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From blocking aisles to hiding Christmas decorations, Winnipeg's big retailers stash non-essential goods
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Manitoba is taking what it hopes is decisive action in bringing down the country's worst COVID-19 infection rate. Starting Friday, the businesses considered vital enough to stay open in Manitoba's near-lockdown can only sell in-store what public health deems essential.
That means food, personal hygiene products and building materials can be purchased, but no jewelry, toys or consumer electronics. These and other non-essential items can still be purchased online or picked up curbside.
So, essentially, you can walk around the store, shopping, and anything that is blocked off, you can order online, while you're in the store, and have it delivered curbside, ready for pickup when you're done shopping for things that aren't blocked off.
Where's the logic in that? What does that accomplish? How does that... like... how does that make anything... safer?
Who is coming up with these regulations? I'm better than you, but that doesn't mean you're not great!
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Manitoba is taking what it hopes is decisive action in bringing down the country's worst COVID-19 infection rate. Starting Friday, the businesses considered vital enough to stay open in Manitoba's near-lockdown can only sell in-store what public health deems essential.
That means food, personal hygiene products and building materials can be purchased, but no jewelry, toys or consumer electronics. These and other non-essential items can still be purchased online or picked up curbside.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-new-shopping-restrictions-non-essential-goods-blocked-off-1.5810683
So, essentially, you can walk around the store, shopping, and anything that is blocked off, you can order online, while you're in the store, and have it delivered curbside, ready for pickup when you're done shopping for things that aren't blocked off.
Where's the logic in that? What does that accomplish? How does that... like... how does that make anything... safer?
Who is coming up with these regulations? I'm better than you, but that doesn't mean you're not great!
10-Dec-2020 02:22:32
Jeremy Cheng
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Canada approves Pfizer vaccine and plans to begin rollout next week as US awaits decision
Canada is third country to approve vaccine, as it continues to post record levels of infection from the coronavirus ahead of Christmas
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/09/canada-approves-pfizer-vaccine-and-plans-to-begin-rollout-next-week-as-us-awaits-decision
Good stuff! You know what concerns me about this? The Pfizer vaccine needs to be stored at -94°F.
Like, ya, it's cold in Canada, but not that cold.
Each vaccine container has 975 doses in it. Without being at -94°F, the vaccine will spoil in 5 days. That's a lot of doses to have to distribute in such short time.
My concern is, what happens if someone is injected with a spoiled covid vaccine? How bad is that for you? What could potentially happen, if anything?
With such a low temperature requirement, and such a short period to spoilage, I worry that people will be getting spoiled vaccine shots.
Canada approves Pfizer vaccine and plans to begin rollout next week as US awaits decision
Canada is third country to approve vaccine, as it continues to post record levels of infection from the coronavirus ahead of Christmas
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/09/canada-approves-pfizer-vaccine-and-plans-to-begin-rollout-next-week-as-us-awaits-decision
Good stuff! You know what concerns me about this? The Pfizer vaccine needs to be stored at -94°F.
Like, ya, it's cold in Canada, but not that cold.
Each vaccine container has 975 doses in it. Without being at -94°F, the vaccine will spoil in 5 days. That's a lot of doses to have to distribute in such short time.
My concern is, what happens if someone is injected with a spoiled covid vaccine? How bad is that for you? What could potentially happen, if anything?
With such a low temperature requirement, and such a short period to spoilage, I worry that people will be getting spoiled vaccine shots.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-distribut/why-pfizers-ultra-cold-covid-19-vaccine-will-not-be-at-the-local-pharmacy-any-time-soon-idUKKBN27P2VI
I'm better than you, but that doesn't mean you're not great!
10-Dec-2020 06:50:17
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Some Canadian households, and it tends to be the better off households, do have quite a lot of money, that they've saved, because there hasn't been much to do in the pandemic. And certainly it would be great, if that money could go towards driving our recovery. And I want to make an offer now, to all of your listeners, if people have ideas on how the government can act, in order to unlock that pre-loaded stimulus, I am very, very interested.
Maybe as Doug Porter was suggesting, it happens by itself, that's the best case scenario for me.
But if people have ideas on how we can really, you know, try to unleash that, and particularly unleash it in parts of the Canadian economy that really need support; tourism, hospitality, domestic services, uh, let me know.
Chrystia Freeland
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister
So, she wants to encourage Canadians to take any money they've saved up, and use it to prop up the economy through tourism?
Because, nothing says "pandemic" like telling everyone to take their savings and spend it on a vacation.
What's wrong with my country? I'm better than you, but that doesn't mean you're not great!
Some Canadian households, and it tends to be the better off households, do have quite a lot of money, that they've saved, because there hasn't been much to do in the pandemic. And certainly it would be great, if that money could go towards driving our recovery. And I want to make an offer now, to all of your listeners, if people have ideas on how the government can act, in order to unlock that pre-loaded stimulus, I am very, very interested.
Maybe as Doug Porter was suggesting, it happens by itself, that's the best case scenario for me.
But if people have ideas on how we can really, you know, try to unleash that, and particularly unleash it in parts of the Canadian economy that really need support; tourism, hospitality, domestic services, uh, let me know.
Chrystia Freeland
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister
https://youtu.be/HEc-mm9DftI?t=45
So, she wants to encourage Canadians to take any money they've saved up, and use it to prop up the economy through tourism?
Because, nothing says "pandemic" like telling everyone to take their savings and spend it on a vacation.
What's wrong with my country? I'm better than you, but that doesn't mean you're not great!
12-Dec-2020 11:08:11
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