nlpaintballer

Lol. I am lying and need to learn how to read? What am I mis representing? They also mention in the article that those are only frontline staff. Nurses, doctors, PSW's. The numbers are much higher if they included support staff, like food prep or custodial. So who is misrepresenting? I am trying to paint a target on a system that failed to protect people who can't protect themselves. Not the workers themselves. But in my opinion, the only way to prevent, or at least lessen the impact of another pandemic, is to limit travel. Again, it's the question of how so many people who can't travel and who are dependent on others for care, were so heavily infected. Was it family? Frontline staff? Or support staff? Had to be one of those 3, correct? I don't think it's a random coincidence that healthcare workers were one of the most heavily infected sectors of the population, and infections in LTC were so high. Again, every infected healthcare worker also effects the system exponentially, so if you can remove or minimize those infections, you are better able to deal with infections among the general population. To me that makes sense, but I am ignorant and cant read.

Cisco, Toronto is not ontario. I agree, most international travel happens in the big cities, and that is why cases are so high among the general population. But they are specifically talking about how so many healthcare workers tested positive. Toronto was on the low end of those percentages. Peterborough was 45 percent of cases, on the high end, which is where the first spike in deaths occurred. They also specifically say that of the health care workers tested positive, most got it from travel. They were very quick to point that out, to dispell notions that it was being spread despite PPE's and clinical precautions. Again my whole point is that if i get sick, its no big loss to a critical system. If a healthcare worker is infected, right away the effect is felt exponentially. Especially in a smaller region. That person is quarantined, and so are anyone they came in contact with, which, if you are a heathcare worker, means other healthcare workers. Who picks up the slack, work extra shift, and are at an even greater risk due too fatigue in a dangerous situation? Their co-workers. For the record, i have spoken to an opp officer, hospital staff, paramedic, and a volunteer firefighter. All agree. I am sure there will be some serious investigations into how it got into the one sector of our population that we knew was at risk, and had no way of really isolating themselves.

On April 2nd, 1 in 10 positive cases in the province were healthcare workers. Almost all were infected from travel, not from clinical settings. 2 weeks later, the death toll in LTC sky rocketed. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/health-care-workers-make-up-1-in-10-known-cases-of-covid-19-in-ontario-1.5518456 Severe travel restrictions on healthcare personnel is the only way to stop this in the future. Stockpiling PPE and making emergency plans are all well and good, but with them, all you are doing is trying to close the barn door after the animals are all out. Every infected healthcare worker weakened the system exponentially. Changes also need to be made to the LTC system also.

Not rumors or fb chatting. My own observations. The gas station outside of town, away from the traffic from city, stays cheap. Definitely not a weekend raise game, since prices have stayed the same for the previous month, or dropped. And the tims hours are correct. Also the reason why. It's not hard to ask why they suddenly changed the weekend hours. In fact, since I am friends with the owner of the one station, i will ask him directly. Wouldnt want to spread fake news. But feel free to visit our tims around 3:05 pm on a weekend, pikeslayer, since i am apparently full of it. LMAO

It's been way busier up here in the past 2 weeks. The tim hortons has even reduced their hours on the weekends to try and stop any infected people from the city from spreading it. Mon-thurs 5am-10pm fri-sun 7am-3pm. So they can stay open for locals working during the week, but limit contact with people just driving through on weekends. Also a 10 cent spike in the price of gas, but only fri-sun and only the 2 stations that are in town on the highway coming from the south.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/health-care-workers-make-up-1-in-10-known-cases-of-covid-19-in-ontario-1.5518456 There you go bill. One of a couple articles, if you use google they are not hard to find. As for restrictions, I am talking about having them in place permanently. Again, a healthcare worker coming back infected puts more strain on our system than anything else. Not only do they have to be removed from the available workforce, but any co-workers/colleagues they come in contact with are quarantined, which removes those people from the workforce, and dumps the extra work on the rest, who are already spread too thin. It causes exponential problems in the one sector that is critical in this situation. We are lucky up here so far. No infections in any palliative/disabled homes up here. But small town with very few international travellers, most of whom, travel to the Caribbean if they do travel. Also our homes all locked down the first week of March, allowing nobody but critical staff in, and only with temperatures taken before shift. Food deliveries were even refused if they had been shipped from Toronto.

LMAO. Not once did I say healthcare workers are the reason it came here. I said most of the healthcare workers who tested positive were infected from travel and NOT a clinical setting. Regardless of whether or not they infected anyone else, they would still be quarantined, and would not be able to help the overburdened health system by doing their job. They also forced healthy workers into quarantine, in case it had transferred, putting even more burden on the system. If not being allowed to travel during certain times or to certain places around the globe is a stipulation that is too restrictive, especially if it's to protect those most at risk, then maybe healthcare will not be the profession of choice for some.

Why is it unreasonable to have that in their contract? Agreeing to some sort of restrictions on vacations and traveling would also give them more bargaining power. I am not bashing the healthcare workers in any way, its just this same situation will keep happening unless some changes are made. How many of the people who came back infected were traveling for business? I am assuming a lot less than were away on personal trips. Maybe a mandatory 2 week quarantine for anyone who is returning from vacation abroad will be implemented, with some regional exceptions. Whats the point of all this, if certain changes to when and where we travel are not put in place?Just because you can afford to vacation every year in the winter, doesn't mean you have the right to bring something like covid back to your community.

I think some travel/vacation restrictions will have to be put on healthcare workers, going forward. It might not be popular, but if healthcare workers were not allowed to vacation during flu season, or allowed to travel to certain areas of the world where these outbreaks tend to happen, then we wouldn't be in the position we are in now. The majority of healthcare workers have been infected while traveling, not on the job as far as I know. I am sure thats changing, but I am also sure that with restrictions on travel for healthcare workers, we would be looking at a better situation.

Lol. Thanks terry, i am pretty bad with it too i guess. I just found the irony unbelievable. I still would have done the same thing, no matter what race they were. They decided to drive that far from where they should be isolating themselves, putting people in danger.....again, regardless of their race. There is nothing in the park that is essential business.

How is it a racist comment? I have Chinese, Laotian, and Balinese friends. It was not a blanket statement, and that just because they were asian, I assumed they were Chinese. They were definitely Chinese. As for AP, it is closed. And something else..........oh yeah, I remember now. There is something called covid-19, that some people have heard of by now. Others not, I guess. It's always a good idea to travel around the province, when you have been told to stay home. Where i live, small town with 1000 people, but we have 4 or 5 assisted living/retirement homes and a high percentage of our population is over 65. If it takes hold here, there wont be a town left. But by all means, feel free to drive wherever you want, just dont be surprised if you run into roadblocks. We have declared a state of emergency in renfrew county, and the reserve in golden lake is roadblocked.

Got called by my boss to do an emergency job in Algonquin. Had to put up gates to keep people from entering and using different facilities and places. The CO who showed us the sites stopped at one bush road that had open gates but was completely snow covered. He said take those gates and hardware to use at another site, since nobody would be stupid enough to try driving up it. His words lol Went further in, all the way to Mew lake to put up gates, then headed back towards east gate. Got to the bush road to remove gates, and there is a car full of a Chinese family from Toronto, buried in the snow. Tried to convince me to pull him out, and i said "No, what are you doing here? Call caa or the police or i can call the police for you." I kept asking him what they were doing here, halfway through the park on hwy 60......not very politely either. As we pulled out he was still on the phone with caa. Would love to see that bill. Just stupid. STAY HOME. How many people did they contact, doing a 7-8 hour round trip? Just to see a moose?

I am pretty sure gregf2 has eaten chocolate? Or maybe had a beverage with caffeine? Both are strong drugs. What about high fructose corn syrup/processed sugar? Last I checked there was a large percentage of Americans claiming obesity is an epidemic caused by people not being able to control their food addiction. So food is a drug also. How do you survive? You never take any pharmaceutical's? Even over the counter products? Natual remedies? Not just pills either. Topical products contains drugs too. Also take your music collection and destroy it, because chances are those people you listen too, who have enriched your life with their art, were using drugs of some kind.

I would love to take it to court, but between gas and lost time at work, it's not worth it. Just hope my crappie experience helps someone else avoid paying a ridiculous ticket.

Got a nice 240.00 ticket yesterday, 40 feet from the launch. One lifejacket, the tag had faded so you couldn't read the info. Jacket was still good. No rips or tears, zipper buckles and straps all work. But the tag had faded so that makes a perfectly good lifejacket that works.......a 240.00 ticket. No warning given and the officer was waaaaay too excited by the sight of a lifejacket that he might be able to give a ticket on. Could not get the jacket into his hands fast enough so he could check the label. Just sad the tax grabs needed by the OPP If the jacket was in terrible condition I would understand, but just because the writing has faded on a label? I would gladly have put it on and jumped overboard but we werre in 4' of water lol At least we didn't leave empty handed. A 35", 32", and 30" pike mean about 3.60 an inch lol.

A 3-5 ton chainfall. Pulled the fully loaded sander out of a ditch this year. Slow but it will do the job.

I make my own spinnerbaits and buck tails for muskie and pike. Get to do whatever colours you want and its cheaper than buying them i find. Make my own leaders also which are way better and cheaper than anything I have found in store. Look up hagen fishing for parts also

Jean cretien promised to legalize it when he had a majority government, and yet it is still illegal. I could see Harper legalizing it for economic reasons, but not because of another promise from a liberal. Trying to steal support from the Green party won't help justin either lol

This spinnerbait, or one just like it. 10" crappie by accident, 20" largemouth, 34" pike, 46" tiger, 25" walleye are the big fish from the past 2 seasons on my spinnerbaits. Only targeting muskie and pike also.

I use a Ci4 4000 paired with a 7' extra heavy fast action st. Croix premier with 40-65lb braid. I have landed alot of pike and muskie with that rod, biggest being a 46" tiger. It is the same blank as my medium heavey muskie rod, so no worries handling big fish.

Awesome. I'd be worried of the ski running into my leg and sticking some hooks in me when it thrashes.

Nice bass as usual SBK

Thanks guys, I wish I had a good pic of it, I would say it weighed between 25-30 pounds easily. It was nice and thick. Bobogo, yeah I use my pods as extra storage for my oversize muskie lures. I work weekends now so tournament paintball is on hiatus. I wonder if it was the same fish I caught 3 years ago when it was 43" Same lure, same weather conditions and about 0.5 km apart. If not, that is a crazy population of natural tigers.

Fished Mitchell this morning and the bite was on. Only fished a few hours and boated 19 bass, 6 pike and a 44-46" tiger muskie. 90% of the action was from 5:15-7:30 Didn't get any good pictures or any girth measurements, but it was a fat tiger. my boat seat is 16" wide and it fills a little over half of the seat. A video of the release. http://s787.photobucket.com/user/nlpaintballer/media/Video002_zpsb1a417e9.mp4.html

This is the 43" it was a very angry fish and I was solo. and another small one.