One in three Canadians say government response to COVID was overblown: poll
… Men were more likely (41 per cent) than women (32 per cent) to think governments overplayed the threat of COVID-19. The view was also highest among those aged 18 to 24 (40 per cent) and 35 to 54 (42 per cent), but dropped to 30 per cent for the 55 plus cohort.
People in the Prairies and Alberta were more likely to have a negative perception of the decisions taken by government.
Forty-seven per cent of Albertans and 45 per cent of Manitoba and Saskatchewan respondents agreed the COVID response was exaggerated.
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Horrible things happened, he said. “The massive death rate in long-term care was something awful. Where we really failed was vulnerable people — the elderly, people in poverty, racialized groups, Indigenous groups.”
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Emmett Macfarlane@emmettmacfarlane.com Dec 11, 2024:
Your consistent reminder that about one in three people are idiots.
Stephen Murphy (smurph)@smurph.bsky.social:
Yup. My UW colleague @emmettmacfarlane.com is right in his post – might even underestimate how many are idiots.
@brucearthur.bsky.social:
16% regretting vaccination means at least one in six Canadians have totally failed to process reality
Refer also to:
Value your freedom and brain? Wear N95 mask around others, don’t get SARSCoV2! COVID-19 can cause alpha-synucleinopathies like lewy body dementia, Parkinson’s and multiple system atrophy (and many other harms)
Hey Fucker Truckers and your ignorant pals at Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and True North Declaration: SARSCov2 messes with your brain and semen, reduces male fertility and worse, harms kids. Between human ego, stupidity, benzene, frac’ing and COVID-19, will human sperm go extinct?
Who will walk the dog when everyone has Long COVID? As health authorities/politicians (notably super stupid TBA-led Smith’s UCP in Alberta) cater to anti-health, anti-science, anti-intelligence anti-vaxxers; remove health protections like easy to use N95 masks even in care and health facilities (how stupid is that?); intentionally destroy public health care to enrich their rich pals; lie to us, deny that SARSCoV2 is airborne and can kill kids (here’s looking at social murderer Dr. Bonnie Henry) and healthy athletes; and tell us the pandemic is over so that we go back to over-consuming, over-polluting, over-travelling, making billionaires richer while destroying earth’s livability.
B.C. worker found dead of COVID-19 in his room in camp near Dawson Creek.
Hey anti-health-protections, anti-rights-for-the-rest-of-us Fucker Truckers: How’s your sperm? New study suggests COVID does long-term damage to male reproductive tract (even in mild cases).
Dear rage farmers, anti science, anti rule of law Justice Centre for [Con] Freedoms; anti maskers; anti vaxxers; anti public health care; abusive Fucker Truckers: “Prior COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of newly diagnosed erectile dysfunction”
SARS-CoV-2 in 2022: Outstanding reporting by Andrew Nikiforuk, and courage by The Tyee for publishing his works. Complete with nasty backlash from anti-public health, pro-corporate-rape-&-pillage-for-profit bullies (COVID liars, minimizers, and deniers).
Excellent clip on COVID-19 and immunity: Toronto Emergency Physician Dr. Kashif Pirzada, interviews Dr. Anthony Leonardi, T-cell Immunologist
Paul Hunter: “You don’t get herd immunity with coronaviruses”
Excellent letter by George Thatcher on COVID-19 explosion in Alberta
Alberta: “Get COVID Party” in Edson two weeks ago sends “a lot” of residents to already overwhelmed Edmonton ICU. Is that where COVID-denying UCP officials got sick, now in hospital “battling for their lives?” Ken Michel: “I was going to attend that party, but I went to the ‘Throw big rocks in the air and close your eyes’ party instead.”
“Absolutely scathing news release:” Jason Kenney’s COVID-19 failure. Chief Adam: “We have a Premier who is prioritizing profits over lives by continuing to allow infected workers to come to our region from all over the country to keep oil flowing. … [He] is willing to bet the lives of your family and mine, all so the oil fat cats can continue to get big dividend payments.”
More “Rule of Law” When it Suits Them: Alberta’s Bill 70, COVID-19 Related Measures Act, 2021 (legislation to be retroactive to March 1, 2020) protects as usual, investors and business over health and family.
Murray Klippenstein reportedly chased rich white COVID-denying law-violating Adam Skelly after abruptly quitting me and my public interest lawsuit. Are lawyers allowed to dump paying clients to chase others while lying and harming cases of clients dumped?
Cenovus (Encana/Ovintiv spawn): Taking COVID relief to keep workers working, greedily and cruelly laying off thousands instead.
Air pollution and COVID-19: A dangerous combination.
Dylan Morris on COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.7: “Exponentials are so cruel that nobody wants to look them in the eye”
Vile: Job killers Ovintiv (American, previously Encana) and Cenovus (previously Encana) get pandemic relief, Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (and help spread COVID-19 from frac fields to communities?)
“I get so angry when I see people not wearing masks… it makes me want to take a bar of soap & write on my car’s rearview window that ‘My husband who saved so many lives died of COVID-19. Wear a mask!’” … “now there is one less ICU doctor to care for pandemic patients in Baltimore”
Covid-19 killing oil workers at unparalleled pace in Mexico: Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos) reported 202 employees and 5 contractors died so far.
Study: Covid-19 outbreak risk in Italy: Role of chronic air pollution levels
“No Duty of Care” AER abuses Covid-19 crisis to deregulate oilpatch and foothills coal mining. (Stephen Cousin’s sketch may offend some, but it’s too perfect not to add to this vulgar news.)
Are Covid-19 fatalities a measure of the oil & gas industry’s killing power? More and more studies prove how deadly & dishonest the industry is. Message to CAPP & AER: It’s not “odours” killing us, it’s pollution, including nitrogen dioxide.
New research on Covid-19: Are you and your loved ones frac’d? Air pollution linked to 15 percent higher coronavirus death rates
Must read on Covid-19 in New York by Craig Spencer MD MPH, Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine: “Hospitals are nearing capacity. We are running out of ventilators. Ambulance sirens don’t stop.” This will be the same in Canada.
Covid-19: Wise, loving, succinct, compassionate message from The Physicians of Fox Creek, Alberta
How many assholes took the pandemic money from Trudeau they hate so much?
