MERs/Coronavirus - watching? Will it change your behaviour if it shows up in Canada?

[Snowwalker]

Join the club, I go to work everyday as well. Lucky me I get to bring this virus home everyday to the rest of my family while they are at home doing as they should. Same here if I die or a family member, oh well that's me and my family's problem. Profits seem to be the deciding factor when it comes to being deemed an essential service. Insane to me booze and drugs are essential, but cloths and coffee is non-essential ?..

Having the BEER stores open has more to do with keeping morale up then anything else.

My "freedom" to move across the Canada/US border is not that great of a thing. It comes at a cost, I can't go home.

I could use some more pants, socks and underwear. Guess I will have to order on line and have it shipped to the terminal.

Drivers of the Jewish and Muslim faiths are not feeling good about the "mandatory" cremation rules.

[fratri]

Sure I agree, but how about the cashiers at the beer stores getting the virus at work, bring it home, infect and kills family members. What a price to pay to accommodate the alcoholic that wants his booze.

They can choose to stay home if they don't feel safe or are not being provided the proper PPE......They are probably more protected (taking more PPE precautions) then your average grocery store clerk... just saying
I am just trying to look at the bigger picture.....
Hopefully we will see the curve reduced soon.

[js4fn]

Stores should start doing like my veterinarian
Phone in your order pay with plastic

Drive to store call say your out front. Pop the trunk they put your order in and shut trunk
Drive off

No human to human contact if it’s a non perishable leave in your trunk for a day

[JBen]

I don't think you can shock anyone nowadays. The first mass shootings in the states were shocking. Now they don't even make the news.

A lot of truth to that Sawbill
Put all the usual L/R stuff aside for a moment.

The US seems to be a train wreck in slow motion. They have now surpassed China and China has 1 billion more people. We can't trust their numbers because they ( like most, including us ) aren't testing everyone. So it could be far, far worse....And theres no way to know, and we might not, until all the dust has settled. How many won't seek treatment. A few, some, thousands and thousands?

And......

[fishfood]

A lot of truth to that Sawbill
Put all the usual L/R stuff aside for a moment.

The US seems to be a train wreck in slow motion. They have now surpassed China and China has 1 billion more people. We can't trust their numbers because they ( like most, including us ) aren't testing everyone. So it could be far, far worse....And theres no way to know, and we might not, until all the dust has settled. How many won't seek treatment. A few, some, thousands and thousands?

And......

I do believe the USA is testing every American that wants the test done. Even the illegal immigrants can take the test then probably be arrested lol.

That's why numbers are spiked they have tested more than any other country

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[canadaman30]

They can choose to stay home if they don't feel safe or are not being provided the proper PPE......They are probably more protected (taking more PPE precautions) then your average grocery store clerk... just saying
I am just trying to look at the bigger picture.....
Hopefully we will see the curve reduced soon.

Sadly even PPE being used by many is not great. Italy has thousands of nurses and doctors infected, many have died. Many frontline medical workers are being infected even with protective measures. The way we are dealing with this virus the curve is far away, just look at the numbers, we are just starting to see the rise in numbers. Another month will be an awakening for North Americans as well as other countries. I do the same looking at the big picture, but the numbers speak the truth and they are not promising as each day passes. Our PM is telling people enough is enough, stay home to flatten the curve, but it's only a small group of the population that are staying home because most are still going to work everyday. How does a society comply with a government that focuses more on greed/money than public safety. Hate to say it but China seems to be setting the example of what measures to take when it comes to saving lives and controlling a pandemic

[jaycee]

Why do you continually refer to workers as “peons”....
That says more about you, than those you are referencing !!!

Def; of Peon
1.
a Spanish-American day laborer or unskilled farm worker.
2.
(in South and Southeast Asia) a low-ranking soldier or worker

Is the word peon offensive?

In this sense, peon is often used in either a derogatory or self-effacing context. American English: in a historical and legal sense, peon generally referred to someone working in an unfree labor system (known as peonage). The word often implied debt bondage and/or indentured servitude.

[huntervinni]

Don't disagree with you about China taking whatever steps necessary on their end to stop the spread. Unfortunately that will never happen here and especially in the USA. Trump wants this all wrapped up by Easter and wants low risk county's to carry on as usual. You can't just shut down a powerhouse like the USA......they are not wired to be able to do that.

[canadaman30]

Don't disagree with you about China taking whatever steps necessary on their end to stop the spread. Unfortunately that will never happen here and especially in the USA. Trump wants this all wrapped up by Easter and wants low risk county's to carry on as usual. You can't just shut down a powerhouse like the USA......they are not wired to be able to do that.

That kind of failure on Trumps part will seal his fate in the next election imo.

[fishermccann]

Def; of Peon
1.
a Spanish-American day laborer or unskilled farm worker.
2.
(in South and Southeast Asia) a low-ranking soldier or worker

Is the word peon offensive?

In this sense, peon is often used in either a derogatory or self-effacing context. American English: in a historical and legal sense, peon generally referred to someone working in an unfree labor system (known as peonage). The word often implied debt bondage and/or indentured servitude.

So JB is partially correct. In reality we have no 'peons' .....by definition in Canada. Unless you call paying off your accrued debt, bondage.