11-13-2020, 02:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-13-2020, 02:40 PM by danbrotherston.)
(11-13-2020, 02:32 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: "But you're not arguing for better supports...you're arguing to kill me or my loved ones" really !!! yes, your right, I am trying to kill you and your loved ones. I have news for you, your not likely to die from it....
I have not missed a day of work since this thing began. I am in the public all the time because of my job. When people were ordered to stay home, I was ordered to cancel all my vacation time.... I work in an organization that has 3000 employees who are out in the public face to face 7 days a week in the hottest spot in Canada...Peel Region. We have had very few cases of employees contracting Covid and in all cases, the contact tracing led back to personal, not work. If you follow proper protocol, you can safely do things...
You don't know anything about me, I am a high risk individual, and no, I'm not likely to die of it, but I'm more likely than average. But that's besides the point, I'm not personally scared, I'm angry on behalf of others--we are averaging more than a dozen deaths a day in Ontario and rising. Even if it's not me or anyone I care about, those are still real people who are dying, who have people who do love them.
Now, I'm not going to make assumptions about you, I don't know what you do. SOME things can be done safely, and I am explicitly not arguing to shut down everything, I was very clear about that. But clearer messaging, and targeted shutdowns are effective. Some things cannot be done safely. That spin class was following every government protocol, they still resulted in almost a hundred known infections.
Further, the protocols have to change when the risk rises, in the summer when we were seeing low hundreds or high tens of cases a day, the risk was lower, we are seeing thousands now, and on track for high thousands...we need to take action, we should have taken action weeks ago. Instead, and this is very clear from the reporting, the government is naively prioritizing keeping things open. They have ignored the advice of public health experts. And keeping things open and letting the disease spread WILL NOT help the economy. All it will do is kill people.