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70YR old MIL lives alone and my wife is her designated visitor, it is against the letter of the law for her to visit our house for Christmas dinner. She has no in person contact with anyone else, this is the one time I am saying F the rules and am having her for Christmas dinner. I will not be having my oldest son over at all as he lives in a multi person household. Go ahead and call the cops...

It is going to stay there unless we start testing more than 4000/day. Drive by any of the testing sites and no one is getting tested.

I'm sorry, I don't follow. If the disease mutates and no current vaccine gives protection what is the point of knowing who has the current vaccine? Wouldn't that be about as important as knowing who got the flu shot in the fall of 2019?

I agree, though in theory if we’ve had the vaccine should we care?

Reporting finally caught up with that is happening.

I agree. We need to be better at complying with the orders they have in front of us now. Took the dog for a walk late evening yesterday and saw several houses that had small groups together. Saw someone I know that sells to our company visiting friends, gathered around the island. I saw him visiting the same friends in the summer, no question in my mind who it was. Not letting him in the building anytime soon. People should realize if their house backs on to a park with walking trails it is very easy to see inside your house. As best as I can understand it we have a growing number of outbreaks in PCH’s and the “ under housed population”. TPR isn’t going to go down until we start doing more wide spread general testing.

That is patently false. Go back to the spring pressers. He openly wept on screen with the first death. He has felt this every step of the way. What he did was believe that Manitobans would to the right thing without being ordered too because it’s the right thing. Sadly he was wrong, Dr Roussin was wrong and this of us that believe in the best of humanity were wrong. Dr Roussin said ask much today, people are going to follow sever restrictions for a long time. Look at what is happening now, think about if they had ordered that in October where we would be now? Likely outright martial law to quell the hordes of idiots rebelling. If people hadn’t have worked so hard to find ways around the rules their wouldn’t need to be so many rules. If people had followed the advice because it was the right thing to do we wouldn’t be here now. If we didn’t have media that were solely focused on trying to find fault with the response but instead spent some time reinforcing the message maybe more people would have done the right thing. Pallister, Friesen and Roussin don’t wear our failure. All the people of Manitoba that didn’t listen to the advice and follow the spirit of the rules when they were looser are the ones responsible for the stage we are at now. Was spending money building visiting structures for PCH’s a mistake? Possibly but that’s what they get for listening to all the groups insisting they needed to visit their family.

Question his methods all you want, he may well be wrong. You just can’t question how much he cares for Manitoba. The NDP did a lot of damage to this province, Pallister likely went too far with some of his changes but a lot of what he did was recommended to the NDP but they were too chicken to do it. Nothing drives me crazier than people accusing him of cutting health care. How can it be cuts if he is spending more? Yes, he piloted a complete reorganization of the health care system but he didn’t make cuts. Changes are not cuts.

People don’t like being told what they can and can’t do even if it is the right thing to do. It was quite apparent to me watching the modelling presentation today that we had strict restrictions with very poor public adherence. We are in the situation we are in because of the things the public did or didn’t do not because of what our leaders told us. Think what you want of him as a person but that is BS. He has worn his heart on his sleeve and broken down several times since the spring. You may not like how he delivers his message but he’s doing everything he can because he cares. He’s not in this for money or praise but because he feels he can make Manitoba a better place.

I am hearing it is all over the US news. I've had a couple of friends down there ask me what I thought of it.

It was part of his briefing. Sorry can’t tell you what minute. You could likely search for a shortened version. https://youtu.be/l0JnNN371LE

That’s weird. The video should still be on YouTube.

There are not many politicians that would openly call a portion of his base Idiots to their faces. You have to give him some credit for that. We all took our foot off the gas after the almost non event wave 1 was. I look at other jurisdictions that had severe outcomes early that also are at a point where things are about to break. Quebec and BC especially, how can theor Premiers have those approval ratings with what is happening around them?

A fairly surprising retweet here. https://twitter.com/paulstanleylive/status/1334677192979058688?s=21 Can’t say Pallister doesn’t speak the truth.

Hal Anderson had a great chat with Pastor Bruce Martin of Calvary Temple today. While I’m not the member of any church I could easily sit and listen tomPastor Bruce for a couple hours. He just gets it if you ask me. Starts about 5:40 of this clip. https://omny.fm/shows/cjob-afternoon/pastor-present

As bad as thing are here in Manitoba I can’t believe the shitshow that Alberta appears to be. Once a Mecca for Canadians wanting to make bank it is now below SK in places people would be willing to move. They must be putting something new in the water out there, friends and family that have always been normal educated people have been posting some weird stuff lately.

I am relieved that there is no change for K to 6. My grade 3 is doing well in a class of 11 in school learners. Both his before and after program and school have been excellent and case free so far.

Broken record much? I say again, I have never suggested cutting taxes redistribution of collection would be an idea that has worked. Here’s a hint, those that make more also consume more taxes based on consumption result in the wealthy paying more taxes... ”cutting taxes doesn’t work” “Built from bottom up” Sounds exceptionally progressive to me. I curious as to your experience of a strong economy is built from the bottom up? Where has this been successful? I’m not denying your idea, I am genuinely curious as to your reference point.

Are you talking individual or corporate? Think Drs / entrepreneurs and other wealth creators. Tax them any higher and they will go elsewhere. How does that make this a better country to live in. Raiding taxes is not a solution, fiscal responsibility needs to be something to strive for. Successful businesses find a way to spend less government needs to do the same.

You should do some research on this. Canada taxes it’s highest earners at one of the highest rates in the world. They pay a higher percentage of their own income and the greatest share of national income. I heard an interview on the radio the other day about National Pharmacare plan with professor from Carleton. I believe the number quoted was the top 40% of earners pay over 80% of the taxes paid. These are also the most mobile individuals and most likely to leave if they feel being taxed too much. What would be great is for government to start spending our money as if there is a finite amount of it and stop asking for more all the time. I believe the clip is this first section with professor Ian Lee geoff-currier/great-mood/embed?style=cover" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="180"></iframe>

Absolutely. Many of my American friends that I talk to regularly had household only dinners, no one that I know when home or had kids coming home. Many are disgusted and fearful of what they see around them.

The order states that retailers must stop selling non-essential items as of midnight Friday. By Saturday they must not even be able to try and purchase them. Basically if you take a TV or gaming system to the till now, they have to refuse to sell it to you. By tomorrow they have to have blocked your access to even try and purchase in store. As an essential retailer that’s volume is about 95% essential items but has lots of non-essential items on display this is a total pain in the arse. We spent much of yesterday removing access to certain items and today will finish.

I'm pretty sure I heard Quebec had done the same thing, possibly 2035.

I’m sure there is more to the story but in the end what matters is another 20 hospitality staff are out of work. I feel for the more than any, they have few prospects of new employment anytime soon.

They have another location on Pembina. I think the pandemic only sealed their fate. I have been too or picked up food from every restaurant in the complex they are in but never them and I love wings. Little Bones is farther away and I would go there 100 times before Wild Wings. You do have to wonder about a landlord that rather have an empty space during a pandemic that work out a rent reduction with a 10 year tenant.