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Ritafee said:
As the engineers say, understanding the problem is 90 percent of solving it.

The problem as I understand it concentration of privilege in the hands of the few at the expense of the many.

What do you understand the problem to be?
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Honestly? This virus loves being around people...... it can't wait for us to gather again and stop the lock downs, or put our children back in schools, or for winter to come so we will gather in cooped up places with inferior ventilation systems and start to stupidly horde toilet paper again as an offense. It lies in wait for the elderly and the compromised to mingle with others and for us to shut our windows when the cold comes and maybe this time it will hit more of the younger people because we hate that a virus is dictating how we have to live right now to survive.....it's not the rich hoping we'll act stupid, it's A VIRUS. It only took 120 odd days and this thing had us unraveling at the seams. And sure there are always people that will take advantage of a bad situation, but one doesn't have to be rich to become an a**hole and try to make money off others misfortunes.
Personally, I can't get past the idea that this virus is behaving so similar to the Spanish flu, it's uncanny. If so, the second wave should be bigger and younger people will be affected....the third wave not as much and it will "peter out" eventually. It took the Spanish flu almost 2 years to die out. This virus may look a bit different under the microscopes, but it seems to be unfolding the same way to me.
And the biggest mistake they made back then, was to open the economy and businesses WAY TOO SOON......just like now. And people were echoing the same sentiments as now......it's more important to keep the economy going and the money flowing, than to protect our families and others against a pretty gruesome unnecessary death that could have been prevented.

Just take a look at what's happening in BC , once a Canadian and even global model for Covid is now a different story:

 
Northwind said:
Rita wants there to be a big plot involved. To hell with public health measures.
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I do not want there to be a big plot involved but I am quite convinced that the unholy union of 'science' and 'power' is indeed a deadly problem.
How well are the 'public health measures' working so far?
 
Waterfall said:
Just take a look at what's happening in BC , once a Canadian and even global model for Covid is now a different story:
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"And Taylor said the increase in cases has likely raised anxiety levels enough that there would be significant buy-in for further efforts to control COVID's spread."If there is a significant second spike, then, I would expect the genie would go back into the bottle very quickly," he said."

How many people are dying and how many people are actually sick ?
 
Ritafee said:
"And Taylor said the increase in cases has likely raised anxiety levels enough that there would be significant buy-in for further efforts to control COVID's spread."If there is a significant second spike, then, I would expect the genie would go back into the bottle very quickly," he said."

How many people are dying and how many people are actually sick ?
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It's not just the deaths we need to be concerned about. If you're talking BC, not as many as some other places, but this has the potential to surge.
Now what about the ones who have "recovered" and not just the many who have died on this planet?

 
Northwind said:
And........?
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Even in circumstances where an owner is benevolent, the slave will be aware that their choices are based on the master’s tacit permission. And if we are worried about domination, we must worry about billionaire philanthropy.

This becomes acute in times of crisis, because it leaves matters of life and death in the hands of a few powerful individuals who lack any constraints on their power other than their own conscience. Freedom is at risk when the imbalance of wealth and power is so stark. How healthy can it be that so many people in the world are utterly dependent on the generosity of billionaires?

theconversation.com

Coronavirus: why we should be sceptical about the benevolence of billionaires

Generosity is good, but philanthropy can come at a significant social cost.
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>$< ... dole Eire with wings!

Then I understand Dolaire is part of a lawsuit of the Canadian Government ... imagine a hero suite ...
 
Northwind said:
As you said so well, I fully believe people were looking at how they could make money from it. That's pretty sick when you think of it.
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You know what I think is worse than people making money from a pandemic? People making money from old people (the for-profit "care" system) in such a careless way that record numbers of them die in a pandemic. Alone.
 
BetteTheRed said:
You know what I think is worse than people making money from a pandemic? People making money from old people (the for-profit "care" system) in such a careless way that record numbers of them die in a pandemic. Alone.
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Absolutely. I agree. Is it any surprise that former premier Mike Harris is one who is making money running Chartwell? Is sick.
 
Not sure what is wrong with making money. It’s a biblical principle. Invest wisely and God gives you more. Invest poorly and even what you have will be taken away.

If everyone sat on their hands like the groaners, there would still be no ppe. But people step up and groaners claim greed is wrong. Filling a need may or may not be greed. But you get your masks and sanitizer and ventilators.
 
The reason the rich get richer and the poor seem to get poorer is because the rich produce and the poor do not. But there are far less people in the world in abject poverty than ever before.
 
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