Mark H.

If I’d wanted to exclude MB stats, I would have edited them out of the post I quoted.

@Floyd These are the numbers I was referring to - they were already in the thread. There is nothing else that needs to be said - it's all clear enough. To clarify once again: 340 of 962 Saskatchewan cases are in the far north. Calgary as seen an increase of over 150 cases since late last week. How that can pinned on one group of people as being the major cause of it, is beyond me . And this is exactly what you did - you said to not do so would be ridiculous.

You said there were excuses being made for Hutterites. So, if I wasn’t making them, then who was?

Once again, stating facts becomes deflection in your eyes. Saskatchewan has the most cases in the far north, while Calgary is the hotbed in Alberta. To continue saying that Hutterites are the highest contributor is ridiculous, because it’s not what the numbers show. For the record, nothing you say will stop me from stating facts. If you keep stating false opinions, I will keep on combatting you.

I can say one thing about Saskatchewan: there are no Hutterite colonies in the far north.

Well, I’ll tell you what I find interesting: I have come on here and stated things exactly as they are, making an effort to not hide anything. But you somehow see that as making excuses - I didn’t make any. I answered every question that was asked and provided the facts. I have no Hutterite contacts in Alberta or Saskatchewan, thus I could not comment accurately on what exactly happened there, so I chose not to.

There would still be 8 new cases in MB.

I am not making excuses for anyone who didn’t follow the rules - 2 to 3 people was a reference to how it happened in MB. Most colonies in MB were in complete lockdown, from a March 23 to June 21, in our case. In fact, as a precaution, we started a further 2 week lockdown yesterday, essential travel only and no visitors. However, some colonies / individual members were embarrassingly stupid. Unfortunately, they infected others; 2 of the 3 infected communities actually followed all the guidelines. It only takes a few idiots.

True, but the timing of that does not add up, because it was 3 - 4 weeks ago. The true story is, he went back to Alberta again after the funeral, on a business trip. A week later, the **** hit the fan.

Because it isn’t true. It was 2 - 3 people who didn’t follow the rules, not an entire group. Most Hutterite communities in MB have followed all the public health guidelines. Also, no one identified any visible minorities on Corydon.

There is no direct link between that large funeral and the cases in Manitoba.

And the all the Hutterite cases stem from travel to Alberta.

Not only was racism alive and well, you might also want check out the rigid class system that most people lived under.

So, apparently their income threshold for the first round of stimulus cheques was $99 000. How on earth does someone with almost 100K income need a stimulus cheque?

After course we do. After all - there’s so much comfort in the conspiracy theories.

I was saying to someone from North Dakota just yesterday, that the world was opening up and getting back to work. He considered that to be an idiotic statement, because "American businesses never closed, but people don't want to work. The virus has been blown out of proportion and people are sitting at home living off their stimulus cheques." Unquote.

Can anyone wrap their brain around the American approach? 1. Don’t mandate the closure of businesses. 2. Hand out stimulus cheques to everyone, whether they are unemployed or not. 3. Complain about people not going to work.

Pass the fart salad...

No, not us.

Eh?

Yes, but within the public health guidelines.

Unfortunately, the response to to Covid runs the gamut among our communities - from very conscientious about social distancing, travel restrictions, and PPE - to doing almost nothing at all. The latter has led to some cases of stigmatization.

TBD - depends on the contact tracing results. The person who originally had the virus has recovered. They were extremely sick for 2 - 3 days, approx. 10 days altogether.

I just heard a story of a three year old child on life support due to Covid 19 - that 20% can be pretty darn serious.

The entire colony is in the process of getting tested and quarantining as needed.