“China eats weird animals disease”

On Friday Statistics Canada released the latest employment numbers. They weren’t good. But this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.

Friday’s numbers showed a drop of 207,000 jobs and nearly half a million Canadians who are now unemployed long-term as our labour market yo-yos between lockdowns and partial re-openings.

A recent ruling by an Ontario judge confirmed what some employment lawyers have been saying for more than a year — that many businesses may have actually constructively dismissed their employees when enacting temporary layoffs, putting themselves on the hook for severance pay.

Last March, when employers were doing temporary layoffs during a time of uncertainty, Toronto employment lawyer Stuart Rudner told the Star that many of those layoffs might actually be constructive dismissals, meaning the employer had essentially terminated the employee and would owe them severance.

Lockdowns just keep getting better and better!

Ontario’s top doctor says the province will stop giving out first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

Dr. David Williams says the decision has been made out of an abundance of caution because of increased instances of a rare blood clotting disorder linked to the shot.

In recent weeks, a seeming contradiction has emerged: States in the U.S. that have had little to no COVID-19 restrictions have gotten case counts under control, while in Canada there are provinces still struggling with a third wave despite having never fully reopened.

It has the potential to become fuel for anti-lockdown protesters: If those states have opened up and brought case counts down, why can’t we? Do lockdowns not work?

Lockdowns slow an outbreak but vaccination seems key.

Professor Explains Flaw in Many Models Used for COVID-19 Lockdown Policies

Economics professor Doug Allen wanted to know why so many early models used to create COVID-19 lockdown policies turned out to be highly incorrect. What he found was that a great majority were based on false assumptions and “tended to over-estimate the benefits and under-estimate the costs.” He found it troubling that policies such as total lockdowns were based on those models.

Ontario is reporting 2,073 cases of #COVID19 and over 28,100 tests completed. Locally, there are 685 new cases in Toronto, 389 in Peel, 231 in York Region and 144 in Durham.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) May 11, 2021

Ont. records lowest number of new COVID-19 cases since March as seven-day average dips below 3,000

That’s a Big Drop, is the count off again?

Indian doctors warn against using cow poop as COVID cure

As COVID-19 ravages India, some have taken to rubbing cow feces and urine on their bodies as a way to fight the virus.

Doctors are warning against the practice, saying there’s no proof it boosts immunity or helps treat COVID.

“There are also health risks involved in smearing or consuming these products – other diseases can spread from the animals to humans,” Dr. JA Jayalal, national president of the Indian Medical Association, told Reuters.

Canucks are Gungho for Covid passports USA not so much