Like scavengers desperate for even a morsel of sustenance, we’re latching onto every crumb of positive-sounding news about the Omicron variant. Israel’s Health Minister has said booster shots may protect against the variant; the South African doctor who first identified Omicron noted that symptoms in infected people appear to be mild; the World Health Organization has echoed that early data does not indicate this variant causes more severe illness.
The fine for not complying to the vaccine mandate has been reduced to €2000 instead of €7200. That is quite a bit softer, but the new law has a new amendment against vaccination opponents, which the Express reports “is explosive in terms of democratic politics: in future, vaccination critics in Austria will be threatened with one year’s imprisonment.”
Over the past two years, governments have launched “unprecedented attacks” on civil liberties, a new declaration from Canada’s legal community maintains. The Free North Declaration calls on lawyers to restore freedom and the rule of law or “risk losing it for good.” One of the signatories, D. Jared Brown, is a bencher with the Law Society of Ontario. He joined The Andrew Lawton Show to explain why Canadians must reject the “new normal.”
The vaccine mandates the *president has issued are repeatedly being ruled unconstitutional for subsets of workers across the nation. Biden and company (his “handlers,” the ones he “gets in trouble with,” who “tell him who to call on,” you know—whoever actually is operating the duties of “the *President,”) see a window beginning to close on how they can use CoVid19 to manipulate the narrative into permanent control of the nation.
Out of all the mysteries related to the origins of Covid-19, the Wuhan-Winnipeg Covid connection should be standing on the shoulders of giants.
No matter how incriminating the evidence, the Liberal government of Canada remain untouchable in this regard. No greater cone of silence exists than what can be referred to as the “Wuhan-Winnipeg covid scandal.”
Over a dozen people have been forcibly taken to government isolation centers in Germany, while hundreds are being held in similar centers in Australia as Western countries continue to use mandatory COVID quarantine centers all in the name putting an end to COVID-19.
Scientists are looking at three variables with the new variant — transmissibility, virulence, and immune-evasion. As long as Omicron isn’t strong in all three categories, it can be managed. If it’s virulent and immune-evasive but not very transmissible, it won’t spread much. If it’s transmissible and virulent but not very immune-evasive, vaccination will contain it. If it’s transmissible and immune-evasive but not very virulent, it’ll spread widely but won’t make people severely ill.
The earliest preliminary evidence from South Africa is that Omicron falls into the third category.
Home Covid test. 🍺 pic.twitter.com/XnesqC52Hl
— EPSTEIN’s SHEET 🧻 (@johnpecco1) December 5, 2021
Nearly two years since Chinese doctors first observed mysterious new cases of pneumonia, Covid-19 is still with us. On top of that, what has been described as the most worrying variant yet has emerged. Could mandatory vaccinations be a way out?
Covid vaccinations are already a requirement for public life in many parts of the world.
If you are a French doctor, a New Zealand teacher or a Canadian government employee, getting your shots is essential to go to work. Indonesia can deny benefits to people who refuse jabs. Greece is making them compulsory for the over-60s.
Austria is set to go further still, with a plan to introduce mandatory vaccinations for all by February.
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Belgium’s capital Brussels on Sunday, protesting new Covid-19 restrictions. A group of demonstrators clashed with police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon.
Situation très tendue à #Bruxelles. La police charge et utilise trois canons à eau et de nombreuses grenades lacrymogènes pour disperser les manifestants. (@vecumedia) #Brussel pic.twitter.com/mMH82G8L8i
— Anonyme Citoyen (@AnonymeCitoyen) December 5, 2021
Ontario reports highest single-day COVID-19 case count in more than 6 months
The province of Ontario is reporting its highest single-day total of new COVID-19 cases in more than six months.
Health officials reported 1,184 new infections on Sunday, the third consecutive day the case count has topped 1,000.
It’s the highest single-day total of new cases since May 28 when 1,273 were reported.
Would national vaccine mandates work in Canada? Experts aren’t sure
With European states turning to mandatory national vaccination regimes to deal with record COVID-19 infections, experts in Canada say that while science and the law may back the Liberal government if it chose to follow suit, it might not be the panacea the public is hoping for.
There are significant challenges to imposing a national mandatory vaccination program for all Canadians, the first of which is the age-old jurisdictional battle between the federal government and the provinces.
Under the Constitution, the provinces are responsible for delivering health care, and a vaccine mandate would fall under that remit. If the federal government wanted to take over that responsibility, it would have to either use the Emergencies Act or pass legislation giving it the authority to act.
This smells of the CBC floating a national vax mandate trial balloon on behalf of the Liberal Party.
‘What’s so interesting about this showdown is that In-N-Out is one of the most iconic and popular restaurant chains in Los Angeles’.
It is not a secret that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) does not think very highly of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci.
However, while Paul continues to have doubts about Fauci’s insights and advice, he urged viewers of FNC’s “Hannity” to ignore Fauci on Friday.
“Virtually none of the edicts or the promulgations that come from Fauci’s mouth are based in science at all,” he said. “Take the idea that we’re now going to test the day of travel. The rapid test is accurate about between 30 and 50% if you don’t have symptoms. So most people traveling, if they know they’re sick, are going to not travel. So, most of the people we’re talking about are traveling are without symptoms. The test is 30 to 50% accurate. The Omicron variant is already across the United States and across the world. No travel ban is going to stop it, and no amount of testing is going to stop it.”
When questioned on an ability to distinguish Covid from the common cold, Dr. Rakel Kling, Northern Health medical health officer in Canada, stated the following:
“There is no easy way to discern between the common cold, influenza and COVID-19.”
In a Friday press release by the Kyodo News Service, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare warned of myocarditis and pericarditis issues related to the mRNA COVID vaccines.
The Kyodo News Service is the Japanese equivalent of the AP or Reuters. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is the Japanese equivalent of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where the CDC is located.
