Why China Got Away With It

It gave the world a deadly virus and took no responsibility for it — and the world shrugged it off.

What can you say about a country that trashed the planet Earth with a deadly virus? That it knew what it was doing?

China has gotten away with it: businesses and industries destroyed or damaged; massive recession and unemployment; medical systems strained to the point of collapse; countries rent asunder by populism; transport systems in disarray; interruption of children’s education and development; loss of confidence in governments; rising mental illness, anger, and civil disobedience; vulnerability of the elderly and those with underlying conditions; and nearly twice as many American dead than in World War II. The full effects of COVID-19 and its variants are yet to be known.

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What was the “science” that led the CDC to suddenly change its quarantine guidance?

Until yesterday, people who tested positive were asked to isolate for 10 days. As of yesterday, people who test positive are asked to isolate for five days and then — if they have no symptoms — to mask up for the next five days if they plan to be around other people.


Hmmmmm…. Former Trump surgeon general advises public to ignore recent CDC guidance

“I love the CDC. Grew up wanting to work there and have been one of their most ardent defenders. I never dreamed the day would come when I would advise people NOT to follow their guidance,” Adams said in a tweet.

Oh Oh! – As the United States cuts isolation time for asymptomatic COVID cases in half, scientists are worried that business is being put above health.

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Heating or Eating Conundrum Solved! You Can’t Afford Either!

Majority of Canadians will change food buying habits amid rising prices: survey

A majority of Canadians say they are going to change their food buying habits as prices are projected to rise in 2022 amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

That’s according to a new report released by the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, in partnership with Caddle.

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Ontario reports 8,825 new Covid cases, well those are the ones they could count … and Omicron wants your kids and your brains!

Ontario reports 8,825 new Covid cases, well those are the ones they could count … and Omicron wants your kids and your brains!

Ontario reports 8,825 new COVID-19 cases

Ontario is reporting more than 8,800 new COVID-19 cases as the Omicron variant continues to rapidly spread across the province.

Provincial health officials logged 8,825 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday compared to 3,453 a week ago, according to a tweet from Health Minister Christine Elliott.

They don’t really know the count as many people can’t get tested even if they want to.


Omicron variant fills up children’s hospitals in the U.S.

A five-fold increase in pediatric admissions in New York City this month. Close to double the numbers admitted in Washington, D.C. And nationwide, on average, pediatric hospitalizations in the U.S. are up 35 per cent in just the past week.

The highly transmissible Omicron variant is teaming up with the busy holiday season to infect more children across the United States than ever before, and children’s hospitals are bracing for it to get even worse.


COVID virus can spread to heart, brain days after infection, study says

The virus that causes COVID-19 can spread to a patient’s heart and brain days after infection — and survive for months in organs, according to a new study that may shed light on the so-called “long COVID.”

Scientists at the US National Institutes of Health in Maryland studied tissues taken from 44 people who had died after contracting the illness during the first year of the pandemic in the US, Bloomberg News reported.

They discovered SARS-CoV-2 RNA in various parts of the body — including the heart and brain — for as long as 230 days after the onset of symptoms, according to the news outlet.

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COVID Hysteria Latest Evidence—Left Authoritarianism Is A Thing

COVID-19 has notoriously exposed the inner authoritarian among a lot of people who ordinarily claim to be liberals, e.g., New York Legislation Provides for Indefinite Detention of Unvaccinated at Governor’s Whim, by Kay Smythe, NationalFile.com, December 18, 2021. You can tell that theirs is a characteristically Left Authoritarianism because of its irrational focus on equality rather than efficacy, e.g., its refusal to look at differential racial impact and its refusal to put restrictions on key at-risk populations (the elderly, obese) rather than socializing the suffering across the entire population—because that would be (aargh!) “discrimination.” But the existence of Left Authoritarianism should not be a surprise. There’s been gathering evidence for it in the technical literature.

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COVID-19 cases in Canada top two million as hospitals brace for Omicron wave’s unknowns

Canada marked Boxing Day by crossing another COVID-19 milestone, surpassing two million total cases despite many jurisdictions not reporting numbers over the holiday weekend, and as hospitals brace for the still unknown impact on admissions.

Health care staff and governments are on edge as they wait to see whether the sharp rise in case counts will have a domino effect on hospitals and intensive-care units. A steady number of international studies show that the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 leads to fewer severe cases, but with the sheer number of infections, even a smaller ratio of people getting very sick could swamp hospitals.

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Why are some people with Omicron testing negative for COVID?

Imagine attending a Christmas or New Year’s party, learning the next day that someone there had COVID, then waking up the day after that with a sore throat, sniffles, and achiness. It wouldn’t take a genius to piece together what happened. But you’d want to be sure, so you’d reach for that rapid test you wisely purchased last month after the news about Omicron first broke, knowing that the new variant would soon be on your doorstep.

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Ontario reports 9,418 new COVID-19 cases; death and testing data not released

Ontario reports 9,418 new COVID-19 cases; death and testing data not released

Ontario reported more than 9,400 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, as demand for diagnostic testing continues to outstrip available supply.

The seven-day rolling average of new cases now stands at 7,550, up from 2,863 one week ago.


Experts concerned about hospital capacity as Omicron spread continues

OTTAWA — A rise in COVID-19 cases driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant of the virus has renewed concerns among experts about the capacity of Canada’s hospitals and health-care workers to handle another wave of the pandemic.

Paul-Emile Cloutier, president of HealthCareCAN, said the latest wave could make the existing health-care worker shortage worse. HealthCareCAN represents research hospitals and regional health authorities.

Interesting observations by this ER doc

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