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The idea is meeting a stranger on premises that are safe. Both parties are being filmed so you have some kind of protection in the event one party acts fraudulently (example if it turns out that the goods being transacted are stolen).
Better to have that stranger there than at your house.
That’s the general idea. Not sure people would actually avail themselves of this.
That’s really concerning as people playing golf thought it was safe on account its open air aspect. Regardless of the lower risk to get Covid in open air, you still have to take basic precautions (social distance, etc).
There are also areas of the golf course where you can congregate or be swapping air in enclosed spaces (boutique, clubhouse, sharing a ride to and fro).
You just can’t let your guard down.
If you can read french I posted the whole thing just above you post, if you can't well... That's a lot of stuff to write, so I will just give you an example of how it work.
Let's say I get a covid test every 12th of each month for the past 5 months, that's how my tests would affect the data from graph 4.1:
July 12
result: negative
Personnes Infirmées +1
Cas confirmés +0
August 12
result: negative
Personnes Infirmées +0
Cas confirmés +0
Sep 12
result: positive
Personnes Infirmées -1
Cas confirmés +1
Oct 12
result: positive
Personnes Infirmées +0
Cas confirmés +0
Nov 12
result: negative
Personnes Infirmées +0
Cas confirmés +0
So after 5 tests I only had an effect on the data 3 times, once to get included in the "Personnes infirmées", then one time to get kicked out of that same group and another time to be added as a "cas confirmé". And since I got ONE positive test I can never go back in the "Personnes Infirmées" group, ever again.
There is an ongoing debate about when a vaccine rollout will begin in Canada.
One major obstacle is that the producing companies will first and foremost favor the countries they’re making it in. Canada apparently does not have the manufacturing ability to produce its own.
So while several other countries are slated to begin rollouts next month, it’s not exactly clear when Canada might begin theirs.
It’s looking like Canada’s rollout will lag but that may not be a totally bad thing:
If you had a positive, you shouldn't be considered a negative. The amount of tests done do not represent the correct number of % infected given that if you tested positive and are re-testing, your test shouldn't count. We need to take into account that if you test positive, after a number of days, you should finally test negative again. Once that happens, your body is supposed to have anti-bodies that repel being re-infected.
Anyways, when I have a bit more time, I will think of a way that I feel would be more representative of what should be represented as a % positive.
Not even worth trolling?
That's maybe true but if we don't get the vaccine until fall 2021 nobody is going to be very happy with that kind of delay.
This is a huge lesson on how PPE, critical emergency equipment and the ability to mass produce and distribute vaccines cannot be farmed out to companies operating in other countries.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say the number of people who could of/should of been treated promptly for diseases like cancer will result in more deaths then covid deaths.
RIP, US of A...
If Canada had its own ability to massively manufacture vaccines, they wouldn't have needed to buy so many vaccines.
Canada is said to have ordered the highest number of vaccines per capita.
There is an upside for poorer countries at least.
There is an ongoing debate about when a vaccine rollout will begin in Canada.
One major obstacle is that the producing companies will first and foremost favor the countries they’re making it in. Canada apparently does not have the manufacturing ability to produce its own.
So while several other countries are slated to begin rollouts next month, it’s not exactly clear when Canada might begin theirs.
It’s looking like Canada’s rollout will lag but that may not be a totally bad thing:
Where do you see that?Holy crap. Almost 1500 new cases, we were slowly dipping down. Not looking good for the holidays. Wonder if people will be celebrating American Thanksgiving here.
They are working on it.
COVID-19 response: Building the infrastructure
Will most likely be more for next time as construction is still under way.
Wow, isn't that grand. No wonder Trudeau loves China.
Well there you go, not exactly the greatest position to be in at a time like this.Well there's a nuance here, we can manufacture vaccine that use the traditional method (Chicken egg, like most flu vaccine) we cannot manufacture RNA vaccine, which are a new thing and that's mostly because we let the Canadian pharma industry fall behind in the last ~2 decades.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say the number of people who could of/should of been treated promptly for diseases like cancer will result in more deaths then covid deaths.
About 1.2 million people get diagnosed with cancer every year in the US, as an example. We’ll see how many get diagnosed in 2020 and how many who should of been treated and weren’t. Plus, things like suicide. It’s not a zero sum situation.
Well there's a nuance here, we can manufacture vaccine that use the traditional method (Chicken egg, like most flu vaccine) we cannot manufacture RNA vaccine, which are a new thing and that's mostly because we let the Canadian pharma industry fall behind in the last ~2 decades.
Well there you go, not exactly the greatest position to be in at a time like this.