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Offline waldo

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Re: BACK TO WORK!! It’s just killing old farts
« Reply #165 on: May 01, 2020, 02:17:06 pm »


of course Trump calls protesters who carried guns into the Michigan Capitol 'very good people'... deja vu, hey Charlottesville!
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« Reply #166 on: May 01, 2020, 03:49:16 pm »
It's apparently fashionable to conflate people who support reducing restrictions in Canada with gun-toting yokels in the United States.  But most Canadian provinces are now indeed moving toward reducing restrictions in the very near future.   It's not just yokels talking about it, it's Canadian premiers and provincial health officers.

Despite hysteria from folks like Omni who think that reopening beaches and parks is going to kill a bunch of people, parks and beaches here in Kim City (and the rest of BC, as far as I know) were never closed and we've got among the best numbers in Canada.  Yesterday Dr Henry was encouraging everyone to go outside and enjoy the sun.  Today the Kim City Kayak Club is reopening, and tomorrow I'll be out on the lake. And millions of old-people aren't going to die because of it. Elective surgeries and personal care will start reopening soon. And not long after that, the phased reopening will expand.

The time for hysteria is over.

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Re: BACK TO WORK!! It’s just killing old farts
« Reply #167 on: May 01, 2020, 07:23:38 pm »
I broke a tooth back in January and would really like to get it fixed.
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« Reply #168 on: May 01, 2020, 07:25:44 pm »
The time for hysteria is over.

nice to see you finally moving on... you were so over-the-top!  ;D

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« Reply #169 on: May 01, 2020, 08:15:48 pm »
I broke a tooth back in January and would really like to get it fixed.

Dental work is definitely the highest risk of any activity you could do right now. 

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Re: BACK TO WORK!! It’s just killing old farts
« Reply #170 on: May 02, 2020, 06:19:18 am »
It's apparently fashionable to conflate people who support reducing restrictions in Canada with gun-toting yokels in the United States.  But most Canadian provinces are now indeed moving toward reducing restrictions in the very near future.   It's not just yokels talking about it, it's Canadian premiers and provincial health officers.

At what point do we need to accept the self-appointed spokesfolk as the face of the issue ?  In a parallel situation, you selected Jessica Yaniv as a spokesthem who stands for trans people remember ?  So can I take the pretty-much-anonymous group of people baying for their rights and calling Trudeau 'Stalin' on Facebook as the Face of gun rights ?

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The time for hysteria is over.
 

Is it ?  Lay me down a rule that applies to the Confederate Flag hoisting Albertans and the hysterical Yanivs, and let's agree to follow it together ?

How about if either one of us label someone an 'extremist' then we are to follow their arguments with less seriousness, and appoint someone with a more reasonable version of the same views to listen to instead ?  Let's designate who will be part of this discussion for us maybe ?
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Re: BACK TO WORK!! It’s just killing old farts
« Reply #171 on: May 02, 2020, 07:04:27 am »
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Re: BACK TO WORK!! It’s just killing old farts
« Reply #172 on: May 02, 2020, 08:53:21 am »
Dental work is definitely the highest risk of any activity you could do right now.

Ya, good thing it is only sensitive to cold temperatures, otherwise it doesn’t bother me much. I’m afraid it will abscess one day.
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Re: BACK TO WORK!! It’s just killing old farts
« Reply #174 on: May 03, 2020, 01:06:46 am »

The time for hysteria is over.



Or.... maybe the hysteria was effective.
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« Reply #175 on: May 03, 2020, 12:39:34 pm »


Quote from: Donald J. Trump - President of the United States of America
The Governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire. These are very good people.  But they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal.


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« Reply #176 on: May 03, 2020, 01:02:01 pm »
Why weren’t the ones involved in an armed insurrection shot dead by police?   ???
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Re: BACK TO WORK!! It’s just killing old farts
« Reply #177 on: May 03, 2020, 02:34:09 pm »

The time for hysteria is over.


Is that so that when people start dying en masse, you can blame the government for not doing enough?

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« Reply #178 on: May 03, 2020, 02:36:50 pm »

Or.... maybe the hysteria was effective.

No, caution was effective. Preparation was effective.

Our public health officials were very correct in reacting with the utmost caution in the early days of this.   But now that we have more information, we can now see that some of the measures are excessive.   Continuing the ban on large gatherings and school and so on makes sense. Continuing to keep the fucken boat launch locked down doesn't make sense.

One of the things that's striking is that you guys seem incapable of nuance.  You're apparently incapable of understanding that schools and concerts and festivals pose a completely different level of risk to parks and beaches and boat launches and similar.  We've seen Omni running around screaming like Chicken Little about beaches in the US being reopened. Beaches here in BC were never actually closed, but the sky hasn't fallen. As more low-risk activities resume in BC and other parts of Canada in the very near future, the sky will continue to not fall.  And strangely I have the feeling that some of you will be disappointed when it doesn't.


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Re: BACK TO WORK!! It’s just killing old farts
« Reply #179 on: May 03, 2020, 02:37:59 pm »
Is that so that when people start dying en masse, you can blame the government for not doing enough?

See, Michael? This is the hysteria thing I was talking about.   People aren't going to die en masse this month as provinces being reopening activities.

Go ahead, book mark this post, and get back to me if I'm wrong.

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