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Deb and Ed M wrote:
If *I* was Canadian - I wouldn't want us, either....LOL! I think most of us understand that, as we live like hermits trying to avoid those Americans who refuse to help slow the spread.
Sadly Deb and Ed, even us Canadians are far from totally united in this plight. Even with Mayors in Calgary and Edmonton stating Masks are now mandatory, there's a huge loop hole. I was disgusted when out last night in a business where you had these stubborn ones that still wouldn't done or wear masks. Sadly also several of those that did wore them on their chin to no effect.
I think they should mandate if you won't wear a mask because ......, then you should undergo intubation, and decide if wearing a mask is really that bad!
Ho hum, still that, but I think fortunately shrinking group out there that believes it's all a conspiracy/over rated I guess.- noteven, as said by Winston Churchill, while trying to convince America to help Britain out in World War II before the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
- "Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else."
Fisherman wrote:
I believe his purpose is to keep those out who think it doesn't apply to them and although it may be a small amount, we don't want any more cases erupting if it is being brought across the border. It may be an inconvenience to some, but I'd rather be safe than infected by some than can't get it past their thick heads. Cheers, I have no ill will against our southern friends.
If *I* was Canadian - I wouldn't want us, either....LOL! I think most of us understand that, as we live like hermits trying to avoid those Americans who refuse to help slow the spread.- Steve, thank you for being so nice, but I know and you know that nationally the US has been a disaster, no plan at all; there has been disjointed efforts by various states to come up with plans; some states are even banding together to form their own confederacy to devise plans; there is no other way at present; states haven't done that since 1861, but this time there is a very good reason for it.
JaxDad wrote:
down home wrote:
JaxDad wrote:
charlestonsouthern wrote:
garyhaupt, you have to remember that we are dealing with a population of approximately 328 million people. Canada is only dealing with approximately 38 million people. With new leadership, we can lick this thing regardless of the size of the population. But it will require isolation by shutting down completely two borders.
I don’t know if you’ve ever heard the famous line, ‘there’s 3 categories of untruths, there’s lies, **** lies, and statistics’,
Yes the US has ~ 8.6 times the population of Canada but it has 40 times the cases, and more than 17 times the number of deaths.
Now compare that to places with a lot more complicating factors, but took serious measures to curb the spread early on, India for example.
India has 1.353 billion people, more than 4 times the population of the US, yet they have had just over 1/3rd the number of cases and less than 1/4 the number of deaths.
Only 1.46% of Residents in the US out of 336,000,000 million have been diagnosed with the Virus of that number only a small percentage have been fatal.
i think I related this before but..Son In Law co-worker is a nurse in a clinic in a hospital not far from our home.
She gives the test for the Virus! When someone comes in and is tested and the test is positive they are required to self quaranine for the week, return and be retested the ext week and if positive to self quanratine another week, this is repeated for sx weeks, or until the test is negative.
Each time they are tested it is reported to the CDC in Atlanta as if a new case!!
Wow, all that quarantine time has really had an effect, the population has gone up by nearly 4 million from just over 328, million only a few months ago. I guess there wasn’t much good on TV.....
As for the reports, that’s false, the report says it’s a positive result, and that it’s a subsequent test on a previously reported person.
Percentages are a funny thing though, 1.5% of population being sick, and 0.05% dead seems like NOTHING ......
Until you realize that means more 160,000 people died ....... so far .......
To put that in perspective, that’s the entire population of Jackson, the capitol of Mississippi, that doesn’t sound anything like “only” to me.
If you go by the numbers of people who caught it compared to the amount who have dies, the US has twice the number of deaths per million cases than Canada has. could be because of a larger amount of elderly people in the areas where it is rampant, but who knows.
Steve- JaxDad, "I guess there wasn't much good on TV ...". Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! I have to get my mind out of the gutter! Ohhhh, the miracle of birth!
Ok. Seriously, India (or even Mexico, for that matter) -- 1.353 billion -- Do you really believe the stats. coming out of India? Even the expats who live there don't believe them. The hordes of so many people living there get Covid, never see a doctor or hospital, simply die where they live, and subsequently are buried with no diagnosis. My Grandfather died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918; never got a chance to know him; he was a farmer in very rural Georgia and neither was diagnosed by a doctor (while he was alive) nor visited a hospital. Communication was so slow back then, and thus, it was weeks later when the family suspected what he died of. You and I today have great communications and stats. institutions to rely on in our countries (with us, it's the CDC in Georgia and Johns Hopkins in Maryland) which we fight to have politics free. down home wrote:
JaxDad wrote:
charlestonsouthern wrote:
garyhaupt, you have to remember that we are dealing with a population of approximately 328 million people. Canada is only dealing with approximately 38 million people. With new leadership, we can lick this thing regardless of the size of the population. But it will require isolation by shutting down completely two borders.
I don’t know if you’ve ever heard the famous line, ‘there’s 3 categories of untruths, there’s lies, **** lies, and statistics’,
Yes the US has ~ 8.6 times the population of Canada but it has 40 times the cases, and more than 17 times the number of deaths.
Now compare that to places with a lot more complicating factors, but took serious measures to curb the spread early on, India for example.
India has 1.353 billion people, more than 4 times the population of the US, yet they have had just over 1/3rd the number of cases and less than 1/4 the number of deaths.
Only 1.46% of Residents in the US out of 336,000,000 million have been diagnosed with the Virus of that number only a small percentage have been fatal.
i think I related this before but..Son In Law co-worker is a nurse in a clinic in a hospital not far from our home.
She gives the test for the Virus! When someone comes in and is tested and the test is positive they are required to self quaranine for the week, return and be retested the ext week and if positive to self quanratine another week, this is repeated for sx weeks, or until the test is negative.
Each time they are tested it is reported to the CDC in Atlanta as if a new case!!
Wow, all that quarantine time has really had an effect, the population has gone up by nearly 4 million from just over 328, million only a few months ago. I guess there wasn’t much good on TV.....
As for the reports, that’s false, the report says it’s a positive result, and that it’s a subsequent test on a previously reported person.
Percentages are a funny thing though, 1.5% of population being sick, and 0.05% dead seems like NOTHING ......
Until you realize that means more 160,000 people died ....... so far .......
To put that in perspective, that’s the entire population of Jackson, the capitol of Mississippi, that doesn’t sound anything like “only” to me.JaxDad wrote:
charlestonsouthern wrote:
garyhaupt, you have to remember that we are dealing with a population of approximately 328 million people. Canada is only dealing with approximately 38 million people. With new leadership, we can lick this thing regardless of the size of the population. But it will require isolation by shutting down completely two borders.
I don’t know if you’ve ever heard the famous line, ‘there’s 3 categories of untruths, there’s lies, **** lies, and statistics’,
Yes the US has ~ 8.6 times the population of Canada but it has 40 times the cases, and more than 17 times the number of deaths.
Now compare that to places with a lot more complicating factors, but took serious measures to curb the spread early on, India for example.
India has 1.353 billion people, more than 4 times the population of the US, yet they have had just over 1/3rd the number of cases and less than 1/4 the number of deaths.
Only 1.46% of Residents in the US out of 336,000,000 million have been diagnosed with the Virus of that number only a small percentage have been fatal.
i think I related this before but..Son In Law co-worker is a nurse in a clinic in a hospital not far from our home.
She gives the test for the Virus! When someone comes in and is tested and the test is positive they are required to self quaranine for the week, return and be retested the ext week and if positive to self quanratine another week, this is repeated for sx weeks, or until the test is negative.
Each time they are tested it is reported to the CDC in Atlanta as if a new case!!- Full time, Couldn't agree with you more, especially your last paragraph (love the scratching your head cartoon!). We'll get through this, and things will start changing in January. Can't tell you why because that would be discussing national politics. Take care.
