The pieces appear to be coming together. It looks like a lab leak that the US helped create with an illicit process. Then the US covered it up.
Once again, Canadians don’t get credit for their critical role.
“China eats weird animals disease”
‘We are not afraid of Omicron’
The Omicron variant has thrown Britain into disarray. Travel bans have returned, with much of southern Africa now on the UK ‘red list’. In England, the government has activated its ‘Plan B’ for winter, imposing new restrictions from mask mandates and vaccine passports to working from home. Yet we still don’t know much about the Omicron variant and the threat it might pose.
‘Ritual humiliation’: Journo claims German children must report, explain vax status daily in front of class
Children in Germany are being subjected to rituals eerily reminiscent of 1930’s Germany each day at school, where they are required to stand in front of their class and divulge their vaccination status in what one reporter dubbed, “ritual humiliation”.
Alex Story, a reporter for Great Britain News, told the outlet in a Friday interview that there were three recent stories out of Germany that illustrate how frightening the divide between the vaccinated and unvaccinated has become.
Tens of thousands of protesters march through Vienna with ‘No to vaccine fascism’ signs in furious demonstration
Tens of thousands took to the streets of Vienna today to protest against mandatory Covid vaccines and home confinement orders, with unvaccinated Austrians set to be fined and restricted in the coming months.
Police said an estimated 44,000 people attended the demonstration which saw ‘no to vaccine fascism’ signs held aloft, the latest in a string of huge weekend protests since Austria last month became the first EU country to say it would make Covid vaccinations mandatory.
A partial confinement since last month ends on Sunday for the fully vaccinated, but those who have not received the required doses will have to remain at home.
Another huge protest in Vienna today against lockdowns and vaxx mandates. pic.twitter.com/OpCdScze1Q
— Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) December 11, 2021
Be afraid… forever
It’s hard to look that in the eye. But the worst of COVID is yet to come
… It is difficult for the human mind to grasp; part of it is the pure bloody wall of exponential mathematics. The numbers seem imaginary. Sander explains: In places like South Africa, Denmark, Germany and the UK, in different populations, Omicron doubled every three to four days, or faster. That’s about a 400 percent increase in one week. Ontario chief medical officer Dr Kieran Moore said Omicron currently accounts for about 10 percent of recent cases. That would mean about 145 Omicron cases in Ontario on Friday.
With a 400% increase each week, Sander points out that the numbers do something like this: 145 today, 600 in one week, 2,400 in two weeks, 9,600 in three weeks. It would be New Years Eve, and unhindered, that would mean nearly 40,000 cases per day per week after that. We were already on schedule to cancel surgeries with a Delta wave only. Based on predicted growth charts, Omicron could become the predominant variant in Ontario within 10 days, and it will be an Omicron pandemic by early 2022.
“We won’t even have the capacity to test,” says Dr. Andrew Morris, professor of infectious diseases at the University of Toronto and member of the science table. “And the public is not ready to close the doors tomorrow. Whatever the right thing to do, you can’t do it. But I’m pretty sure everyone in the next six to 12 weeks will be infected with Omicron, unless they live the life of a hermit. It’s just the reality.
This is a Star piece. Lets hope the science is wrong again.
Ontario reports 1607 new Covid cases … and fully vaccinated is never?
Ontario reports 1,607 new COVID-19 cases; highest case count in nearly 7 months
Ontario reported more than 1,600 new COVID-19 cases and five more virus-related deaths on Saturday, marking the highest single-day case count in nearly seven months.
Provincial health officials logged 1,607 new coronavirus infections today, up from 1,453 on Friday and from 1,053 a week ago.
Fully vaccinated: How many doses will it take, and how will Canada decide?
As provinces continue to ramp up booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, questions are arising over whether the booster could be considered as part of the full series of vaccines — and necessary for a Canadian to be considered “fully vaccinated.”
The consideration to add a third dose to the “primary series” in mRNA vaccines could potentially cause widespread changes to public health measures — including vaccine admissions to restaurants and other businesses. It also comes amid the spread of a possibly more infectious Omicron COVID-19 variant.
Order for government to release files on fired scientists ended with dissolution of Parliament: speaker
The Conservatives have lost their bid to resurrect a House of Commons order demanding the release of secret documents related to the firing of two scientists at Canada’s highest security laboratory.
Commons Speaker Anthony Rota ruled Thursday that the order expired, along with all other business before the House, when Parliament was dissolved in August for a federal election.
When the light bulb comes on
When the light bulb comes on… it’s a shame it has to be the hard way. pic.twitter.com/m26z44NV67
— ⚡️THOR⚡️ the Deplorable 🇺🇸 (@ThorDeplorable) December 9, 2021
How China made Covid worse – The regime’s deceit stalled the pandemic response
Two years ago this week, a middle-aged man in Wuhan caught a strange respiratory disease. The 41-year-old accountant was called Chen and he worked for his family firm, commuted to work by public transport and shopped in a sleek modern supermarket rather than a traditional market selling wild animals. He had not travelled outside the city in the days before catching the disease beyond a short trip to some hills north of Wuhan and — bar one relative working in healthcare — had no obvious links to high-risk settings.
Bidding is now open: Three vaccine doses for protection against Omicron … Do I hear 4?
Two doses of a Covid vaccine are not enough to stop you catching the Omicron variant, UK scientists have warned.
Early analysis of UK Omicron and Delta cases showed the vaccines were less effective at stopping the new variant.
But a third booster prevents around 75% of people getting any Covid symptoms.
British researchers discover COVID jabs ‘appear to expose people to an increased mortality’
Researchers from Queen Mary University in London (QMUL) have discovered anomalies in COVID-19 vaccine data indicating that the narrative supporting the effectiveness of the jabs is “massively exaggerated” and that the vaccines expose recipients to a risk of “increased mortality.”
h/t Marvin
‘Hey Google, Sing Me Some Vaccination Propaganda’
Android users around the world report that asking “Hey Google, sing me a song” has their phones playing a Soviet-style propaganda vaccine song.
“Hey Google” is the company’s digital personal assistant built into billions of Android devices around the world. It can be used to make Google searches, launch Android apps, control smart devices, and deliver insipid propaganda earworms whether you want them or not.
Fauci on vaccine mandates: ‘Communal good’ trumps ‘individual choices’
Asked if the Biden administration should reconsider vaccine mandates in response to recent court rulings, Dr. Anthony Fauci doubled down, insisting “the communal good” supersedes “individual choices.”
COVID-19 infections are on the rise and omicron could supercharge daily case counts, federal modelling says
New modelling released today by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) suggests the number of COVID-19 cases could increase sharply in the coming weeks as the country grapples with another wave of delta infections and the highly transmissible omicron variant.
While there is a lot of uncertainty about how many cases might be reported, an increase from the current level of over 3,300 cases a day is likely, PHAC said, because Canada is experiencing a “gradual but steady increase” in infections.
The national “rT” — the metric that tracks the average number of people one infected person subsequently will infect — is now over one. That means the pandemic is again in growth mode.
Ontario reports 1453 new Covid cases … and Facemasks literally litter the world
Ontario reports more than 1,400 new COVID-19 cases today, 11 deaths
Ontario continues to see a spike in new COVID-19 cases with more than 1,400 infections confirmed over the past 24 hours, the highest single-day total since May 23.
Provincial health officials logged 1,453 new cases today, up from 1,290 on Thursday and 1,031 one week ago.
The seven-day rolling average of new infections has jumped to 1,115, up from 866 last Friday.
Face-mask litter increased 9,000 % in 11 countries in 2020, including Canada: U.K. study
The full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment will take years to fully understand, but a new study from the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. is giving a first look at just how much litter stemmed from the first wave.
Published Thursday in the journal Nature Sustainability, the study “Increased personal protective equipment litter as a result of COVID measures,” compared and analyzed data from the “COVID-19 Government Response Tracker” from Oxford University and the litter collection app “Litterati,” both open-source databases.