Google told its employees that they would lose pay and eventually their jobs if they did not abide by the company’s COVID-19 vaccination policy, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.
“China eats weird animals disease”
Vaccine Passports are Not Only Useless but a Threat to Public Health
A recent study confirms what anyone who has been paying attention already knew: the vaccines do not prevent transmission of the corona virus.
The study is titled “Increases In COVID-19 Are Unrelated To Levels Of Vaccination Across 68 Countries And 2947 Counties In The United States,” and it appeared in the European Journal of Epidemiology, which is a peer-reviewed academic publication.
New Book Points to Global Coverup of Pandemic Origins
Lab leak? Bioweapon? Wet market? Two years after a new coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China, the world still knows very little about the origins of the virus, named SARS-CoV-2 scientifically. Where it came from, and how it first infected humans, are questions that have still not been answered conclusively.
Ontario expands eligibility for COVID-19 booster shots, cuts capacity limits in some indoor spaces
Ontario is expanding eligibility for COVID-19 booster shots to anyone 18 and older starting Monday and is limiting capacity in some indoor spaces as cases of the Omicron variant surge in the province.
The government also announced Wednesday it’s shortening the required interval between a person’s second dose and booster shot from six months down to three months.
Starting Dec. 18, Ontario will reintroduce capacity limits of 50 per cent for indoor entertainment venues, meeting and event spaces, and sports venues with an indoor capacity of greater than 1,000 people.
UK: Chief medical officer warns of ‘two epidemics on top of each other’ as UK records highest ever daily total of new cases
Britain is being hit by “two epidemics on top of each other” and big rise in hospitalisations is “a nailed-on prospect”, Chris Whitty has warned as the UK recorded its largest number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic.
Amid surging Omicron cases, the chief medical officer advised the public to ensure they could spend Christmas with friends and family by “de-prioritising” other social contact – suggesting this may include work parties.
It came as 78,610 new Covid infections were reported on Wednesday – the highest since 8 January this year. Whitty admitted that “records will be broken a lot over the next few weeks as the rates continue to go up”.
Twitter to Penalize Users Who Claim Vaccinated People Can Spread Covid-19
Twitter will begin imposing penalties on users who claim that vaccinated people can spread Covid-19, according to a change quietly added to the website’s terms of service.
“When tweets include misleading information about Covid-19, we may place a label on those tweets that includes corrective information about that claim,” the website notes in a section detailing its rules about Covid-19 misinformation. “We may apply labels to tweets that contain, for example… false or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus (or symptoms, or immunity) to unvaccinated people.”
Twitter is committing suicide.
Trudeau says Canadians need to make ‘careful decisions about Christmas’
Speaking briefly to reporters before an announcement on travel restrictions expected later today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians need to be prudent when making plans for the holidays.
“Canadians have been attentive [to COVID-19] for months and months. We’ve seen that people know how to do the right thing. They’re going to have to be vigilant and make careful decisions about Christmas,” Trudeau said in French before the start of a Liberal caucus meeting this morning.
Omicron versus booster shots: The high-stakes race in Canada is on
Most provinces off to a painfully slow start giving third doses of the vaccine, and one expert warns that new variant will make things ‘pretty ugly’
Dr. Andrew Morris isn’t surprised by the surge in COVID cases across the country, up from an average of 2,500 a day a month ago to 4,100 on Dec. 13. “I’ve been saying for a long, long time that we would be getting into this situation,” says the Toronto-based infectious disease specialist, “and there is no plausible situation where we will not have the same experience as Europe.”
Morris, who is medical director of the Sinai Health System-University Health Network Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, is referring to soaring case counts on the continent a few months ago. In Canada, he says, “we’ve been fooling ourselves to think we could avoid this, and it’s been put on steroids because of Omicron.”
German raids on Covid extremists over Saxony leader death plot
Police in Germany’s eastern state of Saxony have launched a series of raids after death threats were made against Premier Michael Kretschmer for backing coronavirus measures.
Far-right anti-vaccination activists are suspected of plotting violence with crossbows or other “piercing weapons”.
Saxony has the lowest Covid vaccine take-up in Germany.
Last year Mr Kretschmer warned of Covid “hysteria” but he later apologised and has since backed strict measures.
Military members challenge vaccine requirement in Federal Court
OTTAWA — The Federal Court is scheduled to hear arguments today from four Canadian Armed Forces members facing disciplinary action for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Chief of the defence Gen. Wayne Eyre ordered all Armed Forces members to be vaccinated by the end of November or face remedial measures, including possible dismissal from the military. That deadline has since been extended to Dec. 18.
Ontario reports 1808 new Covid cases … and Feds to suggest non-essential travel restrictions for Canadians, foreigners can just drop in whenever of course
Ontario reports 1,808 new COVID-19 cases; 9 new deaths
Ontario reported its highest COVID-19 case count in more than six months on Wednesday, with active cases now up about 50 per cent in one week.
Ontario reported 1,429 new cases on Tuesday and 1,536 on Monday.
Canada to advise citizens against non-essential international travel due to Omicron variant
The federal government will advise Canadians against non-essential travel to foreign countries, as Canada attempts to limit the spread of the Omicron variant, according to two government sources.
The sources, who CTV News are not identifying because they were not authorized to speak about the new restrictions, say the non-essential travel recommendation will likely be announced Wednesday.
… Another measures being considered by the federal government is banning foreign nationals from entering Canada outright, but sources tell CTV News the federal government is unlikely implement it at this point.
Omicron driving up Canada’s R value at ‘unprecedented’ rate.
The transmissibility of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in Canada — where it may soon become the dominant strain — is seen as potentially problematic by infectious disease specialists.
In Ontario, the only province that has tracked its reproductive rate (R value), the variant is infecting almost four times as many people as the Delta variant.
Must We Segregate the Unvaccinated from the Vaccinated?
There seems to be an underlying presumption here that the unvaccinated are unclean (regardless of natural immunity) and their presence will spread disease. What if, however, existing studies reveal that there is little to no difference between the COVID vaccinated and unvaccinated in terms of becoming infected, harboring the virus (viral load in the oral and nasopharynx), and transmitting it?
Parliament still giving out Chinese-made masks despite millions awarded to local suppliers
Despite the Canadian government having awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to North American manufacturers, Parliament Hill has been giving out masks made in China to MPs, their executive assistants and other employees.
35 Studies on Vaccine Efficacy that Raise Doubts on Vaccine Mandates
As some people have now been vaccinated for more than half a year, evidence is pouring in about Covid vaccine efficacy. When evaluating vaccine efficacy, it is important to distinguish between efficacy against infection, symptomatic disease, and transmission versus efficacy against hospitalization and death. For infection and symptomatic disease, the COVID-19 vaccines are not as efficacious as hoped, with immunity gradually waning after a few months. For hospitalization and death, immunity is stronger, lasting for at least six months.
The gestalt of the findings implies that the infection explosion globally that we have been experiencing– post double vaccination in e.g. Israel, UK, US etc. –may be due to the vaccinated spreading Covid as much or more than the unvaccinated.
Ontario hospitals ‘urgently’ reactivating mass vaccination programs in face of Omicron: OHA president
The head of the Ontario Hospital Association says hospitals in the province are moving to urgently reactivate mass vaccination programs as the Omicron variant – the most contagious COVID-19 variant discovered so far – quickly moves to become the dominant variant in the province.