Houston woman charged after allegedly isolating Covid-positive son in car trunk
HOUSTON – A mother has been charged after her 13-year-old son was found in the trunk of her car at a Cy-Fair ISD drive-thru COVID testing site, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office confirmed.
Sarah Beam has been charged with endangering a child. Cy-Fair ISD Police Department said a warrant has been issued for her arrest.
Aw c’mon I bet the kid had a ball!
As omicron sweeps through North America, the U.S. and Canadian responses couldn’t be more different. U.S. states are largely open for business, while Canada’s biggest provinces are shutting down.
The difference partly comes down to arithmetic: The U.S. health care system, which prioritizes free markets, provides more hospital beds per capita than the government-dominated Canadian system does.
“I’m not advocating for that American market-driven system,” said Bob Bell, a physician who ran Ontario’s health bureaucracy from 2014 to 2018 and oversaw Toronto’s University Health Network before that. “But I am saying that in Canada, we have restricted hospital capacity excessively.”
There is no way to make vaccination against COVID-19 truly mandatory, unless those refusing the shot are thrown in jail or physically restrained and forcibly injected. Lesser forms of coercion, such as regular fines for the unvaccinated, or existing government mandates that require vaccination in order to gain entry to, say, a restaurant, are also flagrant intrusions into Canadian’s basic rights.
Ont. says 385 COVID-19 patients now in ICU; 30 more virus-related deaths confirmed today
Ontario is reporting 30 more deaths linked to COVID-19 today, the highest daily death toll confirmed in the province since May.
Provincial health officials say there are now 2,594 patients with COVID-19 in hospital, up from 2,472 on Friday.
Officials say the number of patients with COVID-19 in intensive care jumped to 385 today, up from 338 patients on Friday. There are now 219 patients with COVID-19 breathing with the assistance of a ventilator.
There are 13,362 new cases of #COVID19.
Today’s numbers will be available at 10:30 a.m. at https://t.co/ypmgZbVRvn.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 8, 2022
Canada’s health care system ‘stretched too thin,’ health minister says, as hospitals grapple with Omicron wave
Canada’s health care system is overwhelmed, and this problem existed before the pandemic, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says.
“The capacity is stretched too thin, certainly in the current emergency context but more broadly, I think, most Canadians would agree that even before COVID-19, our capacity was often stretched too thin,” Mr. Duclos said at a briefing in Ottawa on Friday.
Mr. Duclos also said he believes provinces and territories, with the support of the federal government, will want to have a conversation over the next weeks and months about whether to make vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory. The decision would be up to the provincial and territorial governments, he said, adding that he personally thinks a mandate will be required at some point.
And a LIB MP says no booze for you!
The average number of adverse event reports following vaccination for the past 10 years has been about 39,000 annually, with an average of 155 deaths. That’s for all available vaccines combined. The COVID jabs alone now account for 983,756 adverse event reports as of December 17, 2021, including 20,622 deaths — and this doesn’t include the underreporting factor, which we know is significant.
The federal government risks hitting Canada’s fragile supply chains with another shockwave if it proceeds with a planned vaccination mandate for truckers, say the Conservatives and industry groups.
Canada’s largest school board is pushing to make mandatory vaccination a condition of returning to the classroom on Jan. 17.
In less than an hour on Thursday, Toronto District School Board trustees voted 13-4 to have the COVID-19 vaccine made compulsory under the Immunization of School Pupils Act.
Flying anywhere right now is difficult, but for those of us who are jabbed, it is at least possible. So just after Christmas I set off for America to see my family in Connecticut, armed with the NHS app technology which we were once assured would never be used as a vaccine passport. It’s now precisely that.
I tapped my phone to summon my travel credentials en route to Heathrow, but to my astonishment my vaccination status wasn’t there: ‘No Covid-19 records found.’ My ‘passport’ had been suspended.
Simply put the vaccine programs are really population control programs, because by pushing vaccines the elites are pushing vaccine passports which are the first step to creating digital ID numbers on a software platform where every subject’s personal information will eventually end up. Control of information means control of the subjects.
The real-life model for this is the Chinese social credit system.
As Omicron continues to surge through global populations with unprecedented speed, health officials in one of the world’s harder-hit countries are already sounding a note of optimism that the variant could spell humanity’s deliverance from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Steve Bannon asked me to step you through it. I’ll do that and tell you how this is validated using independent methods and also why VAERS was deliberately set up to make all vaccines look safe.
h/t Mauser98
Newly discharged conscripts to hand back items including socks and bras, to be washed and reused
Norwegian conscripts are to return their underwear after completing military service for the next recruits, as the army struggles with dwindling supplies due to Covid.
Norway, which guards Nato’s northern borders and shares a border with Russia, calls up about 8,000 young men and women for military service every year and until recently allowed newly discharged conscripts to leave barracks with the underwear they were issued.
When the pandemic begin in 2020, larger cities across Canada saw an exodus of people to small towns and rural areas. One company keeping track of such movement is U-Haul, the truck rental company for DIY movers.
Provinces are likely to introduce mandatory vaccination policies in the coming months to deal with the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said today.
“What we see now is that our health care system in Canada is fragile, our people are tired, and the only way that we know to get through COVID-19, this variant and any future variant, is through vaccination,” Duclos said.
Ontario breaks record with 2,472 COVID-19 patients in hospitals, 338 in ICU
More than 2,400 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, marking a new record for hospitalizations throughout the pandemic.
The Ministry of Health says 2,472 patients are in Ontario hospitals with the virus, up from 2,279 yesterday and breathing the previous record of 2,360 hospitalizations on Apr. 20, 2021.
There are 11,899 new cases of #COVID19.
Today’s numbers will be available at 10:30 a.m. at https://t.co/ypmgZbVRvn.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 7, 2022
Ontario’s COVID-19 case counts are unreliable, so these metrics will tell us when Omicron wanes
As the Omicron variant sweeps through Ontario at a rate never before seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly everyone wants to know when we’ll be on the other side of this wave.
But now, restrictions to PCR testing criteria mean case numbers no longer present an accurate picture of the spread of the virus — and while case counts alone were never a perfect metric, they did provide the simplest window for people to understand what was happening in their region.
