CNN was blasted by social media users after posting a tweet Monday that seemed to suggest that Americans’ constitutional rights and civil liberties now flow through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and are directly related to their vulnerability to, or protection from, COVID-19.
Ontario is reporting 1,316 cases of #COVID19 and over 54,100 tests completed. Locally, there are 428 new cases in Toronto, 244 in Peel and 149 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 978,797 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 10, 2021
Coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 between 30 to 100 per cent more deadly than previous strains: major UK study
LONDON, March 10 (Reuters) — A highly infectious variant of COVID-19 that has spread around the world since it was first discovered in Britain late last year is between 30% and 100% more deadly than previous strains, researchers said on Wednesday.
In a study that compared death rates among people in Britain infected with the new SARS-CoV-2 variant, known as B.1.1.7, against those infected with other strains, scientists said the new variant had “significantly higher” mortality.
This is the strain that took Mom. I wonder if the hospitals rather than just long term care homes are being sued on behalf of patients who contracted the disease under their care?
We should get list from health of things we will have shortages of and look to mandate manufacturing be switched to what is needed. Like in war time when factories were retooled for needed equipment.
Justin Trudeau once called the idea of a vaccine passport “divisive” but now the federal government says it’s a “live” issue between Canada and its G-7 allies. True North’s Andrew Lawton talks about this and how opposing lockdown has been characterized as a fringe position.
The book, Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency, details how Biden adviser Anita Dunn made the remark in private to a campaign “associate.”
The book’s authors, Jonathan Allen of NBC News and Amie Parnes of the Hill, said Dunn’s comments were what “campaign officials believed but would never say in public.”
Many on the left are making the absurd claim that DeSantis is prioritizing political supporters by using common sense and prioritizing seniors.
The approval of a fourth vaccine in Canada should not give Canadians the green light to hold off on getting inoculated in order to wait for other doses with higher efficacy rates, medical experts say.
That attitude will end up lengthening the time it takes to get the pandemic under control, said Dr. Peter Juni, scientific director of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.
“If people start to do that, they actually prevent Canadians from moving slowly back to normal,” he said.
From digital certificates to “health passports”, countries and airlines across the globe are hoping to relaunch travel by letting people prove their Covid-free status.
But with patchy vaccine access around the world and mounting concerns over data privacy, questions are swirling about how the measures will work in practice.
Ontario is reporting 1,185 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 33,300 tests completed. Locally, there are 343 new cases in Toronto, 235 in Peel and 105 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 943,533 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 9, 2021
Ontario staring down possible third wave of COVID-19, but severity remains unclear
Ontario appears to be standing on the edge of a third wave of COVID-19, some experts say — but because of virus variants, vaccinations and the promise of warmer weather on the horizon, it’s unclear how severe it could be.
All of those changing variables mean predicting exactly what will happen in the coming weeks is difficult, said epidemiologist Dr. Tim Sly, a professor emeritus at Ryerson University in Toronto.
“It’s almost like a dystopian plot in a movie. On the horizon ahead you’ve got the vaccine cavalry … and on the other horizon you’ve got the mutants, all lined up, a motley bunch,” Sly said.
“It’s almost like the third act of a three-act play … it’s the crisis now. The future will be determined by this conflict, and it could go either way.”
A judge in Ontario has revoked a man’s shared custody of his children over the man’s opinions that masks and government lockdowns are wrong, which the judge believes means he will not take measure to protect his children from coronavirus.
Another example of why the federal government should be protecting your God given rights and the border, and legal powers should increase as they move downward through states, cities, counties, neighborhoods, and families.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and brought to light issues with Canada’s long-term care facilities, wreaking havoc on residents and exposing poor conditions and care, leaving some seniors actively looking at living at home longer.
In this interview, we discuss troubles with the modern public school system. Sorbo comments on the excuse that many parents have about the lack of socialization children face when taken out of public school.
So, we’re almost a year into the “New Normal” (a/k/a “pathologized totalitarianism”) and things are still looking … well, pretty totalitarian.
Most of Western Europe is still in “lockdown,” or “under curfew,” or in some other state of “health emergency.” Police are fining and arresting people for “being outdoors without a valid reason.” Protest is still banned. Dissent is still censored. The official propaganda is relentless. Governments are ruling by edict, subjecting people to an ever-changing series of increasingly absurd restrictions of the most fundamental aspects of everyday life.
And now, the campaign to “vaccinate” the entirety of humanity against a virus that causes mild to moderate flu-like symptoms or, more commonly, no symptoms at all, in over 95% of those infected, and that over 99% of the infected survive (and that has no real effect on age-adjusted death rates, and the mortality profile of which is more or less identical to the normal mortality profile) is being waged with literally religious fervor.
“Vaccine passports” (which are definitely creepy, but which bear no resemblance to Aryan Ancestry Certificates, or any other fascistic apartheid-type documents, so don’t even think about making such a comparison!) are in the pipeline in a number of countries. They have already been rolled out in Israel.
Maybe you have noticed the rise in public incredulity toward the coronavirus narrative that you hear all day from the mainstream media. More doubts. More opposition. More protests. And far less trust. You are hardly alone. What began as a spark in the Spring of 2020 is now a raging fire. Try as they might to put it out, it is burning hotter and higher than ever before.
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on for a year, Toronto has become a flashpoint for the inherent inequities and political consequences that come with difficult public-health decisions.
