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    Quote Originally Posted by duaner View Post
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    What do you think is the solution to starvation?
    The $80billion we spent on CERB could’ve gone towards food pre-Covid. Providing money to feed starving black people in Africa won’t get you too many votes though. Lives matter, but only the ones who can elect you back into your cushy office.

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    Tldr?
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    Quote Originally Posted by finboy View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xtrema View Post
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    So protect your anus from Covid?

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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    You are the only person making this an us versus you issue, but it sounds like you have issues with the nature and sacrifices of your job.

    Don’t make that everyone else’s problem.
    Yes, it has been hard on me, but again that's mostly because of the steep increase in workload and helplessness with streaking across the city for high acuity calls because there isn't anyone else available, in instances where time is a factor. That isn't the nature of my job, and that has nothing to do with sacrifices. We are helpers and we want to do the best job we can, and be the most effective we can. COVID measures change how we do some things, many of which are critical interventions, in the interest of safety to us and the hospital system. That means withholding some very necessary treatments and procedures, because they're deemed to be high risk to everyone aside from the patient, even though they may be a life or death measure for some people. That's hard on me, knowing I can be doing things but withholding because of this entire situation.

    This is why I want to see measures through, this is why I get upset when people want to play the live and let live game, because the longer we stretch this out, the longer I'm making decisions on avoiding treatment for people. I'm unsure if I can convey the internal conflict that causes effectively enough, or if I'm just going to get called out for whining by the usual suspects.

    People calling this stuff out being not a big deal or being unaware of the influence this stuff has beyond their bubble is frustrating.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mr2mike View Post
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    So protect your anus from Covid?
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    I’m really hoping that the province uses some sense and puts a priority system in place that uses age as the driver, similar to what BC is doing. The data shows the older population is more at risk of severe effects and death and that’s what should be addressed and prevented, none of this trying to one up each other when it comes to who “needs” it more that the various unions and groups are engaging in
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    Using age as a method of prioritization is no better than just listening to the unions. There is not ANY method of prioritizing vaccinations that doesn't have absurd consequences.

    The government messaging has been pretty consistent that we are trying to protect the health care system, not reduce individual deaths. An economist could probably figure out which method costs the government the least over the long term. I'm still shocked the federales didn't put in an emergency inheritance tax to coincide with the relaxation of restrictions and subsequent bump in seniors deaths. Maybe they still will.
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    You realize you are talking to the guy who made his own furniture out of salad bowls right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    Using age as a method of prioritization is no better than just listening to the unions. There is not ANY method of prioritizing vaccinations that doesn't have absurd consequences.

    The government messaging has been pretty consistent that we are trying to protect the health care system, not reduce individual deaths. An economist could probably figure out which method costs the government the least over the long term. I'm still shocked the federales didn't put in an emergency inheritance tax to coincide with the relaxation of restrictions and subsequent bump in seniors deaths. Maybe they still will.
    And by prioritizing populations in decreasing order of age once phase 1 is done, that’s accomplished. The older you are, the more likely you are to wind up in hospital if you get sick. Higher number of older people vaccinated equals less hospitalizations. This approach also hits a wider range of locations, instead of just targeting specific places like so many groups seem to want
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    Quote Originally Posted by FraserB View Post
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    And by prioritizing populations in decreasing order of age once phase 1 is done, that’s accomplished. The older you are, the more likely you are to wind up in hospital if you get sick. Higher number of older people vaccinated equals less hospitalizations. This approach also hits a wider range of locations, instead of just targeting specific places like so many groups seem to want
    This seems reasonable. It won't be perfect, but the roll out thus far has been a bit shab.

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    I'm not arguing in favor of any alternative method of prioritization. I'm arguing that any long term shortage will create absurd tradeoffs.
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    You realize you are talking to the guy who made his own furniture out of salad bowls right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jutes View Post
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    The $80billion we spent on CERB could’ve gone towards food pre-Covid. Providing money to feed starving black people in Africa won’t get you too many votes though. Lives matter, but only the ones who can elect you back into your cushy office.
    That’s the answer I expected. The typical Western answer for everything wrong in the world—just throw money at it. It gives the appearance of helping and placates the Western conscience; two birds with one stone. It is unfortunate, though, that most money given to help poorer nations for things such as food rarely does what Westerners gave it for. Corrupt governments and governments without a plan mean the majority of that money doesn’t actually help the people it is intended to help.

    If you’re even half as concerned about all those people starving as you appear to be, you would be boots on the ground somewhere in Africa or Yemen, figuring out practical ways to get aid to those who need it, teaching the poor some skills, advocating on behalf of the poor, or any number of practical things. Until then, you have no argument.

    What’s worse, doing nothing because one doesn’t know how to help or giving money so one’s conscience is eased without having to get one’s hands dirty?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FraserB View Post
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    And by prioritizing populations in decreasing order of age once phase 1 is done, that’s accomplished. The older you are, the more likely you are to wind up in hospital if you get sick. Higher number of older people vaccinated equals less hospitalizations. This approach also hits a wider range of locations, instead of just targeting specific places like so many groups seem to want
    As has been know since the start, age isn’t the only factor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by duaner View Post
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    As has been know since the start, age isn’t the only factor.
    For hospitalization it is the main factor (trigger warning: charts inside)

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    https://health-infobase.canada.ca/co...-cases.html#a7
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    Quote Originally Posted by vengie View Post
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    I mean, eating food is a pretty good start.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Penguin View Post
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    Anything against the narrative gets taken down by Big Tech like Dr. Drew on Youtube. Even the opinions of a Medically trained doctor similar to all the Doctors from the 2 two Doctors in California who were shut down talking about the lockdowns or all the Doctors from Americas Front Line Summit who got Millions of views back in the summer before they got shut down across all platforms on the same day.

    As the Left says to listen to the Science, yet they'll be censoring those that go against Master Fauci, while they allow non medical professionals to freely say what they want
    https://noqreport.com/2021/02/15/dr-...ith-your-life/



    Or maybe they will only allow the Elite Masters like Zuckerberg speak what he want when he expressed caution of the experimental vaccines

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    Quote Originally Posted by duaner View Post
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    That’s the answer I expected. The typical Western answer for everything wrong in the world—just throw money at it.
    You seem to misunderstand. We didn’t care that 9 million people were dying yearly (only to grow higher) for something relatively simple like lack of food. We decimated our economies over something that has a fractional chance of killing you. Don’t you see the discrepancies and hypocrisy? Why all of a sudden do we care about people dying? Are hospitals and staff that unable to cope with overcapacity that we need to shutdown our society to shelter them from making hard decisions?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jutes View Post
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    You seem to misunderstand. We didn’t care that 9 million people were dying yearly (only to grow higher) for something relatively simple like lack of food. We decimated our economies over something that has a fractional chance of killing you. Don’t you see the discrepancies and hypocrisy? Why all of a sudden do we care about people dying? Are hospitals and staff that unable to cope with overcapacity that we need to shutdown our society to shelter them from making hard decisions?
    It's not that we didn't care but it's more like it's not our problem. Most African countries has corrupted governments and aids of any kind will only go to fat cats on the top.

    The few that has managed or be managed properly has seen very good result:
    https://www.worldbank.org/en/country...pia/overview#1

    A friend of mine has been thru Africa in the 90 is various Canadian gov initiatives to "help". It's not helping them one bit because the people and government are not set up to keep what they are given. Whatever infrastructure you set up, it'll be gone in weeks/months/years and people and militia strips it.

    The key to get people out of trouble is the people to understand what happens when a government destabilizes and unable to enforce shit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SportEL View Post
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    Or maybe they will only allow the Elite Masters like Zuckerberg speak what he want when he expressed caution of the experimental vaccines
    Holy shit, a guy changed his mind over the course of a few months after learning more about a topic and speaking to an expert in that field! what kind of world do we live in where people can just change their mind after gaining a deeper understanding of how things work. so fucked!!!!!!

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