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jason73

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Nearly 15,000 people who attended a dental conference in Vancouver in early March have been told to self-isolate immediately by B.C.'s provincial health officer who said multiple cases of coronavirus have been traced to the event.

On Monday, Dr. Bonnie Henry said 30 additional cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in B.C. since Saturday, bringing the total in the province to 103.

Henry said at least four of those new cases are related to an infected person who attended the Pacific Dental Conference, held at the Vancouver Convention Centre March 5 to 7.

Henry said cases of COVID-19 identified in other areas of the country have also been traced back to the Vancouver conference.
 

Splinty

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New Nearly 15,000 people who attended a dental conference in Vancouver in early March have been told to self-isolate immediately by B.C.'s provincial health officer who said multiple cases of coronavirus have been traced to the event.

On Monday, Dr. Bonnie Henry said 30 additional cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in B.C. since Saturday, bringing the total in the province to 103.

Henry said at least four of those new cases are related to an infected person who attended the Pacific Dental Conference, held at the Vancouver Convention Centre March 5 to 7.

Half the number of people that attended Wild @Wild conference
 

Wild

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My wife bought another $300 in groceries online via Walmart last night. They were out of 13 items but we managed to get 9 pounds of burger, 5 pounds of flank steak, 2 roasts, salmon fillets, and a bunch of non perishable shit. We should be able to ride this out thru Mid May without too much problem, but it sucks. Really sucks.
 

Splinty

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My wife bought another $300 in groceries online via Walmart last night. They were out of 13 items but we managed to get 9 pounds of burger, 5 pounds of flank steak, 2 roasts, salmon fillets, and a bunch of non perishable shit. We should be able to ride this out thru Mid May without too much problem, but it sucks. Really sucks.
Great job. Now @VOTE TRUMP 2020 stepmother is going to starve because she is on a fixed income and has to shop every two weeks.
 

ShatsBassoon

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just came out of walmart. people are fuckin savages . the shelves are bare . i saw a pallet of tp gets black fridayed in about 2 mins .. went to shoppers drug mart and got 10lbs of rice. some asshole spazzed out because the public washrooms are closed and he threatened to piss on the floor. i hate people. the sooner they quarantine this city the better. i managed to get everything i wanted but i had to go to 3 stores to get it. stopped by dollarama on the way home. the shelves are bare except for the back couple rows on the top shelf. i still managed to get 38 buck of shit out of there. i guess manlets are going to have to starve. get up to the till. they are out of bags.well fuck lady how the hell do you think i am going to carry 38 items to my truck with no bag?i ended up having to buy those gay ass cloth reuseable bags like a damn hippy. good times
I blame the liberals
 

Splinty

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just came out of walmart. people are fuckin savages . the shelves are bare . i saw a pallet of tp gets black fridayed in about 2 mins .. went to shoppers drug mart and got 10lbs of rice. some asshole spazzed out because the public washrooms are closed and he threatened to piss on the floor. i hate people. the sooner they quarantine this city the better. i managed to get everything i wanted but i had to go to 3 stores to get it. stopped by dollarama on the way home. the shelves are bare except for the back couple rows on the top shelf. i still managed to get 38 buck of shit out of there. i guess manlets are going to have to starve. get up to the till. they are out of bags.well fuck lady how the hell do you think i am going to carry 38 items to my truck with no bag?i ended up having to buy those gay ass cloth reuseable bags like a damn hippy. good times
People are more dangerous than the disease. The effects of the disease will be magnified if people don't chill out.
 

Chief

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All these curfews and restrictions remind me of what I was taught about the USSR in the 80's.

Folks at my job (power plant) are hearing that we will be getting "papers" to show the police to prove we are essential employees heading to work, like fucking East Berlin. WTH?

They just passed a restriction in my city on alcohol sales between midnight and 8am.
 

ShatsBassoon

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so fuck face trudeau "closes" the borders today....except if you are an american you can still come in to canada by car. our local airport still has incoming flights from mexico and cuba . so how the fuck is that considered closed in any way?
Guaranteed he got strong armed by Trump
 

Splinty

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All these curfews and restrictions remind me of what I was taught about the USSR in the 80's.

Folks at my job (power plant) are hearing that we will be getting "papers" to show the police to prove we are essential employees heading to work, like fucking East Berlin. WTH?

They just passed a restriction in my city on alcohol sales between midnight and 8am.
Except this is temporary and it's important.
If you don't do this, 15 times as many people will die unnecessarily. Those aren't imaginary numbers but the actual reality between areas that follow this and those that did not.
This could be a temporary slowdown and then we start recovering. Or it could be an absolute shit show.

Please don't have me and people like me have to choose who gets a ventilator. That will traumatize me for the rest of my life. And somebody will die. And that will be repeated thousands of times over.
And all it takes to stop that is eating in, washing your hands, and watching Netflix for a few weeks.
 

Chief

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Except this is temporary and it's important.
If you don't do this, 15 times as many people will die unnecessarily. Those aren't imaginary numbers but the actual reality between areas that follow this and those that did not.
This could be a temporary slowdown and then we start recovering. Or it could be an absolute shit show.

Please don't have me and people like me have to choose who gets a ventilator. That will traumatize me for the rest of my life. And somebody will die. And that will be repeated thousands of times over.
And all it takes to stop that is eating in, washing your hands, and watching Netflix for a few weeks.
You're saying all this like I have a choice. These are executive laws enacted locally by my Governor and Mayor. Its nothing to me. I am quarantined at work a few times every year during hurricane season. My point is that the reality of our current state of affairs (however temporary) reminds me of a few pages from my junior high school history books.
 

madmav

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shelter in place for 7 million bay area people.. thank god stockton is in the valley,
 

Rambo John J

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just came out of walmart. people are fuckin savages . the shelves are bare . i saw a pallet of tp gets black fridayed in about 2 mins .. went to shoppers drug mart and got 10lbs of rice. some asshole spazzed out because the public washrooms are closed and he threatened to piss on the floor. i hate people. the sooner they quarantine this city the better. i managed to get everything i wanted but i had to go to 3 stores to get it. stopped by dollarama on the way home. the shelves are bare except for the back couple rows on the top shelf. i still managed to get 38 buck of shit out of there. i guess manlets are going to have to starve. get up to the till. they are out of bags.well fuck lady how the hell do you think i am going to carry 38 items to my truck with no bag?i ended up having to buy those gay ass cloth reuseable bags like a damn hippy. good times
haha
great review of the local situation
glad you got some good
 

Splinty

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You're saying all this like I have a choice. These are executive laws enacted locally by my Governor and Mayor. Its nothing to me. I am quarantined at work a few times every year during hurricane season. My point is that the reality of our current state of affairs (however temporary) reminds me of a few pages from my junior high school history books.
I'm not saying it like you have a choice. I'm saying it like you have a choice to recognize the very difference in context.
It is the context that makes it very different. The curfews that exist under an authoritarian state exist to enslave the population and root out those opposed to the state itself. The curfews that exist after every hurricane on the gulf coast, where I grew up, exists to stop looters from emptying out my house because I'm not home yet.
The harm of going against reviolating the curfew of authoritarian state is to buck and harm the state. The harm of going against and violating this curfew is to buck and harm your neighbors and yourself and every tangible way possible.

I'm simply pointing out that these are real different context And only a few pages back is there somebody close to the White House screaming about Soros and these lockdowns needing to be revolted against. We should all recognize the context differences clearly where that kind of thinking is one step away because indeed in an authoritarian state one should revolt.