Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Hey, When Is That Flattening Thing Supposed to Happen?

When something becomes a trend, you know it's empty:

A lengthy negotiation over Parliament’s return came to an end Monday, as the Liberals supported by the Bloc Québécois and the NDP passed new rules for how the House of Commons will meet during the COVID-19 crisis.

Parliament will resume regular sittings next week after a motion passed, over Conservative objections, to have the House sit once a week on Wednesdays in person and twice a week virtually on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The Wednesday sitting will include a two-hour-and-15-minute session for questioning cabinet ministers, and another session for debating new legislation, should it be required. The government has also agreed to provide any new legislation it intends to pass to Parliament 48 hours in advance.

The Tuesday and Thursday sessions will happen virtually and last 90 minutes. These new sittings will begin next week on April 28, at first with just the Tuesday and Wednesday sittings and then expanding to Thursday.

Alright. MPs should only be paid for the Wednesdays they show up.

That's how it works for the proles.




Why wasn't this done earlier? I thought that the whole point was to contain and stop the spread:
The United States will temporarily suspend immigration amid COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday.

Trump, who made the announcement in a tweet Monday night, said that he would signing an executive order to suspend immigration to the U.S.



Just as one suspected. The Trudeau government was as serious about stopping illegal border crossings as they were about anything else its has lied about:

The federal public safety minister says fewer than 10 asylum seekers have been turned back to the U.S. since the historic shutdown of the border. ...

Figures published today by the Immigration Department suggest, however, that the flow of people prior to that remained relatively steady.

The RCMP intercepted 930 people crossing irregularly in Canada in March, down from 1,002 the same month last year.

So far this year, 3,035 people have been intercepted crossing between formal border points, up from 2,698 in the first three months of 2019.



Some people dream of being the heroes they clearly are not:

As it stands, officers on patrol seem to have no problem finding enough behaviour to correct. The municipal 311 telephone hotline has fielded hundreds of snitch calls as it is. There is no need to make it simpler, to eliminate even the need to speak to another human being while ratting out fellow citizens, to further encourage people who really just want to settle scores and make others’ lives as miserable as possible. It’s a strategy that can only undermine the public’s trust in government, and in each other, at a time when that would be the worst possible outcome.



Sadly, the world will never be rid of such vile creatures. That's why openly challenging them and marginalising their morally reprehensible beliefs should be the task of every educated individual on the planet. Let the dolts speak if they must but, please - refute!:

Within the last week alone, a memorial tree honouring Holocaust victim Anne Frank was vandalized in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Temple Emanu-El in Sarasota, Fla., was spray painted with swastikas and a Nazi flag with the word “COVID-19” was flown from a communications tower in Kyabram, Australia. In addition, numerous Jewish organizations such as the Jewish news website The Forward and the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation have been “Zoombombed” with anti-Semitic content, while far right voices, extremist clerics and terrorist organizations from Europe to the Middle East have blamed the virus on Jews.



God bless their mask-making hearts!:

The government wants to send personal protective equipment to foreign Korean War veterans, who are now very old, to help protect them against coronavirus. 

The priority is on veterans of the 1950-53 war and their families in countries with weak healthcare systems like Ethiopia, which was then part of the UN coalition.

A senior Foreign Ministry official told reporters Monday, "Top priority should be given to Korean War veterans since they have special relationships with our country."

"All of them are very old and therefore more susceptible to the virus," he added. "Every year, we send them various kinds of support, and this time we're discussing sending face masks."

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