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Dean said
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Da 'BEEF' ❗

With some of the better cuts costing well over $40/Kg now, the Wife & I have phased out most Beef in our diets. The only exception is lean-ground, and we only buy that when it comes on sale (deep discount) as a loss-leader.

My price limit on beef and other meat is $3/lb, but I can usually get it for $2.10 or even $1, on occasion. If you wait long enough and pay attention to flyers, even some decent roasts and steaks can be found for $3/pound.

Bruford said

Of course the Government is to blame, they have the control of the purse strings. Unbridled spending and unlimited free giveaways are the culprits causing inflation. "Just"Inflation will undoubtedly continue his spendthrift ways as people will always vote for a free lunch.  

Unfortunately, in these COVID times, businesses can't survive without assistance. The options for Gov't are limited: assist financially or see thousands of businesses go under which would have a catastrophic snowball effect.
Inflation is not limited to Canada - blaming the Gov't is oversimplifying and short-sighted.

From a public health perspective and based on the advice of the medical officials I'm not sure the government originally had any choice about shutting down or restricting businesses and other establishments, did they?

And I suppose they had a choice about the spending to support us and businesses, but with today's spoiled people they really didn't have a choice either because we would have tossed them asap in favour of the parties who advocate unbridled spending as long as needed. So it starts with the people, we elect those who keep the party going no matter how.

Bruford said
Governments absolutely had a choice, it was them, backed by their willing cohorts in big tech and the media that blew this COVID disease way out of proportion.

There are two objective criteria to evaluate if health system is capable of handling current levels of coronavirus pandemics: availability of ICU beds and availability of ventilators.

When these show decline trend, the government has a window of less than 7-10 days to take more drastic measures before health system could crumble. It is no longer about just COVID: if a person gets a stroke, for example, but there is no ICU bed with ventilator available, that person might die due to inability of a health system to provide adequate care.

Of course, it does not help that in comparison to other countries, Ontario’s rate of total hospital beds per 1,000 people is among the lowest in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Ontario’s occupancy rate is the highest.