2022 World Junior Championship has been cancelled (MOD: Stay on topic)

[Leafidelity]

Way to go, Alberta

 

[Jussi]

why are there so many anti vaxxers here compared to everywhere else

According to Bobby Mac, this place is full of assclowns.

 

[Dicky113]

Aren't the hospitals overwhelming with vaccinated people also?

No

 

[TampaBayLightning]

With the strict rules they have in place why did they bother, no way this was going off if a team got one covid case they had to forfeit.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Idiots. Completely avoidable if they had just used a bubble. Just an embarrassing event for the IIHF. They had ZERO fall back or second options. Just seems like the plan was seriously: no bubble, players sharing hotels with the general public, and when players got COVID just cancel the entire thing. This thing was f***ing DOOMED

 

[Jakey53]

Can they just reschedule it for some other time like the summer, maybe in a different location if they need to.

This BS hasn't changed in two years. What makes you think six months will make a difference? Time people stand up for themselves and take their life back, and not let the dumbasses in govt's, the CDC, the WHO etc. dictate what we have to do. They have been more wrong than right.

 

[MMC]

 

[MessierII]

For now. It’s like you have a goldfish memory; September wasn’t that long ago. You know, when we had to get the army to help out because hospitals were so jammed up.

We have data out of South Africa and the UK. Just because something is new here doesn’t mean it is new to the world. There is zero indication from anywhere in the world that this will put a strain on the health care system. In fact this would the safest way yet to attain herd immunity like Sweden. They have had a flat death rate even through the delta wave.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Five and a half million people are dead

I know people in North America literally don't give a shit about anyone except themselves but holy shit

in a planet with almost 8b people , shocking. You say it like 200k people die normally on earth in a normal year.
The tournament preps is just a complete joke and we all know it. Public hotel during xmas , everyone knew it was gonna go wrong.

 

[Ness]

What an embarrassment.

 

[Smif]

The third dose doesn't eliminate your chances of getting Omicron, but it does mean that if you get Covid your chances of having a severe case are greatly reduced. So if you are thinking of skipping the third shot because of a hockey tournament, maybe think again.

If that's the case we shouldn't be worried about getting Covid if we're vaccinated, and yet, here we are testing the asymptomatic doube vaxxed...

 

[Fjorden]

Blame goes to the IIHF and organizers for lack of proper protocols

Latvia managed to hold theIIHF WC 2021 at a time where not everyone was vaccinated. But they had strict rules and protocolls that were followed.

Think the hosts took to easy on covid this time.

 

[William H Bonney]

Hockey Canada and the Oilers should be on the hook for it all.

 

[Mikeaveli]

I know it would have helped my mental health to have a hockey game to look forward to during the holidays for a couple weeks, f*^** vacations and family visits and work have been cancelled it is nice to get a mental break once in a while

I don't think its good if your mental health is revolving around whether you can watch a hockey game. There are other things you can do in life. Either way the NHL is back so you can watch games if you want to

 

[islesfan3913]

Yeah I forgot the virus came with a user manual and that politicians were supposed to solve it all.

Fact is the virus is unpredictable. It makes every optimist forecast look bad. How about we blame the virus, instead of blaming health authorities who are working their a** off since 2 years trying to fight it and all of its mutations?

You’re acting like viruses in general are a brand new concept. We know about mutations and variants of viruses and have for years, it isn’t a new concept. So instead of lying to people and acting like none would ever exist, why not just come out and say that there will likely be variants that will delay things? Or, better yet, why not be honest and say we don’t know when it will end? Oh that’s right, because we want to play games and politics and lie to people in order to get things done. And then governments and the medical community act like they have no clue why people don’t listen to them.

 

[Jakey53]

Because this is all an elaborate conspiracy that nobody can actually explain beyond “I don’t trust what THEY say maaaan”.

And you do? Listening to those jackasses in the first place is why we are in this mess.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Nice job Alberta Canada! Why the f*** did you ever take on this hughe task with thoose rules you have? Holy shit..... And to also hear that 100 person has been invited to a wedding at the players hotel, that didnt had nothing to do with the players living there, i hope you will suffer hard from this you f***s!

Canada was going to win anyways

 

[Devonator]

So lame!

 

[Silky Johnson]

This BS hasn't changed in two years. What makes you think six months will make a difference? Time people stand up for themselves and take their life back, and not let the dumbasses in govt's, the CDC, the WHO etc. dictate what we have to do. They have been more wrong than right.

Yeah F&%k the CDC and WHO! I get my public health and epidemiology advice from @Jakey53 on HFBoards.

 

[Eternal Leaf]

The incompetence is shocking.

Not securing the players in a bubble is insanity and was never going to work. It's pretty much impossible considering how transmissible the variant is.

 

[MessierII]

I've got one for you too. The pandemic won't really end until vaccination is mandatory.

How? The vaccine has done nothing but stop the worst outcomes. It’s still spreading like wildfire amongst the vaccinated.

 

[StevenF1919]

Imagine. 2 years into a pandemic and some people still doesn't get it.

The point of getting vaccinated is to stop overwhelming hospitals with unvaccinated people, so we can live a normal life and hold events like the WJC.

But it doesn't work if too many people refuse vaccination. And here we are.

Angry about a disease? Blame people who refuse the cure, not the cure itself.

Alberta's hospitalization and ICU numbers have decreased over the past week, and hospital stays are getting shorter and shorter with Omicron. Our hospitalization and ICU numbers are actually at some of the lowest levels since the start of the pandemic. To blame the unvaccinated for this tournament getting cancelled is completely disingenuous. It blows my mind that people still believe that divisive BS still.

 

[bigdog16]

hospitals are being overwhelmed by unvaccinated people

if you're fully vaccinated it's been time to get on with life for a while now

Thats the point I think. Where do we go from here? 100% of players at the World Jrs were vaccinated, yet here we are

 

[WatchfulElm]

You’re acting like viruses in general are a brand new concept. We know about mutations and variants of viruses and have for years, it isn’t a new concept. So instead of lying to people and acting like none would ever exist, why not just come out and say that there will likely be variants that will delay things? Or, better yet, why not be honest and say we don’t know when it will end? Oh that’s right, because we want to play games and politics and lie to people in order to get things done. And then governments and the medical community act like they have no clue why people don’t listen to them.

Knowing that variant exist is one thing. Predicting that a new variant on a still pretty recent and misunderstood virus will come up and and derail everything, while making vaccination a little less efficient, is more in the Nostradamus ballpark which I doubt any scientific would engage himself into.

 

[Sparky93]

hospitals are being overwhelmed by unvaccinated people

if you're fully vaccinated it's been time to get on with life for a while now

You really think 320 people in hospital is overwhelming a province with 175 hospitals?