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« Reply #555 on: March 25, 2020, 01:23:12 pm »
Not long ago I posted here I had seen 4 passenger jet aircraft parked at my old stomping grounds at YQA. I just looked at the wx. cam pic again and there are now 8. Mostly Air Canada. The airlines were expected to take a big hit and it would seem they are.

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« Reply #556 on: March 25, 2020, 02:11:02 pm »
https://undark.org/2020/03/19/covid-19-health-worker-protection/

The wealthy have access to tests, masks, probably even ventilators for their exclusive use.  Healthcare workers don’t get tested and spread the virus around to the other patients and workers, causing many, many more infections.

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In the current emergency, we cannot have one set of rules for celebrities and the rich, and another for frontline health workers and staff. The rich, after all, can stay cocooned in the safety of their homes, protected from financial precarity and economic disruption. Our doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, and other health workers and staff — often underpaid, overworked, and risking their own health to care for others — must expose themselves in order to do their jobs. What does it say about us when basketball players can be readily tested and treated, but our health care workforce cannot?
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« Reply #557 on: March 25, 2020, 03:36:04 pm »
Leave to an A-hole like Trump to send out such a tweet regarding Mitt Romney's covid test coming back negative.

This is really great news! I am so happy I can barely speak. He may have been a terrible presidential candidate and an even worse U.S. Senator, but he is a RINO, and I like him a lot! 

He's making "jokes" about a serious issue and he's still spewing nonsense that all will be well by Easter.
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« Reply #558 on: March 25, 2020, 04:21:28 pm »
Another briefing about to start from the WH soon. I wonder if Trump will show up. I wonder if Faucci will.Place your bets now.

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« Reply #559 on: March 25, 2020, 04:38:32 pm »
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« Reply #560 on: March 25, 2020, 04:42:59 pm »
So why is it that now I'm trying to do my part by staying home as much as I can that I now have developed this extreme urge to eat a cherry pie? I very seldom eat any dessert. Is Corona trying to somehow lure me into going to the grocery store so it can get at me I wonder? I shall overcome. I hope.   

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« Reply #561 on: March 25, 2020, 04:45:51 pm »


"One picture is worth a thousand words" as the saying goes.

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« Reply #562 on: March 25, 2020, 05:14:53 pm »
Of course Trump once again shows he is much better at lying than he seems to be at math, trying to brag that the US has now tested more people for Corona than has S. Korea, ignoring of course the US has over 6 times the population and have basically the same number of tests.

Currently 357k S. Korea
              367k US.

Works out to about 1 in 200 in S.K.
                             1 in 700 in the US.

Sory Donny, caught you lying again.
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« Reply #563 on: March 25, 2020, 05:35:29 pm »
People apply online right ?  They could just forgo manual checks as needed...

Yes.  That's one solution.  A person at Service Canada needs to check over the worker's Record of Employment to see their wages and weeks/hours worked etc. and the reason for loss of work (people who quit aren't eligible).  Those Records of Employment are documents, sometimes hand-written my employers, needed to be manually looked at.

As you say, one solution is to simply take the worker's word for it and calculate payments based on whatever they mark down on the online application and then pay out ASAP, and if there's any overpayments they can worry about collecting that later when this has all died down.  Based on the Phoenix system debacle that will probably take years, but there's more important things right now.

Only problem is they aren't going to prosecute tens of thousands of people who lie on the application who say they got fired even if they actually quit, so they'd basically giving out free loans to tons of people LOL, but hey what's wrong with that given these times.  Only other issue is a lot of people will just spend the money thinking they won't have tot pay it back, then later it will take a long time for the gov to get that money back.

Edit:  the new emergency benefits program they introduced kinda just sounds like they're going to give out $2000 a month to everyone who have lost a job whether eligible for EI or not.  I would think it would work where if you submit any kind of ROE they'll just give you the money.  It's confusing so I'm not sure.
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« Reply #564 on: March 25, 2020, 06:46:22 pm »
asswipeTrump is always looking for an excuse, someone to blame, someone to target (negative) media attention towards - while always deflecting away from his own incompetence.

G7 nation foreign ministers have been meeting to develop an agreed-to set of priorities and actions to deal with COVID-19... this was realized but not the wording of the standard issued, 'formal joint statement'; accordingly no joint statement was issued and subsequently each nation has taken to providing its citizens an interpreted understanding of agreement. No agreement was forthcoming on the wording of the joint statement because:

- the U.S. (Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo) insisted the joint statement draft's many references to COVID-19 be replaced with the phrase, "Wuhan Virus", and
- the U.S. (Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo) wanted critical statements concerning China's early response to COVID-19

noticeably absent from the draft statement on priorities and actions was any mention of the 2-month U.S. delay in responding (aka, "TrumpDithering")

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« Reply #565 on: March 25, 2020, 08:10:06 pm »
My guess is Canada will fare better than most countries because our population density is so low and our population is so spread out geographically (horizontally).  It's easier for us to self-isolate.  Europe not so much.  Downside most of the pop lives near the US
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« Reply #566 on: March 25, 2020, 08:14:34 pm »
My guess is Canada will fare better than most countries because our population density is so low and our population is so spread out geographically (horizontally).  It's easier for us to self-isolate.  Europe not so much.  Downside most of the pop lives near the US

A lot of provinces got ahead of this.  We were lucky that Europe had it first.

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« Reply #567 on: March 25, 2020, 09:28:24 pm »
It has just started....   don’t count on this being mild yet.  America is close...   they could have millions of cases soon...
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« Reply #568 on: March 25, 2020, 09:28:32 pm »
I just came back from a visit to my local grocery store. It's one store in the midst of a large mall, where you usually have to search for a parking spot, especially this time of day. Parking spot?, I could have easily landed a Cessna there today. Kinda gave me the heebie jeebies. 

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« Reply #569 on: March 25, 2020, 09:41:31 pm »
It has just started....   don’t count on this being mild yet.  America is close...   they could have millions of cases soon...

On trust me, I’m mentally preparing for the worst.
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