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Michael Gallagher - infectious disease physician - Part 2 I think I can speak for a lot of medical professionals when I say, we don’t mean to be arrogant, we don’t mean to be jerks, but damn it, this bullshit is frustrating and yes, we’re going to clap back to ignorance. Ignorance is not something to be flaunted and there is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance is being uninformed. Stop being willfully ignorant and even reveling in it because it doesn’t fit your preconceived narrative or opinion. Even worse, stop pretending you’re not ignorant because you watched some damn YouTube video or read some op-ed piece. That’s someone’s opinion, normally based on nothing. NOTHING. No research. That’s not information. That’s not factual. That’s not based in science. It’s click-bait with the sole intention of riling you up and getting you to let your guard down. And instead of being pissed at the virus that’s causing all this, it’s to direct your anger at the government or doctors or anywhere else their agenda wants it directed.Medical people are fired up for a couple reasons. 1 month ago, we were all heroes and putting our lives on the line because this was dangerous stuff. Well, I think I can speak for most of us when I say we aren’t heroic, we’re just doing our job. But guess what, we’re still doing the same damn thing we were doing a month ago and this crap still hasn’t gone away but now we’re “just trying to scare people” because “it’s really no big deal.” We aren’t looking for a pat on the back or even a thank you, we just want you to do what we all need to do to stop this thing and avoid the spread. Listen, if you think that my big fat ass enjoys sweating like a ***** in church in an isolation gown, walking around like Mr Magoo because my glasses are fogged up because of my mask, and wearing goggles that dig into the backs of my ears because I’m “just a sheep,” you are mistaken. It’s because I don’t want this virus and I don’t want to take it home to my family and I don’t want to infect my co-workers and other patients. We’re fired up because we’ve seen and even performed intubations. We don’t intubate for funsies. Outside of the surgical setting, an intubation is basically throwing a Hail Mary to save someone’s life. And when the mortality rate once that plastic tube slides between your vocal cords with COVID-19 is 85-89%, yeah, that’s terrifying. This virus is dangerous.Lastly, stop being spoiled children about public health advisories. Stop bitching about wearing a mask when you’re in public places. Stop pretending that that is somehow infringing on your rights. Get over yourself. I wish all businesses would grow a pair and refuse service to people who refuse to wear a mask “out of principle.” Police aren’t inclined to enforce it and that’s fine but, spoiler alert, private businesses have and reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Don’t tell me it’s ok for a bakery to refuse service to a gay couple for a wedding cake on religious grounds but not ok for a convenience store to refuse service because they don’t want the outbreak monkey strolling through their place coughing all over other patrons and their staff. Stay outside the 6ft bubble, wear a damn mask, and wash your hands. It’s that easy. Stop pretending they’re asking for a kidney. It’s as much to protect yourself as it is everyone else. People wonder why we have things like stay-at-home orders and closing of non-essential businesses. It’s because of you, jackass, you’re the problem. It’s your lack of ability to exercise common sense and your refusal to follow simple, insanely simple advice that forces the government to exercise it for you. And even then, you still thumb your nose at it in all your ignorant glory. Sorry that you feel like they’re infringing on your right to be an irresponsible child. Look, all I’m saying is I get that it’s frustrating and I get that it’s irritating, and inconvenient and all the other bad things that it is, but please, continue to take this seriously, continue to do the little things that make a big difference. Stop denying facts, science, and the advice from people who have spent a lifetime doing what they do in the medical and research fields to ultimately make everyone’s lives healthier, safer, and better.I’m done with my soap box now. ✌🏻#washyourhands #wearamask

I, for one, miss the days when this was a bomber website...

That is the definition of science.

If by innovation you mean stealing shamelessly from Canadian companies.... http://natoassociation.ca/why-canada-should-be-wary-of-huawei-lessons-from-nortel/ Regardless of what may or may not be in Cisco servers and US companies, with what China has shown in recent relations with Canada, I would be very very weary of getting into bed with Huawei at this point. Also, the EU has recommended "limiting" Huawei 5G and still considers them "high-risk". Time will tell what the outcome of using this technology will mean for these countries. Given our lack of military and geographic location, we are pretty much in bed with the US good or bad. China has proven not to be a friend.

Michael Gallagher - infectious disease physician COVID-19 has changed everything. The way we live, the way our kids learn, the way we work. It has trashed the economy, exploded unemployment, and harmed businesses, many of them, sadly, beyond repair. But here’s the deal: it’s real and it’s here and it’s still spreading. Do you want to know why medical people, real medical people, not some crackpot quacks and kooks with a YouTube account or Facebook page, are taking this seriously? Because it’s serious. And we’re serious people when it comes to people’s health and their lives. Yes, it mostly kills at-risk populations (the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions) but it also kills perfectly healthy people with no prior diagnoses and we don’t know why. I’m so tired of people acting like there’s information that’s being cooked up or withheld. You know why there’s lots of gaps in the information? Because we’re still learning about this virus every day. It’s new. It’s never been seen. How it acts, how it spreads, why it does the things it does is all new and we’re learning on the fly. Stop mistaking genuine lack of information for misinformation or withheld information. The numbers: this one sticks in my craw like no other. “I heard they didn’t die from COVID-19, they died from a heart attack but they were positive so they called it COVID-19 to boost the numbers and scare people.” Stop. It. You know how many people died specifically from AIDS? Zero. AIDS patients die from pneumonia or some other illness normal, healthy people fight off because the AIDS virus destroyed their immune system and they couldn’t fight off the infection. But at the heart of it, they died because of AIDS. The coronavirus attacks the respiratory system. The respiratory system is, in case you didn’t know, pretty important to sustaining life. It also has a huge impact on how other organ systems, like the heart, work. Guess what, when your lungs don’t work because they’ve basically filled with brick mortar because the virus is attacking them, that puts a bit of a strain on your ticker and very well can cause it to fail. So unless you have a basic understanding of or want to understand how interconnected organ systems are and how the body fundamentally functions: stop. End Part 1

Manitoba is a good example of a place shutting things down before it got bad working to stop the spread.

This is the best post on here. 1000 likes.

Yup. I don’t condone the violence at all. But this is a popular pushes to the brink. It’s example after example of abuse by police with nothing being done about it. Well have they got your attention now?

I have said this before I will say this again, this would never of happened if they would of arrested the cop on the spot for murder, pure and simple end of story

Hey if you think being like Jason kenney is something to be proud of.... crippling this province. Just terrible all around. Increased the debt, reduced services... yeah great guy.

I swear i saw Homer in that lineup...

Right now, at his news conference, Trump is lashing out at China in his biggest deflection yet. Almost everything is China’s fault and he is dissolving the States relation with the W.H.O. China is not playing by the rules. They violated the treaty with Hong Kong. It’s all China, China, China. Nothing about the charges against the Minneapolis officer, nor his tweeting about the event. Then, he walked off as the coward he is.

No doubt the rapid imposing of restrictive measures has a major part to play in this, but we might be fortunate in which strain of COVID19 we have on hand.

March in the street, wearing Nazi gear and promote fascism.....and the President calls you "good people"

Everyone should watch The Innocence Files on Netflix. New docuseries. And you can see what happens in a corrupt criminal justice system.

What I find incredibly frustrating is when you present these types of facts to certain types of Trump Supporters who would never brand themselves as racists, they deflect with their whatabout bluster and go to their misguided sizzling hot economy and plenty of jobs 'argument'. All they have left is the whatabout deflections which is mindnumbing to watch.

You need to stop conflating the protests and the riots- they are not the same. As happened in Vancouver some years ago in the Stanley Cup riot, there are those who will look for an excuse to blend into a legitimate gathering and then wreak havok. The Latinos do not face the same degree of systemic, violent racism, but I suspect that if the blacks were not there, they would be next.

What we are seeing in the US is pent-up rage at the daily, thousands of incidents of stop-and-frisk, jump-outs and racial profiling that have gone on unchallenged by the vast majority of Americans and it has finally boiled over. There is no quick or easy fix.

-Just reported on CNN - 4/5 states that re-opened early have seen sharp spikes in cases. And

I guess you can strike off the Twin cities as an NHL hub city

What you might like, dislike or follow in your interest in sports isn’t necessarily related to your political attitudes or how you feel about another country .

Disgusting.

Larry Arugala with the leg........

George Floyd and former police officer Derek Chauvin worked security at same nightclub: report Floyd and the ex-cop overlapped shifts at south Minneapolis club El Nuevo Rodeo, the building's former owner says. https://www.salon.com/2020/05/29/george-floyd-and-former-police-officer-derek-chauvin-worked-security-at-same-nightclub-report_partner/

By no means is the manslaughter charge a slam-dunk. More egregious cases have walked, and not that long ago.

Okay, now c'mon...that's just funny. Like, classic-era Simpsons funny......

If 75-80% of students have returned to school... 41 out of 100-120,000 students - not counting staff... seems pretty reasonable

Even though they arrested the main culprit in the death of Floyd there is going to be more problems with the release of the Coroner’s preliminary autopsy findings- quote “no physical findings that support the diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.“ Even though Floyd was non-responsive for 2 minutes and 53 seconds before the officer took his knee off his neck. Oh boy...

Trump on the warpath against China today, dear Leader will take no questions today .....................suck it peasants

and season 6 of Lucifer will happen after all https://tvline.com/2020/05/29/tom-ellis-lucifer-contract-season-6-renewal-netflix/

I think he would. He did an SNL skit about this, funny as heck. His VP choice was Tom Hanks. Best line from the Rock, "Everybody thinks I'm whatever they are."

Dogs are ******* awesome. No I just think Kenney is a true believer. He's an ideologue who truly believes in his vision of the world as the correct one and he will do whatever it takes to enact that. It's ******* dangerous and a disaster waiting to happen. It's going to take years and years and years to dig out of the hole he's putting this province in. God willing Albertans come to their senses and vote his evil ass out of office next time and don't give him a 2nd term to **** things over even more.

Even in Canada, there is a small but potentially violent minority who would readily resort to violence against people. all they need is a sense of encouragement or complicity by silence.

Sadly, it is believable, and not rare. When a presidential candidate tells a crowd that if they choose to attack a protestor, he will defend them and pay their legal bills, this is the inevitable result. And I do not believe for a moment that he would have actually paid out any money, the cheap bastard.

What a surprise. The reporter, who was clearly a reporter and had his ID, was black. Unbelievable.

Oh please. Riots erupt in Vancouver after Canucks loss Dozens injured amid scenes of violence, looting CBC News · Posted: Jun 15, 2011 7:56 PM PT | Last Updated: June 13, 2014 Riot police fired tear gas, pepper spray and flash bombs in downtown Vancouver Wednesday night to try to disperse angry rioters who set cars on fire, looted stores and taunted police officers after the Canucks' 4-0 Stanley Cup final loss to the Boston Bruins. Police declared the downtown fan zone area near the CBC building and the central post office a riot zone. Anyone not leaving the West Georgia Street area immediately could be arrested, they warned. Police used batons and also turned police dogs on the rioters, slowly pushing the crowd back along Georgia Street from Hamilton Street to Cambie Street. Two police cars were set on fire in a parking lot on Cambie Street near one of the areas where police were being confronted by a few dozen people among the hundreds present who were throwing debris at officers. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/riots-erupt-in-vancouver-after-canucks-loss-1.993707

Look at how trump refers to protestors. you stand with trump, you’re a racist.

Which Bomber do you think would be best in a Wayne and Shuster skit? If you were recasting Miami Vice, which Bombers would you use? Do any of the american Bomber players have a favourite Canadian TV show?

Yup. With the current divide, I don't see any other outcome other than a revolution or civil war. it's only going to get worse closer to the election, and even if Trump and the republicans are defeated, that exit is going to be messy as hell, and those issues are still going to be boiling over. My family has been gradually going to the US less and less often, and I don't know if we will go back for the foreseeable future, other than Hawaii that seems to avoid the vast majority of this. For the last 12-15 years I have been going to Mlps for a beer convention in October- not this year for sure. The current riots will dissipate but the country as a whole will be a shitshow for years. When Trump was elected, we knew it would be bad, but I don't think many thought it would be this bad.

Right up there, with her telling the media " I will never lie to you" Unreal lying Administration....

"His intent is always to give truthful information." So, he's just delusional then?

Lol. That subreddit didn't follow the sites terms of use. There are a pile of subreddits that were killed not because of lack of free speech, but lack of following the rules. Free speech is a government construct anyway not a private company thing. Companies can stop you from saying anything, it's a government that can not when free speech exists. I wish people had enough brain cells to rub together to understand that.

If he makes the club, Davey would be a good handle.....Sounds like he could out run a bear....but I wonder how good he is at grinin' down bears.... Okay.... cue......'who the hell is Davey Crockett'

It’s beyond a joke with this guy now.

he'd been SO GOOD until now, too.... following the orders of doctors and scientists. And then he goes and shows his true colours. Man was I pissed off when I read that...

Amazing art by a guy named Mike