It has been over a year now since COVID-19 began to wreak havoc on our society.
Remember, we were originally told to stay home for 14 days to “flatten the curve.”
“China eats weird animals disease”
‘Text me for a fresh cut’: Toronto underground barbershops flout public health orders
TORONTO — At least a hundred underground barbershops have opened since storefront salons were ordered closed under a public health order, salon owners say, questioning whether continuing to keep their businesses closed is any safer for the public than the unregulated operations that appear to be replacing them.
Not at all surprised. I drove out of the city to get a cut on Saturday because my regular barber has been forced to close.
Ontario reports 1699 new covid cases… Astra Zeneca jab declared “safe” in US
Ontario is reporting 1,699 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 31,100 tests completed. Locally, there are 500 new cases in Toronto, 318 in Peel 155 in York Region and 114 in Hamilton.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 1,553,040 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 22, 2021
AstraZeneca vaccine trials in U.S. confirm shot is safe, highly effective
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine provided strong protection against sickness and eliminated hospitalizations and deaths from the disease across all age groups in a late-stage study in the United States, the company announced Monday.
AstraZeneca said its experts did not identify any safety concerns related to the vaccine, including finding no increased risk of rare blood clots identified in Europe.
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But… European trust in AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine plummets after blood clot reports
Confidence in the safety of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has taken a big hit in Spain, Germany, France and Italy as reports of rare blood clots have been linked to it and many countries briefly stopped using it, poll data showed on Monday.
The polling firm YouGov said it had already found in late February that Europeans were more hesitant about the AstraZeneca vaccine than about those from Pfizer Inc /BioNTech and Moderna Inc, and that the clot concerns had further damaged public perceptions of the AstraZeneca shot’s safety.
Locked Down: Canada’s failed approach to COVID-19
Locked Down: Canada’s Failed COVID-19 Response features Dr. Shawn Whatley (Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute), John Carpay (President, Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms), Anthony Furey (Editor and Columnist, Toronto Sun) and Candice Malcolm (Founder, True North.)
More than 600 Amazon workers in Brampton got COVID-19. Why were so few reported to the province?
More than 600 Amazon workers at one warehouse alone have contracted COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. But the online retail giant has registered fewer than five cases at the provincial workers’ compensation board, the Star has learned.
Last week, Peel Public Health ordered the company to close all shifts after concerns that cases within its Brampton Heritage Road facility were “increasing significantly,” even as community cases dropped.
But despite hundreds of workers testing positive, the company has registered almost no claims at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board as of this past week.
Ontario employers are required to report COVID cases to the WSIB, which then decides if they are work-related. If the workplace contributed “significantly” to a worker contracting the virus, they would be eligible for financial support or health-care benefits.
FUREY: It’s not about ‘science’ — lobbying clearly works to change pandemic restrictions
A couple of weeks ago, Cardinal Thomas Collins — the influential Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto — called on the Ontario government to revise its capacity rules for places of worship.
“This makes no sense,” Cardinal Collins wrote, in reference to the rules governing Toronto and Peel Region that capped attendance at 10 persons regardless of the size of the facility. He pointed out how the 10-person limit applies to his own St. Michael’s Cathedral despite the fact the grand facility can hold 1,500 persons, and yet nearby liquor stores are much smaller but can welcome more than 10 customers.
Lockdowns are a limited means of defense. They can slow but not eliminate covid spread. That’s great if you need to shore up old age homes. Used as a bludgeon they do far more harm than good. The economic and mental health devastation will far outweigh any benefit.
Bar Hires 100s of Customers as Employees to Exploit Lockdown Loophole
A bar in Finland hiring hundreds of customers as employees, allowing them to eat and drink at the bar as staff, has not yet been found in violation of lockdown rules.
Corbella: Trudeau’s blaming of Mulroney on vaccine problems delusional, say experts
For months now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has blamed everyone for Canada’s trickle of COVID-19 vaccines but himself.
Trudeau and his ministers have gone so far as to blame former Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney — who was prime minister from 1984 to 1993 — for the privatization, or “the selling off“, of Connaught Laboratories. What he fails to mention is that Connaught Labs didn’t go anywhere. It’s now part of Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines. The Connaught Campus in Toronto accounts for one-fifth of the company’s global vaccine sales.
‘Stop destroying our kids’ lives!’ Clashes, arrests as thousands protest against Covid lockdown in London
At least 33 people have been arrested for ‘breaching Covid regulations’ amid scuffles with riot police after thousands marched through central London in defiance of national lockdown and restrictions.
Bottles still being throw at the police by protesters, police in riot gear in Hyde Park clashing with protesters from the unite freedom london March ….. pic.twitter.com/SUCp3QC0v2
— Paul Brown 🇬🇧 Browns fan🏈 London News 🎥Vlogger (@PaulBrown_UK) March 20, 2021
Ontario reports 1791 new Covid cases … And Refugee Haircuts
Ontario reports more than 1,700 new COVID-19 cases for third straight day
TORONTO — Ontario health officials are reporting more than 1,700 new cases of COVID-19 for the third day in a row.
The province confirmed 1,791 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Sunday. The case count comes after officials logged 1,745 more infections on Friday and 1,829 more infections on Saturday.
The case numbers reported over the past three days represent a significant increase from the 1,553 cases recorded on Thursday and the 1,508 recorded on Wednesday.
Big news: I got a haircut yesterday.
I had to leave TO to get one. I’m a covid refugee!
One place I called said they weren’t serving anyone from other more infected zones!
I’m oppressed by the colour of my zone!
Not a bad cut I admit. The place was packed and business was non-stop.
How bizarre to have to travel for a cut.
I feel bad, the guy who has cut our hair for 20 years still can’t open.
I will go in for a trim no matter when he is allowed to open up.
Things were a lot easier when mom or dad just gave you a kitchen brushcut.
Peer Reviewed Study Suggests CDC Inflated COVID-19 Fatalities
Newly released study reveals the CDC initiated new date reporting protocols that dramatically increased reported COVID deaths.
Canada’s pandemic ‘alert’ system failed to operate properly for COVID-19: report
An interim review of why Ottawa’s early pandemic warning system failed to issue a formal alert on COVID-19 has described a lack of detailed knowledge of the system by senior managers.
The audit dated Feb. 26, and released on Saturday, was ordered by federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu after reports the Global Public Health Intelligence Network didn’t operate as intended at the onset of the pandemic.
Why are We Vaccinating Children against Covid-19?
The acute focus in this writing is on the vaccination of children under 12 years of age with the Covid-19 vaccines as this raises very serious and urgent issues that must be confronted by societies in terms of possible unnecessary harms to our children. SARS-CoV-2 virus that leads to Covid-19 disease may be used interchangeably in this report. Why this focus? Because there is now a major effort to test the new mRNA-based vaccines against SARS CoV-2 virus in young children.
What is the rationale for this and what is the basis? Why would there be a push to vaccinate six-month-old babies? Vaccinate two-year-old infants? Vaccinate six-year-old children? Ten-year-old children? Via an experimental vaccine that delivers genetic code into your cells instructing it to produce a mock portion of the virus?
‘Don’t declare victory prematurely’: Fauci warns of another COVID surge if Americans relax mask wearing and social distancing as he says plateauing at 50,000 cases a day ‘is not a good place to be’
The infectious diseases expert, 80, made the claim during an interview with Chris Hayes on MSNBC Friday night.
Nearly every India-Toronto flight this month had COVID-positive passengers
Flights from India continue to be Canada’s top source of international passengers testing positive for COVID-19.
And data provided by Health Canada reveals nearly all of the twice-daily flights between Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport and Toronto Pearson Airport carried passengers infected with COVID-19.