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Tonight at 7pm is officially 14 days from my second dose. Tomorrow morning, I'm going to feel an incredible sense of relief. While I will be wearing my mask and social distancing for a long while yet, it's going to be a major weight off the shoulders....

So are we taking the youngsters to Regina so that they can see that being on our PR is a better fate than having to live in Regina?

I was worried last week or the week before that we would never see 80% first doses. We administered 3482 first doses yesterday and that is higher than it was when I looked last week or the week before. It seems like the incentive to get vaxxed is getting through and the hesitant ones are starting to get their shots. I am more hopeful now that we will hit the target than I have been in a long time.

That intersection is just a mess and needs to redone correctly...

Idiots.

Players had to find alternatives to football to make ends meet while the CFL got back on track during covid. It makes perfect sense that guys would bide their time to see how things shook out before announcing their retirements. An abbreviated season is obviously not enough for some to walk away from new careers outside of football. I was expecting retirements and I'm expecting more right up til camp opens.

for those that were wondering about how the league and teams make money off the single game betting:

mRNA explanation for the win!

Based on the wording out of the province this morning, it sounds like proof of having 2 shots will be required to attend games. "Large-scale, outdoor professional sports or performing arts events may also allow fully immunized Manitobans to attend, subject to approval by Manitoba Public Health. The province will work with sports and arts organization to implement proof of vaccination protocols for these events." If you haven't had your first jab yet, and are on the fence, go get your first jab today or tomorrow. There is just enough time if you go right now to get in a 28 day period, get your second jab, and have the 14 day period before you can get your proof of vaccination before the home opener!

FYI, as of yesterday.

I'd love to see them make it mandatory for care home, hospital and homecare workers. I imagine there would be challenges to that but the idea of unvaccinated staff disturbs and perturbs me.

With single game betting, a full TV season as well as an 18 game regular season next year it is hoped that salaries will rise significantly in 2022.

The ones that scream Freedom are the ones that do the least & then complain they have the right to be treated equally. That's Alberta's way & Noeller is right.

Mid-season form!

Not fair- there are many reasons why people don't get the vaccine:

Any one on the fence about vaccines is an idiot full stop.

Oof- Gaetz should just sit the rest of life out. Here is Milley responding to Gaetz talking about the "wokeness" of the military. To put into context

"Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine." associatedpress

The 75% goal of single shots is... what ever- high level of single shots is not going to make or break it for the next wave... the absolute key is shoot for a very high % of 2 shots and keep the mask mandate. Those, IMHO are the important points we should be gunning for. Delta Variant gives no fucks to single dose.

Hmm. Doubly vaccinated, and the last live game I saw was at Mosaic for the West Final. Maybe a return trip is in order.

After the Jets are out, the NHL is not worth watching. Everything is random.

Here are the judge’s reasons for the sentence, and he was clear this won’t set a precedent for others who were more involved. The accused was in the Capitol for only 10 minutes, did no damage, and ultimately renounced and condemned the violence, while fully cooperating with prosecutors. Also educated herself and says she has reframed her views. Hopefully it was not just empty words from someone sorry she got caught and not for what she did. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/politics/capitol-rioter-sentenced/index.html

****** quitter

Most times (not always) they self identify. :-)

Some famous movies I have never watched: any of The Godfather movies, E.T., Citizen Kane, Titanic. Some well-known TV series I have never watched even a single episode of: Lost, How I Met Your Mother, Will and Grace, The Sopranos. If I have ever heard a song by the likes of Beyonce/Jay Z/Nickleback/Blink 182 (I chose these as famous acts that I’ve at least heard of) I wouldn’t know it. And I have no idea what the kids listen to these days… I have been to every province from B.C. to Quebec, the Yukon and Northwest Territories, but never the Maritimes. Moved to New Zealand before I made it to the Maritimes; however, my Kiwi wife loves Anne of Green Gables so there is still a chance for PEI! In New Zealand, feijoa is a popular fruit but I’ve never tried one in almost 15 years. Early on someone told me it tastes like the back of a stamp and someone else who tried one for the first time confirmed it.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/06/22/after-discovery-of-215-childrens-remains-in-canada-the-us-will-now-investigate-burial-sites-at-its-former-indigenous-boarding-schools.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=UnitedStates&utm_content=usindigenousboardingschools I'm glad that they're going to look into their own residential schools as well but I have a bad feeling that certain people are going to block the investigation

this is just FABULOUS news....

If that’s the case then eventually cases will get to zero once all the unvaccinated die off.

If they average 2000 first shot doses for the next two week they will get to 75%. I think 80% at 2000 a day would be 45 days.

What a disgrace Giuliani is and for what a guy who would throw you a boat anchor if you were drowning, can't believe this guy was a one time called "America's mayor"

There seems to be so much hatred and anger in the US- most of it from the right-wing/fascist side, that I cannot see how the US can survive as a country. If the country fragments, we inevitably will be collateral damage. So many Americans are totally oblivious to the threats posed by the neo-fascists and seem to be unable to grasp that their country could slide into dictatorship, as happened fairly recently in Hungary. The playbook is clear: demonize minorities such as immigrants and people of colour, proclaim that the country is going to Hell and that only a strong leader can save it, repeat endlessly videos of unruly or violent demonstrations and crimes committed by the "evil people", muzzle and bribe the media, restrict voting access, claim illegal actions every time a loss or setback happens in the polls or courts, and stack the courts and civil service with compliant people.

New York court suspends Rudy Giuliani's law license after a disciplinary panel finds he made false comments about the 2020 election. apne.ws/8bmYxeX

DeSantis signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with state. Universities may lose funding if staff and students' beliefs do not satisfy Florida's GOP-run legislature Public universities in Florida will be required to survey both faculty and students on their political beliefs and viewpoints, with the institutions at risk of losing their funding if the responses are not satisfactory to the state's Republican-led legislature. The unprecedented project, which was tucked into a law signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, is part of a long-running, nationwide right-wing push to promote "intellectual diversity" on campuses — though worries over a lack of details on the survey's privacy protections, and questions over what the results may ultimately be used for, hover over the venture. Based on the bill's language, survey responses will not necessarily be anonymous — sparking worries among many professors and other university staff that they may be targeted, held back in their careers or even fired for their beliefs. According to the bill's sponsor, state Sen. Ray Rodrigues, faculty will not be promoted or fired based on their responses, but, as The Tampa Bay Times reported Tuesday, the bill itself does not back up those claims. DeSantis signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with state | Salon.com What would America be like if Trump's coup had succeeded? Suppressing SNL is only the start The "revelations" continue about the Trump regime's abuse of power, lawbreaking, crimes, corruption, general disregard for democratic norms and institutions and overall perfidy. We now know that Donald Trump wanted to use the Department of Justice, the FCC and other federal agencies to silence dissent and criticism — specifically, to clamp down on the mockery of late-night TV hosts and the venerable "Saturday Night Live." In case you didn't know this yet, Trump was and is an authoritarian and a fascist who holds utter contempt for the Constitution and democracy. On Tuesday, Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley of the Daily Beast reported that Trump had gone much further than "simply tweeting his displeasure with the late-night comedians and SNL writers' room," and "wanted to use the full weight and power of the U.S. government to punish his personal enemies." According to two anonymous sources, Trump asked his advisers in 2019 whether the FCC, the federal courts or the DOJ could do anything to suppress SNL, ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and others. He was apparently disappointed to learn that the "devastating retribution" he hoped for was not possible in a democracy, even an enfeebled one: What would America be like if Trump's coup had succeeded? Suppressing SNL is only the start | Salon.com

Should reach those targets in next 3 weeks or just a bit longer for the 75%

QAnon fans thrilled after OAN host floats mass 'execution' for people who 'stole' election from Trump Believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory are enthusiastically circulating a video of a contributor at the Trump-loving One America News calling for the mass execution of the former president's enemies. Via The Daily Beast's Will Sommer, an OAN contributor this week went off on a rant in which he falsely claimed that "voter fraud" cost former President Donald Trump the 2020 election, and said it was time to think about how to deal with the purported perpetrators.

how many places in the world can a person buy an uzi, and carry it around in a car. "Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark was arrested and charged with the carrying of a concealed firearm in a vehicle Sunday night after police found an uzi in his Lamborghini truck, the Los Angeles Police Department tells Sports Illustrated. " lamborghini truck. 🤣

Seems to be more of these problems with Moderna than Pfizer.

Wow, quite the messaging https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/nra-president-graduation-speech In a speech to the James Madison Academy 2021 graduating class, David Keene, a former NRA president and current board member of the gun rights group, called on the teens to fight those looking to implement tighter gun restrictions. Without realizing it, Keene was actually addressing his comments to thousands of empty chairs set up to represent the estimated 3,044 kids who should have graduated high school this year and instead were killed by gun violence.

fight is a strong word. I'd call it, that guy has zero reading comprehension and I have to talk to him like I talk to my obnoxiously drunk friend.

This is more entertaining than the fight going on here.

He has nothing else to kvetch about, and attacking anything that sounds even vaguely unpatriotic and completely inane will be applauded by his base.

You need to let go of that dude. Go back and re-read what I actually said.

Really really love how MB is doing this.... Rewarding the double vaxxed with greater freedoms. AB calls or a violation of privacy (whether you're vaxxed or not) and gives everyone the same privileges. Gross. I'm uncomfortable going anywhere with large numbers of people because you don't know who the insane ones are.

Be careful, someone on this board gave me the gears when I said the Bombers were a motivating factor in getting vaccinated. Seriously though, it’s nice to know the Bombers will be approved to play. If being fully immunized is the requirement, I’d like to see IGF at 100% capacity from the start.

Additional retirements. Natey Adjei Taylor Loffler Brad Sinopoli - huge loss for Lapo