“We are witnessing a crisis in children’s mental health with a dramatic increase in the utilization of acute mental health services. Schools play an essential role in the recovery process. In-person school provides students with routine and structure, accountability, socialization and recognition of abuse and neglect.”
The government acting like our parents is completely at odds with how a ‘free’ society is supposed to function.
Ontario is reporting 1,890 cases of #COVID19 and over 37,100 tests completed. Locally, there are 469 new cases in Toronto, 468 in Peel, 165 in York Region, 111 in Hamilton and 107 in Durham.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) May 21, 2021
With Moderna shipments uncertain, Ottawa lowers expectations on vaccine deliveries
OTTAWA – With uncertainty about vaccine maker Moderna’s upcoming shipments, the government is revising projections on how many doses will be in Canada before the end of June.
The government now expects as few as 40 million doses of vaccines could be in Canada before the end of June, down from the 48 million it was expecting. The Liberals have widely used the 48 million figure to promote their vaccination effort.
Given Ontario’s re-opening plan is vaccine rate dependent this can’t help.
Canada’s collaboration with China’s military researchers on deadly diseases is only the latest example of our nation being pathetically weak.
“Hospital Pediatrics,” a journal of medicine for pediatric care, published two research papers Wednesday that found child hospitalizations for COVID-19 were over-counted by at least 40% in the state, and researchers believe it’s likely national numbers were similarly inflated. New York magazine reported commentary from Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, and her colleague Amy Beck, an associate professor of pediatrics, that explained the studies’ findings.
Calls are growing to reopen the Canada-U.S. border as COVID-19 vaccination rates rise in both countries.
One of the loudest is coming from a U.S. lawmaker — New York Rep. Brian Higgins — who says it’s time that both governments provide a “vision” for how it could be reopened.
There is “overwhelming circumstantial evidence” backing the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic began in a lab in China, a report released Wednesday by House Intelligence Committee Republicans has concluded.
Led by ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the report assesses the Wuhan Institute of Virology was secretly working with the Chinese military, conducting risky gain-of-function research, the Washington Examiner reported.
The so-called lab-leak hypothesis for the origins of Covid-19 has been gaining more and more traction in recent months. Once dismissed as a crankish fringe theory, it has slowly been entering into mainstream scientific discussion. Just this week, America’s CDC Director said that it was ‘possible’ that Covid could have leaked from a lab as ‘significant circumstantial evidence’ emerges.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee say there is “significant circumstantial evidence” that the coronavirus originated from a leak at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that the US government “may have funded or collaborated” in the research that led to it.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the panel, and other Republicans on the committee released the report obtained by Fox News, which concluded that it is essential for health experts and government officials to understand how the deadly virus originated to prevent “or quickly mitigate future pandemics.”
The Ford government has announced a three-stage reopening plan tied to vaccination rates that could allow patio dining to resume and non-essential retail stores to reopen for in-person shopping as early as mid-June.
… The second stage will begin approximately 21 days later once 70 per cent of Ontario adults have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 20 per cent have been fully vaccinated.
In that stage, the province will begin permitting small indoor gatherings of up to five people and will also allow personal care services, like barber shops and nail salons, to reopen.
Here’s a breakdown of the 3 Stage Re-Opening Plan – all of which is Vaccine rate dependent
The Atlantic’s David Frum appears to be first out of the gate in what will likely become a coordinated, aggressive media campaign to defend the people and institutions that got the COVID-19 origin story wrong — and absolve them of all responsibility, however complicit they might be — and instead blame it all on Trump and his supporters.
It sounds stupid, I know, but it’s true. Frum thinks Trump and his tens of millions of supporters “are not interested in weighing the evidence” of the virus’s origins, and only want “payback for the political and cultural injuries inflicted on them by the scientists.” The whole thing, for them, is just “a weapon in a culture war here at home.”
As Canadians wait to hear whether the federal government will issue vaccine passports to allow international travel, the country’s privacy watchdogs said privacy must be front and centre to protect people’s sensitive health information.
B.C.’s privacy commissioner Michael McEvoy warned vaccine passports carry a significant privacy risk and should only be used when absolutely necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Ont. reports 2,400 new COVID-19 cases today but rolling seven-day average still down
After two consecutive days of daily case counts below 2,000, the number of new COVID-19 infections reported in the province jumped up to 2,400 on Thursday.
Today’s total is up significantly from the 1,588 cases confirmed on Wednesday and the 1,616 infections reported on Tuesday but down from the 2,759 cases reported last Thursday.
Majority of Canadians anticipate another lost summer due to COVID-19 restrictions: poll
A majority of Canadians believe this summer will be another disappointment as COVID-19 restrictions are set to remain in place despite increased vaccinations, a new poll suggests.
The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found seven in 10 Canadians are anticipating a second lost summer. Yet 61 per cent of those who responded to the poll also said they believe this summer will be better than last year’s, when vaccines were still far from becoming a reality.
But not if your a golfer rumour has it…
Sources are telling me golf will start in many parts of Ontario Saturday. It has not been officially announced but many saying courses are getting tees ready for Saturday morning. If this is what happens it’s good to see that Premier Ford is listening. More needs to open soon.
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) May 20, 2021
The nerve of some people!
Woodbine Beach earlier today. Can’t lock Toronto down! Shout out to my friend, Beth @PuffinsPictures for consistent excellent footage! pic.twitter.com/Li2gCR3kvl
— Rowan (@canmericanized) May 20, 2021
Infectious-disease scientists at Canada’s high-security lab collaborated with China
Scientists working at Canada’s highest-security infectious-disease laboratory have been collaborating with Chinese military researchers to study and conduct experiments on deadly pathogens.
Seven scientists in the special pathogens unit at the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg and Chinese military researchers have conducted experiments and co-authored six studies on infectious diseases such as Ebola, Lassa fever and Rift Valley fever. The publication dates of the studies range from early 2016 to early 2020.
The Globe and Mail has also learned that one of the Chinese researchers, Feihu Yan, from the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Academy of Military Medical Sciences, worked for a period of time at the Winnipeg lab, a Level 4 facility equipped to handle some of the world’s deadliest diseases. This researcher is credited as a co-author on all six of the papers. However, on two of them, he is listed as being affiliated with both the Winnipeg lab and the military medical academy.
Has anyone been shot yet?
This video is going to age like all things from the Left …. like crap pic.twitter.com/CdBRyAhmp5
— 🍁🇨🇦CanAditude🇨🇦🍁 (@CanAditude) May 19, 2021
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to, out of the blue, generously bestow upon Americans their official blessing to stop wearing masks in most settings, if, that is, said Americans have been fully vaccinated.
So, what changed? Well, absolutely nothing, really. Other than maybe devastating gas prices and shortages across the country — I’m sure that’s totally just a coincidence though.
The change was rather inconvenient for President Joe Biden, however, considering just a few months ago he declared it to be “Neanderthal thinking” for states like Texas and Mississippi to end their mask mandates.
