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Big cities and need transit...people need to use buses and subways...we need to cut back on automobile use, too...so they’d better get on with that vaccine and those antivirals. That’s where our focus and public demand should be going! Don’t be speculating on changing the future for others when you don’t even need to take subways, and can choose between a plane or roomy train.

People don’t actually take crowded buses because their Mercedes is in the shop. Just like they don’t fly economy because first class was all filled up. Anyway...
 
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I would like to see weekly, or biweekly, not several times daily, international flights. I think most people could make that work. It’s a small sacrifice. International vacations should be special, planned, saved up for, not as commonplace as it’s become. But the price of flights should stay the same because airlines are already ripping people off.
 
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I was looking for Quebec's death rate due to COVID-19 to compare it to Sweden's. Got Sweden's from the health update for Alberta - ~36 per 100,000, it was in the context of why we made the decision's we have. Quebec's is listed as 42.98 COVID-19 : the latest numbers
 
Was trying to look up some other information, but came across this - I don't think all provinces are really giving an accurate picture with the COVID-19 stats they are providing.
I think every region is different and Quebec didn't get its act together in time. Also, as other articles have stated, some demographics that have had no other choice to isolate safely are at higher risk. Population density makes a difference. It also impacts behaviour, not always by choice.
 
I think every region is different and Quebec didn't get its act together in time. Also, as other articles have stated, some demographics that have had no other choice to isolate safely are at higher risk. Population density makes a difference. It also impacts behaviour, not always by choice.
We'd be seeing an overall higher death rate from respiratory illness if that were the case.

I trust BC's Health Officer and the department she heads to be as accurate as possible.
 
I think if where I lived were more densely populated the rates would be higher. There's lots of open space and I've been spending time in fresh air and open space as much as I can everyday, weather permitting. It's no fun in the pouring rain. Otherwise, it's beautiful here.

I have a love/ loathe relationship to this place (little to do with the scenery, obviously)...but I feel very fortunate to be here during this. I feel quite safe because as long as I'm outside there's no need to get too close to people.
 
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What I don't like about it here is that people are a little spoiled and out of touch with the rest of the world and that attitude translates into snobbery. About as colonial as it gets. But....I always remember my experience. It has not been the same as most people's, who are from here, who never left here. It's a bit of a bubble. But it feels like a safer one right now than it would be if I was in a big urban area of a big city.
 
We have an opportunity to restructure society so that it's more even handed and looks after the environment at the same time. It won't be as "lucrative" but it doesn't actually need to be. We don't need as much personal stuff and property as we have. To have a nice spacious public park (or a few) is a luxury.

Or, they can go full on security state indefinitely, while we follow along - that favours the lifestyles of the rich and famous (or rich and not famous).

Really, if they cut down air traffic after 9/11 instead of increasing security budgets, they could've kept closer track of dangers with less rigmarole, and we'd have an overall better world, anyway. And if world leaders stopped playing war with everyone else's lives there would be less conflict anyway.
The Military Industrial Complex was a f***ing stupid project. Excuse my language - but that's been laid bare.
What kind of world do we want to live in?
 
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Another lesson in strength in diversity, from nature. An interview about how biodiversity is a kind of macro immune system against the spread of viruses from animals to humans, and as species thin out, the less diversity up the chain - those viruses can have more opportunity to jump to humans. Climate change is impacting the spread of viruses.

 
It's a bit surprising that with all the technology and knowledgeable minds we have, there's still so much confusion about how this virus operates. That said, I think the author of the confusion is late stage capitalism. I wonder if it's so unclear because, instead of sharing information freely between each other - scientist for different companies, in different countries are keeping their findings close, because of competition for patents and research grants, and geopolitical competition, and so on. Maybe they don't want to pass on information that another company scientist could build on, and get answers before they do?

Just speculating...the business side does seem to muck up the flow, to put too many barriers in the way of the end goal.

However, this is good news:

 
I wonder if it's so unclear because, instead of sharing information freely between each other - scientist for different companies, in different countries are keeping their findings close, because of competition for patents and research grants, and geopolitical competition, and so on. Maybe they don't want to pass on information that another company scientist could build on, and get answers before they do?


I believe they are sharing information and working together. Is there evidence to suggest they aren't ?
 
I believe they are sharing information and working together. Is there evidence to suggest they aren't ?
It's just so slow. We don't know much more about it than we did months ago. I have read in the past that corporations get in the way of getting the facts out because of competition and non-disclosure agreements and so on.
 
It's just so slow. We don't know much more about it than we did months ago. I have read in the past that corporations get in the way of getting the facts out because of competition and non-disclosure agreements and so on.

We know quite a bit more than we did in March. They've discovered some better treatments and ways to manage the illness. That includes avoiding early intubation. I'll see if I can find the article I saw today that addressed that. This is an entirely new illness. It must be hard to keep up.
 
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