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King Heffy Canucks Hall-of-Famer

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3 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said:

Me too. As a guy carrying an extra 25 lbs around, I'd love to be able to fix that with a shot....

Same, although 25 might be generous in my case these days.  Not to mention the decrease in wait times for drug and alcohol treatment would have saved a few friends' lives.

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18 minutes ago, johngould21 said:

It appears more cases of the flu are affecting hospital care. Last year, social distancing and masks prevented this immensely. I must say, touch wood, I haven't had a cold or the flu in well over two years. I hope to extend that another year.

First time I've taken a flu shot in 15 years.  So far no apparent upgrade on the 5G already inside me.

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2 hours ago, johngould21 said:

It appears more cases of the flu are affecting hospital care. Last year, social distancing and masks prevented this immensely. I must say, touch wood, I haven't had a cold or the flu in well over two years. I hope to extend that another year.

I just had my cold/flu in two years over the weekend. Friday night I just got blasted with a fever, congestion, sore throat , chills , headache and I was sure it was covid but I came back negative. I think we’re in for a bad cold and flu season. So many new germs are immune systems don’t know what to do. 

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B.C. COVID-19 pandemic update:

 

Due to updates to the Provincial Immunization Registry (PIR), the data on vaccinations administered to the B.C. population is not available today.

 

On Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, B.C. is reporting 500 new cases of COVID-19, including 21 epi-linked cases, for a total of 210,203 cases in the province.

 

There are currently 4,301 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, and 203,375 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 426 individuals are currently in hospital and 124 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

 

The new/active cases include:

  • 152 new cases in Fraser Health
    • Total active cases: 1,800
  • 48 new cases in Vancouver Coastal Health
    • Total active cases: 527
  • 121 new cases in Interior Health
    • Total active cases: 745
  • 103 new cases in Northern Health
    • Total active cases: 557
  • 76 new cases in Island Health
    • Total active cases: 613
  • no new cases of people who reside outside of Canada
    • Total active cases: 59

In the past 24 hours, five new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,223.

 

The new deaths include:

  • Fraser Health: one
  • Northern Health: one
  • Island Health: three

There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at Royal Inland Hospital (Interior Health), for a total of 33 facilities with ongoing outbreaks, including:

 

long-term care:

  • Cherington Place, Queens Park Care Centre, Rosemary Heights Seniors Village, Tabor Home, Cascade Gardens, Maplewood House (Fraser Health);
  • Amica Lions Gate, Amica Edgemont (Vancouver Coastal Health);
  • Cottonwoods Care Centre, Village by the Station, Brocklehurst Gemstone Care Centre, Sun Pointe Village (Interior Health);
  • Peace Villa (Northern Health); and
  • Chartwell Malaspina Care Residence (Island Health).

acute care:

  • Mission Memorial Hospital, Queen’s Park Care Centre, Abbotsford Regional Hospital, Burnaby Hospital (Fraser Health);
  • Royal Inland Hospital (Interior Health);
  • University Hospital of Northern BC, GR Baker Memorial Hospital, Bulkley Valley District Hospital (Northern Health); and
  • Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (Island Health)

assisted or independent living:

  • The Emerald at Elim Village, Swedish Assisted Living Residence, Harrison Pointe, Pacific Carlton Seniors Community, Tabor Manor, The Cedars, Hallmark on the Lake, Hallmark on the Park, Bethshan Gardens and Revera Parkwood Manor (Fraser Health).

There has been one new outbreak at Mar Jok Elementary School (Interior Health).

 

From Nov. 1-7, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 63.5% of cases and from Oct. 25 to Nov. 7 they accounted for 69.7% of hospitalizations.

 

Past week cases (Nov. 1-7) – Total 3,379

  • Not vaccinated: 1,966 (58.2%)
  • Partially vaccinated: 179 (5.3%)
  • Fully vaccinated: 1,234 (36.5%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Oct. 25 to Nov. 7) – Total 366

  • Not vaccinated: 235 (64.2%)
  • Partially vaccinated: 20 (5.5%)
  • Fully vaccinated: 111 (30.3%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Nov. 1-7)    

  • Not vaccinated: 246.5
  • Partially vaccinated: 63.8
  • Fully vaccinated: 28.4

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Oct. 25 to Nov. 7)

  • Not vaccinated: 45.2
  • Partially vaccinated: 11.2
  • Fully vaccinated: 2.5

Since December 2020, the province has administered 8,361,935 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

 

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021HLTH0069-002140

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DeNiro Canucks Hall-of-Famer

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4 hours ago, Tortorella's Rant said:

 

I agreed with everything he said until he called what Pfizer is doing “genocidal “.

 

To expect a corporation to do the “morally just” thing in a capitalistic society is ignoring the nature of capitalism.

 

He is absolutely right that it’s the system that is the problem. All the responsibility to end the  pandemic can’t be put on Pfizer though. The fact that we don’t have more readily available vaccines at this stage after spending hundreds of billions of dollars is on governments not corporations.

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3 hours ago, Tortorella's Rant said:

 

 

So.........nationalize all pharmaceutical companies?  Socialism all the way? 

 

Because that is the only way you will eradicate price gouging and greed-is-good mentality of the monopolies.  In fact it was pretty good for Canada when we had our very own lab until Mulroney's Conservatives privatized it.  Because of that, we were so organized and ready, instead of begging other countries for a vaccine, we made it ourselves.  Canada, through Connaught Laboratories, because of their stellar work, was even asked by the WHO to be leaders in the distribution of the Small Pox vaccine for the planet.

 

I forget where you fit on the sliding scale of left/right  pro or anti mandate.  But this sure seems like its moving the goalposts.....again.  So tired of dealing with that kind of debating. Like this is supposed to be some kind of argument against accepting the vaccines.  Oh no! a pharmaceutical company is corrupt!  Shocking! Who would have guessed? So because of that, their products are also suspect, and shouldn't be put into your arm?  Is that the angle here?  Or you've simply had enough with unfettered Capitalism.

 

So nationalize them. The invisible hand of the market is not working to curb this kind of blatant profiteering. Lets go Torts get your red flags out, and I'll meet you at city hall.

 

But all I see is goalposts being dug up and moved back again and again.

Vaccines are full of nanobots who will track you for the gobmint...no? Too crazy? Oh.. what I meant was..

 

Vaccines have not been tested properly and not approved by the FDA....oh now it is approved, and its been over a year with only rare adverse reactions.  Oh...what I meant was...

 

Masks make you sick.  Oh...that was debunked?...what I meant was...

 

Vaccinated people are actually more dangerous because they shed toxins to the unvaxed! Look at this spoon stuck to the side of my cheek! ...okay okay, crazy again

 

Forget about all that its all about FREEDOM BABY!  No gobmint gonna tell me what to do, even in a world wide emergency, and its the most efficient way to deal with it.  Even if my stubbornness drags out the pandemic. My right to not cooperate and do my part is more important. 

 

But oh...yeah...I still believe in gobmint seatbelt mandates because it keeps insurance costs down, and you know, public health costs.

Oh...and needing a licence. You want to feel safe on the road with others.

Oh...and having to obey traffic lights.

Oh...and mandating all kinds of safety standards for products like kids toys, and even for food products coming into the country...

 

Oh...and that anti vaxers can protest and be nuisances all they want and health workers are still mandated by big gobmint to treat them just as well as every other Canadian.  Wouldn't want to change that mandate eh?

 

Lets do this Torts!

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2 new variants of covid active in B.C.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/wellness/2-new-types-of-covid-19-delta-plus-variants-are-emerging-in-western-canada-doctors-warn/ar-AAQuXB1?ocid=msedgntp

 

Two new types of the COVID-19 Delta plus variant are emerging in Western Canada, doctors warn

 

The warning came during a physician town hall on November 4, when Dr. Jessica Minion, a medical microbiologist with the Saskatchewan Health Authority, told fellow doctors about two new variants of Delta called AY.25 and AY.27.

"This strain likely emerged in the U.S., in the Midwest, but then once it came to Canada [...] it was noticeably different and quite separate," Minion said.

"When we say Canada we really mean Western Canada [...]. We warned people that uncontrolled spread is going to lead to evolution of the virus. You give it enough opportunities to pass through enough people you're going to get something unique to western Canada and this is what it is."

The variants of Delta are being designated "AY" with a number that refers to the geographic location in which it was established. For instance, AY.4 refers to a variant of Delta detected in the U.K., while AY.33.1 is expanding in the northeast U.S.

 

Minion explained that the volume of "clades," the distinct groups of the virus, had risen from a dozen in October to more than 100 a month later.

She also said that these new virus strains are only being found in B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Speaking about whether there was an added threat with the variants of Delta, Minion said: "There is no evidence that any of these Delta pluses have increased severity over normal Delta. That being said, it's quite difficult to measure that [...] because the demographics of who's getting infected in this wave have changed.

"The severity in vaccinated individuals is significantly less."

Health Canada has a robust website with all the latest information on COVID-19 vaccines and can answer any questions you may have.

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By the time Health Canada give authorization, there will be millions of kids who have been given the vaccine.  This will give parents a lot of data to inform their decision.  Also, were are coming up on the 1 year anniversary of giving vaccines to the general public. 

 

Still waiting for the calamitous long-term side-effect that anti-vaxxers have been crowing about.

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/10/1054137225/nearly-1-million-kids-ages-5-11-will-have-their-first-covid-shots-by-the-end-of-

Nearly 1 million kids ages 5-11 will have their first COVID shots by the end of today

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