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Ontario to enter four-week, province-wide Covid-19 shutdown on Saturday

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Re: Ontario to enter four-week, province-wide Covid-19 shutdown on Saturday

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If we're going to be super sensitive about the almost non-existent threat of children wrt sars-cov-2 why aren't we also super sensitive about destroying any semblance of normality in children's lives? Surely this damages children in their crucial developmental stages when they're deprived of social signalling, and effective teaching methods (sorry, Zoom doesn't cut it). As science would inform us - humans have millio…

This whole thing has transcended any kind of logic, and there does not seem to be a rational way to discuss the tradeoffs with people. I think this is just the first "crisis" - actually the mildest thing that could happen and still be considered a global pandemic - to land in the milieu of social media and polarization that the world had become already, and this is the result. The pandemic is really just a fashion ac…

I personally know that the hospitals are empty no covid-19 patients I was there for many surgerys pass few years in and out weeks staying over night. The news claims it's full of virus patients I walked down that wing to find the lights off and no one around.

Re: Ontario to enter four-week, province-wide Covid-19 shutdown on Saturday

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This whole thing has transcended any kind of logic, and there does not seem to be a rational way to discuss the tradeoffs with people. I think this is just the first "crisis" - actually the mildest thing that could happen and still be considered a global pandemic - to land in the milieu of social media and polarization that the world had become already, and this is the result. The pandemic is really just a fashion ac…

I personally know that the hospitals are empty no covid-19 patients I was there for many surgerys pass few years in and out weeks staying over night. The news claims it's full of virus patients I walked down that wing to find the lights off and no one around.

Boy, I didn't exactly mean to inspire quite this level of skepticism. There is like pretty solid evidence of some wards being awfully full of covid patients some of the time. You're one trip down one wing of a hospital and finding it empty doesn't change the fact that lots more people died in 2020 than the year before

Re: Ontario to enter four-week, province-wide Covid-19 shutdown on Saturday

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Paris is also in a 4-week lockdown: https://thehill.com/policy/international/europe/543993-paris...

When has Paris not been in lockdown in the last 2 years? March 2019 France mass arrested boatloads of people. Tons of journalists and activists fled the country.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/france-thousa...

covid only gave them an excuse to go even further.

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