It’s Probably Nothing

I have a friend in Italy undergoing cancer treatment that’s unavailable here. From a Facebook post earlier today;

“Yeah, I’m not trying to spread hysteria here but I’m in Italy so I’m seeing this first hand. I was booked to have an operation yesterday for my cancer, it was booked months in advance. I went in, saw the tents outside of the hospital for coronavirus patients, went to meet one of my doctors and she took me to the oncology department which was also the very last ward not being used for coronavirus patients. I wait for 7 hours, then am told that they will not be preforming the surgery this week and they are unsure when they will have any time or space for me.
 
Too long didnt read? They shut down the fourth building of the hospital of oncology to make beds for coronavirus patients while a doctor in tears told me I would not be getting the life extending operation I booked.
 
Not trying to be melodramatic but honestly a little sick of people posting memes and telling themselves its nothing to be afraid of. It is effectively capable of shutting down the healthcare systems. Be prepared, especially my American friends.”

And therein lies the biggest risk — it’s not “just the flu”. Health care workers can be vaccinated for the flu. When a high percentage of the people taking care of patients become infected just as the demand on the system surges? See above.

Meanwhile in DiverstyStrongistan… Over weeks of daily crossings, this is the first time 🇨🇦 agents asked health questions.

41 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  1. Loving every news bit like this. The world will be a better place soon.
    Clean your guns, keep them lubricated. Keep your ammo dry.

  2. Canada clearly needs to be a haven for virus refugees, doesn’t it? “That’th what Canadianth do. Divewthity ith ouw stwength.”

    1. Yes, absolutely, unchallengeably.

      CANADIANS ARE ANTI-VIRUS-IST!!!

      /sarc, if I gotta say it…

    2. “That’th um… what Canadianth um… do. Divewthity um… ith ouw um… stwength.”

      Fixed it for ya

      1. Mark – nope, you provided the press scrum answer. BADR provided the teleprompter scripted version.

      1. On thing to keep in mind about those fatality numbers is that many countries (including Canada) are only testing the ones who are landing in hospital. They are ignoring they asymptomatic ones or the ones that recover on their own. So the 3-4% figure is probably accurate. However there are also two new strains now, L and S. L is far more virulent and spreads more easily. We could also soon have some newer ones that are even worse. Every human infected is a petri dish for creating new virus. Most new mutations are defective and fail…most.

        1. Thanks Justin, appreciate the information.
          I am concerned this gov isn’t handling it properly for Canada – Can’t help but think that JT is hoping it will kill off a lot of our elderly through his ‘inaction” on this.

      1. So sorry for your friends predicament Kate, I wish him well and hope he gets the surgery he needs. An aside it’s also a sad reality that our universal health care can’t do better than a liver cancer patient having to fly to Italy for treatment he should have gotten here in a timely manner.

        1. Don’t be too hard on them. We aren’t privy to the real details of this person’s particular cancer case. The US is just next door, so why Italy? Speaking from experience on care, sometimes heading to Emergency is the quicker care option.

  3. Any of you see the CBC interview with one of our chief health people? He said Canada doesn’t need to worry because we’re isolated and have very few flights in from China. Then they had a guy from some left wing think tank on the government payroll saying Canada’s approach of letting people in because you can’t stop the virus anyway and you do more harm than good if you try to restrict travel is the best approach.

    We’re doomed.

    1. He should go the Bushido Way. Slit his belly on TV for his ignorance and poor attitude. There are 8 Chinese on my street alone. They are never home. No Iranians, though. Too working class an area for them.
      By the way, what part of Ottawa does he live in?

  4. I am sorry for your friend’s predicament. It must be very traumatic. Italy and Iran have serious problems to be sure.
    But here are the facts.
    Number of infected globally 100,000
    Number of infected in China 80,000
    Number of infected outside of China 20,000
    Number of infected in Iran, South Korea, and Italy 15,000
    Number of infected in rest of world 5000
    Number of deaths globally 3411
    Number of deaths in China 3042
    Number of deaths outside China 369
    Number of deaths in Iran and Italy 272
    Number of deaths in rest of world 97
    Source: John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center as of 7:33 am
    Population of world 8 billion
    Combined population of China, Iran, Italy, and South Korea 1.6 billion
    Population of rest of world 6.4 billion with 5000 infected and 369 deaths
    These are the numbers. Draw your own conclusions but I do not find these statistics in any way alarming.

    1. In reality, nobody has a clue how many cases there are.

      The Chinese lie. Their buddies on Wall Street and in the Deep State lie. They can’t even keep their story straight. One minute it’s only the flu, and another it’s a catastrophe big enough to finally, finally, drive Donald Trump out of DC and into a jail cell where he can be summarily executed—which they will lie about too.

      Who in the name of Louis Pasteur is Kate’s friend supposed to believe? You or his own eyes?

    2. This is the result of it spreading for six weeks.
      Only a small percentage of people who get it die. A larger concern is that around 20% require hospitalization/ICU.
      It is currently advised to keep suspected covid -19 patients in isolated, negative pressure rooms, and not to be transported through shared waiting rooms or hallways.
      Of course some people are carriers before they show any symptoms.

  5. Yeah, mass hysteria created by the media cartel is doing its job.
    Corona virus is sexy, cancer not so much.
    There goes the sober thought.
    It is sad that there is this virus and sad that people die.

    From the web:
    It is estimated that just over 150,000 people die every day. That’s a staggering number and it means that every hour more than 6,000 people die. These numbers include death, violence, disease and famine, as well as many other causes of death.

    Just ask.

    Thinking here, there is something sinister in this whole matter.
    It’s a good way to take control of the population.
    You may not think so, just watch.
    The paper pushers of World Health Organization asked $700 million to deal with the flu.
    What are they going to do with the money?
    I ask.
    The answer can be deduced from past experiences.

    Again, it is sad that this is happening, you can bet though there are millions to be made on the hysteria.

    1. And another thing.

      From the web:

      “According to the World Health Organization, 56 million people die each year, which is an average of about 153,424 people each day. The exact number of people who die each day, however, fluctuates.”

      The first thing that comes up when you ask.

      1. uhuh.
        and where is a ginormous amount of the dying happening and has been for centuries?
        aaafricahhhh.
        so the math consists of ignoring those deaths which nowadays are brought on by an affinity towards marxism.
        and subtract all the 100 million dead from that quirky little ideology.
        and subtract the deaths from accidents, plain old age, cancer, all the ones not related to a pathogen, etc etc.

        you people sound like uncle Stalin and his quip about ‘a statistic’.

  6. Spring is coming. Rising temperatures and humidity in the northern hemisphere should help ease the increase of new cases. By Fall perhaps we’ll be better prepared for any return of this coronavirus or its mutations. More medical supplies, more temporary wards, better checks on travelers, more resilient supply chains etc.

  7. Would anyone outside of Ontario shed a tear if the virus were to go rampant in Toronto?Would anyone blame JT for allowing infected foreign people to land in the left wing cities in Canada? Would anyone one have the guts to say we as Eastern voters got what we deserved under an idiot leader? The answer sadly will be NO to all questions.

  8. The Blackface Groper has swung the doors of Canada open to all the infected of the world. Apparently “knee-jerk reactions’ won’t stop spread of COVID-19”

    The retarded Drama teacher failed to see that restricting or eliminating access into Canada would make the control and containment of the Virus far, far easier than wholesale dumping it in our neighbourhoods.

    “where passengers from Iran reveal that they were not screened for #Coronavirus upon arrival at #YYZ airport.”
    https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTwitterFeed/comments/fcxdyw/ezralevant_rt_rebelnewsonline_dont_miss/

    “Canadian airports aren’t screening travellers from China for new coronavirus”
    https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canadian-airports-aren-t-screening-travellers-from-china-for-new-coronavirus-1.4773126

    1. I have traveled a lot and actually lived in Toronto for 25 years. I do not like traveling through the Toronto airport at the best of times (too many airport personnel who are clearly from the Middle East) and now there is the added stress of travelers from infected countries not being screened. There is going to be a major problem.

  9. Odds and statistics, however low they may be, don’t really matter.
    Its simple math: this virus is an addition to, not an alternative to the flu.
    If that’s difficult for some its probably because they don’t know anyone old they give a shit about.

    And one more time: the Chicoms have tens and tens of millions of people in quarantine. WTF does that say? Or solve?

  10. I’m booked for a pacemaker surgery in Edmonton in 2.5 months. The timing should work out such that we’ll have a virus surge on our hands here about the same time as my surgery date and there will be no capacity for my pacemaker surgery. I’ve got 4 months of battery life left and I seem to be using it at the predicted rate. That means, being pacemaker dependent, I’m dead in 4 to 5 months if I don’t get that replacement.

    The good news is that we beat the crowds to stocking up on tissues and hand sanitizers so my wife will be in good shape at my funeral.

    1. Lol at all those people buying shopping carts full of toilet paper though. How much do they really expect they’ll have to wipe their asses even in the event of a quarantine?

    2. Pacemaker replacement surgery is day surgery. They usually replace the pacemaker rather than just the batteries. You will not need a hospital bed that will be needed by a Coronavirus patient. You will be in surgery for about 20 minutes then get crazy glued back together and given a Tylenol.

      You can do this standing on your head. Just like I did. Good luck.

      1. This will actually be pacemaker number five. The problem is that local anesthetic doesn’t work on me. It barely numbs and I burn it off completely within half an hour. They have to use general anesthetic otherwise I’m trying to crawl off the table from the pain of people rooting around in my shoulder. Couple that with some other health complications and they usually keep me at least overnight for observation. Good times.

  11. “the virus is spreading at an exceptional speed, faster than our predictions and than the data we got from China.”

    That’s because the Chinks are lying communists, the only kind there is, and Blackie admires the shit out of these Cunts

  12. Turd dough wants to be a dictator, just like his trotskist father. He openly said that chicom dictatorship has great things to admire.
    He is doing Canada in on purpose, so that he can build communist paradise here in the aftermath.
    First you have to destabilize the economy.
    Then you have to disenfranchise the voters.
    Then you form militias, and for that he has immigrants.
    Voila, you have a glorious revolution and rule like Stalin/Pol Pot/Cheng Kai Shi/Ho Shi Min/Ceausesku, you name them.

    He had already singlehandedly erased about $10,000,000,000 from the economy with his magic pencil eraser. That is $300 per person including babies. Sadly, he had not been charged with over $5000 fraud. If there was at least 1 honest cop in Canada, turd dough would be attending bail hearing now.

    He had already mobilized shadow terrorists for environmental protests.

    Only the blind cannot see what he is doing. You can keep calling hims stupid, but he has you like children. He is probably betting with the LPC brass that no one will oppose him. What Scheep baa’s does not matter. Where is the non-confidence vote when we need it? And no, Trump will not bail Canada out.

    1. You credit him with too much intelligence. He just stands on the mark and regurgitates his lines, if he doesn’t just read them. Someone else writes his lines for him.
      Canadians are stupid.

  13. We’re toast. It’s spreading in BC right now among non travelers. Vancouver will be the tip of the spear. Watch closely how quickly the while healthcare system can collapse. I’d say that’ll be in 2 weeks.

  14. For all you who are working yourselves into a frenzy, my mother died in her 63rd yr from an undiagnosed liver abscess after being hospitalized at a teaching hospital for nearly 2 months. I ordered an autopsy so it would hopefully help some other poor soul if the doctors knew why she had a raging fever which caused her bed to shake.
    My 88-yr-old brother is at the moment recovering from a liver abscess. Maybe they did learn something….like how to sharpen their diagnostic skills.
    Buy your hand sanitizers and toilet paper and worry yourselves to death if it is making you feel better. (Altho’ I must say james @8.37 is in a class of his own. )
    My goal is to be here in November to see Trump win another election, if it isn’t cancelled due to the death of either of the over-70-yr-old hopefuls.

    1. Yep it’s just a flu bro. That’s why Italy shutdown cities, China shutdown 80% of its population, and France is confiscating masks so that healthcare workers have the apparently useless masks that are so useless you need to confiscate them so doctors can have them. Yeah for sure this is a nothingburger.

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