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Powershift posted:e: Jason Kenney and Jason Copping are blaming Trudeau for not getting them enough rapid tests, even after saying they only shipped 500,000 of the 2.5 million they had last week. 1) You'll see that Alberta was shipped over 13 million tests, the second most of all the provinces only behind Ontario, of which about 15% are accounted for. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/symptoms/testing/increased-supply.html 2) Only dancing not done on a stage, and even then only from the 24th onwards. But they set last call at 11, which is an hour later than the last time they did this Do-si-do.
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Dec 22, 2021 06:29
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PittTheElder posted:I was trying to book a booster shot today but the search tool was showing exactly one location in all of Calgary that was doing Moderna shots. Meanwhile my coworkers could see dozens of locations after entering the exact same information... Seems like pharmacies shifted to walk-in when the third dose criteria expanded today. Could be worth a wander tomorrow, if you can.
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Dec 22, 2021 08:17
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Due to the efforts of my wife we both got our boosters yesterday (Ottawa). So far, least vaccination arm pains out of any of them. Almost zero.
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Dec 22, 2021 14:41
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Fidelitious posted:Due to the efforts of my wife we both got our boosters yesterday (Ottawa). So far, least vaccination arm pains out of any of them. Almost zero. Nice - my wife got hers yesterday in Kanata which was a zoo, I get mine today
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Dec 22, 2021 16:48
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Sashimi posted:My workplace had a positive case on our production line last week. As soon as we found out this employee had a positive result, everything got shut down and everyone was told to go home and get tested. Thankfully there were zero new cases amongst any staff, in no small part because we have a mandatory vaccination policy and a very strong culture of wearing masks. Lol Purolator hit 42 active cases in one depot last November and refused to do anything in the eternal game of chicken every logistics company is playing.
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Dec 22, 2021 17:12
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256 in Winnipeg alone.   Moments before death. And our dumb gently caress premier is nowhere to be scene. Hope she rots.
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Dec 22, 2021 20:16
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Vintersorg posted:256 in Winnipeg alone. I keep forgetting it’s no longer pallister. I can’t tell the difference.
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Dec 22, 2021 21:32
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https://twitter.com/StaySaif/status/1473725572429844485 https://twitter.com/StaySaif/status/1473750602958000128 Just can't stop being loving clowns. not even for Christmas.
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Dec 22, 2021 22:46
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Powershift posted:Alberta NDP MLA Thomas Dang had police execute a search warrant on his house. It straight up sounds like they're punishing him for reporting a security vulnerability (and also being an MLA for the wrong political party). They also searched the place while he wasn't there, so unless he lives with other people, it sounds like they broke in to do that? Also lol at all the headlines going "NDP MLA steps down after RCMP raids his house", making him sound like a criminal, not the victim of RCMP malfeasance.
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Dec 22, 2021 22:56
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Vintersorg posted:256 in Winnipeg alone. Good thing I moved to Brandon  (don't move to Brandon)
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Dec 22, 2021 23:57
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Why not? Too many Let's go Brandon jokes or not enough?
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Dec 23, 2021 00:31
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9000 cases today in Quebec. As a result, Legault just announced he intends to do nothing.
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Dec 23, 2021 00:33
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Until december 26, a day selected for reasons of official secularity
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Dec 23, 2021 00:42
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McGavin posted:Why not? Too many Let's go Brandon jokes or not enough? Brandon's the home of the reborn british monarchy in fallout so too many.
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Dec 23, 2021 00:46
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Gros Tarla posted:9000 cases today in Quebec. controversial, yet brave
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Dec 23, 2021 01:33
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6 year old got her first shot yesterday. Today she had a headache, barfed, headache again, barfed again, then had a 2 hour nap and has been running around chasing her brother and friends outside for like 4 hours now. Kids are insanely resilient lol. Boggles the mind.
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Dec 23, 2021 01:59
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Wistful of Dollars posted:I keep forgetting it’s no longer pallister. So does Heather Stefanson.
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Dec 23, 2021 03:54
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Wistful of Dollars posted:I keep forgetting it’s no longer pallister. I can’t tell the difference. How can you not forget? If it was Pallister, he would have done AT LEAST two finger wags and three "Shame on you Manitoba" by now.
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Dec 23, 2021 16:46
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Gros Tarla posted:9000 cases today in Quebec. After what happened with the leaked info, I am not surprised.
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Dec 23, 2021 17:59
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Ontario also hit a record but I can’t stress how hard it is to get a PCR test in Toronto. I have 4 people in my friend group that tested positive on a rapid test and have basically given up trying to get a PCR to confirm. It’s fine for them but it means there are a ton of people not being counted in the statistics, and it seems intentional. I walked by a testing centre near me and it was completely empty other than the staff. The news from other countries re Omicron hospitalization is very positive, but man gently caress this shady government. How have we not figured out testing two years into this?
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Dec 23, 2021 18:48
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Ontario has, they simply have scaled back from their promises to expand capacity after the first failure to meet the needs of the system. The second wave turned out okay without needing to be 75k per day so it was TIME TO CUT. Ford's government operates like a business, only concerned about the short-term benefits of anything they're paying for, minimizing it when they don't "need" it (cherry pick the statistics that support their already chosen conclusion), and if it persists well it's someone else's problem gently caress the long-term.
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Dec 23, 2021 20:59
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I'm really not looking forward to whatever mutates out of omicron. Imagining this virality with even a small increase in lethality has me pretty freaked out. Doesn't a huge infection sample like this essentially guarantee new variants?
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Dec 23, 2021 21:00
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StoicRomance posted:I'm really not looking forward to whatever mutates out of omicron. Imagining this virality with even a small increase in lethality has me pretty freaked out. Doesn't a huge infection sample like this essentially guarantee new variants? Viruses generally mutate to be less deadly so they can persist. If too many people die, the virus doesn’t spread and reproduce well enough and it quickly dies with the people it kills. If things worked the way you said, the Spanish flu would’ve persisted until it turned into a globe spanning airborne bubonic plague.
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Dec 23, 2021 21:02
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StoicRomance posted:I'm really not looking forward to whatever mutates out of omicron. Imagining this virality with even a small increase in lethality has me pretty freaked out. Doesn't a huge infection sample like this essentially guarantee new variants? It doesn't help, but you shouldn't think of the variants as sequential either. Omicron is largely unrelated to say, Delta, and the next variant might be completely unrelated to Omicron. The WHO also pointed out in a piece this week that vaccine boosters are not going to solve the problem, as covid will continue to run rampant in the developing world. The vaccination rate there is real low, a combination of them being less able to afford it, and because the rich nations keep hoovering up all the supply.
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Dec 23, 2021 21:04
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Kraftwerk posted:Viruses generally mutate to be less deadly so they can persist. If too many people die, the virus doesn’t spread and reproduce well enough and it quickly dies with the people it kills. If things worked the way you said, the Spanish flu would’ve persisted until it turned into a globe spanning airborne bubonic plague. Sorry this contradicts the scientific outbreak simulator "plague inc". Viruses level up by infecting more people and persisting in order to unlock more advanced and deadly abilities with the goal being human extinction.
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Dec 23, 2021 21:05
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I know in BC they had shut down a bunch of test sites, presumably banking on COVID being "over" with vaccination rates being high. And now the wait times in Vancouver are approaching four hours. At least they've extended the hours to 8am to 7pm, so you still have a reasonable chance of actually getting tested as long as you show up before 3pm I guess. http://www.edwaittimes.ca/COVIDTestingWaitTime.aspx Yeah ordering some rapid tests... but every supplier is backlogged until mid-January sometime.
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Dec 23, 2021 21:08
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StoicRomance posted:I'm really not looking forward to whatever mutates out of omicron. Imagining this virality with even a small increase in lethality has me pretty freaked out. Doesn't a huge infection sample like this essentially guarantee new variants? The bar is much higher, whatever mutations occur would need to be more fit to stand a chance against omicron. It's much more likely that a ton of less fit variants spawn from this and fizzle out. With that said, it can happen.
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Dec 23, 2021 21:12
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Gros Tarla posted:9000 cases today in Quebec. What’s making Quebec spike so much earlier than say Ontario? Is there that much more population density?
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Dec 23, 2021 21:29
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Lol just refreshed the wait time site for Vancouver, and it's up to five hours now.
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Dec 23, 2021 21:43
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CanPol thread made me feel better, it's a Christmas miracle and you're all responsible.
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Dec 23, 2021 21:45
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I know in BC they had shut down a bunch of test sites, presumably banking on COVID being "over" with vaccination rates being high. Lol I remember, last September, that the Tricities only had one testing site and two people working it for all three municipalities. The health authority only did something when they finally burned out and had to close the testing site. No one has learned anything.
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Dec 23, 2021 21:51
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Randalor posted:How can you not forget? If it was Pallister, he would have done AT LEAST two finger wags and three "Shame on you Manitoba" by now. I generally forget Manitoba exists in my day to day life.
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Dec 23, 2021 22:01
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same. there's also at least one atlantic province i've completely forgotten the existence of
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Dec 23, 2021 22:12
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:What’s making Quebec spike so much earlier than say Ontario? Is there that much more population density?
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Dec 23, 2021 22:18
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:What’s making Quebec spike so much earlier than say Ontario? Is there that much more population density? Ontario basically doesn't have testing right now. Ottawa and London are saying "if you feel sick, just assume you have COVID and isolate, don't book a test" and everywhere else it's like 4-5 days before you can find an appointment (I checked Hamilton yesterday out of curiosity and it doesn't even let you look for test appointments, it just gives you a message that everything is booked and check back in a few days) Based on the growth we were seeing prior to testing getting overwhelmed, we should be well over 10K by now. There's an outbreak at my wife's work and they basically have had to do contact tracing themselves and rely on rapid tests.
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Dec 23, 2021 22:28
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Sashimi posted:I'm wondering if the difference is that their testing infrastructure is less lovely than Ontario's, so their numbers are merely more accurate. Yeah Stage 1 of capitalist pandemic response is "maybe if we don't acknowledge it it will just blow over"
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Dec 23, 2021 23:31
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Yinlock posted:Yeah Stage 1 of capitalist pandemic response is "maybe if we don't acknowledge it it will just blow over" I love that this mentality persists until the infrastructure they rely so heavily on, like warehouses and the shipping industry, get swamped with cases and shut down and only then the big red emergency light go off and then promptly ask how they possibly could have seen this coming or stopped it from happening. I know everyone shits on Alberta for this but its extremely prevalent here in Ontario too.
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Dec 24, 2021 00:00
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In the broken rear end USA you can find (with difficulty) rapid PCR tests, and more easily slower PCR and various other rapid tests, all free and mostly delivered outdoors with minimal contact. So why the gently caress is Ontario cramming people into pharmacies for $40 antigen tests?
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Dec 24, 2021 00:02
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eXXon posted:In the broken rear end USA you can find (with difficulty) rapid PCR tests, and more easily slower PCR and various other rapid tests, all free and mostly delivered outdoors with minimal contact. So why the gently caress is Ontario cramming people into pharmacies for $40 antigen tests? Galen Weston Jr. has a lot of pull over Ford to keep things this way.
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Dec 24, 2021 00:18
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If they're already there for a test, they might engage in commerce! win-win! As an added bonus, exposure of people already in the store to potentially covid-positive people, just means they'll return for repeat business later! 
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