COVID Thread

[Gomez Adams]

If it's in Hong Kong FROM Canada, then it's a safe bet it's already everywhere.

And good for Nova Scotia. If you're not going to bother protecting yourself and your loved ones during the plague of the 21st century, what damn business do you have at a doctors office to begin with?

 

[Zeedox]

Swiss vote to approve COVID restrictions as infections rise

Swiss voters have given clear backing to legislation that introduced special COVID-19 certificates under which only people who have been vaccinated, recovered or tested negative can attend public events and gatherings

abcnews.go.com

Swiss voters on Sunday gave clear backing to legislation that introduced a system with special COVID-19 certificates under which only people who have been vaccinated, recovered or tested negative can attend public events and gatherings.

Final results showed 62% of voters supporting the legislation, which is already in force. The referendum offered a rare bellwether of public opinion on the issue of government policy to fight the spread of coronavirus in Europe, which is currently the global epicenter of the pandemic.

The vote on the country's “COVID-19 law,” which also has unlocked billions of Swiss francs (dollars) in aid for workers and businesses hit by the pandemic, came as Switzerland — like many other nations in Europe — faces a steep rise in coronavirus cases.

The Swiss get it.

North America right now is like a fucking high school group science project. Half of us worked our collective asses of for a successful group project but the other half of muscle brained idiots keep lighting the garbage can on fire in the lab.

 

[Zeedox]

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www.cbc.ca

Bingo!

 

[Gomez Adams]

Help my memory here: isn't Ottawa the province that's Trump like and had issues with covid all along?

 

[Zeedox]

Ottawa in in the province of Ontario. The leader of Ontario (Doug Ford) is kinda now considered maga-lite (but still maga-type) compared to the maga-heavy Alberta leadership (Jason Kenney).
Ottawa is also the nation's capital. So like DC it gets all party types travelling to it for parliament.

 

[Gomez Adams]

This is sort of hysterical when you think about it:

Live updates: Omicron variant cases spread and countries rush to impose travel bans

The US, European Union, Japan and other major destinations have moved to block flights from African countries following the discovery of a newly identified coronavirus variant Omicron. Follow for the latest news updates.

www.cnn.com

Just a couple weeks ago everybody got rid of all restrictions and waved the green flag yet again. Then, AFTER they discover the new strain is pretty much everywhere, they start shutting down again.

Our leadership, and I mean GLOBALLY, is going to kill us all.

There's no continual mitigation. It's either all wide open or all slammed shut. We are literally too stupid to live.

 

[Zeedox]

My wife and I were discussing this in relation to the WHO saying not to ban travel from SA.
She disagreed saying to keep the ban on SA travel, sighting the initial pandemic discovery and the lack of an immediate ban back then and it not being imposed until too late.
I, on the other hand agree with the WHO. The virus has been here for close to two years. SA simply found a new mutated virus first and is being punished for that with a travel ban. The origination is unknown at this time but with the way it showed up around the world, it looks like it had already been in circulation well before SA found it.

If you punish countries who simply find a mutation this far into the pandemic with travel bans, you risk other countries not saying anything when the virus is found to preserve GDP.

It's time to get vaccinated or be recovered or be dead.

 

[Gomez Adams]

I agree with your post completely with one exception: World Wide tourist travel should NEVER have been opened back up to begin with. Everybody keeps shutting down, then opening up, then shutting down, then opening up...

It should have simply STAYED shut down from the outset until we get to at least a 85% fully vaccinated rate.

But instead, the only thing people looked at were how many dead bodies per week they were getting rid of. Once that number began to dip, they opened up the entire planet, dropped pretty much all restrictions and said "GAME ON!!!"

It's been knee jerk bullshit from the outset with only one criteria dictating policy: Money

 

[Zeedox]

I fully agree that we shouldn't have opened. Unfortunately people saw the rich flying around unimpeded and figured why not me too...

 

[Hugo Stiglitz]

If you're not going to bother protecting yourself and your loved ones during the plague of the 21st century, what damn business do you have at a doctors office to begin with?

Boom! All these anti-vax assholes saying it's their body and their choice and they did their own research. Then do your own research on how to cure it yourself at home you dumb fucks. Don't play doctor while you're not sick and then run to the real doctor because you're a fucking idiot once you do get sick.

 

[Gomez Adams]

Just got back from getting my son's second shot of Pfizer. He's fully vaccinated at last.

 

[Zeedox]

Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world

Authorities in the Netherlands say testing has confirmed that COVID cases identified on November 19 and 23 were the new strain – days before researchers identified it.

www.cbsnews.com

Dutch health authorities announced on Tuesday that they found the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus in cases dating back as long as 11 days, indicating that it was already spreading in western Europe before the first cases were identified in southern Africa. The RIVM health institute said it found Omicron in samples dating from November 19 and 23.

Time to institute the same travel ban on the Netherlands?