Comments by "Darlene" (@darlene2709) on "CBC News" channel.

  1. Fox News told its gullible audience one thing publicly while privately knowing that the opposite was true. “He’s acting like an insane person,” Hannity allegedly wrote of Trump in the weeks following the election as the host continued to push the so-called “big lie” during his top-rated prime time show, aided by a succession of election deniers he had on as guests. Even billionaire Fox owner Rupert Murdoch was dismissive of the former president’s false allegations, the filing alleges, calling them “really crazy stuff” in one memo to a Fox News executive, and criticizing Trump’s scattergun approach of pursuing lawsuits in numerous states to try to overturn his defeat. It was “very hard to credibly claim foul everywhere”, Murdoch wrote, adding in another note that Trump’s obsession with trying to prove fraud was “terrible stuff damaging everybody”. Meanwhile, Carlson, one of the network’s most prominent and controversial stars, was disdainful of Sidney Powell, a senior Trump attorney who repeatedly claimed Dominion’s machines flipped votes cast for Trump to Joe Biden. “Sidney Powell is lying,” he wrote to a producer, the Dominion lawsuit alleges. He referred to Powell in a text as an “unguided missile” and “dangerous as hell”. Fellow host Ingraham told Carlson that Powell was “a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy,” referring to the former New York mayor and Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani. Hannity, meanwhile, said in a deposition “that whole narrative that Sidney was pushing, I did not believe it for one second."
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  2. Canada's pandemic response, including following health measures as well as getting vaccinated, was successful based on the only measure that counts: deaths. US deaths from COVID-19: over 1.1 million. Canadian deaths from COVID-19: over 52,000. Those annoying restrictions and the vaccines saved many lives. You should acknowledge that. The incessant whining about health measures, the ridiculous conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the misinformation about the vaccines is tiresome.
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  3. According to the American Association of Gynecologists and Obstetricians, you are wrong. "Why should I get the COVID-19 vaccine while I'm pregnant? Pregnant women have a higher risk of more severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19) than nonpregnant women. Getting vaccinated may protect you from severe illness. Vaccination also may help protect your fetus. ACOG recommends that all pregnant women be vaccinated against COVID-19. If you are pregnant and want to know more about the vaccines, talk with your obstetrician–gynecologist (ob-gyn). This conversation is not required to get a vaccine, but it may be helpful."
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  4.  @RaveDave871  That's a silly question which proves that you are silly.
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  5. Both of those treatments have been proven ineffective. The pills from Merck and Pfizer are not for you. According to the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers code of conduct, you have to wait 5 to 10 years to try a treatment.
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  6. @Harley Mann We good people choose to ignore your advice. Thanks for your concern.
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  7. Climate and weather are different. Climate change is about extreme weather events happening more often than usual. It's not necessary to believe everything that climate change activists say because they tend to exaggerate in the same way that climate change deniers do. That doesn't mean that we should not make an effort to look after the planet in reasonable ways. There is a middle ground between climate apocalypse and climate change denial.
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  8. "The vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind,” Trump said. “I came up with a vaccine — with three vaccines — all are very, very good … in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years.” “And if you take the vaccine, you’re protected," Trump went on. "The results of the vaccine are very good. And if you do get it, it’s a very minor form. People aren’t dying when they take their vaccine. The vaccine worked, but some people aren’t taking it,” he said. “The ones that get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones who don’t take their vaccine.”
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  9. That's what Robert LaMay said and then he died. See his interview on Fox News. It didn't age well.
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  10. Shouldn't Edmonton and Calgary be allowed to separate from Alberta if they are unhappy with provincial laws?
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  11. See Myanmar.
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  12. Stop getting your news from Facebook. "Social media users are falsely claiming that Europe has completely banned the use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in young people." Reuters
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  13. Only a gullible rube would fall for the following claim. Sherri Tenpenny, a Cleveland-based doctor invited as an expert witness to a hearing in the Ohio House, had a grave warning for legislators about coronavirus vaccines. The anti-vaccination advocate known for spreading unfounded claims falsely told legislators that the drugs could leave people “magnetized.
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  14. Russian troll.
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  15. No one should guarantee anything. The more someone claims to know everything, the more skeptical you should be.
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  16. Canada's pandemic response, including following health measures as well as getting vaccinated, was successful based on the only measure that counts: deaths. US deaths from COVID-19: over 1.1 million. Canadian deaths from COVID-19: over 52,000. Those annoying restrictions saved many lives. You should acknowledge that. The incessant whining about health measures, the ridiculous conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the misinformation about the vaccines is tiresome.
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  17. No. We are definitely past that. If it was a planned event, that would make it the best conspiracy of all time involving the cooperation of every country (except for North Korea until just recently), all the media (except for Fox News) in every country, and all the medical community (except for the experts Dr. Kyrie Irving and Dr. Aaron Rodgers). Even if it turns out that you are right, that absolutely doesn't change the fact that the objective was and continues to be to limit hospitalizations and deaths with all available tools.
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  18. "The most reliable test is the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), which Catton calls the “gold standard detection method” for the coronavirus. Many companies and most public labs use RT-PCR. The tests have a 96% accuracy rate for negative samples and a 100% accuracy rate for positive samples, according to researchers at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, a global health nonprofit." Fortune Magazine
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  19. US deaths from COVID-19: over 900,000. Canadian deaths from COVID-19: 35,000. If deaths from COVID-19 was an Olympic sport, the United States would get the gold medal.
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  20. US deaths from COVID-19: over 900,000. Canadian deaths from COVID-19: 35,000. If deaths from COVID-19 was an Olympic sport, the United States would get the gold medal.
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  21. You are obviously waiting for Dr. Kyrie Irving and Dr. Aaron Rodgers to weigh in.
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  22. Any incentives given to encourage vaccination were in response to all the misinformation meant to discourage vaccination.
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  23. That is an obvious conspiracy theory. Don't be so gullible.
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  24. Canada's response to the pandemic (following health measures and getting vaccinated) has been quite successful based on the only measure that counts: deaths. US deaths from COVID-19: over one million. Canadian deaths from COVID-19: over 45,000. To date, 84% of Canadians are fully vaccinated compared to 68% of Americans.
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  25. Matthew Martinez, a sports cardiologist with the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League and Major League Soccer and who is director of sports cardiology at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey said he was not aware of a single COVID vaccine-related cardiac complication in professional sports. The National Commotio Cordis Registry reported 224 cases between 1995 and 2010, according to a 2010 New England Journal of Medicine article, though many cases likely go unrecorded.
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  26. What's the lie and how do you know that?
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  27. Time for Aunty Woke to have a nap.
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  28. Smith should pay attention. You can be popular with the base but unelectable by the rest of the voters. See if you can spot the Conservative party pattern. In Great Britain: Theresa May to Boris Johnson to Liz Truss to Rishi Sunak. In Canada: Andrew Scheer to Erin O'Toole to Pierre Poilievre.
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  29. "Trudeau broke ethics rules not the law for which the ethics commissioner determined any penalties that would be required. Justin Trudeau is Prime Minister because Canadians (of all political stripes) are sophisticated enough to put this family holiday to Aga Khan’s island into perspective given, as the Dawson’s report notes, that there is no evidence Trudeau actually advanced the private interest of the Aga Khan or any institution he controls. On top of which the Aga Khan is hardly some shadowy Darth Vader character, but rather a community leader of some importance in the Islamic world. As well the whole thing happened out in the open, and while it certainly demonstrates poor political judgment, this is no backroom deal level corruption, by any means. Trudeau, has, and will continue to suffer from this scandal for awhile, as so he should, but calls to remove him from office are premature at best." Reuters
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  30. How did you get played? Spare no details and include the evidence.
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  31. We scored the top spot in "Quality of Life" and "Social Purpose," too. It looks like our country gained some serious bragging rights this year according to the 2021 "Best Countries in the World" U.S. News report, where Canada ranked number one overall.
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  32. It's better to not be infected in the first place.
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  33. What truth would that be?
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  34.  @normjones7647  Here’s a bs narrative. Sheri Tenpenny, a Cleveland-based doctor was invited as an expert witness to a hearing in the Ohio House. She had a warning for legislators about coronavirus vaccines. The anti-vaccination advocate known for spreading unfounded claims falsely told legislators that the drugs could leave people magnetized. No one who got vaccinated is stuck to their refrigerator.
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  35. In the 1983 film Scarface, one of the movie's most memorable quotes was Elvira Hancock's advice to Tony Montana on selling drugs: "Don't get high on your own supply" — advice that Tony Montana famously ignored and ultimately paid the price for.
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  36. Firefighters understand that they will be called upon to put out fires. They would prefer not to do that. It's probably the same with nurses and doctors.
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  37. Canada's pandemic response, including following health measures as well as getting vaccinated, was quite successful based on the only measure that counts: deaths. US deaths from COVID-19: over 1.1 million. Canadian deaths from COVID-19: over 52,000. Those annoying restrictions saved many lives. You should acknowledge that. The incessant whining about health measures, the ridiculous conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the misinformation about the vaccines is tiresome.
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  38. The same consequences should apply to Biden and Trump. There are differences. Trump was served a warrant after he refused to turn over the documents. Biden's lawyers found the documents and immediately turned them over.
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  39. ​ @jenniferbombard8211 How was asking kids to wear a mask child abuse?
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  40. ​ @fabios.8153 Why would you need to wear a mask in your own home?
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  41.  @jenniferbombard8211  That doesn't answer the question. Exactly how is it child abuse? "There have been concerns by some parents that they don't want their kids wearing masks because they believe their child will be inhaling their own carbon dioxide with prolonged mask wearing and that will cause oxygen deprivation. Some say that children will inhale up to six times the safe limit of carbon dioxide. "Here's the science behind the truth. Carbon dioxide poisoning or hypercapnia from re-breathing the air we normally breathe out doesn't happen because carbon dioxide molecules are extremely small, even smaller than the respiratory droplets, which is what we are protecting against when we wear the masks. They cannot be trapped by cloth or medical masks or any sort of breathable fabric. Those tiny molecules just pass right through the material. Surgeons, nurses, respiratory therapists, all of us in the medical profession, in fact, wear our masks for hours and hours during the day. Studies done by having surgeons wear oxygen monitors during their entire time in the operating rooms show that masks have no effect on the amount of oxygen they have in their bodies." Utah Healthcare
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  42. "The vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind,” Trump said. “I came up with a vaccine — with three vaccines — all are very, very good … in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years.” “And if you take the vaccine, you’re protected," Trump went on. "The results of the vaccine are very good. And if you do get it, it’s a very minor form. People aren’t dying when they take their vaccine. The vaccine worked, but some people aren’t taking it,” he said. “The ones that get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones who don’t take their vaccine.”
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  43. Trump's company was convicted of stealing taxpayer money.
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  44. "The vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind,” Trump said. “I came up with a vaccine — with three vaccines — all are very, very good … in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years.” “And if you take the vaccine, you’re protected," Trump went on. "The results of the vaccine are very good. And if you do get it, it’s a very minor form. People aren’t dying when they take their vaccine. The vaccine worked, but some people aren’t taking it,” he said. “The ones that get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones who don’t take their vaccine.”
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  45. Proponents of minority governments look fondly at the 1960s when Lester B. Pearson won back-to-back minorities that forced deal-brokering with the New Democratic Party. That era was the bedrock of the Canadian social safety net, with the Pearson Liberals advancing national medicare, Canada student loans and the Canada Pension Program.
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  46. The Fifth Amendment says to the federal government that no one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law." The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, uses the same eleven words, called the Due Process Clause, to describe a legal obligation of all states.
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  47. I think you meant "slime".
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  48. That is funny because it describes everyone who does not take the pandemic seriously. Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are definitely moronic.
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  49. You are conflating two unrelated issues. Heroin used to be added to children's cough medicine. We don't do that anymore because we know better.
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  50.  @s.a.t419  That is all the opposite of true.
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