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  9. Three-peat Kickoff Countdown

    in Blue Bomber Discussion

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    Lewis was involved in what's still one of my most favourite Bomber plays of all time. It was in the 1958 Grey Cup and the Bombers are down 0-14. QB Jim Van Pelt laterals to Lewis who starts running to his right but then stops and, with a TiCat hanging on to his leg, throws a pass back to Van Pelt, who'd run a route down field. Van Pelt catches the pass and takes it in for the first Bomber TD.

  16. Covid-19

    in General Discussion

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    https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/589262-new-study-says-air-knocks-down-covid-19

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    New research found that after COVID-19 becomes airborne, the virus loses infectivity by 50 to 60 percent within seconds.

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    Researchers said the temperature of the air didn’t make any difference in how infectious the virus was, which contradicts previous theories that COVID-19 doesn’t spread as easily in higher temperatures. 

    Never mind higher temperatures, I wonder what happens when the virus hits a temperature of -30C or so.

  19. Covid-19

    in General Discussion

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    Stuff's happening in Wpg too:

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    Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman is calling on the province to shutter businesses that consistently defy Manitoba’s COVID-19 mandates.

    "Businesses that repeatedly (and) intentionally violate provincial public health orders should be closed," he posted on Twitter Tuesday, adding he wrote to Audrey Gordon, Manitoba’s health minister, about the matter.

     

    "Not partial closures," he told reporters Wednesday. "Close them and shut them down."

    He said residents have expressed concern and outrage at organizations that frequently disobey pandemic laws, like checking proof of vaccination and enforcing indoor mask use.

    Closing unco-operative businesses would respect the law-abiding ones, Bowman said.

    https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/coronavirus/mayor-calls-for-closure-of-covid-scofflaws-575425062.html

    Public Health is getting tougher on the scofflaws:

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    Ten Manitoba businesses accused of breaking provincial public health orders were fined a total of more than $72,000 last week.

    Enforcement officers handed out 16 fines to five businesses in Winnipeg, three in Winkler and two in Steinbach for failing to follow public health orders between Sept. 20 and 26.

     

    Monstrosity Burger in Winnipeg, which has already been ordered to shut down its indoor dining, received four $5,000 fines. The anti-mask, anti-vaccine business advertised a "walk for freedom" on Saturday and encouraged patrons to pre-order food and eat on the boulevard outside of the strip mall that houses the restaurant.

    Other businesses fined included Chaise Cafe and Lounge, two MORFIT Training Centre locations and Bong Traders Paraphernalia Co. In Winkler, Twisters, Del Rios and the Iceburg Drive-In restaurants were fined. In Steinbach, Retro Chique and a Great Canadian Oil Change location were fined.

    https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/coronavirus/ten-manitoba-businesses-fined-accused-of-breaking-covid-health-orders-575430592.html

    That makes $60k in fines for the Monsters on Corydon in the past month.

  24. Covid-19

    in General Discussion

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    Re the lambda variant. Maybe it's not that bad after all:

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    Dr. Anna Durbin, a professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Newsweek that the Lambda variant "is going to run into a problem here in the U.S. and that is the Delta variant."

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    While the Lambda variant, which was first detected in Peru and has predominately spread in South America, only makes up 0.17 percent of the variant cases in the U.S., the Delta variant is responsible for more than 93 percent of circulating U.S. cases.

    Durbin thinks that because the Delta variant has become so prevalent in the U.S., Lambda won't be able to outcompete the highly transmissible strain currently surging across the country.

    "It's survival of the fittest," she said. "You have these viruses that replicate and they get mutations. The one that can replicate for the highest titer or be transmitted better is the one that's going to survive because that one is going to spread more easily and the other variants are going to sort of just die out."

    https://www.newsweek.com/jhu-covid-researcher-predicts-lambda-variant-will-run-problem-us-1616658?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1628189038

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