Canadian Politics Today

 

All you hear is Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid.

Canada => 228,079 cases & 10,082 deaths

U.S. => 8.9 million cases & 227,663 deaths.


Canada's total caseload ~ U.S. death toll

The jury still isn't in for the US on their death rate.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

But a couple of days with totals to 1000 is an indication of trouble. And today's looks like it will be roughly a thousand. It's enough to keep Trump on the hook for his malfeasance but not enough to sink him completely yet. The next few days before the elction are super critical.

All of that of course providing that the books aren't being cooked for either Trump or Biden?

Cooked? You mean sorta like some shadowy figure(s) flipping spatulas as opposed to pulling strings? 

Not to be hating on Quebec, but our nation within our nation highly skews our COVID numbers.  Quebec is looking at 735 deaths/million which is very close to the US (705 per million). 

They started off on the wrong foot with spring break and always had more cases, but they also were the first to open up, allowed bigger capacity events which led to superspreader events and generally are more lax (or as they excuse it, they're just more social).   

Take Quebec out of the equation and ROC is at ~130 death/million.  Not even comparable to the US.

You can’t start deleting the highs and only keeping the lows.   That’s biased.  We’re a nation.  Those are national numbers. 

Last I heard, there were 24 active cases here in the Kim City/Lost Lake health region and all of them were connected with schools here in town.   I believe that we are still in a position that all new cases in the region can be traced back to known cases.

We are just on the cusp of flu season.  I have heard some people claim that flu cases are down 95% this year. Some are even claiming that flu cases are being misdiagnosed on purpose, to inflate covid numbers.   That's bullshit, but the "plandemic" kooks are pushing it.

It's too early to say how much flu numbers will be down compared to a typical year, but I am certain they will be down significantly.  Masks, social distancing, and frequent sanitizing will put a big dent in flu numbers.

 -k

Flu being down is logical due to people taking precautions due to Covid. Exactly what we should have expected.

US deaths are consistently hitting a thousand a day now.

For a population of 330 million in the US, can anyone say what an acceptable number of deaths would be for any communicable disease? Their experience on the Flu each year would serve as an indicator.

It's beginning to look like the current level of precautions being observed in the US now is maintaining a pretty constant one thousand death toll per day. If precautions are relaxed after their election on the basis of many people most likely wearing masks for political reasons, what will happen then.

The level of 2000 to 2500 a day may be reached very quickly! As was the case before precautions started to be observed.

It's almost certainly going to be an exciting ride for them.

If Trump gets re-elected we'll definitely see more deaths.

He'll see it as a mandate to ignore the disease.

Interesting you think so. After the election, Trump's main motivation on playing it down won't be a factor anymore. Wouldn't that result in him turning it all over the the professional medical community?

I think there might be quite a few Biden supporters abandoning the precautions, and especially the masks.

They're all Americans and are quire unpredictable when the politics are taken out of the equation.

It’s up to people to practice personal responsibility by following the guidelines.

now do Trump's insistence in having superSpreaderRallies... where his cult members are jam-packed, shoulder-to-shoulder, no masks... for long extended periods, shouting loudly (& proudly)! Now do that!

It’s up to people to practice personal responsibility by following the guidelines.  Wearing masks, washing hands, avoiding large gatherings.  It’s not up to anyone else, nor can anyone else stop the spread of the virus.  Regardless, presidents don’t have the authority to close down states, or open up states.  You covid obsession is ridiculous.

The problem here is that practicing personal responsibility conflicts with having a normal economy - to such an extent that the advise to wear masks is considered authoritarian, being told to wash your hands is social engineering and that preventing large gatherings is unconstitutional.

Your advise is as insincere as when you state that the vulnerable need to be protected while telling them to go hide in their basements.