picard102
Senior Member
It's rarely black and white. Health and the economy go hand in hand.
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It's rarely black and white. Health and the economy go hand in hand.
marcus_a_j
Senior Member
In other U.S. news, the number of daily cases in the United States surpassed 100K for the first time, with about 104,000 cases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...33adcc-1ec8-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...33adcc-1ec8-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html
tiffer24
Senior Member
BREAKING: Ontario reports 998 new cases of COVID-19 as seven-day average approaches 1,000. 13 new deaths.
https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-r...-seven-day-average-approaches-1-000-1.5176106
https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-r...-seven-day-average-approaches-1-000-1.5176106
Bayer
Senior Member
The Ford government no longer cares. It wants to "get back to normal", whatever that means these days. Its ineptitude will cost the lives of many people in the coming months.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
picard102
Senior Member
Nearly half of Canadians are getting tired of following COVID-19 restrictions. Getting back to normal, despite deaths, is probably the path forward many would support.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
As long as they (or their loved ones) aren't the ones dying - which fortunately they have no way of controlling.
AoD
picard102
Senior Member
I don't think that's as big of a barrier as people might think.
Optimism bias, plus the perception of declining likelihood of death as a result of positivity, make going back to normal more appealing.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
I don't doubt that at all - but whether they like it or not, a certain percentage of them will die. And another certain percentage of them will suffer from lingering side effects.
AoD
Bayer
Senior Member
The weekly incidence rate that would trigger a return to Red, according to the province's half-baked framework, is a stratospheric 100 per 100,000. Only the two Dakotas are above that in the U.S. Considering their weekly incidence rate, it would mean that we wouldn't return to Red before the weekly incidence rate reached 2,000 cases a day.
lenaitch
Senior Member
Apparently it's all about priorities - we must enjoy ourselves.
Nine Wolfville residents charged and fined for Halloween parties
RCMP say nine individuals were charged and fined on Oct. 31 in the Town of Wolfville under the province’s Emergency Management Act.
atlantic.ctvnews.ca
gabe
Senior Member
Things keep getting worse in Canada. 
www.citynews1130.com
B.C. surpasses 400 daily COVID-19 cases for first time
VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) — B.C. surpassed 400 new daily COVID-19 cases for the first time on Thursday. Of the daily record 425 new cases, more than half — 268 — were in the Fraser Health region. Another 126 cases were in the Vancouver Coastal Health region. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry...
www.citynews1130.com
picard102
Senior Member
97 people in BC hospitals seems pretty manageable.
jayme2016
Active Member
The fear is if that double or worse in the next week.
AlbertC
Superstar
North Denmark in lockdown over mutated virus in mink farms
November 6, 2020
More than a quarter million Danes went into lockdown Friday in a northern region of the country where a mutated variation of the coronavirus has infected minks being farmed for their fur, leading to an order to kill millions of the animals.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the move was meant to contain the virus, and it came two days after the government ordered the cull of all 15 million minks bred at Denmark’s 1,139 mink farms.
The coronavirus evolves constantly and, to date, there is no evidence that any of the mutations pose an increased danger to people. But Danish authorities were not taking any chances.
In seven northern Denmark municipalities with some 280,000 residents sport and cultural activities have been suspended, public transportation has been stopped and regional borders have been closed. Only people with so-called “critical functions” such as police and health officials and different authorities are being permitted to cross municipal boundaries.
People in the region have been urged to to be tested. As of Saturday, restaurants must close, and school students from fifth grade and up will switch to remote learning Monday.
“We must knock down completely this virus variant,” Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said Thursday, adding that the mutated virus had been found in 12 people - 11 in northern Denmark and one in western Denmark.
ca.finance.yahoo.com
November 6, 2020
More than a quarter million Danes went into lockdown Friday in a northern region of the country where a mutated variation of the coronavirus has infected minks being farmed for their fur, leading to an order to kill millions of the animals.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the move was meant to contain the virus, and it came two days after the government ordered the cull of all 15 million minks bred at Denmark’s 1,139 mink farms.
The coronavirus evolves constantly and, to date, there is no evidence that any of the mutations pose an increased danger to people. But Danish authorities were not taking any chances.
In seven northern Denmark municipalities with some 280,000 residents sport and cultural activities have been suspended, public transportation has been stopped and regional borders have been closed. Only people with so-called “critical functions” such as police and health officials and different authorities are being permitted to cross municipal boundaries.
People in the region have been urged to to be tested. As of Saturday, restaurants must close, and school students from fifth grade and up will switch to remote learning Monday.
“We must knock down completely this virus variant,” Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said Thursday, adding that the mutated virus had been found in 12 people - 11 in northern Denmark and one in western Denmark.
North Denmark in lockdown over mutated virus in mink farms
COPENHAGEN — More than a quarter million Danes went into lockdown Friday in a northern region of the country where a mutated variation of the coronavirus has infected minks being farmed for their fur, leading to an order to kill millions of the animals.Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the...