Ontario won’t issue retroactive long-term care fines over pandemic violations

Hefty new fines for Ontario long-term care providers won’t be applied retroactively for violations earlier in the pandemic when new legislation from the Progressive Conservatives takes effect, despite concerns that the worst offenders haven’t been held to account.

The Ministry of Long-Term Care said it has not issued a single fine to operators who broke the rules during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has so far killed more than 4,000 people in long-term care and infected more than 15,000 nursing home residents.

The bulk of those deaths — which make up 40 per cent of all virus deaths in the province — occurred during the first two waves of the pandemic, before most residents in long-term care could be vaccinated. Inspection reports and eyewitness accounts from homes with virus outbreaks described horrific conditions and a failure to follow measures meant to control the spread of COVID-19.

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Is this finally proof China created Covid? Group of online sleuths fought to discover if the virus was engineered by scientists in Wuhan lab at the heart of probe into the pandemic’s origins

We must ask, is it a coincidence that a bat-derived, SARS-like coronavirus showed up in the very city with the largest laboratory collection of bat-derived SARS-like coronaviruses in the world and the most active research programme studying such viruses? And a city that is well over a thousand miles from the region in China where viruses like this are naturally found.

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Ontario won’t add COVID-19 to list of nine diseases that elementary and secondary students must be immunized against: official

Ontario’s top public health official says that the province won’t add COVID-19 to the list of nine diseases that public school students must be immunized against after concluding that doing so would place “an additional burden” on public health agencies.

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Bakeries, diners and bars serve up defiance to Alberta’s vaccine passport program

The tables at Karen’s Homestyle Cooking in downtown Peace River, Alta., sit empty.

Owner Karen Greaves would rather turn diners away than participate in Alberta’s vaccine passport program.

“I’m just totally done with it. From Day 1, I was done with it,” Greaves said Thursday.

“This is not about health and safety, it’s about control.”

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The deadly word games that brought us ‘Gain of Function’

Washington, D.C. is the biggest home of lies and word games in the known cosmos.

In D.C., a seven-trillion-dollar punch in your wallet costs you absolutely nothing, according to the president of the United States himself.

In Washington, D.C. a fat, aging hippie man becomes the first “female” four-star admiral of the United States, and nobody is allowed to laugh.

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Truth Bomb: New Study Shows That Delta Variant is Actually Spreading *Faster* Among Vaccinated Than Unvaccinated

The truth about Covid vaccines not only failing to stop the spread, but actually being a major transmission vehicle for Covid-19, has finally come out in the mainstream press. On Thursday, Bloomberg News pointed to a new study published by the medical journal “The Lancet” that further establishes that vaccinated individuals spread the Delta variant just as much as unvaccinated people do – indeed, slightly faster.

h/t Marvin

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NACI names several more groups who should qualify for COVID-19 booster shots

The committee now recommends mRNA boosters to people who received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adults over the age of 70, front-line health-care workers with a short interval between their first two doses, and people from First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities.

The latest recommendation says the emerging evidence suggests vaccine effectiveness against asymptomatic infection and mild COVID-19 disease may decrease over time, and a booster could help restore protection.

By the new year, mandatory boosters all round.

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Ontario reports 419 new Covid cases … and Fully vaccinated Ontario man dies after COVID-19 sweeps through his hockey league

Ontario reports 419 new Covid cases … and Fully vaccinated Ontario man dies after COVID-19 sweeps through his hockey league

Ontario reports 419 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths

Ontario reported more than 400 new COVID-19 cases and no additional deaths today as the seven-day rolling average continued to drop.

Provincial health officials logged 419 new infections on Friday, up from 409 yesterday but down from 492 a week ago.


Fully vaccinated Ontario man dies after COVID-19 sweeps through his hockey league

A fully vaccinated Ontario man has died after a COVID-19 outbreak swept through his adult hockey league.

… There were 15 COVID-19 cases linked to the hockey league and all were breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated people, officials in York Region said.

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