everyone's security is precarious when the US can just send in the marines to shoot whoever they deem a 'gang member'. wasn't that long ago they were claiming canada was sending fantastical amounts of drugs across the border. reality is what they say it is. nothing they say is true

and white supremacists and fascists and and and

see also: smith claiming alberta couldn't stop measles from returning because, 'highly contagious disease is hard to control, especially since people can travel freely from province to province or to Alberta from around the world'

lady, it was gone under those same conditions until you came along!

'the organization said, though N95 or KN95 masks from outside the facilities will also be permitted'

isn't that comforting? they'll allow proper ppe in the building as well.

How is it i'm better informed and i'm just a random with an internet connection?

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i do see what you mean and i don't mean to conflate individual immunity with overall group immunity but the upshot seems the same. hoping the ambient viral levels are low enough because an average amount of people did get antibodies from being sick. could be me next time though. sucks as policy

"Alberta technically hasn't had a permanent chief medical officer since 2022, when Smith followed through on a campaign promise to fire Dr. Deena Hinshaw over frustrations with COVID-19 health measures"

i doubt measles will be the last virus to come back with current post-covid 'health policies'

this 'herd immunity' kind of policy was loudly decried when great briton tried it early on. knowing what we know about covid now, it's suicide. the abject failure to communicate that covid is worth avoiding and that proper masking works has made it nearly immposible to change people's minds

this sort of argument helped pave the way for constant infection without pushing back against anti-vaxx voices who wanted 0 restrictions all along

i blame, in part, inconsistancy from health authorities and them shying away from basic mimimum masking standards. 'you do you' isn't health policy

unless the disease happens to disrupt the immune system (among other organ damage, including the brain) and then repeat infections become a countdown to T-cell exhuastion and large segments of the population develop immune disorders, no? am i missing something

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"Decreasing the number of SARS-CoV-2 infections would be highly beneficial. It would reduce the acute health burden, the incidence of long COVID, and the level of risk for vulnerable groups.

But it’s not a goal we can afford to pursue at any cost"

are masks so expensive?

'we must get infected to be immune' is the sort of thing a mathematician would come up with. surprised it wasn't an economist

must be an emulation vector that we haven't heard about

remember remembering me?? i always wanted metroid to be more like halo. hopefully there's a deathmatch option. maybe they could have a fortnite battle royale mode!!

amassing weapons and killing everything you see?

bluesky mods have entered the war on pedophelia on the side of the pedophiles