#COVIDIOTS

[Anonymous]

I hope this isn't true.

https://twitter.com/sunlorrie/status/1358424750834540547?s=12&fbclid=IwAR2ffzEwdVfhe50GdTu8HhC1Fa9JQdAkTHPEy4GzdyyP2KxZbqcTAftpP7I">https://twitter.com/sunlorrie/status/13 ... qcTAftpP7I">https://twitter.com/sunlorrie/status/1358424750834540547?s=12&fbclid=IwAR2ffzEwdVfhe50GdTu8HhC1Fa9JQdAkTHPEy4GzdyyP2KxZbqcTAftpP7I

[Frood]

I hope this isn't true.

https://twitter.com/sunlorrie/status/1358424750834540547?s=12&fbclid=IwAR2ffzEwdVfhe50GdTu8HhC1Fa9JQdAkTHPEy4GzdyyP2KxZbqcTAftpP7I">https://twitter.com/sunlorrie/status/13 ... qcTAftpP7I">https://twitter.com/sunlorrie/status/1358424750834540547?s=12&fbclid=IwAR2ffzEwdVfhe50GdTu8HhC1Fa9JQdAkTHPEy4GzdyyP2KxZbqcTAftpP7I

Like lemmings fighting for the first spots on the cliff...

[Anonymous]

I hope this isn't true.

https://twitter.com/sunlorrie/status/1358424750834540547?s=12&fbclid=IwAR2ffzEwdVfhe50GdTu8HhC1Fa9JQdAkTHPEy4GzdyyP2KxZbqcTAftpP7I">https://twitter.com/sunlorrie/status/13 ... qcTAftpP7I">https://twitter.com/sunlorrie/status/1358424750834540547?s=12&fbclid=IwAR2ffzEwdVfhe50GdTu8HhC1Fa9JQdAkTHPEy4GzdyyP2KxZbqcTAftpP7I

Like lemmings fighting for the first spots on the cliff...

It's normal to want protection from this virus.

[Anonymous]

The Alberta NDP and their CBC/CityNews/Global/CTV stooges are today's COVIDIOTS for pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. This province is doing better than any province outside the Maritimes. We are reopening with the best plan any province has ever come up with. Yet, the NDP/media alliance makes this province out to be a New York state long term care facility. The solution they say of course is to halt all reopening plans and keep people unemployed for years to come.  

On Tuesday, they couldn't avoid it.



They had to say the COVID-19 numbers were low. They were low, compared to where we've been.





But the news quickly moved on.



The numbers are lower than they've been for a long time. Months.



This may come as quite a surprise when you see much of the news coverage.



You know the script. Every day we trudge through the coronavirus headlines. The light at the end of the tunnel seems more like a mirage in the desert.



What we are told is grim, a sense of foreboding is thick in the air. Always, with every breath we take.



We were told things were bad before Christmas and now are told they could be bad again.



In between, as in right now, something got lost. Few talk about it.



In our business, it would be called good news. Maybe only good news for now. Maybe good news to be followed by bad news down the line.



But good news, even in the present, doesn't fit the fear-and-loathing script, the why-aren't-we-more-locked-down script, the why-doesn't-government-push-its-weight-around-more script, the we're-all-just-a-step-away-from-the-viral-abyss script.



The politics.



As one wise but world-weary wag put it: Underneath it all, we're cast as some kind of a right-wing freak show who have to be beaten into submission to control the virus and our deadly freedom-loving impulses.



Yes, there could be bad news any day now. That much is true, so the docs say.



But some days it seems like the people with the megaphones are waiting, salivating at the thought everything could go to hell in a handbasket.



Oh, if only we could do another field hospital story.



How about hospitals overwhelmed, personal protective equipment in short supply, the government's modest reopening an irresponsible exercise in playing with fire?



Just serve up something really disturbing. It's been almost a year and we haven't had the real viral inferno yet. Not here. Not yet.



I'm looking at a graph right now. The devil is in the details but there is no devil today.



Alberta has the best looking graph of daily COVID-19 cases outside the Atlantic provinces.



Surely this means something. It's not pop the bubbly time but it's not time to crawl into a dark corner and ponder our impending doom.



Two months ago, give or day a few days, there were 1,876 daily cases.



The latest number is 195 cases. Read that one carefully. You need a parachute if you want to jump to that arithmetic.



At the end of December, 938 people with COVID were in hospital. Now it's dropped by more than half. The number is 427.



At the end of December, 154 suffering with the virus were in intensive care. Now it's 78 people. Down by almost half.



The number of those being tested who are found to be positive?



Two months or so ago it was 11.15 per cent. Now, it's 3.2 per cent. Some report it's even lower.



What happened?



Maybe most Albertans really did change their behaviour.



Maybe in their private lives. where no one is looking over their shoulder with a ticket book, a whole lot of folks are exercising that old-fashioned virtue....personal responsibility.

https://calgarysun.com/opinion/columnists/bell-covid-19-good-news-the-story-they-dont-want-to-tell?fbclid=IwAR3luyUT-bHdMp6gzIjvg_BolHiIp1YKdYv0wlcJ9xFxVgEKHZ_VW45Tcsw">https://calgarysun.com/opinion/columnis ... Z_VW45Tcsw">https://calgarysun.com/opinion/columnists/bell-covid-19-good-news-the-story-they-dont-want-to-tell?fbclid=IwAR3luyUT-bHdMp6gzIjvg_BolHiIp1YKdYv0wlcJ9xFxVgEKHZ_VW45Tcsw

[Anonymous]

Alberta has some of the best numbers of any jurisdiction in North America. And now people can go have a pint of draft in a sports bar. That's called a success story you lying progtards.

[Frood]

Alberta has some of the best numbers of any jurisdiction in North America. And now people can go have a pint of draft in a sports bar. That's called a success story you lying progtards.

You mean draught?

[Anonymous]

Alberta has some of the best numbers of any jurisdiction in North America. And now people can go have a pint of draft in a sports bar. That's called a success story you lying progtards.

You mean draught?

I lived in a lot of places that use the American spelling.

[Frood]

Alberta has some of the best numbers of any jurisdiction in North America. And now people can go have a pint of draft in a sports bar. That's called a success story you lying progtards.

You mean draught?

I lived in a lot of places that use the American spelling.

Bummer, mate...  

[Anonymous]

Alberta has some of the best numbers of any jurisdiction in North America. And now people can go have a pint of draft in a sports bar. That's called a success story you lying progtards.

You mean draught?

I lived in a lot of places that use the American spelling.

Before COVID, I went to Florida every year. I spell it draught.

[Anonymous]

The Alberta NDP and their CBC/CityNews/Global/CTV stooges are today's COVIDIOTS for pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. This province is doing better than any province outside the Maritimes. We are reopening with the best plan any province has ever come up with. Yet, the NDP/media alliance makes this province out to be a New York state long term care facility. The solution they say of course is to halt all reopening plans and keep people unemployed for years to come.  

On Tuesday, they couldn't avoid it.



They had to say the COVID-19 numbers were low. They were low, compared to where we've been.





But the news quickly moved on.



The numbers are lower than they've been for a long time. Months.



This may come as quite a surprise when you see much of the news coverage.



You know the script. Every day we trudge through the coronavirus headlines. The light at the end of the tunnel seems more like a mirage in the desert.



What we are told is grim, a sense of foreboding is thick in the air. Always, with every breath we take.



We were told things were bad before Christmas and now are told they could be bad again.



In between, as in right now, something got lost. Few talk about it.



In our business, it would be called good news. Maybe only good news for now. Maybe good news to be followed by bad news down the line.



But good news, even in the present, doesn't fit the fear-and-loathing script, the why-aren't-we-more-locked-down script, the why-doesn't-government-push-its-weight-around-more script, the we're-all-just-a-step-away-from-the-viral-abyss script.



The politics.



As one wise but world-weary wag put it: Underneath it all, we're cast as some kind of a right-wing freak show who have to be beaten into submission to control the virus and our deadly freedom-loving impulses.



Yes, there could be bad news any day now. That much is true, so the docs say.



But some days it seems like the people with the megaphones are waiting, salivating at the thought everything could go to hell in a handbasket.



Oh, if only we could do another field hospital story.



How about hospitals overwhelmed, personal protective equipment in short supply, the government's modest reopening an irresponsible exercise in playing with fire?



Just serve up something really disturbing. It's been almost a year and we haven't had the real viral inferno yet. Not here. Not yet.



I'm looking at a graph right now. The devil is in the details but there is no devil today.



Alberta has the best looking graph of daily COVID-19 cases outside the Atlantic provinces.



Surely this means something. It's not pop the bubbly time but it's not time to crawl into a dark corner and ponder our impending doom.



Two months ago, give or day a few days, there were 1,876 daily cases.



The latest number is 195 cases. Read that one carefully. You need a parachute if you want to jump to that arithmetic.



At the end of December, 938 people with COVID were in hospital. Now it's dropped by more than half. The number is 427.



At the end of December, 154 suffering with the virus were in intensive care. Now it's 78 people. Down by almost half.



The number of those being tested who are found to be positive?



Two months or so ago it was 11.15 per cent. Now, it's 3.2 per cent. Some report it's even lower.



What happened?



Maybe most Albertans really did change their behaviour.



Maybe in their private lives. where no one is looking over their shoulder with a ticket book, a whole lot of folks are exercising that old-fashioned virtue....personal responsibility.

https://calgarysun.com/opinion/columnists/bell-covid-19-good-news-the-story-they-dont-want-to-tell?fbclid=IwAR3luyUT-bHdMp6gzIjvg_BolHiIp1YKdYv0wlcJ9xFxVgEKHZ_VW45Tcsw">https://calgarysun.com/opinion/columnis ... Z_VW45Tcsw">https://calgarysun.com/opinion/columnists/bell-covid-19-good-news-the-story-they-dont-want-to-tell?fbclid=IwAR3luyUT-bHdMp6gzIjvg_BolHiIp1YKdYv0wlcJ9xFxVgEKHZ_VW45Tcsw

The opposition NDP has copied the American Democrats and played politics with the pandemic..



We're in a better position than many provinces, but the media is repeating the NDP lie that we are at the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Retirement home removed door handles 'trapping' COVID-19 positive residents in rooms: whistleblower



Durham Regional Police are now investigating after a whistleblower at a Courtice retirement home says management removed the door handles on rooms of COVID-19 positive residents, "trapping" them in their suites for days in a bid to halt the spread of the deadly virus

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/02/12/courtice-retirement-home-door-handles-removed/">https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/02/12/ ... s-removed/">https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/02/12/courtice-retirement-home-door-handles-removed/

[cc]

The other side of that coin



Well, I have a major complaint into BC Health on behalf of our family friend that they allowed covid-positive patients to roam and kill others .. one also  being another very good friend of ours who died from exactly that .. got hit by a roaming positive resident who invaded her room and killed her



That's the other side of the story and why there were often second & even third waves on floors .. killing more than the original hit of few



Seems BC Health is picking up on it and following through so far .. We'll see how far it goes ... Negative residents need protection desperately

[Anonymous]

Both cases should be grounds for the operators to lose their licenses.

[cc]

Not sure about that. I found that it's very clear in BC law that "Covid Positive residents be confined to their rooms", period.



I felt the fear other residents had from becoming infected from roamers & rightly so ..



I'll let you know if my case to BC Health continues to get traction

[Anonymous]

Trapping people in rooms is illegal confinement. Allowing COVID positive patients to roam halls means the operator was not following quarantine guidelines.



When I was in quarantine with COVID, if I was caught venturing out in public, I would have been fined. The same rules of quarantine apply to long term care facility operators.