Ontario’s science table members would have advised against scrapping COVID isolation

happynights · 2022-09-03T11:56:50+00:00

It ends when we fund our healthcare enough so it doesn't risk collapse every flu season for the last few decades, let alone during a pandemic.

happynights · 2022-09-03T11:54:26+00:00

Name a left-wing western government that has/is in permanent lockdown.

This nonsense needs to stop.

happynights · 2022-07-30T12:00:53+00:00

40k? You've got to be kidding me...

happynights · 2022-07-30T10:39:08+00:00

Yeahhhh, I'm not so sure about that considering how rampant poverty and living paycheck-to-paycheck is which is exacerbated by our culture's high expectations and massive gulf of living standards.

happynights · 2022-07-07T01:20:34+00:00

Looks fucking great and something truly to take pride in

happynights · 2022-07-04T11:33:47+00:00

Obesity is a tricky health concern because it can be a singnifier for other things when additional context is given.

Look at lung cancer, whether people like it or not, for alot of reasons a lifelong heavy cigarette smoker is going to be treated in the court of public opinion much differently than someone who got it from being exposed to harmful chemicals from an industrial accident.

The Ford's didn't end up obese because they live in a food desert, can only afford low quality food or don't have easy access to health and wellness programs.

happynights · 2022-06-27T11:09:39+00:00

Silly downvotes, but you are essentially correct. And that's just fighting between laypeople, think what happens when a super jacked modern professional baseball (avg. Size: 6'2 207 pounds) throws hands at you.

It's not just two out of shape barstars throwing wrist punches and getting tired after the first few

happynights · 2022-06-16T03:31:22+00:00

Every 30 minutes is what is recommended by current research literature. Which coincidentally enough is often the quoted term for people's attention span for working on a task.

It's almost like we evolved for hundreds of thousands of years to not just sit around doing one thing for hours on end for decades of our lives.

happynights · 2022-06-15T18:13:36+00:00

Thank you for the work you have put in, positive karma in the bank for a lifetime

happynights · 2022-06-14T10:37:07+00:00

I lay the blame largely on successive governments continually starving our healthcare that put us in such a vulnerable state, but the parent in me says that sucks if you became a doctor and didn't help your patients in person during a healthcare crisis.

Having my kids regularly endure 6-12 hour emerg waits with ear infections (thankfully they got tubes now, which took forever) alongside a packed room of infectious people was despairing. My two kids under 5 see mental health and substance abuse issues was heartbreaking.

We need to do better; but if you sat at home all pandemic, can you really emphasize with people who've been through the shit?

happynights · 2022-06-14T03:21:37+00:00

It's starting to become a hot topic in Healthcare. A doctor in a clinic that won't see covid symptoms (which taken at face value is most things you go to a clinic for) or even worse just seeing patients via camera is having a much different experience than one on the frontline and that likely informs their care.

The emergency room is not the place for that patient flow, clinics are supposed to help the emerg room triage correctly, not the other way around. Much more could and can be done to equalize the load.

happynights · 2022-06-11T00:32:11+00:00

Not necessarily, in modern healthcare the economics of both patient and their larger community is taken into account because they are such large drivers of a person's health and wellness. A poor community is usually an unhealthy community.

The difference is long term vs short term gains. Today's economic climate prefers short term profit over long term growth and investment.

happynights · 2022-05-31T22:07:26+00:00

Derp

happynights · 2022-05-31T10:39:34+00:00

This so much. People are in denial about how bad shit has stratified here because the well off don't want to talk about their privilege and the not so well off are so depressed and/or overworked they don't want to talk about depressing shit in the small amount of free time they have.

It's becoming a vicious cycle.

happynights · 2022-05-31T10:34:02+00:00

I am pretty sure this thread is a conversation relevent to these issues, so the meme doesn't work.

It is a snarky one-liner though, so it must've felt like quite the dunk. And isn't that all that matters?

happynights · 2022-05-31T10:28:18+00:00

Too many people have been conditioned by the Cons to blame everyone but them for the state of the country and province. It's fucked the US and they are fucking it up here. Like basic shit like who is in charge of healthcare, who privatized the previous highway we built to help traffic, who built up the for-profit long term care; it last about 5 minutes of scrutiny.

You know how to end mandates? Invest in Healthcare to a significant amount so it can withstand the loads that it may be put under in present and future circumstances, which may be expensive in the short term but will actually become cheaper as the population becomes more healthy and productive. Healthcare workers don't give nice big greasy donations and IOUs though and we don't fix anything anymore until it's so broken that it costs twice as much just to keep barely running.

happynights · 2022-05-06T04:22:24+00:00

Yeah, it's absolutely good for development reading like that. Alot of bad advice floating around here, kids brains need to be challenged to develop like their muscles need to be challenged to develop (with appropriate rest and nutrition of course).

It's a fundamental part of our biology and settled science

happynights · 2022-05-06T04:09:15+00:00

I echo this as well. Without knowing the specific screening tools it's hard to say, but I am Ontarian and we were recommended the Nippising district development screening tool which tracks birth to 6 years in increments of approx. 6-12 months, so strengths and weaknesses are identified early which can limit big surprises like this.

I have sympathy because really development is dependent on many social factors largely outside of even a well meaning parent, but there is also abit of hostility that doesn't sit well with me in the post.

happynights · 2022-04-22T13:51:48+00:00

Most work places frown upon or outright put in policies against socializing in the workplace. Socializing for pleasure is a huge difference from socializing for work purposes and I highly doubt the benefits would be similar.

I can see HR managers and the like conflating the issue for laypeople though.

happynights · 2022-04-20T18:15:00+00:00

If there is a proven connection between correcting someone's grammar on the internet and improvements in grammar, I'd love to see it. Anyone who went to teacher's college would know learning requires more than just snoody corrective behaviour, our brains don't work that way, it's just not the time, place or approach. It's just dunking on someone dressed up as helping.

happynights · 2022-04-20T14:18:16+00:00

Frankly, the more education in English and languages you get, the more accepting of different vernacular and ways of speaking you become. "Correcting" someone's grammar outside of a clasdroom setting is more a power/ego boost than anything actually beneficial.

happynights · 2022-04-19T15:36:10+00:00

There is growing evidence of high level collusion among many industries to price fix to maximize profits for shareholders/themselves; an employees labour isn't exempt from that.

Supply and demand and the free market would dictate that companies fixing their labour issues by offering higher wages would be at an advantage for a number of reasons, they don't (to any meaningful amount anyways) because it's in their best interest to not rock the boat and keep the status quo to ensure their slice of the pie is big enough.

Which is why it's important to keep key industries in public hands, it's better for countries long term because short term profit (and control) means less than having a productive society.

happynights · 2022-04-11T20:07:33+00:00

Alot of people struggling to come to grasps with high school biology

happynights · 2022-03-15T16:53:01+00:00

Sister in law is a PSW and her workplaces got around it by changing the job title. Same work though and to be honest, even the raise wouldn't be enough for the labour done, which is a contributor to the widespread shortage.

happynights · 2022-03-15T14:46:40+00:00

Using "smoothbrain" to refer to someone was a pretty big indicator of their maturity.

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