But Dr. Theresa Tam says some of the more personal measures, like wearing masks and limiting close contact outside our households, may be with us longer.
Expect a smooth transition from Covid Lockdown to Climate Lockdown.
“China eats weird animals disease”
Do We Have the Courage of this Jailed Canadian Pastor Who Refuses to Be Silent?
Not long after Jesus was crucified and buried, two of his disciples, Peter and John, were jailed by the Jerusalem authorities for telling people that He had been resurrected from the dead after three days in the tomb, that He had talked multiple times with the disciples, and that He had ascended to Heaven.
I finally know someone who has Covid. Me Sainted Irish 96 Year Old Mudda caught it at the hospital.
There has been an outbreak on her floor for the past week, she was being treated for suspected pneumonia but her test came back positive last night.
All of this because she was immobilized when she arrived at St. Joe’s for treatment of edema before Christmas.
She was caught in a Covid lockdown at St. Joes and she was bedridden for two weeks which exasperated a knee problem.
They decided a stint at Runnymede rehab was called for but she was further waylayed and kept immobile at St. Joe’s due to an earlier outbreak at Runnymede which delayed her departure.
St. Joes’ helped by botching a cortisone shot to her knee and then broke Mom’s hearing aids for added measure.
It’s very frustrating, I have seen Mom at the hospitals perhaps 8 times since Christmas between Covid outbreaks.
The isolation will kill her before Covid does.
She sounded good yesterday when we spoke on the phone, her release date had been scheduled for March 8th which cheered her up but that is unlikely now, as she has already missed a week of physio alone hindering her progress.
Ontario reports 975 new Kung Flu Kases – Toronto BBQ Lockdown Costs 187K?
Ontario is reporting 975 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 26,000 tests completed. Locally, there are 343 new cases in Toronto, 186 in Peel and 89 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 585,707 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 23, 2021
City of Toronto seeking $187K from Etobicoke BBQ owner who defied lockdown
The City of Toronto is seeking to recoup the $187,000 it says it spent forcing an Etobicoke barbecue eatery to comply with public health lockdown measures.
Police were repeatedly called to Adamson BBQ in Etobicoke last November after the restaurant’s owner, Adam Skelly, openly defied lockdown measures and allowed in-person dining. Scores of Skelly’s supporters and anti-lockdown protesters swarmed police officers on scene, and city officials were forced to change the locks to keep the restaurant in compliance with public health orders.
Skelly was charged both criminally and non-criminally with trespassing, intent to obstruct police, violating indoor dining rules, holding an illegal gathering and operating a business without a licence.
Have they gone after BLM?
WHO’s COVID origin probe lacks credibility, scientists warn
Multiple scientists at major institutions around the world are sounding an alarm over what they say was an incomplete and unreliable investigation by the World Health Organization into the origins of the SARS-Cov-2 virus.
39% of federal employees received $819 million in paid leave last year
As the private sector faced lockdowns and unprecedented unemployment, thousands of public sector employees were paid to stay at home.
Liberal MP implies premiers who end lockdowns are being criminally negligent
“So my question is if PHAC’s models have been largely correct and the health experts are predicting this type of exponential case growth, if P/Ts choose to move forward with lifting public health measures despite the evidence, are they culpable for the resulting deaths?” asked Turnbull before quoting the criminal code.
Flamin’ hot hypocrite: Joe Biden refuses to condemn Cuomo’s nursing home deaths scandal
Joe Biden, who blamed President Trump entirely for all 300,000 (at the time) deaths in the U.S. from COVID during his campaign, has gone strangely silent about the revelations that New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered nursing homes in New York to accept COVID patients from hospitals and then covered up the 15,000 deaths that predictably came as a result of sticking the sickest people into the same living quarters as the most vulnerable. He’s more than silent, actually, his spokesweasel, Jen Psaki, has refused to condemn Cuomo
Chinese Regime Turned to Military for CCP Virus Cover-Up: Former Trump Adviser
The Chinese regime turned to its military, rather than its health authority, to cover-up and contain the CCP virus outbreak, according to a former White House deputy national security adviser.
This was one reason why the United States was unable to obtain any useful data from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the burgeoning stages of the pandemic, Matthew Pottinger, who served under the Trump administration, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” in an interview that aired on Feb. 21.
Vax bias matters – Canada’s vaccinators are planning to prioritize ‘adults in racialized and marginalized communities’
Canada’s vaccination rollout has gone poorly, to say the least. The country currently ranks just 40th in vaccine doses per capita. It is being soundly whipped by Morocco, Turkey, and Serbia — nations which aren’t known for bragging insufferably about their single-payer healthcare systems. Even worse for Canadians, they trail the United States. For a country that views its identity through the prism of its southern neighbor, this must be a most demoralizing experience.
On Monday, Canada’s national advisory committee on immunization announced that ‘saving lives’ will be shoved violently down the list of priorities in its vaccination drive. Instead, the country is placing a focus on racial equity — ‘Black Lives Matter More’, if you will.
Unmasking the Medical Experts
Masks have become an unwelcome staple of American life with no end in sight. Mask recommendations change faster and more frequently than the weather. How did we get here?
h/t Marvin
WARMINGTON: Pearson bracing for potential ‘chaos’ as new hotel rules implemented
This holding pattern of flights coming into Pearson International Airport is not expected to be in the sky.
Ontario reports 1,058 new Covid cases
Ontario is reporting 1,058 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 31,200 tests completed. Locally, there are 325 new cases in Toronto, 215 in Peel and 87 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 569,455 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 22, 2021
No sympathy for snowbirds: Most Canadians support travel restrictions, Ipsos poll finds
As travel restrictions have clipped the wings of many snowbirds hoping to fly south to their Florida homes for the winter, the vast majority of Canadians support the new travel rules — and very few think exceptions should be made for those with second residences south of the border.
Justin Trudeau Failed Canada in COVID Vaccine Debacle. Here’s Why.
Canadians sometimes have an inferiority complex when it comes to their southern neighbor which they frequently express with hostility. Nowhere was this more apparent than on Twitter the last few years where you couldn’t swing a dead cat without finding a Canadian smugly lecturing Americans on Donald Trump’s behavior and ‘incompetence’ (according to them).
Why did 150,000 fewer Chinese people suddenly stop receiving state benefits just after Covid outbreak began?
Disturbing Chinese government statistics reveal a huge drop in the number of old people receiving state payments in Hubei – the province containing the city of Wuhan – in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic’s eruption.
The official data, which shows a fall of more than 150,000 people receiving the benefits in the first quarter of last year, will fuel fears the death toll from Covid-19 in China was far higher than the government has admitted.
According to the Chinese authorities, there have been only 4,636 Covid deaths in their nation of 1.4 billion – with all except 124 of the fatalities in the central province of Hubei. There is widespread scepticism over these figures.