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EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe
Oh ok they're cancelling poo poo next week after everyone's had xmas dinner and bought their cheap boxing Day poo poo.

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Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

EvilJoven posted:

Oh ok they're cancelling poo poo next week after everyone's had xmas dinner and bought their cheap boxing Day poo poo.

can't cancel christmas or boxing day, that would affect poll numbers

CrcleSqreSanchz
Aug 21, 2002

I'm feeling something new...something...I'm happy??!!
I love the people seeing Manitoba buckling under the covid (again), getting mad at everyone for not doing more, then finishing with "gently caress it I did my part for *insert amount of time* I'm going to do whatever I want"

Truly helping us out. Thank you for your sacrifice people relying on healthcare.

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


RBC posted:

over 9000 cases of covid in ontario reported today

merry christmas

12k tomorrow?

number go up!

Of course here in Alberta they figured out that it can't if you don't count them.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Bilirubin posted:

number go up!

Of course here in Alberta they figured out that it can't if you don't count them.

Ontario's not trying very hard, it's just Covid is spreading so fast they can't help but see number go up - 19% test positivity today

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe

CrcleSqreSanchz posted:

I love the people seeing Manitoba buckling under the covid (again), getting mad at everyone for not doing more, then finishing with "gently caress it I did my part for *insert amount of time* I'm going to do whatever I want"

Truly helping us out. Thank you for your sacrifice people relying on healthcare.

It's almost like after two years of being repeatedly told to make shitloads of sacrifices unless those sacrifices would affect capital, in which case I should know my place and keep working and spending, I'm loving sick of it all.

At this point my choices seem to be either say gently caress it and go to parties and probably get covid, or hide away from everything except when I'm at work where I'll still get covid, or quit my job along with my wife and lose my house and end up in Siloam Mission where I'll still get covid.

Not everyone is a wfh computer toucher that can get their groceries delivered and cut off all human contact.

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?
my favourite part of the manitoba press conference was telling anyone under 40 that if you feel like you have a cold or flu just assume you have covid and isolate and please don’t get tested because we are out of tests

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe
If I stay home from work for 10 days voluntarily without any test results who pays my bills?

Isentropy
Dec 12, 2010

Taking a packed 511 streetcar to and from work where management has given up on any real mask mandate the entire holiday, but I'm going to just sit at home by myself on Christmas to stop the spread

I think having to take any of the "working class bus routes" in TO (e.g. Delano Banton's 45) would very quickly change the outlooks of a lot of people ITT. Just as packed as they were pre pandemic, no one cares about distancing

ETA: a lot of them have tried their hardest but these "you gotta go work your job but GO STRAIGHT HOME NO SOCIAL ACTIVITIES" lockdowns won't work and get less effective every time

Isentropy has issued a correction as of 18:05 on Dec 24, 2021

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

EvilJoven posted:

Oh my god two years of this and they still think they can control the population by telling them what they *should* do but not putting any loving weight behind it.

Order us all to stay the gently caress home including paying us to stay the gently caress home from work unless our poo poo is actually essential for immediate survival, or shut the gently caress up, I'm going out.

they don't care about saving lives they care about dodging responsibility at all cost

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe
I remember hearing that all the Richardson Int'l employees were told they had to go back to work because Heartly couldn't stand the fact that the people making him billions of dollars were doing it from home in their PJs instead of from One Lombard in business casual.

And yet I'm supposed to spend my time off on my couch because it's the right thing to do.

Starks
Sep 24, 2006

Isentropy posted:

Taking a packed 511 streetcar to and from work where management has given up on any real mask mandate the entire holiday, but I'm going to just sit at home by myself on Christmas to stop the spread

I think having to take any of the "working class bus routes" in TO (e.g. Delano Banton's 45) would very quickly change the outlooks of a lot of people ITT

the decision to fire ttc workers over vaccinations looks even dumber now

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

Rutibex posted:

they don't care about saving lives they care about dodging responsibility at all cost

doesn't seem to have worked for kenney but ford is probably going to be re-elected despite the mismanagement here

Isentropy
Dec 12, 2010

Starks posted:

the decision to fire ttc workers over vaccinations looks even dumber now

do you think the unvaccinated TTC workers would be available right now

ToxicAcne
May 25, 2014

Starks posted:

the decision to fire ttc workers over vaccinations looks even dumber now

I also love how half the seats are marked off making the bus/streetcar/subway even more packed during rush hour.

PMC gonna PMC by offloading all the risk to poor people while acting smug about how socially responsible they are. Oh and admonishing the people on whom they've put in risk.

CrcleSqreSanchz
Aug 21, 2002

I'm feeling something new...something...I'm happy??!!

EvilJoven posted:

It's almost like after two years of being repeatedly told to make shitloads of sacrifices unless those sacrifices would affect capital, in which case I should know my place and keep working and spending, I'm loving sick of it all.

At this point my choices seem to be either say gently caress it and go to parties and probably get covid, or hide away from everything except when I'm at work where I'll still get covid, or quit my job along with my wife and lose my house and end up in Siloam Mission where I'll still get covid.

Not everyone is a wfh computer toucher that can get their groceries delivered and cut off all human contact.

I'd say "source your quotes" but I know the source-the same people in ICU right now telling me "they just saw part of a family" and "I have a life to live, others went to the Jets game!!!!"

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe
Ya I gotta say I'd rather my last thought be lmao I'm gonna die but that concert was tite and not lmao I avoided social interaction for two years but got covid anyway because a ski Karen didn't put on their mask until after walking into the store.

The day I gave up was the day some old fucker came in wearing a surgical mask... with slashes in it because it kept fogging up his glasses.

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



Had a covid scare, got a rapid test kit. Gotta say that swabbing yourself is the worst.

Starks
Sep 24, 2006

Isentropy posted:

do you think the unvaccinated TTC workers would be available right now

i don’t really get it, so you think all of them would be at home sick or dead right now? is the same true for the unvaccinated ttc riders?

prioritizing vaccinations over spread reduction was dumb. A public health decision that results in more covid cases is a bad decision.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

9571 cases in Ontario :eyepop:

two days ago our all time high for the pandemic was 4800 lmao

One of my family members has covid symptoms and a positive rapid test, another in the same house is immunocompromised but testing negative. Not only can none of them get PCR tests until the 29th, the Voluntary Isolation Units that were set up for exactly this situation in the spring - so vulnerable close contacts in a household don’t catch covid - have apparently all shut down since covid is over.

They called their specialist at Toronto General yesterday, who told them to get out of the house immediately, but Regional Public Health has stopped operating those VIUs out of hotels.

So far the contingencies are: I drive 12 hours round trip and they stay with me, or they just check into a regular hotel. Reading the Provincial guidelines, I’m fairly sure neither is allowed - understandably so, as they are as close contact and have to isolate.

So why the gently caress did they get rid of the places for them to do that, and what am I supposed to do?

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?

Starks posted:

i don’t really get it, so you think all of them would be at home sick or dead right now? is the same true for the unvaccinated ttc riders?

prioritizing vaccinations over spread reduction was dumb. A public health decision that results in more covid cases is a bad decision.

hear me out here, i know this might be radical idea but what if they did both?????

Salean
Mar 17, 2004

Homewrecker

still p sure covid is over since the malls here are still packed

*cough*

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


Fashionable Jorts posted:

Had a covid scare, got a rapid test kit. Gotta say that swabbing yourself is the worst.

what was the process of getting a kit like? I was gonna just go to the pharmacy in a couple of days and get as many as they would give me

Suplex Liberace
Jan 18, 2012



EvilJoven posted:

I bet I'm still gonna be selling loving skis to boomers who can't keep their god damned mask over their god damned nose when I go back to work on Wednesday.

Brother I'm doing rn and its not gonna change anytime soon

enki42
Jun 11, 2001
#ATMLIVESMATTER

Put this Nazi-lover on ignore immediately!

blatman posted:

what was the process of getting a kit like? I was gonna just go to the pharmacy in a couple of days and get as many as they would give me

Can you get them retail? I thought you if you went to Shoppers you had to get them to give it to you for $40.

I bought some off https://www.canadianshieldppe.ca/, their fulfillment time is like a week right now though.

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m
Apr 16, 2017

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https://twitter.com/richardzussman/status/1474443023215857666?t=k0EYFxOOAKor9cOsOAuZNw&s=19

lol

lmao

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



blatman posted:

what was the process of getting a kit like? I was gonna just go to the pharmacy in a couple of days and get as many as they would give me

Went in to a pharmacy, handed them id and alberta health card, they handed me a kit with 5 doses. Each person can get one home kit every 14 days.

Escape Goat
Jan 30, 2009


I guess that's one way to flatten the curve

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




I'm hiding from covid and omicron alone in an oceanside cabin so suck my rear end all you fucks

linoleum floors
Mar 25, 2012

Please. Let me tell you all about how you're all idiots. I am of superior intellect here. Go suck some dicks. You have all fucking stupid opinions. This is my fucking opinion.
Telling my boss I'm going to stay home for 7 days because I have a headache. That's going to work very well

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?
https://twitter.com/scottbilleck/status/1474448415400480772?s=21

Albino Squirrel
Apr 25, 2003

Miosis more like meiosis

Fashionable Jorts posted:

Had a covid scare, got a rapid test kit. Gotta say that swabbing yourself is the worst.
Could be worse, those swabs are the same ones we use for urethral tests.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

EvilJoven posted:

"What you really need to do is give up skiing and start riding fat bikes because they're way more chill. People smoke up while seeding at fat bike races

what you’re telling me is that there actually is a sport for me?

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m
Apr 16, 2017

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EvilJoven posted:

"What you really need to do is give up skiing and start riding fat bikes because they're way more chill. People smoke up while seeding at fat bike races and you're the most tightly wound stereotypical ski person I've ever seen and definitely need to calm the gently caress down and smoke a bowl. Now cover your god damned face."

I haven't skied park in years but do park kids still wear XXXL jackets for no reason?

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m
Apr 16, 2017

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I think the most skier thing I've seen in recent years was an episode of SLUSH on youtube where some guy from Portland rapped badly and another guy bobbed his head along with it

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:

CLAM DOWN posted:

I'm hiding from covid and omicron alone in an oceanside cabin so suck my rear end all you fucks

temperature check

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
been away for a while but the thread title made me laugh hard. well done.

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




RealityWarCriminal posted:

temperature check

I'm cold as poo poo

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe

mediaphage posted:

what you’re telling me is that there actually is a sport for me?

There is so much weed to be had mountain biking in general but way more fat biking specifically.

There's even little gadgets now that's for 'tool storage' in your handle bars in your crank etc but it's totally for stashing weed on your bike.

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EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

I haven't skied park in years but do park kids still wear XXXL jackets for no reason?

I'm taking cross country skiing. Downhill isn't nearly as full of overly neurotic turbo karens.

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