Texas

[commonsensefarmer]

A bunch of pathetic fools we are here in Saskatchewan.

[commonsensefarmer]

And to think all of Texas only had 1000 covid cases today and only 16% of their population is fully vaxxed. They’re not dropping over dead like some would want us to believe. It is time to open things up again.

[sumdumguy]

30 million people live in Texas

[iceman]

God bless Texas

[SASKFARMER]

Texas has it all figured out. California no its a ****ing basket case state that most are leaving.

[agstar77]

Bless Texas 6000 new cases April 5. Go Texas! 40000 test subjects and they think animal testing is bad.

[Guest]

Bless Texas 6000 new cases April 5. Go Texas! 40000 test subjects and they think animal testing is bad.

i know some of you have trouble with math so i will try to help you
pop. texas=29000000
pop saskatchewan=1170000
29000000 divided by 1170000= 24.78
Sask cases apr 5=219
219 times 24.78 =5428 per capita , almost identical
go saskatchewan ! 219 new test subjects

[chuckChuck]

So with the covid variants that are more deadly, easier to spread and affecting younger people, many of whom can't stay at home. The impact of more covid cases is going to overfill hospitals ICUs which we are already seeing and potentially close down lots of workplaces and could result in an even bigger hit to the economy. The third and fourth wave may be more serious than we were hoping for.

The other thing to note is that the more serious variants are coming from countries where covid cases were higher in the first second and second wave. So letting it run wild is not a good strategy.

The chance that more cases will lead to variants overcoming vaccines is certainly a possibility. That may be the case with brazilian variant already. Then we will be in a spot where we try to stay ahead of the variants with modified vaccines.

Texans can put themselves at risk. Watching ML Baseball in person is more important than protecting a population from the spread of a deadly virus!

Those baseball fans that get sick from covid and pass away will get the darwin award. Unfortunately the rest of us have to put up with their stupidity and carelessness.

[agstar77]

Texas will be an interesting experiment. Vancouver Canucks could not keep covid out with all precautions.

[chuckChuck]

Long hauler covid symptoms that can affect many major organs would put many hockey careers in jeopardy.

[Guest]

I’m not trying to minimalize it at all
Just pointing out bullshit
Myself , I am laying low

[chuckChuck]

Some people won't wake up untill they lose a family member or are disabled themselves for a few weeks or months. Covid could really make seeding fun. Lost workers, isolation for everyone who was exposed. Then how do you function on the farm.

[Sheepwheat]

Most people who get this “disease”, would never know they had it but for a positive test result. And that’s a fact.

Time to stop treating it like a death sentence.

And without Regina “case” numbers coming in from red square down there, sask numbers would be excellent.

[Austrian Economics]

When faced with the possibility of illness or death from an infectious disease, the onus is on you to protect yourself. If you have medical conditions which increase your vulnerability to disease, then take whatever steps are necessary to isolate yourself from others until such time as treatments and vaccines are available. There is, however, no guarantee that this strategy will be successful. Most people cannot simply quit their job and get supplies delivered to their doorstep. Life entails risks, and it's normal to apply some sort of risk/benefit analysis to the choices facing you.

What's not a legitimate strategy is to arbitrarily divide businesses into essential and non-essential categories, thus consigning many into bankruptcy, and to place most of the population under effective house arrest. What is essential vs. non-essential is a decision that should be made between a business and its customers. The collective has no right to remove that choice from individuals and to treat the nation as one vast prison camp.

Covid policy in this country is basically moving at whatever speed the collapsing state run medical care system can move at. Medicare has been facing a demographic bulge with an aging population for years which it is utterly incapable of dealing with. You need price signals for that and they have been legislated out of existence. Covid has simply made the deficiencies in collectivized medical care glaringly obvious.

[agstar77]

Curious to see how Brazil is doing. How will Covid affect Ag production there. Also have not seen Australia posts lately.