There was also widespread concern expressed about gathering with unvaccinated individuals. Only about 25 per cent of respondents said that they would be comfortable doing so.
“China eats weird animals disease”
Covid Omicron: Variant will push Europe hospitals towards brink, says WHO
A surge of Omicron cases will push European health systems towards the brink, the World Health Organization’s top official in the continent has warned.
Hans Kluge said “another storm” was coming and governments should brace for significant increases in cases.
His warning came as several countries re-imposed social distancing restrictions.
Ontario may soon have to ‘put some limitations’ on PCR testing amid surging case counts, top health official says
Ontario may soon have to “put some limitations” on PCR testing in order to ensure there are sufficient resources on hand to respond to outbreaks and protect long-term care facilities, the province’s top public health official says.
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore made the comment during a briefing on Tuesday afternoon, as Ontarians continued to report days-long waits to access a PCR test.
… Ontario’s positivity rate has risen from approximately three per cent at the beginning of the month to a recent high of 9.9 per cent over the last 24 hours, something that Moore said is a “clear signal” that we are “under testing” and that COVID-19 is spreading more widely in the community than we might realized.
But it is unlikely that Ontario will be able to significantly increase its testing capacity, given staffing constraints in its labs.
Otherwise they were quite happy with the ChiCom slave state…
NHL players won’t go to Beijing Olympics amid COVID-19 concerns: reports
The National Hockey League and National Hockey League Players’ Association have reached an agreement to not send its players to participate in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in February, according to reports from The Toronto Star’s Chris Johnston and Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli.
This was inevitable.
Canada will miss COVID-19 cases as testing systems become overwhelmed: experts
Daniel Bear would like to get a COVID-19 test. “I know I have COVID,” the father from Toronto told Global News on Tuesday.
He’s taken five rapid tests since his nose started running nearly a week ago. At first, they were negative, he said. But on Sunday when his symptoms got worse, he took another, and it was positive. He’s had two more positive tests since.
Inside the Omicron fear factory
Public health chiefs and the media are working overtime to gin up hysteria
In March 2020, a profile of the typical Covid victim emerged from Italy. The average decedent was eighty years old, with approximately three comorbidities such as heart disease, obesity or diabetes. The young had little to worry about; the survival rate for the vast majority of the population was well over 99 percent.
That portrait never significantly changed. The early assessments of Covid out of Italy have remained valid through today. And so it will prove with the Omicron variant.
BREAKING: B.C. shuts down all indoor gatherings, including Christmas and New Years parties.
BREAKING: B.C. shuts down all indoor gatherings, including Christmas and New Years parties. pic.twitter.com/SOTjICIKqq
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) December 21, 2021
CNN Loved The ‘Kill Shot’ Metaphor Until Fox News’ Jesse Watters Used It Against Fauci
CNN frequently uses the “kill shot” metaphor in its coverage, but after Fox News’ Jesse Watters used the same rhetoric at a Turning Point USA conference to make a point about tyrannical health bureaucrats, the corporate media network is throwing a hissy fit.
Over the weekend, Watters implored college students to confront Dr. Anthony Fauci about the havoc he has wreaked on the American public by lying during the pandemic.
Full video that shows Fauci & CNN are lying to smear @JesseBWatters.
Fauci is so soft & arrogant that he wants Watters FIRED for saying people should ask Fauci about lying under oath RE Gain of Function Research. Sounds like an attack on the free press!pic.twitter.com/SIaxYuj2LR
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 21, 2021
CDC ‘examining’ definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ as Omicron spreads
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the agency is reviewing its definition of how many COVID-19 shots are necessary to be considered “fully vaccinated” — as experts fear that the original vaccine regimens don’t provide enough protection against the Omicron variant.
‘Ill-considered’ vaccine deal quashed by China cost Canadian taxpayers $250,000 for aborted study
China’s decision to effectively quash a deal for Canada to test and produce a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine cost the government more than a quarter-million dollars, newly released figures indicates.
The National Research Council (NRC) paid Dalhousie University $253,997 to conduct a clinical trial of the CanSino Biologics vaccine last year — though the trial had to be called off before any patients were actually treated, a disclosure document posted online says.
GOLDSTEIN: Pandemic exposed the myths of Canadian health care
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again revealed that Canadians pay among the highest costs in the developed world for health care, in return for mediocre results judged by international standards.
Clearly, we need meaningful and sensible reforms, not more political nostrums that Canadian health care is “free” and “the best in the world”.
It isn’t free, and it hasn’t been the best in the world — if it ever was — for a long time.
China Planning the Ultimate Genocide; Biden Responding with Empty Words
President Joe Biden on December 15 “smirked and walked away” when a reporter wanted to know why he has not asked Beijing “to do more to be transparent on the origins” of COVID-19.
China’s coronavirus has now killed more than 806,400 Americans, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
China lied about the contagiousness of COVID-19 and then, while locking down China, pressured other countries to take arrivals from its soil without restrictions or quarantines.
Tories boycott security committee over Trudeau refusal to release docs on fired ChiCom scientists
OTTAWA — Erin O’Toole is refusing to name Conservative members to the national security and intelligence committee of parliamentarians.
The Conservative leader pulled his party’s MPs from the committee last spring to protest the Liberal government’s refusal to hand over unredacted documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest security laboratory.
Ontario reports 3,453 new Covid cases of which 2500 are allegedly fully vaxxed … Tam Speaks and good luck bookin a booster!
Ontario reports 3,453 new COVID-19 cases, 10 more deaths
Among the latest cases, 673 of today’s cases are unvaccinated individuals, 132 are partially vaccinated, 148 have an unknown vaccination status and 2,500 are fully vaccinated.
Note people are having difficulty booking tests leading to speculation that the true count is much higher.
Reduce contacts now or hospitals will be overwhelmed by Omicron, says Tam
Canada’s chief public health officer says this will not be the holiday season Canadians were hoping for, warning people that if they don’t reduce their contacts over the next several weeks, the country’s hospitals will be overwhelmed.
Dr. Theresa Tam told The National’s Andrew Chang on Monday that now is not the time to be gathering in big numbers.
“Even if Omicron happens to be milder than the previous virus variants, because it’s spreading so rapidly … even a small proportion of people winding up in hospital is going to overwhelm our systems.”
Ford created stampede for boosters but failed to have staff to deliver them
… Come Monday, big surprise, booster shots were either difficult or impossible to book. People booking through Toronto Public Health were offered times in February. Ottawa Public Health had no appointments available through its site Monday. A search of Ottawa and Toronto pharmacy web sites revealed some appointments in February and March.
There is a major disconnect between the provincial government’s promise and the public health units’ ability to deliver in the province’s two largest cities.
Fauci Urges Vaccinated Americans to Do More: ‘It Is More than Just Getting Vaccination’
Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested on Sunday that fully vaccinated Americans who received a coronavirus booster shot should still do more, wearing masks and undergoing a coronavirus test before gatherings in congregate settings, despite the fact that public health officials originally pitched vaccines as the avenue to return to a state of pre-pandemic normalcy.
New Brunswick retracts vaccine requirements for grocery stores after public backlash
The province of New Brunswick backtracked on an aspect of its COVID-19 ‘winter plan’ which compelled grocery stores to either enforce social distancing or require all patrons to be ‘fully vaccinated.’