Given all the forest fires and smoke we’ve had - which have similarly affected travel plans etc - I’m not really sure how they can make that determination
Yeah I’m just wondering how they determined the root cause, and then decided it was from people driving less due to fuel taxes etc. They’re are many factors that would have reduced driving, including less available services, and increase transit could also be fresh immigration coupled with the increased costs of the vehicles themselves.
This is a manufactured controversy, there’s no balancing act necessary between safety and free speech. Universities deplatforming hate speech is not an attack on free speech, never was and never will be. This is touted by conservatives that cry foul on their bigotry getting expelled from moderated public spaces, but we all know how hard it is to deplatform outright unhinged people - to the point that going ‘overboard’ in safety is damn impossible.
If people are cancerned about fatal disease, why does nobody proactively prevent catching the flu, given the stats of yealy deaths from influenza?
This question has been asked and answered many, many times. By now, asking this kind of question shows either an inability to search, to compare two different numbers for lethality, communicability or preventability; or this is classic false-dilemma crap from the anti-science crowd.
Could be that people need to stop being manipulated into living in fear, stop being a slave to their emotions, and accept that risks are part of living, and the only concrete garauntee you ave is that you will for sure die?
Literally just a list of reasons to get vaccinated.
Oh do you know of something to help a person never die, will never ever suffer death?
Do you have really any understanding of the concept of risk? Or is risk just a binary thing to you? Do you not look both ways before crossing the street either? After all you’ll die someday either way.
If people are cancerned about fatal disease, why does nobody proactively prevent catching the flu, given the stats of yealy deaths from influenza?
Some people do, about 20% in Saskatchewan.
I’ve been getting the annual flu vaccine since it became available.
I don’t particularly worry about disease and accidents and definitely don’t live in fear, but I take standard precautions: vaccinations, diet, fitness, PPE in my shop, etc. It’s all relatively simple and mostly low effort.
I was going to reply with actual answers, but then I realized that if you actually wanted to know the answers, you could take literally 30 seconds to look up any of those questions. And the fact that you’re still asking them given the ample time, means you’re either willfully ignorant, or just stirring the pot.
Can anyone provide a reason for why someone should get their first covid shot?
Not being an expert in epidemiology with a life-time history of study and experience, I trust those we’ve appointed as the experts.
So I ask their reps whether I should. Those reps tell me I should, and that the risks are so low that driving to the pharmacy makes a difference in the risk as a whole, and that I can prevent Nana from getting a serious disease which is still affecting things as a local drop-in clinic was shut down over last weekend.
So I trust the accredited experts with a statistically mind-numbingly obvious question and do the thing with obscenely low risk that will prevent me from picking up a death sentence for my nana on the airplane if I ride a train to the airport and fly to go see her.
And, ultimately, the reason one should get their first covid shot is because they’re no longer an anti-vax tinfoil-hat weirdo? THat’ll be the number one, so I’m just playing the odds.
To summarize this: My grandmother had a 28,000x greater risk of dying from COVID than having ANY adverse reaction from the vaccine (not death – ANY reaction that would need medical attention). My mother (who turned into a huge conspiracy theory moron over the course of the pandemic) refused to get grandma vaccinated, which had us in front of a judge, where he respectfully read her the riot act about her risking her mother’s life over Facebook and Youtube.
Yeah, it’s like the reverse of the national situation where there are two competing conservative parties and the NDP to soak up everyone who can’t stand either of them. Except the BC NDP are currently, if I recall correctly, quite a bit more popular than the CPC is nationally so that bodes even worse for our two other, uh, “contenders.”
For sure – what will be interesting is to see how it translates federally, because the BC NDP are still a little closer to the (Federal) Liberals and then (Federal) NDP.
As far as I know the BCPC haven’t hit 40% in ages, have they?
The CPBC hasn’t gotten more than 5% of the vote in the past half century.
Considering the political placement of LPBC and BCUP pretty much the only shit left for CPBC is the loony bin stuff. They’ve praised brexit, opposed vaccine mandates, hate trans people, and want unrestricted logging.
The little-c conservative party of BC is the LPBC/BCUP - CPBC are just a bunch of loonies capitalizing on the fame of the national party. They’re essentially our local “American Freedom Party”… they’re hoping to dupe voters.
I think the question is less what the CPBC will do, but what the.,… what the hell are the BC Liberals called now? (Looks it up…) The question is what the “BC United” (lol) party will do.
You’ve got a Left party (arguably left on centre in some areas) that is absolutely dominating, getting dangerously (for the Right Wing) close to 50%. You’ve got the CPBC going, as you said, full ‘MAGA’ Canada. So what will the BCU do to get more votes?
I have a sinking feeling they’ll both try to out ‘Conservative’ each other, leading to an issue like Alberta has where you suddenly have a radically right-wing, owned-by-megacorporations party in charge of an entire province.
BCUP is mostly just trying not to completely implode after the disaster that was Christy Clarke. They’ll continue to be pretty centrist and extremely neoliberal.
I don’t think I’d call United ‘centrist.’ Centre-Right, maybe, but in 2020 they sure came out swinging as Cons. Jane Thornthwaite and Laurie Throness alone made them look like (Canada Light) American Republicans.
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CounterAttack is a police-run roadblock tactic that catches drug and alcohol impaired drivers, and helps reduce injuries and fatalities. CounterAttack campaigns have been run in B.C. for over 35 years, and typically take place during July and December. A major part of CounterAttack is getting the message out that B.C.’s impaired driving laws are tough, impose harsh penalties on impaired drivers and make it likely impaired drivers will be identified and removed from B.C.’s roads.
It’s for show, security theatre. In practice BC driving laws are not tough at all. A few days ago we saw a judge assign a 6 year old kid 20% of the blame for being hit by a car.
It’s contrived, self aggrandizing, pretentious, and delusional.
Trying to scare people into complience only makes people getting better at hiding their intoxicated driving since police can’t do this along every main road in a city, people always find ways to get around restrictions.
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