White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that a White House official tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday and admitted there have been other previously undisclosed breakthrough cases among staffers.
“China eats weird animals disease”
Inflated Reporting of COVID Deaths Is a Real Conspiracy
In the early months of 2020, many mainstream news media laughingly called concerns that there were more deaths reported from COVID than could be attributed to the disease a “death toll conspiracy”1 they said was led by conservative Republicans and “anti-vaxxers.”2 Yet, a few short months later, data confirm what many already knew: The number of people who died “from” COVID-19 were not the same as those who died “with” COVID-19.
Vaccine passports are an unnecessary infringement on civil liberties
As Canada begins to reopen, calls for domestic vaccine passports have been growing louder. Yet they are not a necessary, or justifiable, part of Canada’s reopening plan, as they create significant concerns around privacy and civil liberties. Vaccine passports should be resisted.
Vaxxed Pelosi And Biden Aides Get COVID After Hobnobbing With Texas Democrats
Vaccinated aides for both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Joe Biden reportedly tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday after attending a “rooftop reception” with lawmakers — specifically Texas Democrats, after more than 50 of them skipped town to avoid a quorum vote on an election integrity bill and several contracted COVID-19.
Fact check: COVID-19 deaths didn’t cause U.S. labor shortage
The apparent contradiction between high unemployment and a high number of companies struggling to find unskilled workers has opened a debate about whether a “true” labor shortage exists, and if so, why.
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‘Anger and vitriol’: Toronto restaurants with vaccine mandate face backlash
The decision to enforce, or not enforce, a COVID-19 vaccination policy is negatively impacting some Toronto businesses.
Rand Paul confronts Fauci over ‘gain of function’ research at Wuhan lab
“Knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11 where you claim that the NIH never funded gain of function research in Wuhan.” Paul asked Fauci.
Texas Democrat ‘Fleebaggers’ Will No Longer Release Daily Coronavirus Case Count as Number Rises
“We’re focusing on our daily testing, following and going beyond CDC guidelines, social distancing, and wearing masks as much as possible,” she said in a statement. “We’re just not going to release daily counts.”
The Erosion of the Individual
As many provincial governments rule out implementing vaccine passports, a number of businesses are taking matters into their own hands, setting out vaccine requirements for staff and customers. Some are even calling for more government mandates. True North’s Andrew Lawton says businesses should legally have the right to do what they want, just as consumers have the right to go elsewhere – no one should be cheering for a society stratified based on vaccination status as the pro-lockdown crowd is.
Resistance To Vaccine Passports Shows The Elites Haven’t Snuffed Out Our Desire For Freedom
While many people have chosen to acquiesce to escalating restrictions on freedom, more and more people in the Western world are pushing back.
Fauci Now Claims Universal Masking in Schools for Everyone Older than 2 ‘Is a Reasonable Thing To Do’
As more and more media types and Democrats push for new mask mandates in light of the spread of the delta variant, Biden’s chief medical advisor Dr Fauci is now calling for the masking in schools of everyone over the age of two regardless of vaccination status.
The Panic Pandemic
Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus.
The United States suffered through two lethal waves of contagion in the past year and a half. The first was a viral pandemic that killed about one in 500 Americans—typically, a person over 75 suffering from other serious conditions. The second, and far more catastrophic, was a moral panic that swept the nation’s guiding institutions.
‘You may deport me but you can’t silence the truth’: Katie Hopkins takes parting shot at Australian authorities after having her visa revoked for her slating hotel quarantine and joking about taunting staff
Katie Hopkins has made a parting shot at Australian authorities, telling them they ‘cannot silence the truth’ after she was deported for ‘joking’ about breaching quarantine rules.
The former Apprentice star, 46, was today deported from Australia after mocking hotel quarantine rules and calling Covid lockdowns the ‘greatest hoax in human history.’
But in a huge backlash from Australians, the commentator had her ‘critical skills’ visa torn up by the federal government and was handed a $1,000 (£536) fine for answering the door of her room in quarantine naked and without a face mask in violation of quarantine rules.
Canada to welcome fully-vaccinated U.S. tourists in August
Canada will start allowing fully-vaccinated U.S. visitors into the country on Aug. 9 for non-essential travel as the threat from the COVID-19 pandemic fades, Ottawa said on Monday.
Visitors from countries other than the United States who have been inoculated will be permitted to enter on Sept 7. The relaxation depends on Canada’s COVID-19 epidemiology remaining favourable, the government said in a statement.