Yukon, the amount of Alberta doctors that pleaded for a lockdown with Kenney was huge. The only interviews I saw from Albert doctors said their strategy was failing and that “Hope was not a solution”. Only the extreme far right is even happy in Alberta currently with Leadership popularity plummeting.

I’m sure there’s some number fudging for profit in the USA, but profit isn’t the name of the game when it comes to hospitals in a lot of the world.

I saw today the CDC is counting pneumonia and influenza deaths right along with Covid deaths all together. They must of got tired of being called out on it. The Rona is real, it's just the numbers are fake.

Did you really just compare covid to deaths in vietnam?

You know when someone dies in war they come home in a casket and the family knows that person died in war. There was no money to be made declaring someone died at war in Vietnam.

You know hospitals get between 13k and 39k for a covid case. Right?

You know influenza cases as measured by the CDC are at historical lows. Right? Wonder why?

I like you Bryce but that is the dumbest comparison I have ever seen and possibly one of the most offensive. As a war veteran, I will.........keep my mouth shut. I would get thrown off this site if I said what I want to say right now.

Thats why some bible thumpers play with poisinous snakes.

Naaaaaaa I just run them over with my truck

Alright Bryce, let's look at reality of monetary operating costs.

Most all of the hospitals changed gears and ramped up in anticipation of all the covid infections and began putting even minor outpatient surgeries on the back burner. They were also afraid of infecting their hospitals with covid so they limited the accepted patients to only the most necessary and covid patients.

Now how did that work out in the short term? Not real well. The covid infections did not bombard their doors and while it was a novel and exciting (in a weird way) for there to be a pandemic for hospital workers to handle, it just didn't happen.

So the money dried up on two fronts.

One was all the simple medical procedures that were outpatient stopped happening. A gigantic loss of revenue. I know for a fact that my own doctors office went to GREAT extremes to tell me how clean their office was when I expressed my reluctance to go to the doctor for my son's strep throat. So if someone was going to have a wart removed or even a simple physical, many of those patients cancelled and chose not to go into the hospital or doctor's office for fear of getting the covid.

Two was the covid patient numbers did not match the predictions. All the companies who switched gears during this great pandemic to manufacture ventilators to satiate the drastic need that was coming did so in vain. The hospitals were not overrun with covid and therefore didn't have the mass numbers of covid patients and also cut their own throats involuntarily by rejecting simple procedures that netted them lots of money. And then it was compounded by the large purchases made of the unneeded ventilators.

So how did it work out in the long tern?

So to help compensate for this massive loss, more doctors and hospitals labeled sicknesses as covid. Direct or related. And a medical diagnosis was NOT required for compensation from Medicare. Wonder why that happened to have such a loose requirement to receive so much money? ($13k-$39k) Yet, influenza requires a TESTING diagnosis for only $5k?

A death from covid should be exactly that. If someone has a morbid or chronic condition, as written extensively on their medical records, and they get covid and GOD forbid die with covid, then that is exactly what happened. They died with covid, NOT from covid. There are too many episodes out there to not see this is at least a 250 lb gorilla in the room.

Now my question to you mask people. If it is so important to people's health and so inconsiderate to not wear one, do you also tell fat people bellied up to a large pizza to stop eating because they are obese? Obesity is the number one cause of most health issues in this country and costs the tax payer massive amounts of money (much more than covid) and directly contributes to massive numbers of deaths. You won't die from their obesity, but you dang sure are gonna pay for it and all the health issues associated with it. And what if it is a fat mother with a fat child eating that large pizza. Do you scold that mother for her horrible parenting and how she is contributing to a lifetime of chronic medical issues for that child because she is so inconsiderate of her own child's life due to her selfish parenting skills?

Do you tell smokers to quit smoking because it will kill them and it is rude to make you breath their smoke? Imagine all the smokers who have died with a covid infection. Was it the cigarette that killed them or covid?

Now, there's some truth for you.

I get so tired of people thinking covid is the beast that devours all in it's path and if I don't wear a mask or get a vaccine, it is akin to me pushing them into the mouth of the beast. If you are older, stay home or go out in the early morning hours to get your stuff done then go home. If you have diabetes, are obese, have HBP, have cancer, or any other thing that limits your overall health, do the same.

Take care of YOURSELVES!! If you are fat, lose weight. If you smoke, stop smoking. If you drink too much, stop drinking. If you text while driving stop texting and driving. If you get out of breath walking to the refrigerator, go for a walk instead and start taking care of YOURSELF. If you are healthy you have an exponentially higher likelihood of surviving covid and dang near anything else.

Personal responsibility is ALSO a personal choice. Have you made that choice? Or do you keep blaming that other person?

It is fact that the 7th day Adventists live a longer life span than other faiths and culture as a whole. I know this because our MI family has long 7th day Adventists roots from way back. The devout affirm that the body is God's temple and as such, we need to keep it as good as we can.

And stats prove their case.

I never did drugs. I have never even tried a cigarette. I drink hardly ever unless it's really hot and there's a brewski with my name on it.
I never cared if they or them called me a geek, or uncool, or a nurd, or whatever all my life so the social pressure crowd didn't effect me. In fact, you tell me I must do this thing... I have so much pride in me.... I'll go the exact opposite way for sure.

Plus, all that "crappy lifestyle choices" looked to be harming the bodies of others as far as I could see. Scared me. I don't want to look 100 when I'm 40.

Others, maybe they didn't and still don't care.
You can't cover a lifetime of I didn't really take care of my body with a mask.