California Gov. Gavin Newsom will say during his State of the State address that the pandemic will end soon. But when it does, Newsom will say that “we’re not going back to normal” because “normal accepts inequity.”
“China eats weird animals disease”
China launches COVID-19 vaccination certificates for cross-border travel
As vaccines are globally being rolled out, a few countries, including Bahrain, have already introduced certificates identifying vaccinated people and the European Union agreed to develop vaccine passports under pressure from tourism-dependent southern countries.
The certificate issued by China would have details about the holder’s COVID-19 vaccination information and coronavirus test results, the Department of Consular Affairs under China’s foreign ministry said on its website.
h/t Mauser98
‘Third wave’ field hospital being assembled in parking lot of Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital
Workers were spotted assembling a mobile field hospital in the parking lot of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto in preparation for a potential third wave of the coronavirus.
The 100-bed facility is one of two mobile field hospitals promised by the Trudeau government being set up in Sunnybrook’s parking lot is one of the promised facilities, CTV news Toronto learned Monday, and is meant to help bolster the region’s health-care system against being overwhelmed.
Canada scores poorly on COVID Misery Index
In their new COVID Misery Index, ranking the relative despair caused during the pandemic, MLI ranked Canada as the fifth most-miserable country out of the fifteen countries studied.
“Health Minister” Whines That Canadian Bishops Are Making a Note of Morally Sketchy Flu Shots
Some of these so-called vaccines are derived from aborted babies. Ethically, this presents a series of problems, mostly for bishops who must advise their flock, as is their vocation.
That sort of discernment is most troublesome for a government that has been used to being morally and politically corrupt and inept:
Health Minister Christian Dubé has criticized the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops over its vaccine advice.
The bishops suggested that Catholics should “prefer” the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines because they are more “morally acceptable” than those being produced by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.
Whistleblower: Biden’s FAA Forcing Air Traffic Controllers to Wear Masks While Speaking to Pilots, Causing Serious Read-Back Errors
The whistleblower noted that posters have gone up where he works that say “mask up for the mission,” and his supervisors are now insisting that they keep the masks on while speaking with pilots.
“For context, our headsets use a boom microphone that adjusts to fit somewhere an inch or two away from our face. It has created an issue where we get a lot more read-back errors from pilots on instructions because they can’t hear us clearly over the radio,” he explained.
Hollywood and media workers cut vaccine line, causing clinic closure: Health officials
Pasadena, California, officials canceled a coronavirus vaccine clinic after hundreds of ineligible media and Hollywood workers signed up for appointments, they said.
Elderly residents and local workers were jumped over by around 900 appointment slots as media workers who did not yet qualify for the vaccine left only 600 empty slots open for eligible vaccine recipients, the Pasadena Public Health Department said Tuesday.
Derek H. Burney: Canada is caught in a perfect storm of dysfunction. Muddling through is not the answer
Today, Canada faces a perfect storm of dysfunction at various government levels and with key Canadian institutions. Muddling through is not the answer. The public is increasingly frustrated over the inability of governments to manage the pandemic. Trust is at a low ebb and no one really knows who or what to believe. Beyond the impact of the virus itself, consequences are spiralling downwards for the economy, the budget, public education and the mental health of Canadians of all ages.
Twitter Claims Exclusive Truth On Vaccines, All Others Will Be Banned
Social media giant Twitter announced this week that it will begin labeling tweets that share “misleading information” about the coronavirus vaccine and will implement a strike system for repeat offenders of the “misinformation policy.”
ISIS recruiting British children online in ‘worrying numbers’ during pandemic
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warned that the group was still the UK’s biggest threat and is ‘still able to carry out lethal attacks’.
Legal challenge launched seeking end to government quarantine hotels
The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) is launching a legal challenge to the Trudeau government’s mandatory quarantine hotels.
In a statement on Monday, the CCF said it will argue that forcing people to stay in quarantine hotels and pay out of pocket violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The CCF is joining five individuals who were forced to stay in quarantine hotels after travelling abroad for compassionate reasons, such as attending a funeral or attending to a spouse who received surgery abroad.
CNN is blasted hard for declaring the CDC is ‘giving limited freedoms’ to COVID-vaccinated Americans
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 reports 1316 new Covid Cases
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?
Trudeau PMO mused about “war time” measures to force manufacturers to make what they want
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.
Vaccine Passports and the Permanent Lockdown
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.