“China eats weird animals disease”

Ontario reports 654 new COVID-19 cases as capacity limits lifted in select settings

Ontario reported more than 650 new COVID-19 cases and two more deaths on Saturday as the province lifted capacity limits for select indoor and outdoor settings.

Provincial health officials logged 654 new infections today, a notable jump from 573 cases on Friday but down from 702 cases reported a week ago.

Ask family members if they’re vaccinated before inviting to Thanksgiving, top doctors say

Canada’s top doctors say you should ask your family members if they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 before you invite them over for Thanksgiving dinner.

Depending on their answer, they added, you might want to change your plans, move dinner outside, or add extra precautions to your event.

“Our advice really is that, overall, keep indoor gatherings safer by asking your guests … your family… whether they’ve been vaccinated or not,” said Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam.

Like we need advice from that buzzard.

Political pundit Megyn Kelly pinned the “f***ers” who “lied” to people about the origins of the coronavirus .

In addition to China , she criticized the Biden administration and EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak for the millions of deaths due to the pandemic. Daszak, a zoologist, worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and reportedly allocated U.S. government grants to facilities conducting gain-of-function research.

Toronto Police Det.-Const. Adrienne Gilvesy is the same good cop she was before the coronavirus vaccine arrived.

Her skills, passion and work ethic to keep Toronto safe has not changed. The landscape she works in has.

The vaccine mandate that requires federal employees from core public services to be fully immunized against COVID-19 has constitutional issues that implicate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, an Ontario lawyer says.

“There are several sections of the Charter of Rights that are implicated by mandating vaccines, generally speaking,” said Ryan O’Connor, a Toronto-based litigator who specializes in areas such as employment and appeals, and also advises clients on matters involving federal and provincial legislation.

Ontario reports 573 new COVID-19 cases; 10 additional deaths

Ontario reported 573 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday along with 10 additional deaths, as the province’s hospital burden continued a slow decline and active cases fell to a fresh multi-month low.

The seven-day rolling average of new cases continues to drop, now standing at 551, down from 565 yesterday and 597 one week ago.

Alarmed by COVID-19, Ontario seniors want to live in their homes as long as possible: poll

Nearly 90 per cent of Ontarians aged 55+ say they want to stay in their own home and remain out of the province’s retirement and long-term care system as long as possible, especially because of what COVID-19 has wrought on those facilities, a new poll finds.

The poll conducted in late September found 89 per cent of respondents plan to stay in their own home or apartment for as long as possible, while four per cent planned to move in to a retirement residence or with a family member.

Who can blame them, LTC homes and hospitals were death traps.

Is it just me, or does it feel like America is running out of everything?

I visited CVS last week to pick up some at-home COVID-19 tests. They’d been sold out for a week, an employee told me. So I asked about paper towels. “We’re out of those too,” he said. “Try Walgreens.” I drove to a Walgreens that had paper towels. But when I asked a pharmacist to fill some very common prescriptions, he told me the store had run out. “Try the Target up the road,” he suggested. Target’s pharmacy had the meds, but its front area was alarmingly barren, like the canned-food section of a grocery store one hour before a hurricane makes landfall.

MONTREAL — There will be no exemptions for religious reasons for health-care workers in Quebec mandated to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 15.

Health Minister Christian Dube made the statement in a news conference Thursday that Quebec would not be following the federal government’s exemption on religious reasons for public servants.

“It’s a question of health not a question of religion,” he said. “I don’t understand the federal position. That’s their choice. For us, there won’t be an exception.”

Government policy on testing is worryingly misleading

There’s been a bit of a Covid outbreak in our neighbourhood, including our eldest child (he’s fine). All the cases were first detected with rapid, at-home “lateral flow” tests, or LFTs.

It is currently government policy that if you get a positive LFT, but then you do the traditional, more accurate PCR and it’s negative, you don’t have to self-isolate any more: you can go back to school or work or whatever. If our child’s LFT had been followed up by a negative PCR, he would be back in school.