My health minister says that transmission of Covid19 from Amazon packages is low, is it normal not to believe her?

No one should be other than at least mildly skeptical about what bureaucrats say and extremely skeptical about what politicians say.

Your well being is not high on their list of priorities.

WOW! You and I agree on something, what is this world coming to?^^

This is exactly the truth regarding ANY issue. Profits MUST take precedence over the welfare of those required to generate them. This is the basic requirement regarding the entire ball of wax. Now some places are better than others when it comes to the thickness of the veneer concealing this basic truth. You can actually see the evidence. Who closes last —who opens first?

Best answer today @stanleybmanly .

As for the majority, abnormal. Normal for less than 25% of the populace.

In a comparative sense, getting covid from a package is a very tiny (but non-zero) likelihood.

90 deaths out of 4,371,000 people (population of Alberta) is 0.002059025, or less than one tenth of one percent.

So she is accurate. The numbers are low.

What is your issue?

@elbanditoroso If the government reacted sooner, (or not been trusted) than those 90 would could still be alive. The minister was in a position of trust. Doctors who are pushing the “we know best” should be reconsidered in how much power that they are given.

My issue is that I was fooled and trusted the government for truth. If I hadn’t been doing doomsday prepping as a hobby I would have been in a worse situation.

I’m good now. Lots of food and drink. Full pantries and freezers and a full fridge.
30 rolls of toilet paper left from a December order from Amazon.

I am trying to overcome my naivety in drinking the government Kool-aide. Next time I hear the word low in a risk assessment I will reconsider from my own judgement. Either to stock up on essentials or whatever.

I guess in the future government should or could explain what they mean by low medium and high risk?

I say read a lot of the research and then think quite a bit for yourself.

What I do is let anything that doesn’t need to be refrigerated to sit for 3–4 days in my foyer. I bring it in the house, wash my hands and ignore the new package. Then, 4 days later, I feel it’s safe to touch. You could additionally wipe it down with disinfectant if you want. I do this with my mail, I put it in a paper shopping bag then let it sit for 4 days before I read it. I only pick up my mail on Sunday so it hasn’t been touched for a day already.

When I lift a package, if I need to hold it against my body, I take off my shirt immediately after while wearing a mask so the shirt doesn’t touch my nose or mouth. I’m starting to think the next time I shop for clothing I’m buying some button down or zipper shirts.

I’m no expert, I’m just telling you what I do. I try to use less disinfectant if possible. That’s why I use time to disinfect things when I can. Some people put items in direct sunlight, but you’re very north, so that’s probably out.

Even this epidemic shakes down to issues of left vs. right, urban vs. rural, reason vs. whatever is left. Free Michigan just happens to coincide with assault rifles, swastikas and Confederate flags. Accident? The failure to appreciate the implications of this disease by those advocating the resumption of business as usual genuinely puzzles me. The economy is indeed in for a wrecking. Might that fact have been avoided? Or is the best deal to consider covid casualties inevitable, just a variation on our usual cold and flu season, take our lumps, and reopen the football stadiums and gun shows, take our lumps and move on? My one observation on this epidemic for those in the redlands is this: you can bet your ass that anything afflicting crowded urban environments is headed your way. You have only to look at all the other epidemics— the opioid, meth or mass shooting fads to appreciate where this is headed and who is going to suffer disproportionately for it. It might be a good idea to look at the current death and contagion rates in NYC and California NOW and contemplate what is in store for those parts of our country distinguished already for their acute shortage of physicians and their plague of shuttered and closing hospitals. The delusion that it is the population centers that will pay the heaviest price and suffer most must be resisted like death itself. The figures on who is dying NOW and WHERE they are dying are only predictions of what is to come. And as with any and all national disasters, from the dope epidemic to the rise of the rust belt or death of the family farm, it’s rural and small town America that withers. Anyone expecting otherwise, should look at what’s going on and understand that we are indeed all in this together.

Look for corroborating evidence. It’s out there. Read critically.

Here in the US, Dr Fauci said the same thing. He also said the same on carryout containers. He seemed to be a man with a lot of knowledge & honesty; however, I learned a long time ago that when people use the words “should be”, “could be”, “might be”, “may be”, or “possibly/probably”, that I’m getting ready to hear a lie!!! That’s one of the reasons our prez makes me so nervous. He uses ALL those words a lot!!! With the pandemic, I’ve added the words “low probability” to my list of words to avoid at all cost!!!

I don’t blame you for feeling nervous when you hear the word “low” as it makes me feel a little skitish as well!!!