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Ah, he showed too much of his hand this time.
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May 30, 2021 18:41
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RuBisCO posted:Does anyone have any good places to buy a half mask respirator, online or otherwise? A recommendation would be great too. A combination of the looming delta plague and it being 42°C and the annual wildfires has got me thinking I should finally get one. I use this type of half-mask on some job-sites: https://www.amazon.ca/Rugged-Comfor...dustrial&sr=1-1 It has a quick release at the front so you can easily flip it and the mask loosens enough to talk or stick something in your mouth, without having to take it off your head. There is one for closer to $20 if you don't want the quick release. That's medium size which fits the average person, women generally fit the small size on average, but you'll have to decide how big your face is yourself, haha. There are full face masks from 3m that are nice as well, but they are expensive and likely overkill for what you're talking about. In the first days of the plague I wore a half-mask into Superstore because there were no masks available, haha. Use with these filters: https://www.amazon.ca/3M-2097-Parti...00328IAO0&psc=1 That will get particulate and that smoke smell out of the air. Doesn't do anything for carbon monoxide, but there isn't a filter that is going to save you from CO.
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Jun 27, 2021 21:51
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RuBisCO posted:Thank you for the info! Were these ones the 20$ ones you mentioned?: https://www.amazon.ca/3M-Safety-142...01HMF7VQ6&psc=1 Yeah, that's one of them. The quick release is worth $12 though, unless money is tight. It's the difference between quickly being able to move the mouth-piece aside to have a drink or say something unmuffled vs having to pull it off your head and then putting it back on and repositioning it. Granted I am usually wearing a hard-hat so taking that off is part of the pain.
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Jun 28, 2021 01:07
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Got my second Pfizer from the northern health vax van. I've been stuck in camp near Fort St. John for weeks and figured I'd have to wait until I was home, but the vax van was open 5-8pm on a Saturday.
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Jul 26, 2021 20:08
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Arcsquad12 posted:I've been without connection for two days and the only news update I heard was on Radio 1 which said there's still 30% of the population lacking a first dose and were slamming headlong into wave 4 because Alberta's government is homicidal. Ages 12 and up it's 81% that have at least one dose, 66.6% that have two. Not sure if that's a better or worse way to look at it.
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Aug 1, 2021 04:57
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Trapick posted:BC is requiring proof of vaccination to access restaurants, gyms, theatre, conferences, etc. I work with a lot of "vaccine hesitant" people. It's going to be amusing to watch them squirm.
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Aug 23, 2021 21:32
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mila kunis posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-housing-plan-1.6151154 You didn't quote any of the things that might reduce house prices, or slow their increase, just the things that definitely won't. Not that this is the full communism now that this thread expects as the only reasonable housing platform, but I was actually surprised by some of the things they are offering up.
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Aug 25, 2021 01:16
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leftist heap posted:Not talking about you I have no faith in the Liberals and would never vote for them. I also don't think their plan is great, I just think it's intellectually dishonest to frame it the way the poster framed it. I am sure it wasn't on purpose. This thread just seems needlessly depressing at times.
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Aug 25, 2021 07:59
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ChickenDoodle posted:Speaking of just wanting us all to die, I present Speedrunning by B. Henry: This is perfect though. You just have covid clinics where the staff and the patients all have covid.
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Dec 31, 2021 02:22
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I took my grandma to get her booster in BC the other day and she was 2x Pfizer. They gave us the choice, but recommended Moderna for the booster. The implication was broader coverage, not health effects, but maybe I misunderstood the implication. Another interesting thing was that we were in a special line because of her age (86) for a full dose. The doses that younger people were getting were half doses.Mad Hamish posted:When I went and got my booster they asked if I was over 30 because they were giving Moderna to us old people and Pfizer to those drat kids who need to get off my lawn. Ultimately I don't give a poo poo, just give the 5G juice. I think there is reasonable data that mycocarditis is much more common, relatively, in moderna than in pfizer. Specifically in younger men after the second dose.
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Jan 7, 2022 17:57
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This thread is hard to gauge sometimes, but does anyone strongly think that covid won't just become endemic? This is of course a separate question to what we should be doing about it now.
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Jan 13, 2022 21:52
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Just live your life, goons.
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Jan 22, 2022 00:07
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I've have a friend in his 20s who at the start of the pandemic was a pretty easy going, blue collar worker. Now everything he posts is about the 50,000 truckers and media suppression. It's felt like this slow side into radicalisation over the past two years. It's kind of depressing.
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Jan 27, 2022 15:45
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HackensackBackpack posted:CTV reporting the death in ambulance story is false. The irony is that that story did the same thing that posts about 50,000 trucks on the other side did. People are so hyped up they are just hitting share.
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Jan 31, 2022 18:49
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Alctel posted:I don't think it's ICU numbers that are the problem, they are still fairly low, but it's general hospitalisation rates that are really high right now Last I checked BC reports incidental covid cases as hospitalisations, so if you break your arm and test positive for covid, that's a covid hospitalization. Some states have seen over 50% incidental covid rates. I think I saw an estimate that BC was 45% for December. Anyway, it's useful to contextualize hospitalizations with this information.
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Feb 9, 2022 18:29
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RedFlag posted:This sounds like it could be the case (from a quick data processing standpoint, if nothing else), but it also sounds like something the proverbial Can-chud uncle would say. Where did this estimate come from? What about death counts? https://biv.com/article/2022/02/incidental-covid-19-hospitalizations-bc-are-about-44-total posted:Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said health officials conducted chart reviews of 550 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, starting on December 1, and discovered that 344, or 44.3 per cent of them, were in hospital initially for a reason that was not their COVID-19 infection, and that these infections were mild. I saw some actual data on this somewhere(sorry, don't have time to dig it up this second), but here is an article that talks about some other places in the states. https://www.ft.com/content/9e29ad1c-b0a5-4b7d-b569-f1f8dd0e8e04 posted:Statewide data on incidental admissions has only recently become available in places such as New York and Massachusetts, which have started collecting the data. In New York state, 42 per cent of Covid hospitalisations in New York state are incidental while in Los Angeles county the figure is two-thirds. In Florida, the Jackson Health System reported that out of their current 508 Covid-positive patients, 53 per cent were incidental admissions. I don't know about the death counts. I was just trying to say that sky-high hospitalizations aren't necessarily as stark as they seem. Tsyni fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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Feb 9, 2022 20:41
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Less Fat Luke posted:
I attended a couple universities and I never noticed them, but I had the same reaction when my brother told me he was in one. They were all a bunch of chill nerds though.
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May 11, 2022 04:07
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I don't have a handgun because it's such a pain in the rear end, so I guess who cares.
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May 30, 2022 23:46
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InfiniteZero posted:You'd think people in trades would actually have a better understanding of safety precautions, at least in theory. Usually when they've witnessed death or maiming first-hand they do, but not otherwise.
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Jun 21, 2022 21:21
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That's the worst part. He's bad, but it's not because of the great reset or because he's a secret communist. It's incredible to me how many people I hear saying that kind of thing with a straight face.
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Aug 15, 2022 01:47
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Vintersorg posted:Imagine trying to "arrest" the police. Next time I see my RCMP landlord in the yard I'm going to tell him he's under citizen's arrest for covid crimes.
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Aug 15, 2022 18:32
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Having the nipples of your giant prosthetic breasts poking out of your shirt seems pretty unprofessional to me, but maybe I'm a prude.
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Sep 23, 2022 16:08
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Can anyone here relate a Canadian Thanksgiving story from any Canadian Thanksgiving they've taken part in that has anything to do with colonialism? Are there Thanksgiving parades or something? My childhood was very secular, I'm wondering if I missed out on any of the good colonialism bits.
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Oct 11, 2022 19:23
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She made a thoughtless statement, and she seems like an awful person, but imagining she meant that the restrictions on the unvaccinated were worse than residential schools or apartheid seems like a stretch to me. It sounded like she went to score a political point with her base. Maybe I am being too generous.
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Oct 12, 2022 21:32
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Fart Amplifier posted:It's what she loving said. You do not need to defend this. I am not defending what she said, because I think it was incredibly foolish and laughable. I am remarking about the intellectual dishonesty of extrapolating the stupid thing she said to mean the worst possible interpretation of what she said. What she said was bad enough. I notice this intellectual dishonesty much more on the right, but that's probably a sign of my biases. This thread can be an echo chamber at times and so I am just putting up my hand and saying that it's annoying. People are talking about her thinking that the plight of the unvaccinated is worse than various genocides. I admit I don't know a lot about this woman, maybe someone could correct me if there is a good reason to think this is actually the case.
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Oct 13, 2022 00:18
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ZShakespeare posted:Actually that's not true. It's "we're not the BC LIberals" This is an incredible platform, to be fair.
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Oct 20, 2022 19:20
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TheCenturion posted:One day, Frog was sitting on the bank of a river, getting ready to swim across to the polling station. Yes, it's time to raise the bar in this insane echo chamber. Thank you.
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Nov 10, 2022 16:12
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linoleum floors posted:Less than 1% of kids under 5 have gotten vaccinated it's loving incredible how little anyone seems to care It isn't that low, but it's still low, unless you mean something else: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccination-coverage/ edit: oh maybe you mean Alberta?
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Nov 15, 2022 03:20
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First off, I am for increasing the minimum wage. Peg it to inflation or something. I live in North Vancouver, and the way I do my monthly budget is set it to what a person making minimum wage working 40 hours a week would make. I take that and keep my expenses under it. This includes literally every expense in my life, including car maintenance, insurance, etc etc. I don't have kids, and I have a roommate. Without a roommate, and with kids, I could see it being impossible, but as a single person it's quite easy. Now, you definitely can't really save any money, but I regularly spend ~$500/month eating out (this might seem like a lot or a little, depending who you are). My point is there is some slack in my budget if I really wanted to tighten things up.
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Nov 17, 2022 04:06
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Cold on a Cob posted:If this were to pass wouldn't this mean that BC could pass something similar and then ban or heavily tariff any pipelines that AB wants to run through BC and who cares what the Feds say or do? I watched part of her interview with Jordan Peterson and she said she was interested in working with Manitoba and building a port in Hudson Bay, buying ice breakers, dare to dream, etc.
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Nov 30, 2022 16:37
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He cheated on his wife and I guess the wokies came for him. Tale as old as time.
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Jan 1, 2023 02:15
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:You'd be amazed how much gas you save by slowing down to the speed limit. I remember hearing someone say that most vehicles have their optimal range when travelling at 90 km/h, and frankly I believe it. Yeah, it's remarkable. I have run the experiment many times, keeping things under 2000rpm at all times (which works out to ~90km/h on the highway) will get me around 31-34mpg on average vs 24-27mpg just driving however I want. Just accelerating slower and keeping some room between you and traffic so you don't have to slow down and speed up so much makes a difference. Sometimes it's fun to drive fast though.
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Jan 3, 2023 20:34
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cat botherer posted:Wow it's crazy how if you put people in isolated areas with substandard infrastructure and no economic opportunities it still sucks for them even if they have public housing. Good point, let's get them all to the city.
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Jan 13, 2023 19:06
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Old Swerdlow posted:This is a great essay/article summing up why maid is fraught with issues. I thought this was interesting, thanks.
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Jan 23, 2023 22:52
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I am trying to think of when this thread becomes more of an insufferable cess-pool than when it talks about the police, but I am drawing a blank.
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Jan 29, 2023 22:05
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https://www.tiktok.com/@vancouverpoliceofficial/video/7193412491349642502 Just saw this on TikTok. Police helping educate people and keep them safe. They even help the elderly gentleman at the end. They seem pretty swell actually. Somebody fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Jan 31, 2023 |
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Jan 31, 2023 08:20
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Normy posted:FYI this link used to direct us to your profile "xxxx shared this do you want to follow them?" drat, thanks for fixing it whoever did.
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Jan 31, 2023 10:53
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Fidelitious posted:I just can't understand this. We struggled through 3 episodes without a single real laugh moment. I'm with you. One of my brothers, who I think I'm very similar to, loves it and I don't get it. I'm glad so many people enjoy it, but it's so unappealing to me.
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Mar 15, 2023 15:06
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It would be convenient if more conservative politicians were cops because that would allow me to get around some of the pesky forum rules about advocating the execution of public officials.
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Mar 16, 2023 22:19
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I am working at a refinery right now and my team has made friends with one of the operators here. He's a kind dude in his mid 50s, just a really sweet guy. Brings us treats and stuff, always quick to help. Talks a lot about helping out in the community. We've talked to him a lot. The other day someone went on a rant about how Trudeau had to die, and this kindly gentleman immediately joined in, wondering aloud why no one had done it yet. It boggles my loving mind.
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May 10, 2023 05:31
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