COVID cases around here have quadrupled in the past seven days.
Quadrupled.
Thanksgiving was just too important to skip. It was just too important that people couldn’t stay home. They had to get together. They had to celebrate together.
Well, I hope it was worth it. Quadruple the cases and snow on the ground, below freezing temperatures making it hard for people to be outside… I can do the math here and it’s not looking good for us. I hope that everyone who just had to get together for Thanksgiving enjoyed themselves because from the looks of things, Christmas is going to fucking suck because of it.
And, if anyone is following trends, we quadrupled cases in seven days thanks in large part due to Thanksgiving dinner gatherings. There’s no ‘Black Friday’ in Canada. Canadians don’t cram into shopping malls just hours after eating to buy everything in eyesight. I don’t want to sound like a downer, but if I’m being realistic, I highly doubt every retail outlet, store and shopping mall in the United States would have to close and stay closed on Black Friday. November is likely going to be a very dark and sucky month.
Okay, rant over.
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This is going to be a very long winter, sadly.
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Also, today they announced that health care workers are going on strike. Because yenno, that’s just the thing we need right now when hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID outbreaks….
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That too. We’re basically all doomed. Ugh
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Wow! Right when they are needed most! They need hazard pay and bonuses. That’s unreal
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Our provincial government is trying to privatize 11,000 health care related positions. Which would see a lot of them out of a job before the end of the year. So yeah, after seeing our province through the past 9 months of COVID, I can totally see why they’re pissed.
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My god…if Canada saw quadrupled cases, I would hate to see what the US would look like when our Thanksgiving comes. It’s just around the corner!
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I’m genuinely worried for what comes with American thanksgiving. The United States have several hundred million more people than Canada has. I worry about what’s to come.
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It sucks…but it’s our fault too. Lot of us didn’t want to accept the fact that we had to avoid social contacts. We didn’t do it and here we are.
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You’re right. There’s a lot of people in this world who are just too selfish to avoid parties and holidays right now and because of that, it keeps getting worse.
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Oh oh. That is not exciting at all ☺️
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I still don’t know what Black Friday is. I always assumed it was to do with some tragic event which happened on a Friday somewhere 🤷♂️.
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Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States and its the start of the Christmas shopping season. It’s largely touted as the busiest shopping day of the year and what happens is at 12:01 am, millions of Americans cram into shopping malls and retail stores to wait hours on end for deep discounts goods for themselves or for Christmas presents. Im talking millions upon millions. Line up for cashiers are hundreds of people long at a time. Depending on the stores they have to put security measures in place because people genuinely fight each other to “get the last television” and whatnot.
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LOL. Dear fucking god. Clearly those people are all fine with crowds 😳😳😳. If they were chickens they’d be fine with being battery farmed. Said no chicken ever and if you opened the cage they’d obviously fly away immediately. But these humans… christ :|. How sad!
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Quadrupled! That sucks. If it makes you feel any better I just checked Canada’s overall graph of cases, and your latest national peak in cases is so far 50% above the first. Here, we are at quadruple the initial national peak already and still climbing vertically 😅😅😅🤦♂️. I still see Canada as a relative safe-haven for coronavirus.
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Yeah when I said quadrupled I meant my area of the country. Not nationally. That being said, we are not doing so hot nationally
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Yeah, no worries I got you :). I just meant to say that my entire country quadrupled (over a timescale longer of course), compared to your area.
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Be more positive, V.
This virus is pesky, sure, but it’s far less dangerous than what you think, it’s hyped and the response all over the world has been exaggerated.
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Almost 43 million positive cases and over 1.1 million deaths says they disagree with you, V.
https://covid19.who.int/
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Thank you.
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It’s Thanksgiving for three this year, a few video calls to family and friends and then online shopping into the night. Won’t catch me outside swapping COVID with anyone when it’s not necessary. Yeah, it sucks, but dammit it’s what we all have to do if we all want to get past this. The cognitive dissonance is thick here in the USA 😕
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That sounds very wise of you. Video calls are what is safest right now. Yeah, it might just suck big time not having the big get-togethers, but there are so many Canadians right now that are kicking their own butts because of their thanksgiving get togethers and getting hella sick from it. People need to realize we need to make this step for each other. People acting selfish is what is dragging everything out.
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You sound a bit like a downer.
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I’ll take that. I’ll be the downer. We went from 400 case to more than 2,000 in the past two weeks. Nearly 8,000 province wide. I know you know what it’s like.
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What can I say? It’s bound to be bad in the US and there is a school of thought that it should just be allowed to tun its course. Maybe they are right. There are too many people on Earth and this is Nature’s way of reducing the number which will probably be insignificant…unless you one that gets it, or someone you love.
Sadly, it’s what the human race deserves. I am depressed too. Can you tell?
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I’m in the same boat as you are being depressed. I don’t think that means we should admit defeat though. I refuse to admit defeat. We can be smarter that what the world is presently being. You know what I mean?
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Absolutely…never give in!
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I’m starting to think maybe this is real and Donald Trump isn’t doing the best job possible…
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I reckon you’re not the only one who thinks this way. lol
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Oh that really sucks!
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The US is already having huge increases in numbers and we haven’t gotten anywhere near thanksgiving yet???? Oh my goodness. I think it should just snow like a blizzard and everyone will have to stay home for weeks
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I wish that a blizzard would keep people at home. I don’t think it will, though. Furthermore, a giant blizzard will cause a lot of harm for people who are homeless or on low income housing. We had -20 celsius (-4 fahrenheit) weather here earlier this month and there were two large outbreaks at the homeless shelter and the women’s shelters. It sucks but people rely on those services so much more when there’s bad weather. You know what I mean? And since there were so many evictions the past few months because people were out of work and couldn’t pay there bills, I worry that homelessness is at an all time high this winter ahead of us.
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