CanadaJimmy

And now for a (sadly) non parody account

Almost Canadian

It is correct. The payments cover a specific period, based upon the claimant's attestation, and if one wishes to claim for a new period, a new attestation is required. Seems sensible to me.

Almost Canadian

I believe that he may not have to as EI and CERB are different, albeit those that claim EI will be transferred to CERB. Time will tell it that simply applies to the amount they will receive, or whether the whole basis for receiving funds will also merge.

scrubbedexpat091

The government put up the new eligibility criteria online finally if anyone is interested.The Benefit is available to workers:

• Residing in Canada, who are at least 15 years old;
• Who have stopped working because of reasons related to COVID-19 or are eligible for Employment Insurance regular or sickness benefits or have exhausted their Employment Insurance regular benefits between December 29, 2019 and October 3, 2020;
• Who had employment and/or self-employment income of at least $5,000 in 2019 or in the 12 months prior to the date of their application; and,
• Who have not quit their job voluntarily.

When submitting your first claim, you cannot have earned more than $1,000 in employment and/or self-employment income for 14 or more consecutive days within the four-week benefit period of your claim.

When submitting subsequent claims, you cannot have earned more than $1,000 in employment and/or self-employment income for the entire four-week benefit period of your new claim.

Danny B

What kind of idiot does that? Never film video in portrait mode.

jimf

A promising development

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-52...newshealthcvd]

Interesting article by Niall Ferguson

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/corona-wars"Last year, the new Global Health Security Index ranked the US first and the UK second in the world in terms of their ‘global health security capabilities’. Wrong. A new league table of coronavirus health safety by the Deep Knowledge Group puts Israel, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Taiwan at the top. (Iceland deserves an honourable mention, too.)

The key point is that there are diseconomies of scale when a new pathogen is on the loose. Four of those small countries, in their different ways, had reasons to be paranoid in general and laser-focused on the danger of a coronavirus made in China. They had learned the lessons of Sars and Mers (also caused by coronaviruses). By contrast, the big global players — China, the United States and the EU — have all done terribly, each in their own distinctive way."

Paul_Shepherd

Sadly it does appear to be true, can't work out the mentality of people like that.... they think they are being smart but they are just undoing all the good work done by the rest of us. Maybe he was a crazy bog roll buyer at the start of this!
Sometimes the "Koolaid" as he puts it is essential medicine.

As Danny B says though hes obviously not very bright....filming himself in full view, not only flouting the law, but encouraging others....then posts it online! duh!!

Jerseygirl

Canada/US border closed for a further 30 days.

Danny B

Now is not the time to be shit stirring with the base Donny.

Danny B

This is a great looking COVID-19 dashboard for the BC residents. Really good numbers.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...9e3cda29297ded

Almost Canadian

Genuine question. What is good about those numbers?

Danny B

The difference in confirmed cases between Ontario & Quebec.

Almost Canadian

Do you mean when comparing confirmed cases in BC with those in Ontario and Quebec?

If so, why is having low numbers a good thing? Doesn't that mean that the restrictions will be required for a longer period of time? Isn't the best way forward to have the largest numbers possible while keeping the admissions to hospital just below their maximum capacity?

Danny B

Yes, that is exactly what I mean, the rate per 100,000 is much lower for BC.



Regarding the best way forward, this is the million dollar question that no one really knows. Can you beat COVID-19 without a lockdown? Honestly, I don't have a clue. Part of me wants to go out and catch it so that's it's over with, the other part of me says stay the hell indoors for the next 3 months until more information becomes available. Both options aren't great.

Almost Canadian

I agree.

It appears to me that, from what we can tell, those that do not require having to go to hospital have, relatively, minor symptoms, if any at all, and most people appear to fall into this category. That being the case, it appears to me that everyone should go about their normal business and those that are known to be susceptible to a more severe reaction can remain isolated and can make their own choice as to whether they wish to do so.