
According to government data, an unsettling 11,581 patients died while waiting to receive potentially life-saving healthcare including surgeries, diagnostic visits and specialist appointments.

According to government data, an unsettling 11,581 patients died while waiting to receive potentially life-saving healthcare including surgeries, diagnostic visits and specialist appointments.

A new website has been launched where people can tell their stories about being injured by one of the COVID-19 shots.
The name of the website is Real Not Rare, and they also have groups people can join, and it appears there is one group in each state.
They also have a “Take Action” section. Health Impact News subscribers will recognize quite a few of the people in their videos, as we have covered many of their stories here.

Time and time again, we’ve watched as a ‘return to normal’ is dangled in front of the populace, then pulled away the moment it’s about to take place.
I’ve written repeatedly about how those in power continuously move the goalposts, and clearly don’t actually want to give up their heightened level of control.
Whenever a new opportunity to spread fear comes up, politicians seize it immediately, ramp up the fear as much as they can, and then attempt to keep their expanded power in place regardless of the underlying reality.

The final approval of Pfizer vaccines for under-12s clears the way for the rollout to start from January 10, which a decision is pending on whether to give Moderna shots to younger children.

In the name of combating a corona cold virus, power-wielding elitists have upended not just our own society, but the operations of the world.
And yet, 21 months later, not only do millions and millions of American citizens remain scandalously ignorant of the facts regarding all things COVID; they continue to facilitate the ever-morphing narrative that its crafters have been laboriously purveying since March of 2020.
The Public Health Agency of Canada struggled to keep track of whether travellers ordered to stay in quarantine hotels actually did so, according to a new report from the auditor general.
Auditor General Karen Hogan tabled four reports this afternoon in the House of Commons looking at COVID-19 measures. One of the reports examines enforcement of quarantine hotel stays and testing requirements from July 1, 2020 to the end of June 2021.
At the start of the year — in addition to the already required 14-day quarantine period — the government introduced new rules for incoming travellers meant to limit the spread of COVID-19 and its variants.
In Canada if you do the right thing, or rather what the government tells you is the right thing, you get fucked over. The guy who has cut my hair for nearly 20 years may be closing up shop. He played by the covid rules and locked down his shop. He refused under the table “home” business etc. Meanwhile everyone else was making bank doing home visits or even in one case he knows of opening up a full fledged mini-salon in their home.
He’s trying to make it work but the costs of employing staff and rent for a storefront shop etc are currently insurmountable. Changed consumer habits make it doubtful he’ll see business rebound. Walk in traffic is way down from pre-pandemic days and ongoing covid restrictions mean that the events people used to get a cut for occur at nowhere near past levels. Finally people just like the convenience of a cut at home. A bad time for the traditional barber shop.

Canadians should brace for the biggest surge in food prices in more than decade
… Climate change, extreme weather like the B.C. flooding, labour shortages, food transportation challenges and last but certainly not least — inflation.
Canada’s Food Price Report 2022, out this morning, warns that Canadians can expect to pay even more for food next year.
It forecasts that food prices will surge between 5% and 7% in 2022, the highest predicted increase since the report started 12 years ago. (For perspective, the report’s 2021 forecast was a 3% to 5% increase, which it says proved accurate.)
Ont. reports nearly 1,300 new COVID-19 cases, highest daily total in more than 6 months
Ontario is reporting nearly 1,300 new COVID-19 cases today, the highest single-day tally in the province in more than six months.
Provincial health officials logged 1,290 new infections today, up from 1,009 on Wednesday and 959 one week ago.
Over half a million fewer surgeries have been performed since start of COVID-19: report
Over half a million fewer surgeries were performed across Canada during the first 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years, a new report suggests.
The report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) drives home the profound strain the pandemic has had on every province and territory’s health-care system, which will continue to be challenged even after COVID-19’s impact fades.

Four days after the New Brunswick government announced that grocery stores are allowed to ban unvaccinated Canadians, elected leaders have remained mute.

The key offender here is something called “relative risk.” If there’s a one in a million chance of something happening, that’s a minuscule absolute risk. If it goes up to two in a million, it’s still a minuscule absolute risk that you really won’t get bothered about. But that same difference can be presented as a 100% increase in risk or a doubling, which sounds really awful.
When it comes to COVID, the overall rate of death is in the tenths of a percent in the most vulnerable population. Headlines about Republicans killing off their voter base are simply scaremongering in the decimal points using relative instead of absolute risk. The real rate of death under age 50 for COVID is “indistinguishable from zero” according to the weekly British monitoring service.

A video report hosted by Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole delivers damaging accusations against the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
According to the report, Chinese scientist Dr. Xiangguo Qiu had shipped 30 vials of 15 strains of deadly virus samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

Dr. Anthony Fauci advised that people require their own family members to show evidence of vaccination before gathering for the holidays.
Fauci explained the benefits of being vaccinated , despite many restrictions still applying to the vaccinated demographic.

The peak in Gauteng, South Africa, may come sooner than expected
Johannesburg is known locally as the City of Gold, but this may not prove to be the case for vaccine manufacturers carefully watching the rapid spread of Omicron through Gauteng province. While compelling evidence has emerged that Covid’s latest variant is highly transmissible, the picture from local hospitals and testing data is that this wave may well pass quickly, without a large number of deaths and with an extremely high percentage of asymptomatic cases.

People will probably need coronavirus booster jabs “for a number of years to come”, a Pfizer boss has said.
Ben Osborn, country manager for the pharmaceutical firm in the UK, said it is still unknown whether they will be required every six months or annually.

Speaking after a day of swirling controversy over an allegedly lockdown-busting Christmas party at Downing Street, UK PM Boris Johnson has introduced vaccine passports for England and has extended a number of other measures, potentially pointing to an imperilled Christmas for the second year in a row.