Again you find it necessary to personalize, why? I don‘t discuss me or my friends? For what its worth I am an essential worker so Im not locked up at home? I also dont talk about you in Florida. I merely explained WHY the leadership in Canada might have chosen not to hold Canadians because of everything being closed and because of listening to public health. Sorry your life is so crap in Florida FWIW.
You said something, I quoted it. You said it, yes it becomes a personal reply to you. That's how it works. You also didn't explain 'why' they 'might have' done something. You compared your country to the US and tried to generalize the entire country as the absolute of why things happened. Read your own words.
Tony stop attacking people. Canada did NOT pay everyone to stay home. You needed to meet qualifications. A ton of people are working at their jobs either in person or from home. Basically if you lost your job from covid you can get a certain amount. You sound like an idiot.
Your country did a lot more as a whole than most countries did. And as someone constantly posting about Trump and American politics, surely I don't need to tell you that.
Since when have Russian numbers even been considered as close to accurate? You must trust Putin a lot!
You seriously trust Russia to tell the truth? Seriously?Your country did a lot more as a whole than most countries did. And as someone constantly posting about Trump and American politics, surely I don't need to tell you that.
Here it is so you can read it again:
It generalized Canada as people who all follow the rules. It stated that there's a reason why America has so many more cases than Canada. Not a simple opinion about why Nationals didn't happen. I said it was false. If you take it personally that I reply to such outlandish comments, I'm sorry?
The point here is that Canadians had a lot more incentives given out, the money given was better, the numbers were low, and then they went way up. Now you're going to try to come here and maybe tell me that's because everyone had to go back to work? Guess what, in some places in the US it's been reality almost this entire time. But that won't stop people for continuing to generalize the US population, or better yet, the care-free Russians.
Here's a number for you:
Russian population: 145,000,000. Cases: 4,110,000
Canadian population: 37,590,000. Cases: 846,000
You can do that math.
So now there's always a caveat of true and untrue reporting. K. What if I said the US over-reported numbers? What if I said Canada maybe wasn't reporting all of their numbers? Surely I'll have the mob tell me that Canada always does everything right.
The US' death numbers are suspect - there are plenty of documented reports of "crud deaths" not actually being due to the crud (car accident victim who had the crud earlier, cancer death but had the crud sometime, etc), not to mention the way Cuomo played with the nursing home death figures in NYS, to make me legitimately question what the crud death numbers are here. It's all been far too highly politicized to be accurate, at least not at this time. Give it 5-10 years for statisticians to go back over the death certificates and verify the numbers and then we'll talk.
Look, I'm going to say it... Bringing Putin or Russia's numbers into any conversation is as much of a joke as bringing China's numbers into the discussion. It's fair to say that those countries have seriously under-reported their numbers with regard to the crud.
Nope it’s not.
You aren’t serious about your comments regarding Putin are you?
Nah...was a joke (apparently not a good one) referencing Trump’s infamous Helsinki defense of Putin’s denial re 2016 election interference...You aren’t serious about your comments regarding Putin are you?
Actually, it generalizes a national myth, how people are taught to think about themselves. Just as the US national myth is about rugged individualism, routinely believed, for example, most vigorously by the people in red states that receive huge government-based income transfers from blue states.
See below to national myth.
There are a couple of provinces for sure that aren't reporting all of their numbers. Politicians are the same everywhere. Game playing first...........it is our number one sport. Not hockey, not figure skating, political posturing.
Yes, whole post.
Well said. We beat this one to death regularly.
Seriously don’t understand where you get your sources from. Posters saying we are a better country? You just keep quoting media coverage. BeingSo now there's always a caveat of true and untrue reporting. K. What if I said the US over-reported numbers? What if I said Canada maybe wasn't reporting all of their numbers? Surely I'll have the mob tell me that Canada always does everything right.
I don't think anyone in the US with half of a brain says it's the best country in the world, nor do I go out boasting about how America is great about anything. Yet the second I call out the Canadians for their 'well we do everything better! We clearly care and the US doesn't!' behavior that is always creeping in on this board, the defenses come up full-force. Read the quote I shared again. When I said that simply is not a fact, here comes the brigade. Do many Canadians care about CV? Probably. Do many Americans care about CV? Yes. But said poster made it a direct comparison. Not me. I'm not the one saying my country is based around who cares and who doesn't.
Keep on with your defenses and your attempts at digs, though
enough to say that EVERY Canadian is following rules? Come on. Canada is a very different country from the U.S. Your arguments are weak.I don’t get where you are coming from. You police every thread, you’ve seen the comments. Don’t act like you haven’t. There were Canadians here straight-up saying that everyone knows how to follow rules and that’s why their cases didn’t exist/were very low in the summer. I’m quoting what people said on this very board. But go ahead, question my education or whatever else makes you sleep well.Seriously don’t understand where you get your sources from. Posters saying we are a better country? You just keep quoting media coverage. Being
Ummmm no I do not police every thread. I have no idea if other provinces are under reporting but I like to deal with facts so the poster can explain that. There would be no political reason for doing that. I live in one of the largest provinces but there are areas where access to healthcare is not the best.
What assumptions am I making? That you got bent out of shape and claimed I was 'attacking' someone because I simply replied saying their nonsense paragraph A) didn't need a US comparison and B) didn't speak for a national 'attitude' as all one needed to do was look at numbers rising? Learn what attacking is, and understand that this is what you tried to do to me, but I'm not off bent out of shape about what you ASSUME about my education, nor that you said I sound like an idiot. You can sure dish it but then you throw out that I'm the one making assumptions based on what is actually written.
I think you are more bent out of shape then I am. You’ve targeted a lot of posters. Bye!
Just FYI, positives on rapid tests can’t be reported as positives. They have to be reported as presumptive positives and then the person has to get PCR testing to confirm the positive on the rapid test.
I am not sure what is going on out west. I think the rapid testing isn’t supposed to be awesome. I do know that my niece in Victoria who works as an RN in the hospital says numbers are better there.
I find it difficult to find out what’s going on in different provinces. Thank you for letting me know my niece should be safe she is very important to me.Oh for sure, and just general ambivalence. Kenney was in Harper's govt so anything that the feds do right now would be wrong. The other two just do it just as a reflex altho Moe is a Kenney lackey. I could write more, but this isn't the thread for it.
The rapid testing thing? Yes, it isn't the be all and end all but it hasn't been utilized as well as it could have been for many reasons.
And Victoria would be doing better as Dr. Henry is respected in her province by the provincial govt, and I'll just leave that there as this is definitely thread drift.
I do not appreciate using Christ's name in vain,however I must agree—the sexual tension here is palpable.
Which issue?
