as an advisor to the Public Health Agency of Sweden.[4] The videos are posted for people who want to hear more 'nuanced' discussion from experts rather than 'clear and concise' talking points from the mainstream media that obviously have so much influence on the echo chamber here.
  12. Thanks, yeah it was good. I am sure you now realize you were wrong? Right?
  13. she forget to include this info - big omission! Levitt said he can see a better outcome in the U.S. than what has taken place in China, Italy or Iran, especially with social distancing measures in place. He said social-distancing mandates are critical in cutting the number of coronavirus cases.
  14. you left out some info Levitt said he can see a better outcome in the U.S. than what has taken place in China, Italy or Iran, especially with social distancing measures in place. He said social-distancing mandates are critical in cutting the number of coronavirus cases.
  15. u didn't watch it cause he doesn't advocate no social distancing - far from it.. What is more he is an expert in structural biology and computer science in the medical school at Stanford. His Nobel is in chemistry - yeah, he is a real scientist. He was following the virus well before most people were.
  16. How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter About Visual Information. (Cairo: 2019)
  17. Like when you posted deaths from car accidents ^ to prove a point? Without also understanding or presenting that there are measures in place to try to prevent and reduce them? Seatbelts are mandatory, there are drunk driving, speeding, reckless & distracted driving laws in place. We have age limits as to who can drive and testing is part of that. "Just because" deaths also happen other ways doesn't mean we should accept them or avoid taking measures to possibly prevent them. So "driving and pedestrian" stats thrown into a discussion about a current world crisis/virus get a free pass? Because they're to make your argument? 1.35 million world wide would suggest measures are the exception rather than rule. Before you give the gov't too much of a pat on the back. Pedestrian deaths in North A are going up each year and this is mostly attributed to the popularity of SUV's and poor street lighting. I pulled this from a CBC article for you - guess I am not the only one. Actually, as I posted previously there is a research article out of Stanford University that compares fatality risk with Covid to fatality risk to driving. Last year, they killed more pedestrians and cyclists than died in the dreadful SARS epidemic of 2003. Many of those killed are seniors. The city responded to what is truly a life and death crisis by erecting small yellow signs which read: Seniors Safety Zone: Drive Slowly. One more piece of city signage for drivers to ignore as they race to the next red light. All lives matter!
  18. No he doesn't and I saw this days after it was uploaded March 10th. Read his 2017 book as well. Keep trolling a way.
  19. My reply to the OP was to raise questions that you need to ask in order to critically look at the number that was posted out of context. Posting a number out of context is a well known trick in data presentation for misleading people. Your message is simply accept something at face value or as a given. Didn't claim to understand the situation in Texas hence my post related to asking questions. You talk as if you are actually there. You also have 3 bad arguments in your post one is a false dilemma (economy vs life) the others I will let you try and figure out.
  20. Macho man you speak the truth. Mass media has really taken a beating with Covid. Doesn't matter which side. If you want to find any kind of semi-objective news or proper debate you have to dig it up on YouTube - all kinds of sites now have taken off. People like Joe Rogan are becoming seen as more trustworthy than anything mainstream.
  21. What I do in that situation is just scroll over them and definitely don't respond to them. You can also use the block out. I have never done that though.
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