Ontario reports 865 new Covid cases … and an October Lockdown???

Ontario reports 865 new Covid cases … and an October Lockdown???

Ontario reports multi-month high of nearly 900 COVID-19 cases; 14 more deaths

Ontario reported 865 new COVID-19 cases and 14 deaths on Thursday, the highest count of cases seen since early June, with the greatest number of infections among unvaccinated people since the province started keeping track earlier this summer.

The Thursday tally is the highest standalone case count recorded in Ontario since June 4 when 914 cases were reported.


COVID-19 vaccination rate must rise above 85% to avoid fall lockdown

New modelling released Wednesday by Ontario’s COVID-19 science advisory table says more than 85 per cent of the eligible population needs to be vaccinated to avoid a lockdown this fall due to the highly contagious delta variant.

The table said Ontarians also need to reduce contacts to about 70 per cent of pre-pandemic levels until vaccination levels are high enough to protect the population.

And… COVID-19 vaccine mandates for workers, offices remain popular among Canadians: poll

That Mumu Virus looks comfortable, I’ll give it that.

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Biden Keeps Pushing Dubious Arguments for CDC Supremacy

The Supreme Court last week rejected the idea that Congress gave the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the power to stop landlords from evicting tenants who fail to pay their rent. Unfazed by that setback, the Biden administration this week suggested that the CDC has the power to demand that every public school in the country force students to wear face masks.

Both incidents show how readily President Joe Biden deploys dubious legal arguments to defend unprecedented power grabs in the name of fighting COVID-19. If successful, those arguments would undermine federalism, the rule of law and the separation of powers.

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Calgary doctor calls for more restrictions, says it’s “impossible to vaccinate our way out of the pandemic”

Dr. Joe Vipond made the comments during a COVID-19 livestream hosted by the group Protect Our Province Alberta while discussing the spread of the Delta variant. According to Dr. Vipond, the solution to combating the Delta variant is to institute more restrictions.

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Ivermectin is a wonder drug but not for COVID — and misinformation is causing a shortage

“The use of this medication for COVID is really putting people who are already in a difficult situation in an even worse situation,” said Barry Power of the Canadian Pharmacists Association. “I would really urge people to think twice before trying to access this medication that has been proven to do nothing in the case of COVID.”


Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19

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Horowitz: CDC now admits 23% of hospitalizations in June — pre-leakage — were vaccinated

“Nearly everyone dying of the virus now is unvaccinated.”

That has been the trope of anyone who has a platform or a modicum of power in America the past few months. And indeed, that is what we would expect from a vaccine that is as effective as the ones our government has traditionally endorsed. The problem is that a new CDC analysis, when coupled with Israel’s experience of waning immunity, demonstrates that this statement is already untrue and will only become more obvious in the coming weeks.

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Amherst College Bars Students From Leaving Campus Without Permission

Under the college’s August 25 guidelines (active through September 13), “Students may visit the town of Amherst, masked when indoors, in order to conduct business (opening bank accounts, picking up prescriptions, etc.) during regular business hours, but may not go to restaurants or bars.” However, other “off-campus travel,” with the exception of travel to other nearby universities for classes, “must be approved by the Office of Student Affairs.”

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Proof of vaccination will be required at movie theatres, gyms, restaurants in Ontario: sources

Proof of vaccination will be required at many non-essential businesses, including gyms and movie theatres, and will be needed to dine indoors at restaurants under Ontario’s new vaccine certification program starting Sept. 22, government sources confirm to CTV News Toronto.

A vaccine passport will not be required for retail shopping and outdoor dining but those who intend to go to concerts or other large, organized gatherings must be fully vaccinated, the sources say.

The provincial government is working on an app that will combine both identification and a proof-of-vaccination certificate for immunized Ontarians, sources confirm.

An app to track you by, only a temporary measure of course.

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Biden Letting China Get Away with Crime of the Century

On August 27, the Biden administration released an unclassified summary of the intelligence community’s report on the origins of COVID-19. The IC, America’s 18 intelligence agencies, could reach only a few definitive conclusions. The agencies said they needed more information, but the world now knows enough to begin imposing severe costs on China.

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