Which side of the velvet rope are you on? Are you one of the cool kids? Were you born on the right side of the tracks? Did your ancestors come over on the Mayflower? Are you on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans? And now another question to test your social standing: Do you have a high enough status so that you don’t have to wear a face mask?
“China eats weird animals disease”
Atlantic: These new DARPA documents call into question the credibility of Peter Daszak
“A few days ago I wrote about the documents leaked to DRASTIC, the online coronavirus sleuths, which involve proposed coronavirus research in 2018. A group of researchers led by Peter Daszak of the EcoHealthAlliance submitted an application for DARPA funding, the goal of which was to identify dangerous coronaviruses in bats and then attempt to inoculate wild bats against some of those viruses. It was called Project DEFUSE and ultimately DARPA refused to fund it saying it was too dangerous and too close to gain-of-function research.”
A Picnic Protest opposing vaccine passports has taken over Stephen Avenue in Calgary
A Picnic Protest opposing vaccine passports has taken over Stephen Avenue in Calgary.
Full story coming soon at https://t.co/w9zAH1MOnX. pic.twitter.com/uJjKtBlI0q
— Adam Soos ⳩ (@ATSoos) September 26, 2021
Rex Murphy: You want to eat that doughnut here? Show me your papers
In the last few days, seeking release from the high anxieties of living for six weeks during the most pivotal moment since 1945, I drove around the splendid rural Ontario countryside. It is a great thing about this Canada of ours that I can say that all Canadian provinces are beautiful, but every province is beautiful in its own way.
Ontario reports 653 new Covid cases … and when will the pandemic be over?
Ontario reports 653 new COVID-19 cases, 6 more virus-related deaths
Ontario is reporting another week-over-week decline in its daily COVID-19 case count with fewer than 700 new infections confirmed over the past 24 hours.
Provincial health officials logged 653 new COVID-19 cases today, up slightly from 640 on Saturday but down from 715 one week ago.
When will the pandemic be over in Ontario? Here’s what scientists say
More than 80 per cent of eligible Ontarians have now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and, with the possibility that vaccines will be offered to young children in the coming months, the pandemic’s familiar wave-after-wave pattern of new infections could soon calm.
Scientists believe that as more people increase their immunity to the virus either through vaccination or infection, cases in Ontario are on track to drop to endemic levels as early as spring, provided of course that a more transmissible and vaccine-evasive variant doesn’t rear its head in the meantime.
‘He’s choking me!’: Victoria Police officer grabs woman by throat for not wearing face mask
The incident on Monday, which is now under internal investigation, began after the 21-year-old refused to produce her identification when police approached her for not wearing a mask.
Alberta ER doctor says hospital capacity crisis was ‘created,’ has nothing to do with COVID-19
An emergency room physician from Alberta has claimed that the hospital capacity crisis in his province was “created,” is nothing new, and is not from COVID-19 patients.
“We have a crisis, and we have a crisis because we have no staff, because our staff quit, because they’re burned out, they’re not burnt out from COVID,” said Dr. Gary Davidson who works as an emergency doctor in Red Deer.
“So, it has nothing to do with COVID, it’s been going on for six years, and it was created.”
Anti-vaxxers don’t have a right to accommodations, Ontario human rights watchdog says
The decision to get vaccinated is voluntary, and a “person who chooses not to be vaccinated based on personal preference does not have the right to accommodation under the (Human Rights Code),” the Ontario Human Rights Commission said this week in a policy paper discussing the limits of vaccine mandates and proof-of-vaccination requirements.
Eaton Centre Not Exactly Stormed
Caught on tape: Anti-vaxxers just before they stormed the Eaton Centre today in Torontopic.twitter.com/h6RRHfFPAr
— Toronto 99 News (@Toronto99News) September 25, 2021
More footage of anti-vaccine extremists trying to STORM the Eaton Centre
Has Chris Sky gone too far this time?pic.twitter.com/dazrJpoz6x
— Toronto 99 News (@Toronto99News) September 25, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine boosters could mean billions for drugmakers
Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the U.S. moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster shots to shore up Americans’ protection against the virus.
How much the manufacturers stand to gain depends on how big the rollout proves to be.
The Biden administration last month announced plans to give boosters to nearly everybody. But U.S. regulators have rejected the across-the-board approach and instead said third shots of Pfizer’s vaccine should go to people who are 65 and older and certain others at high risk from COVID-19.
Anti-vaxxers don’t have a right to accommodations, Ontario human rights watchdog says
People who choose not to get the COVID-19 vaccine due to personal preferences or “singular beliefs” do not have a right to accommodations under Ontario’s human rights law, the province’s rights watchdog says
The decision to get vaccinated is voluntary, and a “person who chooses not to be vaccinated based on personal preference does not have the right to accommodation under the (Human Rights Code),” the Ontario Human Rights Commission said this week in a policy paper discussing the limits of vaccine mandates and proof-of-vaccination requirements.
While human rights law prohibits discrimination based on creed — someone’s religion, or a non-religious belief system that shapes their identity, world view and way of life — personal preferences or singular beliefs do not amount to a creed, the commission said, adding it “is not aware of any tribunal or court decision that found a singular belief against vaccinations or masks amounted to a creed within the meaning of the Code.”
Ontario reports 640 new Covid cases … Medical community spreads disinformation CBC blames anti-vaxxers
Ontario reports 640 new COVID-19 cases, 10 more deaths
Ontario reported more than 600 new COVID-19 cases and 10 more deaths on Saturday, continuing a trend of declining case counts.
Provincial health officials logged 640 new coronavirus infections today, down from 727 on Friday and from 821 a week ago.
A Canadian COVID-19 study that turned out to be wrong has spread like wildfire among anti-vaxxers
An inaccurate Canadian study suggesting an extremely high rate of heart inflammation after COVID-19 vaccines has been retracted due to a major mathematical error — but not before it spread like wildfire on anti-vaccination websites and social media.
The preprint study, which was released by researchers at the Ottawa Heart Institute last week but has not been peer-reviewed, looked at the rate of myocarditis and pericarditis cases after Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations in Ottawa from June 1 to July 31.
The study identified 32 patients with the rare side effects out of a total of 32,379 doses of mRNA vaccines given in Ottawa in the two-month period, finding an inordinately high rate of close to 1 in 1,000 — significantly higher than other international data has shown.
Well it was Sciency.
Saskatchewan halts organ donation program due to COVID-19 surge
That means anyone who registered to donate their organs will not be able to have their organs collected, halting any of the possible corresponding donations.
Emergency doctor says some health triage has begun in Alberta: ‘People will suffer and will die’
The head of emergency medicine for the Alberta Medical Association says major components of triage have already begun in Alberta, even though the protocol hasn’t officially been implemented.
B.C. health officials release true hospital numbers after public pressure
More than a week after CTV News asked for the numbers and was first to report on the dual accounting methods, the province now says that as of Tuesday, there were 152 additional patients in hospital due to COVID but who were no longer infectious and therefore had “discontinued isolation.”