Fragile Bird Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 3 hours ago, Tywin et al. said: Our city's Mayor here in Minneapolis oddly looks like him. That's what I thought when I saw him as well! 2 hours ago, TrueMetis said: Justin Trudeau points out that racism is in fact still a problem in Canada, conservatives of course flip their shit over this easily verifiable fact and idiots like Stockwell Day goes on TV to compare what minorities face to him being bullied in school for wearing glasses. I am watching in amazement as the opposition is denouncing Trudeau for not attacking the actions taken by Trump, because it's our obligation to do so. I say, are you guys f***ing nuts? I was driving home from the grocery store and heard Quebec premier Legault rant on, demanding that Trudeau attack Trump. Idiot. I guess he didn't bother watching any of the impeachment hearings, and never heard Adam Schiff get asked how much harm could Trump do between January and the election in November. "A lot" was his very prescient answer. Trump, if he loses, is in office until the end of January, the amount of shit he could dump on Canada lashing out at an attack doesn't bear thinking about. That 21 seconds of silence spoke volumes. Meantime, about Ontario's Covid-19 numbers. I expect the bump up we had reflected the holiday weekend a week ago. But I was shocked to hear that 150 immigrant workers have caught the virus, and the caught it here, because they were in quarantine first. And one Mexican gentleman died. More incompetence. There's just so much lack of care in evidence, everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 24 minutes ago, Fragile Bird said: That's what I thought when I saw him as well! I think it's the hair more than anything else, you lusty bird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Update May 29 30 31 1 2 3 cases cases cases cases cases cases cases BC 4 11 - 24 4 22 Albt 24 13 18 34 13 19 Sask 2 4 1 1 0 1 Man 0 0 1 0 2 1 ON 344 323 326 404 446 338 Que 530 419 408 295 239 291 NS 0 1 0 1 0 1 NB 2 3 0 0 1 2 Nfld 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 906 772 757 758 705 675 I think this is day 33 for PEI without a case. I hate to drop Nfld and jinx them. Let's hope Ontario is over it's bump up. After quite a stretch of single digit or low teen numbers (the 24 on the 1st is 2 days) even BC had a small bump up. But my goodness, that was a fast drop for Quebec. Except for deaths, their deaths have been terrible. 810 in 10 days. 4,794 out of 7,498 in all of Canada. 8.48 million people, gee, I thought they were closer to Ontario's 14.57. So, holy geez, a death rate of 565 per million, up there with Italy, the UK and Spain, each with 565, 585 and 580 respectively. Ontario has 2,312 deaths, so 158 per million. Canada's number is 199. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Yeah it certainly puts Ontario's performance into context - double the population of QC but only a fraction of total cases and fatalities. I would take us all back to March though: the timing of Spring Break could have been the key driver (Quebec early, then Ontario, then BC [which basically cancelled Spring Break]). If the timing had been the other way around, QC might have avoided this disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 1 hour ago, Paxter said: Yeah it certainly puts Ontario's performance into context - double the population of QC but only a fraction of total cases and fatalities. I would take us all back to March though: the timing of Spring Break could have been the key driver (Quebec early, then Ontario, then BC [which basically cancelled Spring Break]). If the timing had been the other way around, QC might have avoided this disaster. I don't think cancelling spring break would have had as big an impact as that, so many Quebecois head south for the winter, there was a flood of returning citizens who brought it with them. And they went through New York for the most part (a lot drive south). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Update May 31 1 2 3 4 5 cases cases cases cases cases cases BC - 24 4 22 9 0 Albt 18 34 13 19 19 7 Sask 1 1 0 1 1 1 Man 1 0 2 1 0 2 ON 326 404 446 338 356 344 Que 408 295 239 291 259 255 NS 0 1 0 1 0 0 NB 0 0 1 2 1 0 Nfld 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 757 758 705 675 645 609 Apparently 43% of the new cases in Hamilton are people in their 20s and 30s, 31 out of 73 cases in the last 10 days. Sadly, yesterday, New Brunswick had their first death. Compare that to Nova Scotia, where 53 of their 61 deaths were in one nursing home. The recent cases in BC were temporary foreign workers on farms. We really need to do better in that area. I hope next week we start going below 500 a day, but there may be a bump up in two weeks from the protest marches. I would point out Florida (pop. 24M) had 1,400 cases today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Not sure what miracle has occurred in Montreal, but it seems like Quebec is coming out the other side of this. Ontario (and the GTA) are now the biggest drivers of new cases in Canada. Come on ON! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 Update June 3 4 5 6 7 8 cases cases cases cases cases cases BC 22 9 0 - - 29 Albt 19 19 7 40 - 64 Sask 1 1 1 1 0 4 Man 1 0 2 0 0 0 ON 338 356 344 455 415 243 Que 291 259 255 226 225 198 NB 2 1 0 0 0 9 NS 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 675 645 609 722 640 545 BC now seems to be skipping reporting on both Saturday and Sunday, and Alberta is giving Sunday a miss as well. Ontario got caught up on numbers, 223 of the 415 reported on Sunday were catch-up from late reports from other days, so actually we were below 500 on both Sunday and Monday if you divide up the numbers. I see NB had the most cases in one day in more than two months. I assume they are all related to the Campbelton doctor. Ontario is going to open up some more, I'm waiting to hear folks in Northern Ontario can move ahead of the rest of us. I wonder where the Alberta cases were from, a meat packing plant again? I took Newfoundland off the list, I don't think I'm going to jinx them. eta: oh, and there were only 35 deaths reported today, and 27 yesterday. Quite the drop. eta 2: So everybody in the province moved to phase 2 except Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Peel and parts of Halton, and Windsor. Too many new cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 RE: Alberta, does the spike in cases cot coincide with re-opening? I seem to recall that restaurants etc opened with distancing about two weeks ago... Numbers definitely looking better in QC and ON now. Hopefully ON can finally get active cases down to three figures in the next three or four weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Update June 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 cases cases cases cases cases cases cases BC 0 - - 29 10 12 14 Albt 7 40 - 64 27 47 40 Sask 1 1 0 4 2 2 2 Man 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 ON 344 455 415 243 230 251 203 Que 255 226 225 198 138 156 144 NB 0 0 0 9 1 4 2 NS 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Totals 609 722 640 547 409 472 405 I thought we might go below 400 today, with Ontario all the way down to 203, but Alberta had 40 new cases. Oh well. Tomorrow. The trend is good. Churchgoers in Ontario can go back to live services on Sunday, as long as the church stays at 30% capacity or less. I know my church won't be ready for Sunday, because we have to set up teams to disinfect pews after every mass and get ushers set up to show people which pews they can sit in, to maintain social distancing. I probably won't attend a live service for a while yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 ON went from around 4,000 actives to close to 3,000 in just a few days. Keep it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Update June 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 cases cases cases cases cases cases cases BC 10 12 14 16 - - 36 Albt 27 47 40 30 37 50 20 Sask 2 2 2 3 1 1 18 Man 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 ON 230 251 203 182 266 197 181 Que 138 156 144 181 158 128 102 NB 1 4 2 1 3 0 3 NS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 409 472 405 413 467 377 360 Looks like we'll be under 400 new cases again today, I hope that Alberta and BC don't have over 93 cases between them. I have not heard what happened in Saskatchewan, with the 18 cases. Even Ontario is looking good. Sadly, by the end of the week we'll likely hit the 100,000 confirmed cases mark. I don't know why that makes me feel badly, we likely have north of 500,000 cases in reality. eta: ok, Alberta just reported 20, I don't expect 70 in BC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Looks like the Saskatchewan cases were mainly due to a funeral and wake. Conservative leader debates to be held over the next two days...scintillating stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Paxter said: Conservative leader debates to be held over the next two days...scintillating stuff! [gags] Yet I know I'll watch, if possible. Hopefully they're not all caricatures of normal human beings, but... But. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 2 minutes ago, JEORDHl said: [gags] Yet I know I'll watch, if possible. Hopefully they're not all caricatures of normal human beings, but... But. Based on my rudimentary knowledge, it seems like none of the front-runners are anywhere as conservative as Scheer? Very different to the 2017 election when it was Scheer v Bernier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 55 minutes ago, Paxter said: Based on my rudimentary knowledge, it seems like none of the front-runners are anywhere as conservative as Scheer? Very different to the 2017 election when it was Scheer v Bernier. But more ding-batty. When your slogan is ‘Take Back Canada’, as O’Toole’s is, you really have to wonder. Go to any story about O’Toole posted on Facebook and the comments section is mind boggling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Quebec has reported only 92 new cases today! And Ontario 184. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Trudeau failed (again) to get Canada on the UN Security Council. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 1 hour ago, DMC said: Trudeau failed (again) to get Canada on the UN Security Council. I guess we should have rolled out Nickelback, eh? That woulda showed them Bono fans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 Did anyone watch the English language Conservative leadership debate? I gather the Quebec debate was pretty funny because none of them can really speak French. I only heard some highlights on the radio, stuff like Trudeau failed Canada by not being New Zealand and immediately shutting down borders (I guess 300,000 Canadians were supposed to be left stranded in the US, Europe and elsewhere, think of the lawsuits against the government if we had done that), Trudeau has spent too much money, and, something that I'm not sure I heard correctly, Trudeau has failed the environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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