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Old 08-17-2020, 12:26 AM
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Well, I just made my first trip to the city in a long time the other day. I can say that things are defiantly not back to normal. Lots of precautions being taken. I was forced to use hand sanitizer at almost every store, some demanded masks, others had the change rooms closed, partitions and lots of distancing. (But my rights! I feel so violated.)

I've also been on lots of rigs lately and stayed in a few hotels and work camps. I can say with all certainty that things aren't back to normal there either.

It seems like the precautions might be working. If not, it won't hurt.

Also when it comes to comorbidity. I just tried and I can't think of many people I know over 40 who don't have asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, COPD, obesity etc. some have multiple problems in that list so I'm not putting much faith in the numbers being as off as some are claiming.
The unemployment rate is killing more people then Covid. You also have sick patients missing important specialist appointments. Be interesting to see how many people died because they weren’t able to get diagnosed rapidly after this is all done. So yes the precautions do hurt things. I would say they’re hurting things mightily looking around my neighborhood.
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Old 08-17-2020, 12:36 AM
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Put this into a reply to you earlier but you obviously know better than the CDC and didn't bothervreading it.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...sing-1.5065759
Well you know what they say there’s lies, damn lies, and statistics. The CDC measured “kids” from 1 month to 18 years. With a demographic that wide the stats are useless without further break down by age.
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Old 08-17-2020, 06:16 AM
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Put this into a reply to you earlier but you obviously know better than the CDC and didn't bothervreading it.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...sing-1.5065759
This is an interesting article that unfortunately shows bias in the first sentence.

Health experts say children make up more than 7% of all coronavirus cases in the U.S. -- while comprising about 22% of the country's population -- and the number and rate of child cases have been "steadily increasing" from March to July.

If children were as susceptible to the virus as adults, the number of cases to population percentage would be equal and not a third. If anything their numbers should be higher than adults due to the lack of social distancing and personal restraint. This is another example of the media taking data and producing bad news because it sells more than neutral or good news. Never forget, media is big business and clicking on their articles makes them money. The board of directors demands profits from their company (Bell Canada Enterprises) and not the truth.

https://www.bce.ca/investors/shares-...vidends/bce.to
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