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Covid 19 Thread: [no bitching about masks of Fauci edition]

RAÏSanÏa

Member

Boodler81

Neo Member
Well, that didn't happen in Canada. And didn't even hear about that. 3 days, huh. It's been going on 2 weeks now here. The noise got shut down by one young woman and the courts. An amazing display of civics.
More than 3 days for a lot of folks. Some of those businesses are still rubble almost 2 years later.
 

RAÏSanÏa

Member
More than 3 days for a lot of folks. Some of those businesses are still rubble almost 2 years later.
That sounds like something for their districts and state to deal with.

There's some class action suits going to recover money for the occupation.

Li did say she agrees with the course Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken in not meeting with the convoy leaders.

“I fully agree that these people cannot be negotiated with,” she said.

The proposed class-action lawsuit is seeking $9.8 million in damages on behalf of Centretown residents. The next hearing, on whether the injunction will be extended, is set for Feb. 16.

“I can only hope that some kind of reparations will be seen for people in my community, and that at the very least people recognize the severity of what’s going on here and what has happened to us,” Li said.

“A lot of people have trauma because of this now, and it’s trauma that I personally don’t think should have ever happened to them.”
 

Boodler81

Neo Member
That sounds like something for their districts and state to deal with.

There's some class action suits going to recover money for the occupation.

No reparations for the last 2 years though?
 

RAÏSanÏa

Member
The truck driver protest that started in Ottawa before spreading to shut Canada’s gateway to Detroit and its auto plants appears to be a bit short of one key element: truckers.

A mile-long stretch of Huron Church Road in Windsor, Ontario, which connects with the Ambassador Bridge and downtown Detroit, was jammed with well over 100 pickup trucks, family sedans and even a pint-sized Smart car, shutting down traffic into the city all day Tuesday. Among the protesters blocking the roadway were just three semi trucks.
 

RAÏSanÏa

Member
Satire:
“Come onnnn, this is your October Crisis! You know you want to say it,” urged the ghostly visage of the current PM’s father. For days Justin Trudeau has resisted calls to implement a harsh crackdown on the unruly protestors, opting instead to offer logistical support to local and provincial leaders. However, this has not deterred the undead phantasm of Pierre Elliott.
 

GooseMan69

Member


shit is finally coming to an end.


The tide is finally starting to turn I think. Majority of people are so done with the restrictions and mandates and all the bullshit. Personally, I thought the lockdowns and restrictions were bullshit from the start. Glad to see the masses finally come around.

Seems to be a memo on the left to pivot away from Covid hysteria as well.
 
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RAÏSanÏa

Member
Furthermore, the leadership team for the protesters calling themselves the Freedom Convoy includes:

  • Daniel Bulford, a former RCMP officer who was on the prime minister's security detail. He quit last year after refusing to get the vaccine and is the convoy's head of security.
  • Tom Quiggin, a former military intelligence officer who also worked with the RCMP and was considered one the country's top counter-terrorism experts.
  • Tom Marazzo, an ex-military officer who, according to his LinkedIn profile, served in the Canadian Forces for 25 years and now works as a freelance software developer.
 

RAÏSanÏa

Member
  • The Maritimes grew at a faster pace than the Prairie provinces for the first time since the 1940s.
  • For the first time since the 1986 census, more people moved to the Maritimes from other parts of Canada, 134,841, than moved away, 98,086.
  • The Yukon's population grew at the fastest pace nationally, with a growth rate of 12.1 per cent.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador was the only province to see its population decline from 2016 to 2021, falling by 1.8 per cent.
  • The province with the fastest growth rate was Prince Edward Island, which grew at a rate of eight per cent.
  • Despite the pandemic, Canada's population grew at almost twice the pace of other G7 countries from 2016 to 2021.
  • Immigration — not birth rate — was the driver in Canada's population growth from 2016 to 2021. It was also the main reason for a slowdown starting in 2020, as border restrictions were imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba also saw more people move out of these provinces than move in from other parts of the country.
As a result Alberta, which had led provincial population growth for five consecutive census cycles, has fallen to sixth place, as it marked the first decline in interprovincial migration over a five-year period since the 1991 census.
 

Guileless

Temp Banned for Remedial Purposes
Congrats to the citizens of Washington state. Your governor has lifted the outdoor mask mandate. Breathe the fresh air of freedom.
 
The tide is finally starting to turn I think. Majority of people are so done with the restrictions and mandates and all the bullshit. Personally, I thought the lockdowns and restrictions were bullshit from the start. Glad to see the masses finally come around.

Seems to be a memo on the left to pivot away from Covid hysteria as well.

The masses finally coming around, or the masses doing wha should be done enabling the masses to finally get over with this thing?
 
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12Goblins

Lil’ Gobbie
The tide is finally starting to turn I think. Majority of people are so done with the restrictions and mandates and all the bullshit. Personally, I thought the lockdowns and restrictions were bullshit from the start. Glad to see the masses finally come around.

Seems to be a memo on the left to pivot away from Covid hysteria as well.
yeah, Fauci has finally succumbed to public pressures to remove all the bullshit measures we've had in place because people have had enough. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the number of cases and severity

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Hari Seldon

Member
Yeah at least in the US the polls have turned and therefore the mandates are coming down. Prepare for the gaslighting to commence at how they were never for mandates and restrictions.
 

12Goblins

Lil’ Gobbie
Yeah at least in the US the polls have turned and therefore the mandates are coming down. Prepare for the gaslighting to commence at how they were never for mandates and restrictions.
so you think virulence and case numbers is just a coincidence here? I'm confused
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
what do you think this shows?
Charts, colour coding and scale (axis) can lead to misleading information.

Stock charts are the worst. When I used to watch CNBC and CNN business shows, they'd show charts which looks like roller coaster pricing. But you look at the scale on the left and the stock only went up or down maybe a dollar or two, which % wise could be small if the stock price is high.
 
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Charts, colour coding and scale (axis) can lead to misleading information.

Stock charts are the worst. When I used to watch CNBC and CNN business shows, they'd show charts which looks like roller coaster pricing. But you look at the scale on the left and the stock only went up or down maybe a dollar or two, which % wise could be small if the stock price is high.

A bit like currency value fluctuation graphs, unless there's a catastrophic event, the only way to see anything meaningful is trends over weeks or months. Those money TV shows just need something to talk about.

But that doesn't answer my specific question to a specific poster. Because yes, it can lead to misleading information and that's why I asked what I did.
 

BadBurger

Is 'That Pure Potato'
what do you think this shows?

The values of the axes are right there without even having to click on the tweet. Then the coloration values of the second image are entirely misleading.

Sadly we've seen a lot of this sort of misrepresentation of data by people of all kinds since this pandemic started, and it's easy to get fooled by it at first glance.
 
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Kenpachii

Member
Charts, colour coding and scale (axis) can lead to misleading information.

Stock charts are the worst. When I used to watch CNBC and CNN business shows, they'd show charts which looks like roller coaster pricing. But you look at the scale on the left and the stock only went up or down maybe a dollar or two, which % wise could be small if the stock price is high.

This shit is the worst, huge differences in charts, but then when u look at the miniature letters they put in the corner, its only like 1% of the value.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
So which is it?

1. Gov and health ministers truly acting in accordance with covid counts and deaths?

2. Looking for votes as people getting pissy at covid lockdown policies?

Amazing how Ontario rode the roller coaster of opening up and lockdowns. Now it's suddenly floodgates open. Ontario still has about 3000 daily covid counts which is sky high as at the beginning of covid tracking, a 2,000 daily count was like the apocalypse of lockdowns.

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chromhound

Member
So which is it?

1. Gov and health ministers truly acting in accordance with covid counts and deaths?

2. Looking for votes as people getting pissy at covid lockdown policies?

Amazing how Ontario rode the roller coaster of opening up and lockdowns. Now it's suddenly floodgates open. Ontario still has about 3000 daily covid counts which is sky high as at the beginning of covid tracking, a 2,000 daily count was like the apocalypse of lockdowns.

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Both lol
 
I’ve been away from this thread for a long time. I figured I’d come back just to make a couple of comments.

People are tired of all the restrictions and mandates because that shit didn’t work like we were led to believe they would. We were told masks and vaccines would flatten the curve. Told the vaccine specifically would stop you from being infected or at least protect from symptomatic disease and more importantly transmission. Told masks, even cloth ones, were our best tool other than vaccines to control the spread. Turns out a lot of stuff we were told didn’t do what they told us it was going to do. The government asked us to put a lot of faith in them and they failed. We took their shots and wore their masks and many kept their kids home from school, and what do we have to show for all that? The largest spike of covid since the pandemic began. And the places that didn’t have the mandates or follow the public health proclamations really didn’t do that much worse.

The public health establishment has lost a ton of credibility. All you have to do is look at the public opinion polls of the people that represent it. It turns out you can’t tell people your vaccine is 95% effective at preventing disease and then 6 months after 60% of the adult population gets the shots, they all get covid anyway without people losing faith. You can say the virus mutates and science is complicated. You’d be correct. That’s why you don’t make definitive claims about a vaccine you only tested for less than a year. Because it turns out there’s a lot you can’t account for and when the things you tell people turn out to be wrong even for reasons outside your control, it is hard to get people to trust you anymore.

Now we have a crisis of confidence in leadership. That’s not a good place to be in a democracy. It makes of society weak. We need to be able to believe that the people in charge are at the very least competent. Preferably honest as well. Right now a lot of the society believes neither. Turns out our governments couldn’t stop the virus. And the vaccines, while providing some value, didn’t do what they promised. And our kids should’ve been in school. And people sacrificed a lot for little in return. And until the people in charge take responsibility for that, many many people are not going to trust them any more.
 
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RAÏSanÏa

Member
I’ve been away from this thread for a long time. I figured I’d come back just to make a couple of comments.

People are tired of all the restrictions and mandates because that shit didn’t work like we were led to believe they would. We were told masks and vaccines would flatten the curve. Told the vaccine specifically would stop you from being infected or at least protect from symptomatic disease and more importantly transmission. Told masks, even cloth ones, were our best tool other than vaccines to control the spread. Turns out a lot of stuff we were told didn’t do what they told us it was going to do. The government asked us to put a lot of faith in them and they failed. We took their shots and wore their masks and many kept their kids home from school, and what do we have to show for all that? The largest spike of covid since the pandemic began. And the places that didn’t have the mandates or follow the public health proclamations really didn’t do that much worse.

The public health establishment has lost a ton of credibility. All you have to do is look at the public opinion polls of the people that represent it. It turns out you can’t tell people your vaccine is 95% effective at preventing disease and then 6 months after 60% of the adult population gets the shots, they all get covid anyway without people losing faith. You can say the virus mutates and science is complicated. You’d be correct. That’s why you don’t make definitive claims about a vaccine you only tested for less than a year. Because it turns out there’s a lot you can’t account for and when the things you tell people turn out to be wrong even for reasons outside your control, it is hard to get people to trust you anymore.

Now we have a crisis of confidence in leadership. That’s not a good place to be in a democracy. It makes of society weak. We need to be able to believe that the people in charge are at the very least competent. Preferably honest as well. Right now a lot of the society believes neither. Turns out our governments couldn’t stop the virus. And the vaccines, while providing some value, didn’t do what they promised. And our kids should’ve been in school. And people sacrificed a lot for little in return. And until the people in charge take responsibility for that, many many people are not going to trust them any more.
Wrong. Mandates and restrictions did work. Made a comparison of those last summer between BC and Alberta when both dropped most mandates at the same time. When cases started to rise BC immediately put in targeted regional mandates at the end of July. Cases, deaths, hospitalizations, impact on economy, were all lower than Alberta through Delta with mandates and restrictions. Alberta eventually had to call in federal help. While BC managed themselves.
 
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Wrong. Mandates and restrictions did work. Made a comparison of those last summer between BC and Alberta when both dropped most mandates at the same time. When cases started to rise BC immediately put in targeted regional mandates at the end of July. Cases, deaths, hospitalizations, impact on economy, were all lower than Alberta through Delta with mandates and restrictions.
They didn’t work as promised and they have fractured your society. I’d say the social consequences of those measures outweigh and outlast whatever marginal difference they made in terms of covid.
 
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