OTTAWA – The federal government is suspending incoming passenger flights from India and Pakistan for the next month as cases of COVID-19 surge in both countries.
“China eats weird animals disease”
Come on, that’s just funny
COVID-19: Montreal newspaper blasted for front-page photo of Trudeau in India
“The Indian variant has arrived.”
WARMINGTON: Toronto’s COVID-19 policing squads loaded with land mines
Get out of town by sundown?
“The new enforcement approach begins April 22, 2021 at 5 p.m.,” say Toronto Police.
It’s like an ominous warning from the sheriff in an old Western movie. Could it be setting rank-and-file officers up for unnecessary conflicts while trampling people’s basic Charter rights? Does it give people being policed the heads up of when they are coming?
Data On Excess Deaths In Canada Is Months Behind Almost Every Other Country In MLI Covid Misery Index
Canada’s pace of vaccine roll-out is improving, but data reporting on excess deaths – perhaps the most important pandemic performance metric – is months behind almost every other country in our COVID Misery Index.
Ontario reports 3,682 new China virus cases … and the India B1617 variant says hello with more to come
Ontario reports nearly 3,700 new cases of COVID-19 as number of patients in ICUs surpasses 800
Ontario is reporting nearly 3,700 new instances of COVID-19 but there may be some signs that case counts are finally starting to stabilize after weeks of exponential growth.
The Ministry of Health says that there were 3,682 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus confirmed on Wednesday, along with another 40 deaths.
B1617 variant has been detected in Mauricie–Centre-du-Québec region
A first case of B1617, a COVID-19 variant first detected in India, has been identified in Quebec’s Mauricie–Centre-du-Québec region, according to public health authorities.
This is thought to be the first case of this type of variant detected in Quebec. The Mauricie region is between Montreal and Quebec City.
The infected person was already in isolation during screening because another person in their home had tested positive, says the region’s health authority, the CIUSSS de Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Québec.
Ottawa consulting on stricter border measures, won’t stop flights from India
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is indicating the federal government is looking at additional COVID-19 measures to protect international borders but won’t stop flights into Canada from India.
In an interview with Global News Wednesday, Trudeau said community spread continues to be the main concern and not international travel.
I’m not sure which country Justin and his cronies are working for only that it isn’t Canada.
Biden warns if Americans don’t get COVID jabs they might have to cancel July 4
More than 51 percent of American adults have received at least one vaccine dose, according to CDC data, indicating that herd immunity and the pandemic’s end are near.
But Biden said at the White House that he’s not yet comfortable saying people can hold small outdoor gatherings on Independence Day.
Hundreds of COVID-19 ICU patient transfers planned as Ontario braces for ‘horrific’ 2 weeks
The race to move patients and open beds within reach of Ontario’s most taxed ICUs has become a complicated web and a snapshot of a province’s health-care system on the verge of breaking amid the third wave of the pandemic.
‘Practically impossible’ to keep COVID-19 variants out, officials say, as flights from hotspots continue
“We know that, with viruses, it’s practically impossible to prevent new variants from arriving here in Canada,” said deputy chief public health officer Dr. Howard Njoo, speaking in French during a COVID-19 update on April 21.
Especially when you don’t even try.
John Ivison: Is it time to ground domestic flights?
The aggressive P1 variant is every parent’s worst nightmare, but there are no efforts being made to corral it west of the Rockies.
Medical experts now claim COVID herd immunity is ‘off the table,’ citing ‘independent-thinking’ Americans
“[Herd immunity is] theoretically possible but we as a society have rejected that,” Poland told USA Today. “There is no eradication at this point, it’s off the table. The only thing we can talk about is control.
“What has surprised me most is the incomprehensible rejection of science even among otherwise intelligent people,” Poland added. “I’m truly flabbergasted to be watching this on a grand scale.”
Maybe the “experts” shouldn’t have lied to us every step of the way.
Just how scary is the COVID outbreak in India right now?
I have no deep thoughts about this subject but I want to put it on your radar because there’s every indication that it’ll end up as the worst COVID outbreak on Earth since the pandemic began. That distinction currently belongs to Brazil, I think, but India’s population dwarfs that country’s. And India is poorer per capita, which means more people in dire need of hospital care may not be able to get it.
They aren’t yet sure that the “Double Mutant” strain is responsible but it’s certainly playing a part.
As always too little too late from Trudeau and his cronies – Canada eyes policy on travel from India due to massive COVID-19 outbreak
COVID-19: Aylmer, Ont., police charge 4 over Church of God gathering
Police in Aylmer, Ont., say four people are facing charges in connection with a public complaint about a large gathering at the Church of God.
According to police, officers arrived on scene at roughly 8:30 p.m. Tuesday to find 18 vehicles in the parking lot.
Amazon remains open!
Vaccinating ‘hot spots’ good, closing golf courses dumb: Reviewing the Ontario lockdown
Ontario, the epicentre of Canada’s third wave of COVID-19, is currently subject to what Premier Doug Ford has called the “strictest measures in all of North America.”
On Tuesday, Ontario’s official COVID-19 Science Advisory Table issued an oblique criticism of the current lockdowns. In a statement, the team of more than three dozen public health researchers branded some of Ontario’s current restrictions as belonging to policies that “won’t work.” They are far from the first in Ontario to question the efficacy of measures that are unprecedented in Canada, including empowering police to ticket anyone outside their home without valid reason.
Ontario reports 4,212 new Covid cases – Top Canadian WHO adviser commits blasphemy
Ontario reports 4,212 new COVID-19 cases; 32 more deaths
Ontario reported 4,212 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and 32 deaths, as some early signs hinted case growth may be slowing.
Ontario reported 3,469 new COVID-19 cases and 22 deaths on Tuesday, along with 4,447 new cases on Monday and 4,250 on Sunday.
The province’s rolling seven day average of new cases now stands at 4,326, up from 4,319 yesterday.
Top Canadian WHO adviser under fire after downplaying airborne threat of COVID-19
An influential Canadian doctor and top adviser to the World Health Organization has come under fire from international experts for his controversial comments downplaying the risk of airborne spread of the coronavirus.
Dr. John Conly, an infectious diseases physician and professor of medicine at the University of Calgary, not only denied that aerosol transmission is a primary route of transmission, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, but also said that N95 masks can cause “harms” — including acne.
“Any time you look at benefits, you need to look at harms, of which there are many harms with N95s — and I think to ignore them you are at your peril,” Conly told a panel discussion at the University of Calgary on April 9 on the role of airborne transmission in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Much to Forgive
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul,” Nelson Mandela famously said, “than the way in which it treats its children.” By that standard, our society now has the soul of an abusive parent. The pandemic has turned American adults, or at least the ones who make the rules, into selfish neurotics who have been punishing innocent children for over a year—and still can’t restrain themselves.