Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
add a highly specific strain of the virus and we are talking
D&D and the rising pandemic
Zardnaar
Legend
Gah less than useful. I'm guessing pandemics weren't a big thing in 1990.
Part 11. Part 13 and 14 also inconvenient.
Kinda wondered how the government got away with things in the war years and polio.
Part 11. Part 13 and 14 also inconvenient.
Kinda wondered how the government got away with things in the war years and polio.
Hussar
Legend
Well, the War Measures Act (or whatever name is used in a specific country) is all it takes to remove pretty much all your civil rights. One emergency act of parliament and we become a totalitarian state.Gah less than useful. I'm guessing pandemics weren't a big thing in 1990.
Part 11. Part 13 and 14 also inconvenient.
Kinda wondered how the government got away with things in the war years and polio.
Or a very specific act, like, "He spat on my face, and told me he was giving me covid..."
Zardnaar
Legend
Yeah could theoretically be done.
This depends on how courts interpret things.Gah less than useful. I'm guessing pandemics weren't a big thing in 1990.
Part 11. Part 13 and 14 also inconvenient.
Kinda wondered how the government got away with things in the war years and polio.
For one thing, section 15, on the manifestation of belief is more inconvenient than 13 or 14 - which are just about what you say and think and believe. 15 covers actions.
But, Section 5 says, "Subject to section 4, the rights and freedoms contained in this Bill of Rights may be subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
Keeping lots of folks from dying (via moderate means like "wear a mask" and "stay at home for a while") is probably justified in a free and democratic society. "And take this shot," may also be called for in such instances, as failing to do so infringes on the other guy's right to not get sick and die.
Zardnaar
Legend
Yeah it's a potential court case poo storm.
It's not like the US constitution but theoretically it can be changed by an act of parliment so you only need 51%.
If I think it was put in there for Jehovah Witnesses who don't believe in some things like blood transfusions.
They also don't vote and refuse to serve in the military so they're consistent I suppose.
The good news: the world is on the cusp of beating a respiratory plague. Two ~95% effective vaccines with nearly no side effects racing ahead, and many more on the way.
Watch this:
Quick testing is ramping up; using it at population-level might help. It seemed to at that US university who tried it (2 tests per student/teacher per week, and normal classes).
The nose-spray that makes an animal model immune for ~24 hours is also interesting.
The sad news: the US great plains states are in deep trouble.
The bad news: Turns out covid 19 likes the fall/winter. So places that don't want to surrender may have to go through another wave of lockdown to keep it under control.
Up here in Ontario, the number of cases is up, things aren't looking great for the fall/winter.
But when I go to a chart comparing us to US states, there is literally 1 US state with fewer cases than us (Hawaii) per capita.
Manitoba just made selling non-essential goods inside a store a crime. They border the US great plains, and supply chains cross the (otherwise mostly closed) border. But with the Dakotas playing "I think we can kill more people with Covid-19 than Manhatten did" chicken right over the international border, I'm worried about my relatives there.
Nationally, apparently Canada pre-bought more doses of vaccine per capita than any other country in the world. Go us I guess. National health-care system plus a dumpster fire just south of the border.
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Watch this:
Quick testing is ramping up; using it at population-level might help. It seemed to at that US university who tried it (2 tests per student/teacher per week, and normal classes).
The nose-spray that makes an animal model immune for ~24 hours is also interesting.
The sad news: the US great plains states are in deep trouble.
The bad news: Turns out covid 19 likes the fall/winter. So places that don't want to surrender may have to go through another wave of lockdown to keep it under control.
Up here in Ontario, the number of cases is up, things aren't looking great for the fall/winter.
But when I go to a chart comparing us to US states, there is literally 1 US state with fewer cases than us (Hawaii) per capita.
Manitoba just made selling non-essential goods inside a store a crime. They border the US great plains, and supply chains cross the (otherwise mostly closed) border. But with the Dakotas playing "I think we can kill more people with Covid-19 than Manhatten did" chicken right over the international border, I'm worried about my relatives there.
Nationally, apparently Canada pre-bought more doses of vaccine per capita than any other country in the world. Go us I guess. National health-care system plus a dumpster fire just south of the border.
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Gaming continues online. I had some fun making every PC a heroforge screenshot.
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Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
Given the unreliability of witnesses a video there of.
Zardnaar
Legend
Ouch. I think we orebought 1.5 million doses and pumped money into 3 of the vaccine candidates.
Light at the end if the tunnel, economy performing better than expected along with government debt.
South Dakota.
South Dakota is grappling with the nation's highest positivity rate. This Covid-19 widow wants a mask mandate | CNN
Chris and John Bjorkman bought their home in De Smet, South Dakota, less than a year ago. The couple, who celebrated their 39th anniversary last June, thought they would spend the rest of their lives together on the idyllic land, home to the "Little House on the Prairie" Laura Ingalls homestead.
edition.cnn.com
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