Ontario reports 3,813 new Covid cases … Lockdown shopping restrictions cause shortage of Tin Foil Hats!

Ontario reports more than 3,800 new COVID-19 cases as ICU admissions hit record 585

Ontario is reporting 3,800 new cases of COVID-19 today as the number of ICU patients infected with the virus hits another record high.

Provincial health officials logged 3,813 new cases today, down from the 4,227 infections confirmed Friday but up from 3,009 last Saturday.

The rolling seven-day average of new cases now stands at 3,213, up from 2,552 one week ago.


COVID-19: Ontarians push back against companies denying them access to ‘non-essential’ goods

Colero, who uses the pronouns they and them, claimed the ODSP only provides them with just under $1,200 a month and said they depend on stores like Dollarama to get their supplies.

They also claimed Dollarama has closed off access to aisles with many supplies they need and can’t afford to purchase elsewhere.

“Cleaning supplies, menstrual products, paper towels, tissues, tin foil,” Colero told Global News. “I love Dollarama because everything there is a good price and that’s really what we need, because on ODSP, we have to budget so carefully.”

I’m hoarding what’s left, Buddy needs toys.

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Ottawa mulls exempting more workers from Canada-U.S. border shutdown: Garneau

Ottawa mulls exempting more workers from Canada-U.S. border shutdown: Garneau

Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau says Ottawa is looking at expanding the categories of essential workers allowed to travel across the Canada-U.S. border.

He told a parliamentary committee Thursday that could mean allowing technicians in the integrated auto industry to be considered essential workers for cross-border purposes.

“We are specifically talking about different groups that would be potentially considered to be essential workers, that have the need to cross the border for specific reasons,” Garneau said.

The Canada-U.S. border has been closed to people travelling for vacations and other non-essential visits since March 2020 to help limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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What Do Mandatory Vaccination and Forced Sterilization have in Common?

What would you say if I told you a distraught woman recently came into my counseling office? She explained that her boss threatened that, if she didn’t have sex with him, she would be fired. He’d already banned her from all firm social activities and said that he’d do what he could to destroy her personal life too. After he was done with her, he said, she wouldn’t be able to leave the house. He would take away everything that meant anything to her.

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Canada should check its COVID-19 superiority complex: We are the laggards now, not the U.S.

If the Germans weren’t so busy with their own problems, I’d ask them to come up with a word for that feeling you get when the screw-up cousin you’ve always looked down on suddenly lands a great job, a house and a runway-model spouse while you’re left eating ravioli out of a can in a basement apartment. It’s some combination of jealousy, disorientation and sheepishness. How did the smug high ground collapse into Chef Boyardee?

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GRANT: Stop blaming people for the behaviour of a virus

GRANT: Stop blaming people for the behaviour of a virus

We’re a year into this mess, and despite all we have gone through, we are still wrongly apportioning blame. Some of the loudest voices in the media are finding scapegoats for the “third wave.”

Some of the criticism is ridiculous: Berating BC health officer Bonnie Henry’s “lax” approach to control when the rate of infection in BC is 1000-2000 cases per 100,000 population, which is less than it is in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta.

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BONOKOSKI: Experts question Trudeau’s strung-out vaccine strategy

BONOKOSKI: Experts question Trudeau’s strung-out vaccine strategy

Evidence is mounting fast that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is playing Crazy 8s with a euchre deck and using millions of Canadians as guinea pigs by moving the second COVID-19 vaccine back by four months.

The primary manufacturers of the vaccines — Pfizer and Moderna — say 21-to-28-days is the maximum wait, not a full third of a year.

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Ontario reports 4,227 new Covid cases … and no surgery for you!

Ontario reports 4,227 new Covid cases … and no surgery for you!

Ontario reports highest number of new COVID-19 cases in three months

Ontario is reporting its highest number of new cases of COVID-19 in three months as record hospitalization numbers continue to place further strain on the healthcare system.

The Ministry of Health says that there were 4,227 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus confirmed on Thursday, along with another 18 deaths.

It is the highest number of new cases in any 24-hour period since 4,249 were reported back on January 8.

Haven’t we been in a lockdown since Christmas?


Ontario orders hospitals to halt non-emergency surgeries as COVID-19 patients fill ICUs

The Ontario government’s health agency is telling hospitals across most of the province to stop performing all but emergency and life-saving surgeries because of the growing caseload of COVID-19 patients, CBC News has learned.

A memo was sent to hospitals Thursday night telling them to postpone their non-emergency surgeries, effective Monday, everywhere but in northern Ontario.

“Given increasing case counts and widespread community transmission across many parts of the province, we are facing mounting and extreme pressure on our critical care capacity,” says Ontario Health CEO Matthew Anderson in the memo, obtained by CBC News.

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Doug Ford’s Government Violates Its Own LockDown Restrictions…Again

On April 2, Ontario Premier Doug Ford implemented strict Covid19 lockdown restrictions in Ontario, now referred to colloquially as a shutdown. This government-imposed lockdown has occurred despite increased concerns from some health officials around the world as to the effectiveness of heavy restrictions and inconclusive data that may suggest lockdowns exacerbate the problem and help Covid19 spread. This while simultaneously causing catastrophic economic damage to Ontario and Canada. Ontario is one-third of Canada’s entire economic output.

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EXCLUSIVE – Former Pfizer VP: ‘Your government is lying to you in a way that could lead to your death.’

‘Look out the window, and think, “why is my government lying to me about something so fundamental?” Because, I think the answer is, they are going to kill you using this method. They’re going to kill you and your family.’

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Canada on track to surpass U.S. in number of COVID cases relative to population

Canada on track to surpass U.S. in number of COVID cases relative to population

The U.S. has fully vaccinated 19% of its population, compared to 1.9% of the population in Canada

In a reversal of earlier pandemic trends, Canada is on the verge of matching — perhaps surpassing — the United States in the number of COVID-19 cases relative to its population.

Updated data compiled from the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dataset shows that the United States sits at roughly 196 COVID-19 cases per one million people, and Canada, as of Tuesday, was at 180 cases per one million people.

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FUREY: Lockdowns cause immense harm — why keep doing them?

FUREY: Lockdowns cause immense harm — why keep doing them?

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said a lot of things on Wednesday, as he announced a crushing lockdown stricter than the previous ones. But what he didn’t say much about is the harm that’ll inevitably follow from those measures.

As much as the officials would like to ignore them, those harms are always there looming in the shadows, and they keep mounting.

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