Nicholas Wade has been writing important science journalism for decades. I’ve blogged about one of his books, Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science, which was published back in 1982.
Two weeks ago, Wade penned a lengthy essay, Origin of Covid – Following the Clues. It also appears online under the title The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
There was one event in particular that I watched unfold over the weekend that signalled to me the death knell, in practical terms, of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s controversial “stay-at-home” order.
Yes, there were a number of dead giveaways that highlighted just how many Ontarians weren’t following the rules as much as Ford, Dr. David Williams and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones would have liked.
Polls keep showing that the public believes COVID-19 disease is way deadlier and more pervasive than it really is
The COVID-19 variants, it was roundly said, were attacking the bodies of young people with unprecedented ferocity.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the U.K. variant had been “proven to be more dangerous in children and young people.” Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe just this week said that the variants are “shown to be more dangerous to young people.”
Ont. reports 2,170 new COVID-19 cases, lowest daily death toll in nearly 2 months
Ontario is reporting just under 2,200 new COVID-19 cases and four more virus-related deaths, the lowest daily death toll recorded in almost two months.
Provincial health officials logged 2,170 new COVID-19 infections today, down slightly from the 2,199 cases confirmed on Sunday.
Today’s tally is a notable drop from the 2,716 cases reported last Monday.
‘I am not locked down this morning’: Charges pending as defiant Ontario church sees hundreds gather for service
LONDON, ONT. — The pastor of a small Ontario town church was greeted with a standing ovation as hundreds gathered for an outdoor service Sunday after their church was shuttered by a court order last week.
“I am not locked down this morning,” said Pastor Henry Hildebrant of the Church of God Restoration in Aylmer, Ont. as he started the service attended by roughly 500 congregants
So, what’s going on here? Could this decision by the CDC and fully supported by the Biden administration – whose members have sported masks outdoors and otherwise for months while fully vaccinated – have something to do with politics?
Of course it does, because it’s safe to say that the post-honeymoon stage for the new president is going excessively poorly.
In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Pompeo said “every piece of evidence that we saw throughout the entire time suggested that this originated in the laboratory, at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
The question of whether Canada should create COVID-19 vaccine passports was answered by Health Minister Patty Hadju this week when she confirmed that the federal government will create such a system to allow Canadians to travel internationally again.
Now is the time to consider who in Canada will provide such passports and how they should be designed and deployed.
The pastor spoke with Newsmax highlighting how the Calgary Police have been incessantly targeting him, though he doesn’t seem ready to relent any time soon. While speaking with Rob Schmitt, he likened what he has gone through to the plight of Hong Kong protesters.
EudraVigilance is a system designed for collecting reports of suspected side effects. These reports are used for evaluating the benefits and risks of medicines during their development and monitoring their safety following their authorisation in the European Economic Area (EEA). EudraVigilance has been in use since December 2001.
The article “Origin of COVID – Following the Clues” by Nicholas Wade is a comprehensive investigation into the COVID19 pandemic. Wade is a science journalist who has written articles for the big publishers. His Origin of COVID article is a clear-eyed analysis of what we do and don’t know. He tells us the details that lead a reasonable reader to conclude that the Wuhan Virology Institute created the COVID19 virus and through sloppy techniques released the virus. The disease spread rapidly, killing millions and attacking elderly populations in particular.
The Americans’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention (the well-known CDC) had a major conversion this week. It finally let the science of COVID (and not the politics) drive its decision on what vaccinated Americans can and cannot do once they’ve had their shots.
Bottom line kiss summer goodbye.
After months of good news, including falling Covid cases and a hugely successful vaccination campaign, the tone has shifted.
England’s full relaxation of rules in June is in jeopardy and there is the looming spectre of greater pressure on the NHS.
The thorn in the plans is the variant of coronavirus that emerged in India – B.1.617.2 – and has started spreading around the world.
Concerns have been mounting over the past week and, for the first time, the scientists advising the UK government are now confident it does spread more easily.
Amid the search for the origins of COVID-19, two of the Biden administration’s top doctors, Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci, are adamant the National Institutes of Health did not fund so-called gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
But both men, the respective leaders of the NIH and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also admit they don’t actually know what the secretive Chinese lab at the center of COVID speculation has been up to.
OTTAWA — Some of the lines destined for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speeches can take several days, and dozens of people, to put together.
Then there is a “one-dose summer, two-dose fall.”
How Liberals got to a line that launched a thousand mocking memes this week stems from an element of COVID-19 vaccine rollout spooking public health officials: what if not enough Canadians will take the shot?
And the line, it turns out, was conjured up by Trudeau himself.
Ontario reports 2,199 new COVID-19 cases; 30 more deaths
Ontario reported 2,199 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, along with 30 more deaths as the number of active cases continues to fall by hundreds each day.
Ontario reported 2,584 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday and 2,362 cases on Friday.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases now stands at 2,430, down from 2,576 yesterday.
Justin Trudeau won’t commit, but a top health adviser says Canada will need an inquiry into its pandemic response
OTTAWA—A post-pandemic review of how Canada handled the health disaster should be led by international experts and should look at both federal and provincial gaps, says a leading doctor who is working closely with the federal government on its COVID-19 response.
Dr. David Naylor, a behind-the-scenes adviser to the federal Liberal government as co-chair of the national COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, said in an interview with the Star a rigorous, independent examination of how the pandemic unfolded in Canada is necessary and should be “led by international experts so that we actually get a dispassionate review.”
And Ontario is not screening for the India Variant
Ontario not building mass screening tool to detect B.1.617 COVID-19 variant; 45 cases now confirmed
Hmmmm… UK Health Secretary says Indian variant of Covid-19 could ‘spread like wildfire among the unvaccinated’
