It’s all part of the head in the sand approach to the problem posed by schools.
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gabe
Senior Member
Quebec will now be "taxing" those who remain unvaxxed.
Towered
Superstar
The normally belligerent French have been strangely obedient through this whole thing...
French Canadians are very different from those who live in France. And there are differences between French speaking people from Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and the Maritimes. You can’t lump them all together
Bayer
Senior Member
There are regular demonstrations, but we are Canadians.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
I remember reading a very interesting article from the Globe recently about the cultural differences:
An influx of French immigrants to Quebec highlights a cultural shift ... and rift
Drawn by a cultural and economic openness they can’t find at home, many young French people have fallen in love with Quebec
www.theglobeandmail.com
The first two paragraphs are amusing already:
AoD
zang
Senior Member
Quebec is both more progressive and more conservative than Ontario. It really depends on the subject.
slickpete83
Active Member
next week Quebec will be taxing over weight people who choice to eat junk food and have no interest in losing weight or exercising ,resulting in a strain on the health care system 
Northern Light
Superstar
Not sure if this has been posted previously, but it was forwarded to me on FB via a friend who is an ER nurse at a GTA hospital today.
She indicated that if people could use this service (its obviously not appropriate for heart attack/stroke/serious burn/trauma etc.)
That it would be helpful.
Her take by the way; ER volumes are not much worse than typical for this time of year (she's in them every day), though it is around normal peak levels, as this season tends to be..........
However, she noted they are seriously short-staffed and that is creating its share of challenges for staff and patients alike.
The link for the above service is here: https://www.torontovirtualed.ca/
From the above link:
She indicated that if people could use this service (its obviously not appropriate for heart attack/stroke/serious burn/trauma etc.)
That it would be helpful.
Her take by the way; ER volumes are not much worse than typical for this time of year (she's in them every day), though it is around normal peak levels, as this season tends to be..........
However, she noted they are seriously short-staffed and that is creating its share of challenges for staff and patients alike.
The link for the above service is here: https://www.torontovirtualed.ca/
From the above link:
This is helpful. I know someone who called Telehealth the other day and was told there was a 90 hour wait for a call back !
Jonny5
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That privacy breach is going to generate some lawsuits for sure.
There are some simple security tools they should look into for this like inexpensive add-ins for Excel and Outlook that allow you to classify documents. All the banks have used these for years. Where I work they have a simple red, yellow, green, gray scheme. Any file with personal data in it should be classified yellow or red. If you try to email something classified like that you get a pop-up warning box telling you to confirm that you actually want to send out an email with personal data. If it's coded red it will not even allow you to send it to external email addresses, only internal, and when you do send it your manager gets a notification email that you have done so.
I'm sure some of these organisations didn't ever expect to be handling private data like this, but now that they are they need to really up their game.
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picard102
Senior Member
I've never sat next to a fat person on a bus and caught fatness and then almost died a few days latter. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rimsky44
Active Member
Exactly. The tax is to reduce negative externalities - negative events that individuals do not consider either due to selfishness or unawareness. It's the same with cigarettes (2nd hand smoke), gas (exhaust) etc.
A theoretical way of pricing the tax should be:
- Calculate cost of 3 doses of vaccine. Add on the per capita cost of hospitalizations for those vaccinated but still went to hospital (for whatever reason), divided by the number of vaccinated people. This what it SHOULD cost to take care of someone vaccinated on a country-wide average basis. (or do it by province in Quebec's case).
- Now calculate the per capita hospitalization cost spent treating those not vaccinated for whatever reason, divided by the number of unvaccinated people.
Bayer
Senior Member
Finally got a negative COVID rapid antigen test today, 10 days after my first positive test. Apparently this is very common, and it shows allowing people to resume their normal activities after only 5 days is wrong and dangerous. My case was very mild, and my husband actually never became positive, which is a relief.
