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Austrians are days away from a first lockdown for anyone not fully vaccinated, after record infections were reported across the country.

Upper Austria province will impose restrictions from Monday if it gets the go-ahead from the federal government. Salzburg also plans new measures.

Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said a national lockdown for the unvaccinated was “probably inevitable”.

The other day we looked at the news that the United States was reopening its borders with Mexico and Canada for land travel. Of course, there were immediate caveats placed on the offer. Only those with proof of vaccination would be allowed to drive into the United States. As it turns out, however, there’s another side to this coin. Canada has placed their own restrictions on those wishing to cross in the other direction. In addition to having a vaccine passport, travelers seeking entrance to the Great White North will also have to provide a recent negative COVID test.

The Ontario government says it is pausing the further lifting of capacity limits in “remaining higher risk settings” as COVID-19 cases rise in the province.

In a news release issued Wednesday afternoon, the government said the decision was made “out of an abundance of caution” as officials continue to monitor health trends.

Ottawa couple fined $4,500 for refusing to wear masks at Quebec coffee shop

OTTAWA — An Ottawa couple who refused to wear masks at a Chelsea, Que. coffee shop are facing stiff fines.

An employee at Biscotti & Cie called police on Monday around 1:30 p.m. because the couple in their 50s was “causing a disturbance,” MRC des Collines police said.

The Democrats have become public health technocrats

A year after Biden’s election, the question of whether anyone really intended to destroy democratic republicanism in the United States is now moot. Forty-six years ago, a headline in New York’s Daily News read “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” Today, the Biden administration and its legion of corporate media and big tech allies communicate the same message to the American people so consistently, and so pointedly, that one can only conclude the humiliation of the electorate is a matter of policy. The administration’s undeniable incompetence, fresh evidence of which is forthcoming every day as it squabbles over vaccine mandates and fails to address multiple crises of supply, inflation, and illegal immigration, both masks and serves its managerial method. Not least because the multiplication of crises furnishes a pretext for ever greater extensions of governmental control.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been branded a hypocrite for attending the lavish wedding of billionaire oil heiress Ivy Getty over the weekend without a mask — while children in California are being made to wear them in the state’s schools.

Pelosi (D-Calif.), who officiated the ceremony at San Francisco City Hall, faced backlash on social media after photos of her mingling with other maskless wedding guests were published by Vogue on Tuesday.