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Pretty much. We're also relying on businesses that have been starved of revenue to turn away potential customers...yeah, not gonna happen. Especially when enforcement is practically nil.

Most antivaxxers I know are living life as is. The vaccine certificates are trivial to fake and no one checks too closely. I wonder if the QR code will change that but I doubt it.

As of today, 23% of available ICU beds are filled with COVID patients, and of that 23% only ~48% are unvaccinated. So the unvaccinated are creating an overhead of ~11%. Forget the unvaccinated, it's absolutely pathetic that our healthcare system crumbles after a modest 20-25% increase of ICU...

I wonder if they'd have charged him were it just a routine traffic stop and not a collision...

Sure. Your chart is under the "Hospitalized and ICU cases" heading, which is looking solely at people in hospital who have tested positive for COVID. If you click that little help icon next to the "Admitted for other reasons" button, it says "Individual was admitted to the hospital or ICU for...

Well that's part of the social contract here in Canada, we all pay for things we might not personally need. Whether or not you agree with it that is the setup we have here. Those people are committing some sort of fraud by lying on their census/property tax application about how many people are...

They aren't though. Overall only 20% of people in the ICU are due to COVID, the rest are there for the usual reasons. Our healthcare system is so pathetic that it can't handle moderate increases in ICU bed occupancy. This was happening before the pandemic as well: 1, 2. The reality is that the...

Pretty much any film unless the director specifically tries to make it realistic. Most gunshots in films are sound edited, except for movies like Heat or Collateral where firearms accuracy was specifically sought after. Then there's also the classic indoor firefights, where all the actors can...

This one probably cemented my desire to ride motorcycles:

I think cabinet is at odds with the health officials. Likely Ford and co. wants to let it rip and open up, health officials do not. That's why we get this constant back and forth. I have my doubts that kids will be in school by Monday. At our current ICU growth rate we'll be over 500 by then.

The pandemic has pushed travel nurse wages up significantly in the US: U.S. Travel Nurses Are Being Offered as Much as $8,000 a Week - BNN Bloomberg $10k a week is definitely the top end but it's not totally unheard of, especially if you have ICU experience.

Average RN pay in Ontario is roughly $35/hour, which tops out probably close to 45 or 50 with OT. That's before taxes and union dues. An RN in Florida makes $33/hour before OT, in a state with no state income tax, in a currency that's worth ~30% more than here, and probably has good health...

The unvaccinated clogging up hospitals is definitely a bug in universal health care which we're all feeling, and it's pretty disgraceful. But there are two sides to this coin -- people forget that here in Canada the government has a monopoly on health care, at least ICUs/hospitals. There are no...

Any province that imposes mandatory vaccination will have a charter challenge on their hands very quickly. If I had to guess, Quebec will be the first one to try it. The feds could also quasi impose it by denying healthcare transfer payments to provinces that don't do it, but that may or may not...

Sadly, accidents happen. RIP.

Oh I'm well aware, I was referring to the ~hour of daylight you usually lose in the mornings when the clocks jump forward.

Yeah it gets progressively better all winter and then in March we roll it back by an hour. I find March is the shittiest month because of this, and also because everyone gets excited about spring only for it to snow the next weekend.

Yes, but it's also important to remember that their population's average age is 30. We should probably look at the UK for a better idea of what's coming -- so far their ICU is staying relatively flat.

Moderna has a different dose quantity: 100 micrograms dose 1, 100 micrograms dose 2, and 50 micrograms for the booster (Pfizer is 33 migrograms per dose regardless). There's also some evidence that Moderna effectiveness doesn't wane as quickly as Pfizer. Also the mixing and matching wasn't...