the watcher

Yes, a while back I just quit watching the news . I guess I was full of the insanity and had to let it settle.

About the middle you will find Fauci responding to Tucker Carlson's suggestion that the vaccines don't work. Pure frigging insanity. You would think that with the American propensity to sue Carlson would be in court. They are all nuts.

I phoned on Wednesday April 7 , the day I was eligible at 63 and was booked for Sunday April 11. Maybd its a rural / city thing ?

I think it's really tough for us to understand what it is like to a black person in the US. Do we have racism in Canada? Of course we do. But people of colour here don't live in terror of having their children pulled over. Milt Stegal's comments a while back made me really think . He said they weren't worried at all about their driving aged kid driving recklessly, drinking and driving, speeding.........All they concentrated on was what to do when you are stopped by the police. They live in fear of it. I dont think we CAN understand it., I dont think we CAN understand what it is like to see what has been going on time after time to people with your skin colour. When you look at their crime rates it's pretty obvious that throwing people in jail for extremely long periods doesn't work. 200, million adults in the USA and 2.3 million are in jail. And that rate is increasing. The majority are people of colour. So if jailing as many as you can ,for as long as you can doesn't solve anything doesn't it make sense to work on the social issues that lead to crime ? No one is saying people shouldn't be put in jail but we / they really need to look to other solutions. We are seeing other countries in the world that are trying to deal with drug issues in other ways from decrimilisation to making them legal. Poverty breeds crime in my opinion. It raises children who are angry, desperate, and hopeless to lead the lives that many of us have been privileged to have access to. I'm just an old farmer but my life has taught me that when something isn't working, find a different way to fix it or do it.

Good suggestions. I think the UBI is still important. As robotics / AI and Mega corparations continue to advance the world has 2 choices, more people on sub human wages or UBI that is paid for by a tax system that is truly equitable. I just don't know how we can make it happen ( the 2nd choice )

No but they got a big thank you from me lol

Arrived at Morden Super site for 5:40 appointment.Came in at 5:25 .Needled and Done and waiting the 15 minutes by 5:45. It can't get much better than that.

So in all likelihood the difference between the %14 reported by the U of S and Kives%18 is the lower amount probably doesn't include the ones by indigenous communities. OR the U of S didn't have today's numbers although it said was reporting as of Friday at noon

From what I can glean from "Covid Tracker Canada " a U of S project, we( MB ) are a shade under %14 vaccinated. Alberta a bit over %14. BC + Ontario a bit over% 17. Quebec over% 20 .Nova Scotia is under %11. What I'm not sure about is if those numbers include our indigenous communities and if all provinces report that the same.

From what I can glean from "Covid Tracker Canada " a U of S project, we( MB ) are a shade under %14 vaccinated. Alberta a bit over %14. BC + Ontario a bit over% 17. Quebec over% 20 .Nova Scotia is under %11. What I'm not sure about is if those numbers include our indigenous communities and if all provinces report that the same. Well crap! Wrong discussion !

The big problem I see out here in the sticks is that the anti-maskers have been emboldened. Buisnesses aren't enforcing their policies partly because of a lack of support from city/town councils and therefore local police as well. They are all, afraid of upsetting the fundamentalist church crowd. When the 3rd wave hits it will come from the Southern part of the province. My shot on Sunday can't come soon enough.

That's friggen hilarious. Made my day.

Adler was always what he is. He's always been hacked on by both sides.

I found this interesting because I found out the other day that someone I respect and admire has become a anti masker. She has fallen down the rabbit hole so to speak and I struggle to understand why a reasonable, intelligent, business woman could do that. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/08/among-covid-sceptics-we-are-being-manipulated-anti-lockdown It helps a bit,.....maybe

Adler had a good interview with a Dr from Ontario talking about the Brazil variant. Friggen scary as hell. It's on a completely different level as far as transmisability. He suggests N95 or doubled masks. It will transmit through the air rather than by droplet.

Saying its a waste just means it's a sad situation for anyone to be charged or committed a murder. Not just the murderer and the victim but the families of both. Their lives will never be the same or reach their full potential. It's a waste of multiple lives, and yes often with root causes that reflect both current and historical situations.

Under the O ( for old man ) 63 .........Bingo !!! Booked in for Sunday !

On Manitoba' s rollout : I've been keeping a close watch. We are any where from 5 to 10,000 a day. Which I don't believe ( using advanced mathamatics) is close to promised 20,000. They need to fix it and fix it fast.

I think the Feds did a good job of getting money out there and in a timely fashion. They did a terrible job on procurement. A huge mistake by getting in bed with the Chinese to jointly make one. Why deal with a country that was already upset with us ? The whole deal was bungled and it appears that China was just mining for technology. Then they switched to straight purchasing vaccines . But they were slow to do that. As far as blaming previous Govs for a lack of facility's the UK had no production facilities when Covid hit. They developed a vaccine and built a production facility. The UK is at about %55 vaccination rate. Theres no reason we with a far more stable political situation shouldn't be.

It was a report done by Global. BUT it was done March 20. It appears things are changing and Manitoba as slipped since but here is their report. https://globalnews.ca/news/7706844/covid-provinces-vaccine-rollout-plan/

I'll have a look later. I'm heading out on the road now On Bart we will have to agree to disagree. Questions are questions. Accusations, and firing unanswerable opinions are not my cup of tea. Or leaving a press conference with dead air multiple times to the point that they have to move on and come back later.

Interesting that it was reported recently that a independent study found that Manitoba had one of the best vaccine rollouts in Canada. It was reported in several news outlets. Bartley Kives questioning at the press conferences borders on ignorant and belligerent. And repeatedly when called on for his turn there is dead air which has happened enough that I suspect he walks away from his computer and isn't there when called upon. One of the worst reporter's in Winnipeg in my opinion.

So 3 weeks ago I had a set to with a maskless father and daughter in Winkler Superstore. Last week my wife was in the checkout lineup and the store manager is standing there. So she asked him why don't you do something about the maskless people ? He said I can't. ( BS ) The local cops won't ticket them and those orders are from city council. Now I don't know if he is telling the truth on that or if he is using them as a scapegoat. That damn place is going to be center for a breakout.

There's " I'm sorry " and there's " I'm sorry I got caught " I put all of these into the latter.

Is there a slimier looking guy than Gaetz ? He would get my vote in a " looks untrustworthy " competition. He's even got the 1960s televangelist haircut.