We've received our 4th and final dump of data from B.C. today.
Of the 997 new #COVID19 cases in B.C. today, 43% were in people between 20-39.
Over the course of the pandemic, it's been 41%.
The "young people surge" is not happening.
1/10 @jjhorgan today you blamed young people for the rise in cases, and said we were blowing it for the “rest of us”, to that I say how dare you. Young people are on the front lines, providing services for you, and the rest of the province, and have sacrificed so much already.
i still think about this political cartoon every single day. it’s still classist to romanticize a deadly pandemic even if you’re seven months used to your new lifestyle; keep your quarantine silver linings to yourself
COVID19 isn't the flu.
But for under-45, COVID hospitalizes 1% & kills .014%.
All ages, flu hospitalizes 1.5% & kills 0.13%.
Restricting COVID to under-45s results in 6x flu hospitalizations & 1x flu deaths, & gets us to herd immunity.
Shelter the old, but release the young!
Canada is now part of an international cartel to cut oil output & drive up prices. Canada and Alberta have already nationalized pipelines; the feds are subsidizing wages for oil workers, with more aid to come. So much for the 'free-market' petroleum industry...2