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No idea. But I suppose it could potentially provide closure to families, in some way, if identification was possible.

Ah, I understand your point, and I've had similar thoughts around John A Macdonald. Still, I understand the anger. And, we have yet to determine just how far back these bodies date.

Yes, people die. No, not all graves are marked. We don't know why or how these children died, or where they were buried (until now), and their relatives didn't know either. The horrors of the residential school system are well-known and acknowledged by the government. These children were...

Are you referring to unmarked graves? Or graveyards? Did the Canadian government or Catholic Church bury non-Indigenous bodies in unmarked graves? Should we assume that all schoolyards from, say, before 1950 have bodies buried around them?

Good catch. I was just sneaky I guess...

RMC PT toque...also fairly ridiculous.

RMC called it the "astrakhan" if I recall correctly. I preferred the dark blue toque - it was allowed to cover your ears, and looked less....ridiculous.

I don't consider your concern to be selfish at all - it isn't. My only point is that I think we are rightly concerned with vaccinating the current vulnerable demographic, rather than diverting limited resources to mitigate a hypothetical threat that has yet to materialize.

I would argue that vaccinating kids while hoping isolation measures will protect the older, vulnerable population is just as big of a gamble, if not bigger. Yes, kids are the more effective spreaders, but they are more resilient. Perhaps vaccinating the older crowd while attempting to isolate...

Very good point, but it seems to me that while vaccinating the first (younger) group first will eventually benefit the second (older, vulnerable) group, the second group will still be suffering immediate effects i.e. hospitalization and/or death, until they are vaccinated.

Yes, and we now have more than a year's worth of research and experience to inform decisions and priorities. Is it unreasonable to prioritize vaccinations based on current information (and modelling)? Does prioritizing a group that is not at risk - at the expense of a group that is - make sense?

Bit of a gamble prioritizing kids based on an as-yet hypothetical threat, at the expense of a demographic that we know is more at risk right now.

Correct. MGen St-Louis was COS of 1 CAD years ago, as a Colonel.

I believe it was MGen St-Louis at 1 CAD a few years ago, if I'm not mistaken.

While technically it's not a variant, I think "COVID 19, Chinese Variant" is much less politically-loaded than the other alternatives being debated. It will definitely be interesting to read the report on the origin of the Virus, if we ever find out.

Yes, "variant". No blame assigned or implied.

I haven't heard any doctors or researchers refer to "China Virus" or "CCP Virus". Only politicians, or those wishing to make a political statement. I also haven't heard any doctors / researchers refer to "Her Majesty's Government's Variant" or the "Brazil Virus". It's common knowledge that...

Calling COVID 19 by it's official, and widely-used name has nothing to do with politics, or one's political views. Can the same be said for referring to it as "China Virus, Wuhan Flu, CCP Virus"?

As a matter of fact, the naming convention has changed. Back in 2015. https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-practices-for-naming-new-human-infectious-diseases

Perhaps the fact that "Chinese" refers not only to a nationality, but also to an ethnicity is why there is more sensitivity surrounding proper nomenclature for this virus.