I'm starting this thread as a side discussion of all things Corona Virus related. I understand that this is going to be discussed in almost all other topic threads but we could collect news and other items here. 

 

At work, many conferences have been cancelled.

NBA - Suspended.

NHL - About to be suspended. 

NCAA March Madness - Playing - no crowd. 

 

Political Rallies have been cancelled. 

Travel bans. 

 

Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks tested positive. They're in Australia where testing is available. If they were in the US, they wouldn't have been tested. 

 

Hopefully, 25% double vaxxed means fewer of the daily cases will need hospital care.  

It will be interesting to watch the southern health region.  They don't have a large urban centre, yet they still have 20 - 30 cases every day - about half of Winnipeg's number. 

More people are doubled vaxed than have gotten a dose in WInkler. 35% doubled vaxed and Southern is under 54% with one dose.

1 hour ago, Mark H. said:

 

It will be interesting to watch the southern health region.  They don't have a large urban centre, yet they still have 20 - 30 cases every day - about half of Winnipeg's number. 

Similar deal with the Northern health region, but at least they have a semi-decent vaccination rate.

The thing Is that once the majority of manitoba is doubled vaxxed it probably won't matter as much that a place like Winkler has low double vaccine rates. Where is it gonna come from? 

1 hour ago, Colin Unger said:

The thing Is that once the majority of manitoba is doubled vaxxed it probably won't matter as much that a place like Winkler has low double vaccine rates. Where is it gonna come from? 

This is the exact piss poor attitude that has led to the EMBARRASSING (quite frankly) vaccine uptake in South Man... 

Felt so good to eat in a restaurant with the family tonight. 
 

As for the vaccine uptake or lack there of in the SRHA the only “positive “ I can come up with is looking at many areas of the US with low vaccine uptake seem to be doing okay. I honestly think we’ll be fine. As for moving them to orange with the rest of the province, I think they had too, at least they can eat and shop in their own towns and don’t have to come to the city. 

7 hours ago, Mark H. said:

Hopefully, 25% double vaxxed means fewer of the daily cases will need hospital care.  

It will be interesting to watch the southern health region.  They don't have a large urban centre, yet they still have 20 - 30 cases every day - about half of Winnipeg's number. 

Winnipeg  health - 791,000

Southern Health -   211,000

Prairie Mountain -172,000

Inter Lake Health-133,000

Northern Health- 77,000

So in theory Southern should have 1/3 to 1/4 of the cases. BUT, it should be way less than that because larger centers usually generate higher percentages by shear contact numbers.

Last week I tried to get my shot 10 days early at a walk in due to a business situation. (Wasted the better part of 2 days and never got the shot )  But I was talking for 3 or 4 hours to a guy from Winkler. He works a one of the bigger factories there and said he figured only %25 of his co-workers had a shot. 

I got my 2nd  yesterday by the way.

 

 

 

 

 

I visited my grandmother for the first time in 8 months, we've had facebook room get togethers but we couldn't do visits before today. Granny's had both of her doses for some time (and dad got his second on wednesday)

5 hours ago, Colin Unger said:

The thing Is that once the majority of manitoba is doubled vaxxed it probably won't matter as much that a place like Winkler has low double vaccine rates. Where is it gonna come from? 

What I have heard is the virus is never likely to be totally gone. So they are expecting to have outbreaks in areas where there are low vaccination rates in the future. I would imagine that will bleed out into rest of the province a certain amount

Edited June 27, 20214 yr by the watcher

CDC in the States says that the majority of deaths happening now are unvaccinated people, pretty sure that's happening here and it's sad that people are to stupid to have something injected in them that could save their miserable lives

The more I think about Colin's post and that shitty ******* attitude..... I'm realizing those Anti Vaxx Mennos are the kid in high school who's in on a group project and doesn't do any of the work, but still gets the same grade. The rest of us doing all the hard work, following all the rules... To try to get us to some semblance of herd immunity. **** every ******* who didn't follow rules and won't get the shot. You get what you deserve. 

7 hours ago, Colin Unger said:

The thing Is that once the majority of manitoba is doubled vaxxed it probably won't matter as much that a place like Winkler has low double vaccine rates. Where is it gonna come from? 

9 hours ago, Noeller said:

The more I think about Colin's post and that shitty ******* attitude..... I'm realizing those Anti Vaxx Mennos are the kid in high school who's in on a group project and doesn't do any of the work, but still gets the same grade. The rest of us doing all the hard work, following all the rules... To try to get us to some semblance of herd immunity. **** every ******* who didn't follow rules and won't get the shot. You get what you deserve. 

I see a lot of parallels to the situation we're facing with climate change, except the climate change situation is even worse. A country only sees a small portion of the benefits from taking active climate change initiatives and receives all the benefits of other countries taking actions. It's why we've seen such little action done even though its pretty obvious the planet is getting pretty bad. That's why we hear the bullshit about "why should we do anything when China (insert other "evil" country, but its usually China) isn't doing their part."

The larger populace gets screwed by anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers, but at least most sensible people can do something to protect themselves individually, while idiots will often face personal consequences from being exposed to the virus. Its kind of shitty for kids or those who are unable to get vaccinated, hospital staff that has been overwhelmed for over a year, and those who may get it despite being fully vaccinated. Not to mention everybody who follows restrictions and wants life to get back to normal and business that have been hurting for far too long.

Brandon Banks and Vernon Adams publicly complaining about having to get the vaccine and quarantine. My blood just boils over attitudes like this.... 

10 minutes ago, Noeller said:

Brandon Banks and Vernon Adams publicly complaining about having to get the vaccine and quarantine. My blood just boils over attitudes like this.... 

Hey, its their choice. They can choose to get vaxxed or choose to retire.

Ya that was my first thought... Nobody's forcing you to play. 

And just like that, Mondo (and WJ5, who retweeted) made my day.... 

 

 

19 hours ago, Colin Unger said:

The thing Is that once the majority of manitoba is doubled vaxxed it probably won't matter as much that a place like Winkler has low double vaccine rates. Where is it gonna come from? 

location: Steinbach.
Last name: Unger.

Can't make this **** up. 

49 minutes ago, Dr Zaius said:

location: Steinbach.
Last name: Unger.

Can't make this **** up. 

It makes no sense to me we share the same favourite team.

oh hell 

 

Edited June 27, 20214 yr by iHeart

13 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Speed's gif game is on fire.

 

Also, I don't see why so much hate is getting thrown on @Colin Unger

I didn't see him promoting antivax or anti health orders. That is the goal with herd immunity, if most people are vaxxinated or naturally immune due to previous infection... infections shouldn't be spreading too badly. I mean he's wrong with the conment "where is it going to come from" - break through infectikns are going to happen 94% efficacy (88% for delta)is not 100%... it will come from somewhere. Also, with the higher transmission of the Delta Variant, that **** is going to spread like wildfire through those communities. 

Edited June 27, 20214 yr by wanna-b-fanboy

19 minutes ago, iHeart said:

oh hell 

 

Oh FFS...

This makes me so sad... and simultaneously super ******* angry. 

Yeah I'm not sure why Colin is taking heat for that comment. Have I missed him saying people shouldn't be taking the Vax or something?

Also @Noeller I read Vernon's comments as a wish that the CFL would adopt the same rules as the NFL. Vaxxed players getting back to normal, nonvaxxed gotta go through the hoops etc etc...

4 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:

Also @Noeller I read Vernon's comments as a wish that the CFL would adopt the same rules as the NFL. Vaxxed players getting back to normal, nonvaxxed gotta go through the hoops etc etc...

NFL teams have the facilities and money to accommodate those extra hoops though.  I'm sure Adams would also like to have the same salary cap as the NFL but that's not going to happen either.