Hi! You might see that there are hundreds of messages targeting me for making yet another completely reasonable point.
Don't worry about me! I'm really, really fine. I have visitors!!!! But ...
All this outrage over church burning makes me think of 3 things.
One: the church i grew up in was demolished. By the diocese. They wanted a shiny new church and despite the protests of many parishioners, our church was self-immolated.
I think of that because it's funny that destroying a church is "always bad" except when it isn't. And guess how much money the capital campaign raised for the new church that could have been paid out to victims of the church ...
Two: as i and many others have said, we do not know who is burning these churches or why. Cops, arsonists, individuals mad about church abuse or inaction are all possible.
And the RCC's refusal to atone for its sins ...
Make their buildings a target for so many different kinds of people.
Anyone who looks at these acts and claim that "this is not how you do reconciliation" is being ridiculous and should be criticized for their assumptions.
Three: guess what -- nothing is permanent and no private property is sacred. The most recent church to burn was hit by lightening. Sure, it's sad for parishoners but these private property absolutists are dangerous too ...
Because they worship at the altar of what has created so many of our problems in the first place.
Look up Ozymandias if you have to.
Anyway! As i said, I'm very fine. After your first like 8 rodeos with being swarmed by the far right, it's only annoying insofar as you cant really use twitter for a few days normally. But I'm personally well.
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Of the 26,428 people who have died in Canada from COVID-19, I've linked 17,977 deaths to 1717 residential facilities -- no change in RF deaths since Friday (with most PHUs no longer reporting on weekends. But ... docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
I've now linked 185 deaths to workplace outbreaks (123 with healthcare teased out) -- with about 17 new deaths added to York Region. These had been reported previously, I've just been able to update my own list.
I can't say where these deaths happened, though.
York region lists deaths in a global total -- there's no workplace breakdown.
There are also 8 residents of York region who have died from COVID-19 workplace outbreaks but outside York, but I can't add them as I have no way to tell if they're already represented in other data.
Of the 26,214 peopel who have died in Canada from COVID-19, I've linked 17,745 deaths to 1715 residential facilities. That's one more death since last night.
In Southwestern Ontario there seems to be a crisis among homeless shelters of COVID spread -- Windsor, Waterloo, Owen Sound (yeah that is still south) and they're all being blamed on "itinerants" or a "homeless lifestyle" rather than on a system that inexplicably ...
is still not protecting individuals who rely on others to keep their living quarters safe. And what about targeted vaccination drives? How many 13 year olds in these cities are double vaxxed while people who are at the most risk of catching COVID are blamed for spreading it?
Every year, the names of the victims of the Holocaust are read. This important act of remembrance calls alive their memories. The names are read in public spaces around the world. Thread ...
My father-in-law lost most of his family. But they know -- they know the names and they know. And though not perfectly, Germany has tried to make amends. It isn't hidden. It's a crime to deny it.
And Canada?
Discoveries of children buried by the church, buried by the state are undocumented. They were loved and never forgotten by those who loved them, but there was no public record kept of these children.
We, Canada and Canadians have never even tried to account for this. Worse...
One of the things that I've been increasingly frustrated by is how little granular data we have about where people are being vaccinated. Where are the lowest pockets? What explains the numbers there? Why aren't we tailoring re-opening plans to vaccination rates locally?
This kind of information would be valuable for so many reasons. It would give public access to early-warnings for potential fourth wave hotspots. It would also force PHUs and politicians to account for why X location's vaccination rate is so low.