End the Lockdown

[TeeJay]

You and the amigos claim it's just a "flu". Now you're professing in your enlightened wisdom that it really only lasts 4 to 5 days. You obviously believe you're more astute than a car salesman and also have a medical degree. Therefore go with the idea of herd immunity and get yourself infected. You will be able to say "look I was right" if you beat it in 5 days and you will have the antibodies to be able to be free to walk around with your head held high. DO IT, you know it's the right thing to do.

It is a flu and everyone who matters (eg CDC) keeps saying as much
But even if I believed that Covid was a benign virus the idea to "lick a rail" has to be the dumbest thing out of your little mind ever

So all those precautions airlines and customs put in place to prevent future occurrences were wrong?

Funny that a group of people so obsessed about the remote possibility of being attacked by an Islamic terrorist are claiming that 100,000 Americans dying isn't worth being concerned about.

Are you seriously trying to argue the stuff at the border is an "improvement"???

But yeah its exact same thing as Covid; 1 single hijacking and now we live with all the BS for rest of our lives because sheeple panic and need someone to protect them

Fuck its not like they managed to prevent anyone from bringing bombs onto a plane, but make sure you only carry a limited supply of soap or mouthwash lol

 

[squeezer]

It is a flu and everyone who matters (eg CDC) keeps saying as much
But even if I believed that Covid was a benign virus the idea to "lick a rail" has to be the dumbest thing out of your little mind ever

You're a coward! Stop talking from both sides of your mouth and ass. Be a man and contribute to herd immunity or volunteer for vaccine testing. I'm betting when you go out you're fully masked, gloved and face shield then come here and play virus tough guy. LMAO

Are you seriously trying to argue the stuff at the border is an "improvement"???

But yeah its exact same thing as Covid; 1 single hijacking and now we live with all the BS for rest of our lives because sheeple panic and need someone to protect them

Fuck its not like they managed to prevent anyone from bringing bombs onto a plane, but make sure you only carry a limited supply of soap or mouthwash lol

I guess they should just let your stroll on a plane as they do on the train because Teejay is a very important fella.

 

[TeeJay]

You're a coward! Stop talking from both sides of your mouth and ass. Be a man and contribute to herd immunity or volunteer for vaccine testing. I'm betting when you go out you're fully masked, gloved and face shield then come here and play virus tough guy. LMAO

I go out
I dont wear gloves / masks or any of the other douchery sheeple wear
I could care less about social distancing (I have seen people literally jump into traffic to get away from me, or people who stand 15 feet away from a cashier in a store get mad when I walk up and cut "the line" ... there was no line the douche was standing in the aisle lol)

 

[canada-man]

Too late, Cman double down, there is no cure for stupid.

so starving immigrants, women, the disabled, and people of color by locking don the economy is a good policy? why is that the rich and the privilege support these lockdowns so much

 

[canada-man]

We’re caught up in a false dilemma: either preserve the economy, or save lives from COVID-19.

We’re trading human lives for human lives thanks to experimental lockdown policies. We’re deciding who will live and who will die. We’re exchanging the lives and livelihoods of millions of poor people worldwide through the destruction of the economy for the lives of a comparatively few COVID-19 sufferers.

The trade-off is morally unjustifiable, and even obscene. It is also completely pointless. Killing the economy won’t save lives anywhere. Arguably, strengthening the economy is what saves lives. A strong economy and a strong virus response are complementary, not mutually exclusive.

We need to meet the COVID-19 threat at our greatest strength, not paralyzed by fear, and in isolation, immobilization, and the disconnection we see now. Adding the destruction of our economy and social fabric to the problem is regressive. Life must go on, despite its risks.

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi said: "[The lockdown measures] are grotesque, absurd and very dangerous… The life expectancy of millions is being shortened. The horrifying impact on the world economy threatens the existence of countless people … All these measures are leading to self-destruction and collective suicide based on nothing but a [fright]."

All the intricate networks of our organically knit economy, destroyed in an instant on purpose by bizarre government policies. On the matter, Dr. David Katz said: "The unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result [from the lockdowns] will be public health scourges of the first order."

We must turn back from these errors. It is imperative that we set our economy at peak production in all sectors to generate the resources required to overcome this virus and restore society.

As we continue in idleness, the socio-economic resources we need to fight COVID-19, or any other foe, are being depleted and will soon enough be exhausted. The current lockdown measures will end in the complete collapse of our socio-economic, and even political infrastructure.

Some say we need to be on a "war-footing" to meet this viral enemy. If that is true, then that means doing as much as we can, producing as much as we can. There are risks in ‘war’ – the theoretical risk here, is that more people may become infected and die if we return to business as usual, that ‘casualties’ will increase.

However, even if that theory is correct, which is implausible on the evidence, it is imperative that the opposite side of the equation be considered as well, which is the vastly greater number of casualties, the many more lives and livelihoods being lost because of the lockdown – not the disease.

Remember the poor, in this strange drama. They are the ones suffering most from these containment policies. Aid agencies warn that far more people will die from the economic consequences of the lockdown measures than from COVID-19 itself. Conservative forecasts now predict that 35 to 65 million people will fall into absolute poverty or starvation. That is an unspeakable tragedy.

Wealthier nations may survive this lockdown, sort of, but poorer nations and poor people worldwide will not, they cannot. Countless millions around the world subsist on a meal or a tiny stipend brought home daily as a wage, which has been struck from their hands by these lockdown policies.

While we seek to "flatten the curve" of this virus by shutting down normal life on the planet, we are causing wild spikes in many other curves of human deprivation.

In India, for example, more than 40 million migrant workers, dismissed from their employment en masse have had to trek home on foot, beggared and spreading the virus as they go. How many of them will die of their lockdown-imposed poverty? No one will ever count these fallen or record their names – but every COVID-19 death in the west is a "crisis".

In the west, many of our people will be permanently ruined by this set-back. The poor will be forgotten the instant this theoretical crisis is called off.

https://thepostmillennial.com/time-to-open-the-economy-or-risk-poverty-and-starvation


the rich privilege class who support these lockdowns, love to cry russia russia russia, bot bot bot, conspiracy theorists, are enjoying the lockdowns while the poor immigrants, jamaican barbers, women, women of colour, single parents(most are women) the disabled sinking into starvation, poverty, and mental distress

 

[Malibuk]

Canadian official says risk of death from other factors higher than coronavirus
A top official in Canada says most people have a better chance of dying from "other pathogens, accidents, and traffic fatalities" than from coronavirus.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney made the comments this week as he argued wholesale shutdowns of the economy are no longer necessary for coronavirus.
“For most Albertans, the risk of death from other pathogens, accidents and traffic fatalities is actually higher than it is for COVID,” Kenney said Wednesday, according to the Calgary Herald.
Kenney referred to coronavirus as “an influenza that does not generally threaten life” apart from at-risk populations.
"What we are learning is that younger people, while not completely immune, have a rate of mortality related to COVID that is no higher than their general mortality rate for other illnesses," Kenney told the house Wednesday.
"We cannot continue indefinitely to impair the social and economic as well as the mental health and physiological health of the broader population for potentially a year through measures [to combat] an influenza that does not generally threaten life apart from the most elderly, the immune-compromised and those with co-morbidities," he continued, according to The Canadian Press.
Kenney said the key to combatting coronavirus instead will be ramped up testing, border screening and a focus on protecting high-risk groups.
“The average age of death from COVID in Alberta is 83, and I’ll remind the house the average life expectancy in the province is 82,” the Alberta lawmaker said. “In Canada, 95 percent of fatalities from Covid are from those over the age of 60, 80 percent are in care facilities and the risk of death from Covid for people under 60 is 0.0006 percent.”
There have been 243,000 tests conducted with 2.8 percent testing positive for COVID-19, according to Kenney. The province has recorded 243 deaths and 45 people are currently hospitalized with the virus.
Alberta has now begun to reopen its economy. Retailers, restaurants, salons, galleries and houses of worship have begun reopening with restrictions. Outdoor gatherings are allowed with no more than 50 people.

 

[doggystyle99]

Canadian official says risk of death from other factors higher than coronavirus
A top official in Canada says most people have a better chance of dying from "other pathogens, accidents, and traffic fatalities" than from coronavirus.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney made the comments this week as he argued wholesale shutdowns of the economy are no longer necessary for coronavirus.
“For most Albertans, the risk of death from other pathogens, accidents and traffic fatalities is actually higher than it is for COVID,” Kenney said Wednesday, according to the Calgary Herald.
Kenney referred to coronavirus as “an influenza that does not generally threaten life” apart from at-risk populations.
"What we are learning is that younger people, while not completely immune, have a rate of mortality related to COVID that is no higher than their general mortality rate for other illnesses," Kenney told the house Wednesday.
"We cannot continue indefinitely to impair the social and economic as well as the mental health and physiological health of the broader population for potentially a year through measures [to combat] an influenza that does not generally threaten life apart from the most elderly, the immune-compromised and those with co-morbidities," he continued, according to The Canadian Press.
Kenney said the key to combatting coronavirus instead will be ramped up testing, border screening and a focus on protecting high-risk groups.
“The average age of death from COVID in Alberta is 83, and I’ll remind the house the average life expectancy in the province is 82,” the Alberta lawmaker said. “In Canada, 95 percent of fatalities from Covid are from those over the age of 60, 80 percent are in care facilities and the risk of death from Covid for people under 60 is 0.0006 percent.”
There have been 243,000 tests conducted with 2.8 percent testing positive for COVID-19, according to Kenney. The province has recorded 243 deaths and 45 people are currently hospitalized with the virus.
Alberta has now begun to reopen its economy. Retailers, restaurants, salons, galleries and houses of worship have begun reopening with restrictions. Outdoor gatherings are allowed with no more than 50 people.

Another unbiased article by you Malibuk and what a great piece of journalism by Fake Fox & Friends.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ca...th-from-other-factors-higher-than-coronavirus

 

[canada-man]

Kenney said: “We cannot continue indefinitely to impair the social and economic as well as the mental health and physiological health of the broader population for potentially a year for an influenza that does not generally threaten life apart from the most elderly, the immunocompromised and those with co-morbidities.”

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/b...o-the-elderly-almost-zero-danger-to-the-young


fox news got it from the calgary herald

i love to see the rich classes complain when somebody wants the lockdowns to end to stop poverty and starvation. you are no different from feudal lords during the middle ages

i will call them rich privileged covid fuedalists or RPCF for short

 

[basketcase]

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Are you seriously trying to argue the stuff at the border is an "improvement"???

But yeah its exact same thing as Covid; 1 single hijacking and now we live with all the BS for rest of our lives because sheeple panic and need someone to protect them

Fuck its not like they managed to prevent anyone from bringing bombs onto a plane, but make sure you only carry a limited supply of soap or mouthwash lol

If stuff at the border refers to the post 9-11 stuff, yes but that is in retrospect. Even at the time, I understood that the first responsibility of the government is to look out for the safety of their citizens. The risk of a terrorist hijacking is pretty small. It is also much smaller because of those actions.

In the last 20 years, far less than 4,000 people in America have been killed by Islamic terrorism but you and your political brethren seem obsessed by the threat they allegedly present. I get that as a libertarian type, you are opposed to anything that inconveniences you like security checks but you sure don't seem bothered by actions that cast suspicions on Muslims.

In the last 4 months, 100,000 Americans have dies from covid but you think it's no big deal. I'll give you credit for being consistent and complaining about anything that doesn't directly benefit you.

 

[TeeJay]

You and the amigos claim it's just a "flu". Now you're professing in your enlightened wisdom that it really only lasts 4 to 5 days. You obviously believe you're more astute than a car salesman and also have a medical degree. Therefore go with the idea of herd immunity and get yourself infected. You will be able to say "look I was right" if you beat it in 5 days and you will have the antibodies to be able to be free to walk around with your head held high. DO IT, you know it's the right thing to do.

OMG
I found out your fetish is actually a thing!!!

https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/05/queens-park-protest-toronto-march/

Groups who are all into "statue licking" to prove they are not afraid of Covid





All this time I thought you were the only one lol

 

[squeezer]

OMG
I found out your fetish is actually a thing!!!

https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/05/queens-park-protest-toronto-march/

Groups who are all into "statue licking" to prove they are not afraid of Covid





All this time I thought you were the only one lol

There you go, you see! Lots of COVIDIDIOTS to go around.

There is a handrail marked "waiting for Teejay". It's destiny, just do it! LMAO

 

[Malibuk]

Rich world's jobs crisis jolts money flows to millions

(Reuters) - Carlos Sosa, a Salvadoran waiter in New York, used to send up to $500 a month back home to his mother to help pay for her medical bills and food.
But now, after the coronavirus hit and he lost his job in early March, Sosa has burned through his savings and the wire transfers have stopped.
The 42-year old says he is struggling to pay for even his own rent and is concerned for his mother. “It’s been a very tough situation,” said Sosa, who is in the middle of processing his U.S. residency papers. “The economic part is the most traumatic of all this."
Lockdowns imposed by wealthy nations to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, and the jolt those restrictions have delivered to their economies, are severing a vital lifeline for many often vulnerable people around the world: the billions of dollars in remittances sent home by relatives working abroad.
Roughly one in nine of the global population receives remittances, or about 800 million people, according to the United Nations. Early data show severe drops have already taken place.
El Salvador saw remittances collapse 40% in April from a year earlier, to $287.3 million, according to the country’s central bank.
Sosa says he looking for a new job but the ones available feel risky, involving cleaning places like trains or hospitals. He has warned his mother that there would be no more wire transfers for some time.
As he told her: “We will have to see how we survive this because things here are difficult.”

GLOBAL IMPACT
The World Bank has said it expects global remittances to low- and middle-income nations to fall by $109 billion, or almost a fifth, in 2020 to $445 billion. The bank projects the pandemic will cut into the wages and employment of migrant workers, who tend to be the most vulnerable when there is an economic downturn in host countries.
The steep drop in remittances carries dire consequences for the many countries around the world that are heavily dependent on such payments and whose economies are already reeling from a slump in demand triggered by the coronavirus crisis. The risks range from rising poverty and hunger to balance-of-payments emergencies for developing economies reliant on the cash.
The vulnerable spots include India, China and Mexico, the top recipients of remittances by value, according to the World Bank.
The Philippines, the fourth-biggest recipient of remittances, has nearly one in 20 of its adult population working abroad.
The world’s two largest sources of remittance payments have been severely disrupted.
The United States, which tops the World Bank’s list, accounting for some $68.50 billion of payments globally in 2018, has seen unemployment skyrocket, with more than 40 million jobs lost since March.
The Gulf economies, the world’s No. 2 source, have been hammered by lower oil prices.

Elizabeth, who lives near Guatemala’s capital city, used to receive about $1,200 a month from her daughter’s fiancé, who worked as a cook in the United States.
But the payments stopped after coronavirus shuttered the two diners he worked at and dried up his other side jobs.
The money had helped pay for Elizabeth’s treatment for stomach cancer at a semi-private hospital and regular visits from a nurse, as well as food and other basics.
The future looks bleak, said 69-year old Elizabeth, appearing frail as she stood in the doorway of her home near Guatemala City in early May.
"Now I only ask God to help us, and to help all those people who lost their jobs in the United States and here,” she said.

 

[Malibuk]

TD Bank charges $30,000 mortgage penalty to woman forced to sell home due to pandemic
When the pandemic hit Ontario, Kristina Barybina's income as a real estate agent dried up and she knew the writing was on the wall — she'd have to sell her own house.
She also knew there'd be a penalty for getting out of her five-year mortgage with TD Bank early — she just wasn't expecting it to be almost $30,000.
Barybina requested a one-month deferral on her mortgage, but says she quickly realized that deferring it any longer would just be pushing debt she couldn't pay further down the road.
She was only 19 months into a five-year mortgage, with a fixed-rate of 3.71 per cent, and still owed $591,000. TD used a controversial calculation to arrive at the penalty for breaking the terms. She owed another $29,530.
All of Canada's big banks use similar methods for calculating what penalty people owe if they end a fixed-rate mortgage early.
They can either charge three months' interest or what's called the interest rate differential (IRD) — whichever is higher.
The IRD is a calculation involving the difference between the interest rate on the negotiated mortgage, the bank's current posted fixed interest rate and the length of time remaining on the contract.
Banks argue they lose anticipated revenue from their client if they end the mortgage prematurely.
When the Bank of Canada lowers interest rates, the banks' posted fixed rates also drop, increasing the penalties for people breaking fixed-rate mortgages.
"TD is profiting by collecting this ridiculous amount of penalty, which is only based on the fact that the interest rate posted by Bank of Canada is so low — which was done to help people," said Barybina. "It's heartless."
Had the bank used the option of charging three months' interest, Barybina says she would only have owed $3,000.

 

[decoy2673]

They're basically having a music festival amount of people gathering in every big city in the states to protest. Looks like COVID just vanished right. Isn't it time we drop this hoax already? Not even CNN posts about it anymore.

 

[canada-man]

why is Doug Ford not calling these protesters yahoos? covid numbers in ontario today is now over 400 nobody is panicking bigotry of low expectations?

 

[bebe]

They're basically having a music festival amount of people gathering in every big city in the states to protest. Looks like COVID just vanished right. Isn't it time we drop this hoax already? Not even CNN posts about it anymore.

Ontario will be the last place to open because of clueless Ford

When is the next election? His cheesecake eating butt needs to go!!!

 

[G.D. Gentleman]

Ontario will be the last place to open because of clueless Ford

When is the next election? His cheesecake eating butt needs to go!!!

Ontario might even be worse than just last to open....they may open regions outside the GTA (as those regions have low numbers like the other provinces) and the GTA will be singled out and left for the very, very last.

Maybe the agencies will temporarily open up in other cities? Or Indies will head there to work?

Just guessing here....who knows what Ford is going to do next at this point.

 

[Jasmine Raine]

Ontario might even be worse than just last to open....they may open regions outside the GTA (as those regions have low numbers like the other provinces) and the GTA will be singled out and left for the very, very last.

Maybe the agencies will temporarily open up in other cities? Or Indies will head there to work?

Just guessing here....who knows what Ford is going to do next at this point.

That is a good point. I assume that agencies would stay closed until stage two, but if part of the cities open up, will they still open. Will they move to having some of thier girls touring, or will indies move in the northen areas.

I had planned two tours. One was driving out west like I did last year going east, and I want to go north. If the north opens, but the GTA doesn’t, I would be torn about going.

 

[Smallcock]

They're basically having a music festival amount of people gathering in every big city in the states to protest. Looks like COVID just vanished right. Isn't it time we drop this hoax already? Not even CNN posts about it anymore.

True... the fear-mongering has run its course and worn off.

Wow, the world has more important things to concern itself with than a new type of flu. Incredible.

The real covidiots would follow CNN right off a cliff if told to.

 

[canada-man]