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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:BC announcing significant new restrictions today. My prediction: If you are unvaccinated and you leave your home to protest the new restrictions, the police will find you and give you an award. Also, the vaccinated aren't allowed to have a Christmas goose and taking rapid tests out of their packaging proved to be too hard so we aren't distributing those you can't get a booster in bc???
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mediaphage posted:you can't get a booster in bc??? The government is going to phone us at some unspecified time in the future. It's loving wonderful.
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ToxicAcne posted:Is this rural dilapidation inevitable or is it because of neoliberal policies? I swear Scandinavian countries have a somewhat healthy countryside no? I never read a follow up on it, but at the beginning of covid when everyone was working from home, Ireland would pay people to move out to small towns.
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I got my booster yesterday and now I feel like I have a really bad cold. Hopefully it passes soon. But it it doesn't, still worth it.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:I never read a follow up on it, but at the beginning of covid when everyone was working from home, Ireland would pay people to move out to small towns. italy was doing the same. as fibre and satellite internet increasingly become rural options it'll be more feasible for wfh to hit rural areas. SilverMike posted:The government is going to phone us at some unspecified time in the future. It's loving wonderful. christ i know bc aint the wonderland people like to paint it as but i didn't think douggie f would be one up on it
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Is BC delaying because of the highway/logistic situation here, or is that and Abbotsford/Merritt distracting them?
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Crow Buddy posted:Is BC delaying because of the highway/logistic situation here, or is that and Abbotsford/Merritt distracting them? It's because John Horgan is my posting nemesis
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Crow Buddy posted:Is BC delaying because of the highway/logistic situation here, or is that and Abbotsford/Merritt distracting them? No when the highways closed they moved heaven and earth to reopen ASAP.
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:It's because John Horgan is my posting nemesis That guy DynamicSloth posted:No when the highways closed they moved heaven and earth to reopen ASAP. Yeah thats what I mean, did all the destroyed highways and towns distract them because lmao if so.
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Coxswain Balls posted:Since you have Arizona plates I'm guessing you brought your car with you so I gotta ask if you got a block heater installed, because that might be why your battery is struggling. Even a lot of Canadians don't know what they are since they aren't necessary on the coasts or in Toronto.  and electrical design) until I had an aftermarket battery warmer put in. My 2015 Volvo, on the other hand, does not have a block heater, has no option for a block heater, parks in an unheated garage at home and outside at work, and has been absolutely bulletproof. Yay  ToxicAcne posted:Is this rural dilapidation inevitable or is it because of neoliberal policies? I swear Scandinavian countries have a somewhat healthy countryside no?
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From my understanding it's not deliberate, just a natural thing people do. Basically since we developed agriculture, people migrate to larger communities. And since we can provide more food with less labour thanks to industrialization and automation, the rate that people abandon small communities increases too. As said above, a government pretty much needs to subsidize rural communities if we still want them to exist - jobs, education, infrastructure, etc. Every time a person leaves a small town there's less political voice and less tax money to work with. This of course excludes small communities of people who just want a big house on big land, but then still commute to the city.
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mediaphage posted:christ i know bc aint the wonderland people like to paint it as but i didn't think douggie f would be one up on it bc has only looked good in this pandemic by having alberta as a neighbour and even that low bar is debatable
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Fashionable Jorts posted:I got my booster yesterday and now I feel like I have a really bad cold. Hopefully it passes soon. But it it doesn't, still worth it. congrats but i'm jealous, apparently i'm eligible "eventually" which probably means "after i've been dead for at least 6 months" this province blows
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mediaphage posted:you can't get a booster in bc??? I got mine on Sunday, everyone will get one at their 6 month shot date.
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Albino Squirrel posted:It depends a lot on the car - some newer ones don't even have the option to install a block heater but may work nonetheless. I had a 2007 Mini that regularly froze up in -20 weather (lol yeah our focus has been rock solid basically until this year (11 years now)
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Albino Squirrel posted:My 2015 Volvo, on the other hand, does not have a block heater, has no option for a block heater, parks in an unheated garage at home and outside at work, and has been absolutely bulletproof. Yay I had an 85' Volvo that was mostly reliable, but the main thing I miss about it was how drat fast it heated up. Diving to work at -30 and it was pushing out hot air from the vents in a couple minutes. Also had a 2004 Dakota that was unstoppable. It sat on my driveway for nearly three months without being used, and it started in winter no problems. I think that battery took 12 years to die - almost outlived the truck itself. Now I've got a VW that I have to pop the hood and slap a trickle charger on to if I ever want it to start below -10 and never gets warm, no matter how long you drive. Oh and both the locks and door frame itself ice up like crazy, I basically have to crowbar it open some mornings.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:From my understanding it's not deliberate, just a natural thing people do. Basically since we developed agriculture, people migrate to larger communities. And since we can provide more food with less labour thanks to industrialization and automation, the rate that people abandon small communities increases too. It made sense for these town to exist when being a day's ride from the train station was important, but it doesn't anymore. They should consolidate, and they are to a degree, but their consolidation should be more coordinated. Each and every hamlet of 200 shouldn't expect to have their own doctor when you can't even bribe a doctor to work there. We can't even bribe doctors to live in Slave Lake or Rocky Mountain House which are both actually pretty nice places for outdoorsy folk when they're not on fire. When i am inevitably Supreme Overlord of Alberta, i will take a three pronged approach to these small towns. 1. Fund relocation of people who simply want to exist but can't afford to leave. If you have a doctor's appointment every 3 days, you shouldn't be living 200km from a doctor 2. Annex every quarter section touching each town and every quarter section touching those. Tie 20 acres for sustenance farming to each dwelling to attract people who want to do so. 3. Re-purpose the now useless pipeline network into human/goods transporting pneumatic tubes and Augustus Gloop people where they need to go.
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Powershift posted:1. Fund relocation of people who simply want to exist but can't afford to leave. If you have a doctor's appointment every 3 days, you shouldn't be living 200km from a doctor I fully agree with this. Not to go all ~muh taxes~ but it's incredible how much money is spent on rural hospitals, ambulances, and Heli-ambulances just because the aging rural population is too stubborn to move to a city with available resources.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I got mine on Sunday, everyone will get one at their 6 month shot date.  cool cool blatman posted:congrats but i'm jealous, apparently i'm eligible "eventually" which probably means "after i've been dead for at least 6 months" 
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DariusLikewise posted:does anyone know where heather stefanson is She probably did 30 local photo ops for her team to trickle out through the holidays and then hosed off to somewhere tropical.
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Doug Ford was spotted at his cottage up north and once spotted bolted into the forest together with some nearby deer Whenever there's a developing crisis you can count on him to be mia
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Idgi. Your 6 month date will be Jan 2nd. You'll get an automatic text/email from the provincial system a day or two before to book, there are a lot of slots available all over the place. My 2nd shot date was Jun 15, I got a text Dec 12th. I could have gotten my shot right that day on the 15th but chose to wait a couple days as I had IRL plans I didn't want to disrupt from side-effects.
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skewetoo posted:Doug Ford was spotted at his cottage up north and once spotted bolted into the forest together with some nearby deer i find it difficult to believe doug ford bolted. i just don't think he has it in him to move faster than a jog
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infernal machines posted:i find it difficult to believe doug ford bolted. i just don't think he has it in him to move faster than a jog More likely he just laid down and pretended to be an extremely convincing bloated rotting animal corpse.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Idgi. Your 6 month date will be Jan 2nd. You'll get an automatic text/email from the provincial system a day or two before to book, there are a lot of slots available all over the place. My 2nd shot date was Jun 15, I got a text Dec 12th. I could have gotten my shot right that day on the 15th but chose to wait a couple days as I had IRL plans I didn't want to disrupt from side-effects. Yeah I get it, it just would have been nice to get the booster in advance of christmas/new years instead of immediately after
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infernal machines posted:i find it difficult to believe doug ford bolted. i just don't think he has it in him to move faster than a jog He just pictured there was a Tim Horton's breakfast sandwich waiting for him in the woods.
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Rumor is that gyms in BC will have to close. Gonna be outside a planet fitness tomorrow morning, banging on the locked doors and shouting about my alpha mindset until the lunk alarm goes off.
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:Rumor is that gyms in BC will have to close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqRPOEa3P44
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Hitting f5 then booking then cancelling then booking earlier vax appointments like an arg Jan 9 high score
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Not being able to go to the gym has been killing me (lol) this whole pandemic, but I honestly don't trust that any gym would ever have circulation powerful enough to not become a gross miasma of covid.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Not being able to go to the gym has been killing me (lol) this whole pandemic, but I honestly don't trust that any gym would ever have circulation powerful enough to not become a gross miasma of covid. My gym's mask requirements are literally just "wear it when you show up, but once you get past the front desk we have no jurisdiction over what you do" lmao
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Not being able to go to the gym has been killing me (lol) this whole pandemic, but I honestly don't trust that any gym would ever have circulation powerful enough to not become a gross miasma of covid. Just think, if we werent half assing contact tracing through this entire pandemic, we could have had a lot better handle on how to slow down the yearly flu, or the next deadly pandemic. But thats too hard so 
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