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Armed(?) elderly man shot after not wearing mask & hostile acts (Canadian community) - C C - Jul 16, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fatal-haliburton-shooting-siu-1.5650761 https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/siu-investigates-police-shooting-of-man-73 EXCERPTS: Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after officers fatally shot a 73-year-old man in Haliburton County on Wednesday morning. The man had refused to wear a mask and allegedly assaulted a grocery store employee before driving away, Ontario Provincial Police say. [...] Based on the licence plate, officers made their way to a home ... Outside the home there was an "interaction," and two police officers fired their guns, the SIU said. [...] after shots were fired, "additional resources" were brought to the area near Eagle Lake, by the village of Haliburton, about 215 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The man was shot and taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:47 a.m. ... a semi-automatic rifle and a pistol were found at the scene ... OPP Sgt. Jason Folz could not confirm if the victim had a weapon. [...] Tianna Frances, a worker at the Valu-Mart in Minden, said ... "When I got here everyone was talking about it," Frances said. "My coworkers were a little bit shaken up, yes." Frances was told that the man didn't want to wear a mask ... "I guess he just got angry and didn't want to. We couldn't really deal with that ourselves because it's really against the rules. So we had to call the police and everything," Frances said. ... The policy, "Use of Non-Medical Masks in Commercial Establishments," took effect on 12:01 am on Monday. It's causing chaos, she said. "If we didn't have to force him and ... tell him that he couldn't come into the store, nothing would have happened, really. He would have got his groceries and went along with his day." (MORE - details) RE: Armed(?) elderly man shot after not wearing mask & hostile acts (Canadian community) - Syne - Jul 16, 2020 Mandatory masks is nonsense fueled by fearmongering over the meaningless rise in cases. The deaths remain largely stable or dropping and even ICU deaths are down. That literally means that herd immunity is working, and some of the increase in cases could also be an artifact of increased testing. RE: Armed(?) elderly man shot after not wearing mask & hostile acts (Canadian community) - Magical Realist - Jul 17, 2020 "Even if infection with the COVID-19 virus creates long-lasting immunity, a large number of people would have to become infected to reach the herd immunity threshold. Experts estimate that in the U.S., 70% of the population — more than 200 million people — would have to recover from COVID-19 to halt the epidemic. If many people become sick with COVID-19 at once, the health care system could quickly become overwhelmed. This amount of infection could also lead to serious complications and millions of deaths, especially among older people and those who have chronic conditions." https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/herd-immunity-and-covid-19-what-you-need-to-know/ RE: Armed(?) elderly man shot after not wearing mask & hostile acts (Canadian community) - Syne - Jul 17, 2020 "Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine argues that it is wrong to assume that herd immunity will only be achieved when 60 per cent of people have been infected. It is more likely, they argue, that the true figure lies between 10 and 20 per cent." |