Some Covid-19 thoughts
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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Hey Brenda - I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts!
To me Vancouver BC, Toronto, and Montreal are all highly international cities and I thought natural epicenters for an outbreak (though I was truly surprised by the sheer volume of air traffic between SoCal and China when I looked it up).
So to some extent it seems like it might have been a combination of lucky circumstances - BC was behind signal places like Washington state, Ontario, and Quebec. OTOH it took a very confident health officer to make the tough calls she made about borders, travel, and stay-at-home. Also, when it comes to testing, I think your health system isn't nearly as inflexible as the US one, so you were able to learn about cases earlier rather than later. I did look up the testing criteria for Ontario, and while it talks about high risk histories, it didn't forbid testing either. It left it up to the individual doctors. I imagine BC is the same. Here the Washington state case wasn't tested for 4 days because the CDC refused because ... the person didn't meet CDC criteria for testing. And I honestly don't think the CDC relented, I think someone fudged the test request to make it happen. And that started cracking the door open in the US to marginally expanded criteria. But here the testing is overwhelmed across the country and besides, now it's far beyond test and trace (tracing individual contacts).
Anyway, yeah, it looks like there was a bit of luck involved - BC didn't acquire SARS-COV-2 until rather late, and there was those spring break example form other provinces. But then, your health officer and your health system are capable of doing the job.
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Detroit hospital workers describe working conditions during Covid-19 crisis
People have died in its emergency room hallways before help can arrive. CNN spoke with five hospital workers at Sinai-Grace Hospital, part of the Detroit Medical Center system, who said staff members feel they don't have enough coworkers or supplies to deal with the crisis.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/detroit-hospital-workers-describe-wo
rking-conditions-during-covid-19-crisis/ar-BB12mSqe?ocid=msedgntp
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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
Aerial video appears to show burials of unclaimed covid-19 victims and others on Hart Island
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Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Aerial video appears to show burials of unclaimed covid-19 victims and others on Hart Island
video
Fake News! They were going to die anyway! It's no worse than a cold! < / sh*t people say >
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Quote:6ix, don't worry that Trump might lose the election; with a certain kind of audience, Trump is a huge winner:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Fuck motherjones, Fuck your fake news, and Fuck you.
‘Many people who are dying, both here and around the world were on their last legs anyway, and I don’t want to sound callous about that.’
That’s former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly explaining on Sean Hannity’s radio show why he believes the coronavirus pandemic is being overblown.
“The [U.S. death toll] projections that you just mentioned are down to 60,000, I don’t think it will be that high — 13,000 dead now in the USA,” O’Reilly added.
Hannity’s response? “You’re going to get hammered for that,” he said, before doing his best to soften the blow by helping O’Reilly clarify exactly what he meant.
6ix, again, don't worry that Trump might lose. What is the worst that could happen to him? He gets 60,000 votes fewer than he would have if Covid-19 had never existed? Those people weren't gonna vote for him anyway, if they had lived. That's nothing. Trump is still gonna win because he is a WINNER! (That last was sarcasm. Sorry about that. I couldn't resist.)
www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-oreilly-plays-down-coronavirus-death-to
ll-in-interview-with-sean-hannity-they-were-on-their-last-legs-anyway-2020-04-09
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Airlines Suspended China Flights Before Trump Did
Trump is once again boasting about his semi-ban on travel from China, but Trump didn’t act until after the three biggest American airlines, along with nearly every other international airline, had already suspended flights to China. In other words, when it didn’t really matter anymore. He didn’t have the guts to do it before then.
Here is the New York Times on January 31:
Moving to counter the spreading coronavirus outbreak, the Trump administration said Friday that it would bar entry by most foreign nationals who had recently visited China and put some American travelers under a quarantine as it declared a rare public health emergency. The temporary restrictions followed announcements by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines that they would suspend air service between the United States and China for several months.
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/04/airlines-suspended-china-flight
s-before-trump-did/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Your point here is either to say that Trump didn't act fast enough, or to pretend that your Democrat Infested Legacy Media wasn't screaming RACISM when the ban went into effect now that they realize they were wrong and it should have happened sooner.
Either way, it's bullshit.
Fuck motherjones, Fuck your fake news, and Fuck you.
Here's some links for you to enjoy. I'm sure you already forgot all of these stories by now.
January 31st:
Quote:
Pelosi: Trump's expanded travel ban is 'outrageous, un-American' and threatens 'rule of law'
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/480991-pelosi-trumps-expanded-trave
l-ban-is-outrageous-un-american-and-threatens-rule
February 3rd:
Quote:
ACLU: Trump Is Expanding His Racist Travel Ban, This Time Targeting Africans
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/3/trump_expanded_muslim_ban_omar_j
adwat
February 4th:
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The Racism at the Heart of Trump’s ‘Travel Ban’
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/opinion/trump-travel-ban-nigeria.ht
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The new coronavirus is not an excuse to be racist
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21121358/coronavirus-racism-social-m
edia-east-asian-chinese-xenophobia
February 5th:
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Trump’s expanded travel ban is a blow to America’s already tarnished global image
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-expanded-travel-ban-is-
a-blow-to-americas-already-tarnished-global-image/2020/02/05/e18be10e-46cf-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html
February 7th:
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The coronavirus exposes the history of racism and “cleanliness”
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/7/21126758/coronavirus-xenophobia-racism-ch
ina-asians
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:It is so unfair to accuse Trump of racism when he isn't. (That was sarcasm.) And his voters aren't racist, either. Just ask them what they think of niggers and the Trump voters will tell you how deeply offended they are by the use that word. (Sarcasm, too.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Either way, it's bullshit.
Fuck motherjones, Fuck your fake news, and Fuck you.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-racist-twe
ets-aoc-ilhan-omar-baltimore-al-sharpton-jamestown-a9027306.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Just an FYI, trying to apply Twitter idiots on either side to the masses on either side is something that only idiots do. Twitter attracts the most basic, mindless bitches of all varieties and should never be used as a barometer for what normal people think.
And aside from that, you're deflecting again, like you always do.
Your original topic was that Trump didn't do enough to slow the spread in a timely fashion.
I showed you a dozen articles that look pretty insane now that hindsight is 20/20 that were all written by Lefty shills with TDS and quoting politicians that were also calling Trump racist when he did try to do something about it before it spread.
This right here. This is your fault.
I'm not going to let you forget that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Your Fat Lazy President was told at the same time as the President of Taiwan about Covid-19. Taiwan acted. Fat Liar President did NOT act in time. Taiwan has 6 deaths. Fat Dumb President has about 5,000 times more deaths, not just 5,000 more deaths than Taiwan. That is the difference in results between being smart/fast/energetic and being stupid/slow/lazy/fat/liar.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
This right here. This is your fault.
I'm not going to let you forget that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/taiwan/
www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Taiwan leadership didn't have the Lefty Shill Media Army the an insane Lefty congress led by Nancy Pelosi who called a travel ban an assault on the rule of law in America Undermining Fat dumb President every step of the way.
Your fault. Democrats fault. Legacy Media's fault. Period.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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