Trump is responsible for the higher death rate in the States because he was warned about it and failed to act until it had really caught hold. Funny that, because I remember him stopping all flights from China back in February and everybody in the world condemned him for being a racist. Flights were landing here from China at least a month after that and were still arriving in Canada two weeks ago. Meanwhile, the tilting eyebrow decided that there's one law for everybody else and another for him, as he packs up and drives across the provincial border to meet up with his family. Had Trump done that we'd need a defibrillator for Pete.

How can the world be laid low by a bug that can be tackled by the simple act of washing your hands. It can enter your body through your mouth, nose and eyes.

How can the world be laid low by a bug that can be tackled by the simple act of washing your hands. It can enter your body through your mouth, nose and eyes.

Hmm, so it's a different entry point than the AIDS virus eh?

Intended as an expression of incredulity that we can be brought down by something that can be defeated by simply washing our hands. When we think of events that could wreck the world economy we are more likely to come up with major wars or earthquakes etc not a bug that can be washed away down a sink!

Trump is responsible for the higher death rate in the States because he was warned about it and failed to act until it had really caught hold. Funny that, because I remember him stopping all flights from China back in February and everybody in the world condemned him for being a racist. Flights were landing here from China at least a month after that and were still arriving in Canada two weeks ago. Meanwhile, the tilting eyebrow decided that there's one law for everybody else and another for him, as he packs up and drives across the provincial border to meet up with his family. Had Trump done that we'd need a defibrillator for Pete.

That's another problem because he didn't stop all flights from China like he said he done. They were still flying home American Chinese citizens trade goods and medical supplies.

Don't be silly Major, Trudeau didn't drive anywhere. He's the PM and he and his security would take a helicopter and fly to his summer cottage to visit with his wife and children who are staying there as I told you. Trudeau also has been self isolating himself at his house and only comes as far as the front steps to give daily briefing to the press. If Trump had visited his wife and son it would be nothing to me. Maybe he should visit with them more often if anything. 

I have one for you to complain about more below but remember what time expired means and why they put a shelf life of only 5 years on produces made from rubber or containing rubber. Also remember I was a qualified Quality Assurance Technical Inspector for my last 5 years with the miltary. 

The mistake was made by not replenishing their stock by using a Max - Min system.

The government of Canada threw out two million N95 masks and 440,000 medical gloves when it shut down an emergency stockpile warehouse in Regina last year, a CBC investigation has revealed. 

In an email to CBC, a spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada, which oversees the stockpile, said the masks and gloves had been purchased in 2009 and "had passed the limit of five years for their use, as recommended by the manufacturer." The masks expired in 2014.

Provincial governments and health-care workers are facing a severe shortage of N95 masks. For hospital workers in the COVID-19 pandemic, the N95 masks have become the health-care standard in personal protective equipment because they are designed to filter out tiny virus particles.

The National Emergency Strategic Stockpile (NESS), which is operated by the federal government, is a network of warehouses across the country that stores medical equipment and supplies. Provinces and territories can request use of these materials in the event of emergencies such as disease outbreaks. 

Yet in Regina last spring, the federal government threw out the supplies, and instead of replenishing the warehouse, shut it down. 

The destruction of the masks surprised some experts in emergency preparedness.

They say if the stockpile was managed properly, the supplies would have been distributed to the provincial health care system or other users before they expired. 

"These kinds of masks and gloves should not have been winding up in a landfill," said Prof. John Lindsay, who teaches emergency and disaster management at Brandon University in Manitoba.

"They should have been winding up in somebody's hands who could use them properly."

'It's mismanagement'

Retired senator David Tkachuk, whose committee produced a report 12 years ago on the state of emergency preparedness in Canada, said Tuesday this revelation shows the Regina stockpile wasn't properly managed.

"It's not stockpile management at all; it's mismanagement," Tkachuk said from his home in Saskatoon.

Back in 2008, Tkachuk was the deputy chair of a Senate committee that concluded the then Conservative government had underfunded and mismanaged Canada's emergency response system. The report was provocatively entitled "Emergency preparedness in Canada: how the fine arts of bafflegab and procrastination hobble the people who will be trying to save you when things get really bad."

The former Conservative senator said it seems little has changed since the report, noting that the warehouse was not replenished with supplies but was instead shut down without explanation.

"Lack of action had a terrible consequence," said Tkachuk who retired in February. "Because one, [the stockpile warehouse] wasn't replenished. it was closed. And two, none of it was used. So it was just purchased and thrown in the garbage dump."

"It's a disregard for the public purse, and someone has to be responsible for this."

A mountain of masks and gloves

None of this would have been made public, if it hadn't been for Joe Audette, who runs a dumpster bin company in Regina.

Audette told CBC that last May the NESS asked him to bid on a project that involved emptying the organization's Regina warehouse of "mostly gloves and light material." 

A NESS employee asked specifically for Audette's largest dumpsters, "the 24-yard," and estimated that he would need about 40 of them for the job. 

"That would have been the biggest order I'd ever seen. So that's why it's so memorable."

His company, Just Bins, didn't get the job.

But a few weeks later, he saw a competitor had delivered dozens of 30-yard bins — "which is just about the largest dumpster you can rent, filled to the brim, level load, with these boxes."

He took a closer look at the growing mountain. It contained brown boxes full of disposable gloves and white boxes filled with N95 masks. Audette provided CBC with a picture of the boxes taken from the landfill.

At the time, Audette considered the whole thing wasteful, but he didn't give it more thought until Canada's health-care system, from coast to coast, started sounding the alarm about a shortage of N95 masks earlier this year. 

That's what inspired him to reach out to CBC and tell his story. 

"Such a shame," said Audette. "Those are literally rotting under dirt right now. I try not to think about it, because it's crazy." 

He wonders if it all could have been put to a better use. 

"As Canadians, we do a lot of foreign aid, and I think this would have been much better spent maybe in that direction than at a local landfill." 

Lindsay at Brandon University said the disposal of the masks and gloves shows Ottawa is mismanaging its stockpile of medical supplies. 

In a responsibly managed stockpile, supplies would be sent into the provincial health-care system or to another agency that could make use of them. In fact, he said recently-expired masks could still be used, he said.

Prof. Jack Rozdilsky, an expert in disaster and emergency preparedness at York University in Toronto, agrees that Ottawa could do a better job managing this resource. 

"I have a bread store and I have day-old bread, and I could either just throw it all out to the dumpster or I could have an employee that night bring it to the homeless shelter, and its still decent that night and someone could be fed from it," he said pointing out that Ottawa could consider taking that approach rather than throwing the supplies out.

CBC asked PHAC if the destroyed masks could have been donated to other places in the world. In its email reply, the federal health agency said it doesn't send expired equipment abroad. 

Don't be silly Major, Trudeau didn't drive anywhere. He's the PM and he and his security would take a helicopter and fly to his summer cottage to visit with his wife and children who are staying there as I told you. No he didn't, he drove there and that summer cottage, as he likes to call it, gives it that wholesome, tiny, cute image, don't you think? Is a bloody great mansion. And by the way, passenger planes from everywhere are still landing in canada, the occupants aren't checked and yes, they are from China too.

Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong as I just can't fathom it. 

My mother hasn't gone further than her garden for a month, so I've said we'll go for a walk at the weekend. My suggestion is to wander around the churchyard where I can point out some interesting graves and architectural features. It hasn't met with the response I'd hoped for.  

She probably thinks you're lining her up to pick a plot.

It's now come to light that the US National Institute of Health was warned about the dodgy practices and risky tests being carried out by the Wuhan laboratories and chose to ignore that before granting them $3.7 million. Experts had made several trips to China before issuing their warning but despite those warnings, they gave them the money. Fauci was the very man in charge and he's the very man who chose to ignore the warnings of his own experts  and hand the bucks over. Trump's mantra is.... America first, the left's mantra is America last. Now that the US has come out with the truth, Britain has also come out of the closet and agreed that the virus came from a Chinese third rate lab. Does the west really, I mean really think the Chinese are ever going to put the same safety mechanisms in place for its own people? Never mind ours. There is nothing cheaper in China than life and never has been. Through the left's masochistic tendencies, the US and inadvertently, the rest of the first world, are paying for China to murder them and wreck their economies. Ironic isn't it, that Fauci actually predicted a pandemic some years ago, what incredible foresight eh? Mind you, he did know about the Chinese labs, so maybe it was an obvious prediction.

It's got a surprising number of noted occupants - several Lords, among them an wartime Admiral, a senior diplomat and a high ranking Cabinet Minister. Also buried within are an inventor and a medical pioneer. 

Don't be silly Major, Trudeau didn't drive anywhere. He's the PM and he and his security would take a helicopter and fly to his summer cottage to visit with his wife and children who are staying there as I told you. No he didn't, he drove there and that summer cottage, as he likes to call it, gives it that wholesome, tiny, cute image, don't you think? Is a bloody great mansion. And by the way, passenger planes from everywhere are still landing in canada, the occupants aren't checked and yes, they are from China too.

I checked, he flew there by Helicopter. They are Canadian citizens Major not Chinese citizens. We have brought back 55 thousand Canadians from all over the world home. It would be Canadian planes they are coming in on, not Chinese planes. Didn't Britain bring it's citizens home. 

They are Canadian citizens Major not Chinese citizens. ` They are still arriving from China, wether they be Chinese of Canadian Chinese. By the way, it's just been revealed that Turdope contributed $830,000 to the Wuhan clinic, where the virus leaked from. Well he would, wouldn't he? I don't think Turdope ever came across a Chinese dictator's cock he couldn't suck.

They are Canadian citizens Major not Chinese citizens. `

They are still arriving from China, wether they be Chinese of Canadian Chinese. By the way, it's just been revealed that Turdope contributed $830,000 to the Wuhan clinic, where the virus leaked from. Well he would, wouldn't he? I don't think Turdope ever came across a Chinese dictator's cock he couldn't suck.

We brought our citizens home just like the States and every other civilized country around the world did. Are you saying you are the only country in the world that didn't?

Same for all the countries donating money to research to that lab in China. 

Let's be honest here Major. Have you ever had a dick in your mouth that you didn't enjoy. 

Just answer simply, Yes or No.

Mark, I'd love a walk through a cemetery where you could tell me about the history of some of the occupants.  I do think Major makes a good point, though, especially if you're tempted to assure her that you will place her next to someone "prominent".

Wow a simple "going for a walk" has turned into a horror story. I may have taken a walk through myself but I wouldn't have asked my Mother would she like to tag along with me for a stroll. If I was her, I would have been looking up that Seniors abuse phone number to call. I think we may have to change Mark's name to Norman.

They are Canadian citizens Major not Chinese citizens. `

They are still arriving from China, wether they be Chinese of Canadian Chinese. By the way, it's just been revealed that Turdope contributed $830,000 to the Wuhan clinic, where the virus leaked from. Well he would, wouldn't he? I don't think Turdope ever came across a Chinese dictator's cock he couldn't suck.

We brought our citizens home just like the States and every other civilized country around the world did. Are you saying you are the only country in the world that didn't?

Same for all the countries donating money to research to that lab in China. 

Let's be honest here Major. Have you ever had a dick in your mouth that you didn't enjoy. 

Just answer simply, Yes or No.

Now Pete, that was a hurtful comment.

Let's be honest here Major. Have you ever had a dick in your mouth that you didn't enjoy. Oh dear! It would appear I've upset him by criticising the bent eyebrow and his hero's, the Chinese. Pete, I found out today that after that racist Trump stopped all people from China travelling to the US, thousands were still pouring into Canada. I'll send you the video evidence if you promise to post it.

Mark, I'd love a walk through a cemetery where you could tell me about the history of some of the occupants.  I do think Major makes a good point, though, especially if you're tempted to assure her that you will place her next to someone "prominent".

Wow a simple "going for a walk" has turned into a horror story. I may have taken a walk through myself but I wouldn't have asked my Mother would she like to tag along with me for a stroll. If I was her, I would have been looking up that Seniors abuse phone number to call. I think we may have to change Mark's name to Norman.

Mum hasn't gone beyond her garden gate since 17 March. My sister and I have been doing her shopping, me the small things, my sister with a car the bigger stuff.

She's physically capable of walking out by herself, but hasn't yet as she thinks it's a bit odd just to wander around aimlessly on her own unable or unwilling to go to the shops (the few that are still open). So I've suggested I walk out with her and combine it with a little history lesson in the local churchyard where she was married. A fear of cabin fever has overcome her scruples about a churchyard ramble and we're doing it this weekend.

Let's be honest here Major. Have you ever had a dick in your mouth that you didn't enjoy. Oooohhh, I'll scratch you bloody eyes out! I forgive you Pete, after all, I did insult your two great hero's, the tilting eyebrow and the heavenly people of the the most glorious and noble China.

Watching Tucker today, he fetched up some very interesting facts on the origins of the Chinese virus. Top officials in the US have said that right from the first moment of this virus, the Chinese government began to tell lies about it. They began by releasing a torrent of nonsense to sidetrack and deflect the truth of it. Firstly they claimed it had come from Pangolins the wet markets were selling (they won't be selling them for long as the Chinese have drove them to the very edge of extinction, much like the Rhinos, Elephants and Tigers) and crossed over to humans. For a start, wet markets are fish markets, Pangolins are mammals and so are Bats. They dropped that soon enough and switched to blaming the Italian armed forces, who had been there a few months earlier. The Italian government complained strongly about that, so the Chinese switched to blaming US forces. In between time state officials were working frantically to erase as much evidence as possible, with doctors or anybody else who raised the subject suddenly disappearing, probably murdered, as it's their national sport. At one point in January, Chinese scientists succeeded in sequencing the DNA of the virus, a fact that could have been vital in getting a vaccine but the Chines authorities had the results destroyed and and all paper evidence shredded. The Chinese then cordoned off Wuhan with none from the province allowed to travel to Beijing but allowed to fly all around the world. Thenfirst response of the Chinese anything negative is to lie about it. They lied about the SARS outbreak. According to every security organisation in the US, this virus came from a Chinese lab. Ironically, within China the state calls it the Wuhan virus but the Chinese glove puppet the WHO invented the title Covid 19 on orders from their masters. Anybody in the west who called it the China virus was branded as racist, which the Chinese government were working to bring about, as they know the racist finger pointed at you in the west is a form of death sentence for whites. Nobody else is involved, as only whites are able to be racist, as we all know. Meanwhile, the Chinese ants in the US and there are a few million, have been fed their pheromones and are collectively working on local and national government officials to condemn anybody who goes too far with this. ie blaming China. CNN is running programmes actually saying that it has nothing to do with what China did but what Trump did. Yes, it's the Trump virus to them. Congresswoman Barera Lee of California said that diseases don't have nationalities and that China isn't to blame for Trump fumbling the crisis. She's not the only masochistic Chinese tool in the Congress box either, others have parrot phrased the same nonsense. I'll leave it there and give Pete a chance to construct his defence of the Chinese.

Let's be honest here Major. Have you ever had a dick in your mouth that you didn't enjoy. Oh dear! It would appear I've upset him by criticising the bent eyebrow and his hero's, the Chinese. Pete, I found out today that after that racist Trump stopped all people from China travelling to the US, thousands were still pouring into Canada. I'll send you the video evidence if you promise to post it.

Not so Major, American citizens even if they were Chinese Americans were allowed to come home to the States. They were Canadian Chinese that came home to Canada. I have asked you two simple question of late. Did Britain not bring home it's citizens and the yes no only answer. You have failed to answer them both. I do not post propaganda videos Major. By doing that I would only be giving aid to the enemy.

© Katherine Frey/The Washington Post Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.), seen at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 23, 2020, said on Fox News Channel on April 15 that balancing the health of Americans with a functioning economy amid the coronavirus pandemic was “like choosing between cancer and a heart attack.”A growing number of Republican lawmakers across the country are pushing for a more rapid reboot of the American economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the risk of spreading more sickness — and even death — is outweighed by the broader economic damage that widespread stay-at-home orders have wrought.

They are taking cues from and breathing energy into a grass-roots conservative movement of resistance against government-ordered quarantine measures — one that President Trump appeared to back in several tweets Friday — but are facing defiance within their own party from Republican congressional leaders, governors and fellow lawmakers who warn that a rash reopening could reinvigorate the virus’s spread.

The emerging “open it up” caucus has spoken out on key conservative media platforms, including some of Trump’s favorite programs. In a prime-time Fox News Channel appearance Wednesday, for instance, Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) said that balancing the health of Americans with a functioning economy amid the pandemic was “like choosing between cancer and a heart attack.”

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“We’ve got to open this economy. If we don’t, it’s going to collapse,” he told host Tucker Carlson. “If the U.S. economy collapses, the world economy collapses. And trying to burn down the village to save it is foolish. That’s a cold, hard truth.”

But earlier that day, one of Kennedy’s colleagues — one of the most influential health-policy voices on Capitol Hill — sent a much more cautious message. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and a senior appropriator, echoed public health officials in warning that the necessary testing infrastructure simply to allow for a wholesale loosening of restrictions has not been created.

“Without more tests with quick results, it will be difficult to contain this disease and give Americans confidence to go back to work and back to school,” Alexander said.

The Republicans on the front lines of the crisis — state governors — have been similarly divided. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, for instance, cited “positive signs of cautious optimism” Wednesday in announcing that his state was beginning to formulate a reopening plan.

But he warned that “if the recovery is not done in a thoughtful and responsible way, it will not only cost lives, but it will deepen the economic crisis and actually prolong the problems and slow our recovery.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Tex.) took a more aggressive approach Friday, announcing that he would reopen state parks Monday and encourage retail stores to open by the end of the week with social-distancing precautions. Restaurants and movie theaters, he said, could reopen by the end of the month.

The issue, meanwhile, has made it to the congressional campaign trail. Jason Lewis, a former House member running against Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), has launched a “Re-Open Minnesota for Business” RV tour of the state — one that took him Friday to a protest attended by hundreds outside the residence of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz. Few wore masks or kept the recommended six feet of personal distance.

“We all want to do it right, but at some point, you’ve got to balance the social damage and the human damage you would have from waiting till everything is perfect,” Lewis said, adding, “You can’t fight this virus with a second Great Depression.”

As the protest in St. Paul grew, Trump tweeted, “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” Moments later, he sent similar tweets about Michigan and Virginia, where separate protests were taking place.

The election-year calls from conservatives to reopen the U.S. economy, at the cost of the health and lives of Americans, amounts to a different calculation from what many Republicans made in the past.

Notable is that amid the debate over the Affordable Care Act in 2009, conservatives led by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin seized on a proposal to allow Medicare to pay for voluntary counseling on end-of-life treatment options as “death panels” for elderly Americans. That entirely speculative risk helped drive GOP opposition to the Democratic health-care law; now Republicans are brushing aside much more credible risks in their zeal to restart the economy with an eye toward the November elections.

While Democrats have joined calls to plan for a carefully managed reopening, most have been careful to leave key decisions in the hands of public health experts — who so far have warned that the trajectory of the pandemic is still uncertain and that broad stay-at-home orders remain warranted.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this week criticized as “careless” those Republicans who have pushed for a rapid economic reopening at the risk of additional coronavirus deaths. Any decision to reopen, she told reporters Thursday, should be “science-based.”

“We shouldn’t be having a conversation about how many people is it okay to die for us to open up,” she said.

The partisan division among elected officials reflects the split among Americans generally, according to early political science research on the response to the pandemic. An unpublished paper based on a late-March survey of 3,000 Americans found that one’s party affiliation was “the single most consistent factor” explaining individual responses to the pandemic. Republicans, for instance, were less likely to have engaged in social distancing or more frequent hand-washing.

“You just see a very different world for Republicans in general than we do see for Democrats,” said Thomas B. Pepinsky, a Cornell University professor of government and a co-author of the paper. “Democrats are more worried about it; they believe that the crisis is worse than Republicans believe it is. It’s sort of a clean finding all across the board.”

Some Republican leaders, such as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the GOP conference chairwoman, have warned that any attempt at reopening will have to be carefully managed.

McCarthy told reporters Thursday that he supported using technology, such as cellphone tracking data, to help trace the spread of the virus — a practice that some conservative protesters oppose as government overreach.

“We did not ask for this virus, but this virus is here,” McCarthy said. “We did not invite it, but we need to defeat it.”

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I love a good juicy scandal and you can always rely upon the moral high ground holders to provide it, I mean the Dems of course. Back in the Obarmy administration, the idiot allowed the National Institute of Health, under Fauci's direction, to transfer $3.7 million to the Chinese for viral research (yeh right, viral weaponisation more like) By the way, did you know that the tilting eyebrow also donated $850,000 to them? Now, it has emerged that virologists in the US warned the government that there was no viable reason for this type of research. Claims are now emerging that Fauci circumvented the law to get this money to China, then in 2017 he gave a lecture at Georgetown University saying that the Trump presidency will face a pandemic. How on earth could he possibly know that? He's on film telling his audience.... there will be a coming challenge in the arena of infectious diseases but there will be a surprise outbreak. Trump said, in his press conference, that the NIH was giving away $32 billion a year! And he's going to be looking into that, in other words, they're going to be investigated. There will be quite a few twitching ars'oles out there at the moment and Fauci's is one of them, as he's now under investigation.

HA! I've just found out that the inclined eyebrow actually donated Canada's $850,000 to China AFTER the outbreak of their created pandemic. The man never found a Chinese communists arse he couldn't kiss.

To be honest the chances of catching out in the open air are pretty well zero. Even if an infected person walks past you they're only within the recommended six feet for no more than two seconds, so no real threat there. The risks arise if you're close to an infected person for several minutes in an enclosed space. So therefore if I'm in a queue I keep six feet away as far as possible but I don't swerve around folk while outside, they can swerve around me if they wish. 

When Boris was discharged from the hospital last week he thanked the NHS for saving his life  & referred to it as a "national treasure." He paid tribute to two nurses who were at his bedside round the clock. BUT WAIT........this is the same NHS his conservative party has done its best to dismantle over the past 10 years through savage budget cuts, many targeted at nurses. Now back to the nurses who are both immigrants. Boris is the one who led the campaign for GB's exit from the EU by demonizing immigrants & making it harder for them to stay in GB. As a result 5,000 of them, sorely needed, returned to Europe after Brexit. 

I guess I am like Boris, not really concerned about the virus.......unless I get it. Perhaps I shall run for office.

The irony of Boris praising the NHS is not lost on us. Even as a Conservative myself I've never felt that the Tories were the party to wholeheartedly uphold the NHS. 

I don't hear you praising a Muslim State for sending you much needed Medical supplies Major. Apparently Britain would have been completely out of them in a week if Turkey hadn't stepped up to the plate and provided you with some.