Cancel 2020.2 (07-08-2020)
Trudeau led his country out of a pandemic while Trump's lack of leadership leaves the US in deep crisis (No Shit!)
(CNN)For months, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's hair kept growing.
As the coronavirus pandemic kept barbershops closed to customers, his tidy trim grew into a wave that evolved eventually into a mop with bangs. For some, the mane came to embody the shared sacrifices that Trudeau -- quarantined at his home in Ottawa -- was asking fellow Canadians to endure to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Things progressed differently 450 miles south in Washington.
President Donald Trump's hair has appeared unchanged during the crisis as he makes no attempt to model the guidelines and recommendations his government is recommending to stay safe -- including wearing a mask, avoiding large crowds and limiting travel to essential business only.
On Wednesday, the differences in the two approaches will be front and center as Trump marks the official beginning of the new North American trade agreement that is a signature achievement for all three participating governments: the United States, Mexico and Canada.
While Mexico's President accepted Trump's invitation to participate in the ceremony, Trudeau did not.
"We wish the United States and Mexico well at Wednesday's meeting," the prime minister's office said. "While there were recent discussions about the possible participation of Canada, the Prime Minister will be in Ottawa this week for scheduled Cabinet meetings and the long-planned sitting of Parliament."
Last week, Trudeau himself said he was still in discussions about whether a trip to the United States "makes sense," saying while he was troubled by the threat of new US tariffs on steel and aluminum, "we're also concerned about the health situation and the coronavirus reality that is still hitting all three of our countries."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/polit...ent/index.html
Cancel 2020.2 (07-08-2020)
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Cancel 2020.2 (07-08-2020)
Phantasmal (07-08-2020), signalmankenneth (07-08-2020)
signalmankenneth (07-08-2020)
Even Mexico is doing better
ONE-N-DONE, YOU GOT PLAYED; Time To Play-On
Remember ... ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES ... So STFU Bitch
Yeah right. Justin not getting a haircut helped. LOL!
NY was what did us in as far as the stats.
*****
3 reasons the COVID-19 death rate is higher in U.S. than Canada
The nation next door has been a hot topic for Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic, with chatter frequently involving a certain politician who lives in a white Washington mansion.
The U.S. has a COVID-19 mortality rate about twice that of Canada's, with more than 200 deaths per million versus a little over 100 per million in Canada.
CBC News consulted five infectious disease experts, academic studies and data collected by governments and companies to try to find out why.
The overwhelming opinion points to three main contributors: longstanding issues related to health care, politics and one particular city.
While every expert agreed the U.S. government flubbed its early response to the pandemic, most said the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump was just one element in the bigger story.
The gap in fatalities between the U.S. and Canada is not a methodological quirk attributable to different reporting methods, the experts said.
The U.S. had 1.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, and more than 71,000 deaths as of Tuesday night, and Canada had more than 63,000 cases and close to 4,300 deaths.
Death rates more reliable measure than cases
Mortality rates are considered a more accurate reflection of the rate of spread than case totals, which rely on inconsistent testing standards across jurisdictions.
"I think per capita deaths are a proxy for the extent of disease activity," said Ashleigh Tuite, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto.
It's important to see the U.S.-Canada disparity in a global context, she said: U.S. death rates are still far lower than those in Spain, Italy and Belgium.
Health-care workers at a mobile COVID-19 test clinic in the Montreal neighbourhood of Saint-Michel. Because testing is inconsistent across jurisdictions, some experts consider mortality rates a more reliable measure of the spread of coronavirus than the number of confirmed cases. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)
The difference in death rates between the U.S. and Canada could continue to change as the pandemic progresses. In fact, it has been steadily narrowing, according to data published each day by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control,
In March, Americans were dying from COVID-19 at a per-capita rate 3.6 times higher than that of Canadians. In the first half of April, it was 3.1 times. It was 1.7 times in the last half of April. In early May, death rates have been similar.
Cases in the U.S. have already had a direct effect on Canadians. In Ontario, for example, the U.S. was by far the largest source of early imported cases.
The gap in outcomes opened up in March, when the virus hit New York.
New York, New York
The U.S. was unfortunate that its most bustling city got struck early.
"How prepared that initial city or geographic area was will influence your death rate," said Amesh Adalja, a pandemic preparedness fellow at Johns Hopkins University and Medicine in Baltimore.
Cities hit later benefited not only from being less crowded but from having more time to prepare, he said.
One study identified the New York City subway system as a major transmission vector. Outside New York City, the Canada-U.S. death rates are far closer. (Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters)
Without the Big Apple, the Canada-U.S. gap looks very different. Nearly half the difference disappears. Move beyond the suburbs of New York, and the Canada-U.S. death rates are even closer.
In fact, the death rate from COVID-19 is nearly identical between Canada and the 47 U.S. states that do not include a New York City suburb, based on state- and county-level data compiled by the site Worldometer.
Such comparisons are statistically dicey, however, because excluding one sub-national region distorts a country's demographics and urban-rural mix.
Outside New York City and the suburbs that sprawl into New Jersey and Connecticut, the Canada-U.S. death rates are far closer. (CBC News)
What's beyond dispute is that New York was clobbered by COVID-19, and one of its defining attributes — crowding — played a role.
New York has no rival in Canada when it comes to population density, which epidemiologists identify as a contributing risk. It has twice the density of Vancouver, Canada's most-crowded city.
Every weekday, 5.4 million people cram into New York's subway system, pushing its metal turnstiles and filling its cars, with a rail ridership more than six times that of Toronto's subway and streetcar system.
Article continues at https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/covid-...ates-1.5553168
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Bigdog (07-08-2020), Sirthinksalot (07-08-2020)
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
Sirthinksalot (07-08-2020), Stretch (07-08-2020)
Low in testing, high in active and serious cases.
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
ThatOwlWoman (07-08-2020), Trumpet (07-08-2020)
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
Stretch (07-08-2020)
TRUDEAU DIDN'T HAVE A HALF MILLION ARRIVALS FROM WUHAN WHILE THE CHINESE and WHO WERE STILL LYING TO THE WORLD ABOUT THE VIRUS, NOR DID HE HAVE FUCKHEAD DEMOCRATS FORCING NURSING HOMES TO TAKE COVID CARRIERS, KILLING TENS OF THOUSANDS...PLUS CANADA HAS ABOUT THIRTY PEOPLE LIVING THERE.
TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
De Oppresso Liber
Stop begging me to be offended. The brown face with the Alladin costume doesn't offend me in the least.
More importantly, Trudeau by action and deed had shown he is not a blatant racist like Trump.
Get youself a tissue and a fainting couch if you need to have a good cry over Justin's Alladin costume
Stop begging me to be offended. The brown face with the Alladin costume doesn't offend me in the least.
More importantly, Trudeau by action and deed had shown he is not a blatant racist like Trump is.
Get youself a tissue and a fainting couch if you need to have a good cry over Justin's Alladin costume
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
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