“China eats weird animals disease”

IN a grim caricature of Christian penance, these are the months we are meant to be taking our punishment in the aftermath of a Christmas feast gifted to us by our rulers. Except there was no Christmas feast. And now Easter too is to be drastically curtailed, with Boris Johnson ‘privately sharing an aspiration to see restrictions begin to ease by Good Friday to allow families some small contact again’.

Ah, but fret ye not at this cancellation of all that we hold most sacred. This latest lockdown, unlike those that went before it, is morally justified apparently. 

The fact Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Procurement Minister Anita Anand refuse to disclose the contracts they’ve signed with vaccine manufacturers raises the question of what’s in them that they don’t want us to see.

They’ve rejected appeals from the opposition parties, Canada’s premiers and provincial public health experts to release the contracts on the grounds this would violate confidentiality provisions, which could lead to their cancellation.

OTTAWA – Since last November, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said all Canadians who want a COVID-19 vaccine will have one by September.

Trudeau, his ministers and MPs have all repeated that promise despite a slowdown in vaccine deliveries that has seen Canada fall behind the world for vaccinations during the last month. It’s a promise to Canadian voters and now a political liability should the government fail to deliver.

Now, unlike in countries where democracy does still exist , here , in Canada you no longer have these rights . Your rights WILL BE violated , and is how it WILL happen

Police say they are investigating reports that door handles were removed off the suites of residents who tested positive for COVID-19 at a retirement home in Courtice, Ont.

Officers in Durham Region said the incident took place at Cliffe Terrace Retirement Residence, and that police became aware of the issue after someone came forward.

CP24 and CTV News Toronto have obtained a copy of a letter that Verve Senior Living, the company which runs the home, sent to families of residents on Feb. 10.

OTTAWA – For the better part of a month, Canada’s vaccine effort has plummeted down international rankings, as little vaccine has arrived on our shores.

Americans, Britons and Israelis, along with those living in tiny nations like the Seychelles and Malta, are much more likely to have received a shot than people living in Canada, where as of this week only 2.4 per cent of people have received even one shot of a COVID vaccine.

Ontario is reporting 1,300 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 58,800 tests completed. Locally, there are 433 new cases in Toronto, 253 in Peel and 116 in York Region.

As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 456,947 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 13, 2021

Canada is ‘playing chicken’ with COVID-19 by reopening while variants are spreading widely

Much of Canada is lifting lockdown measures and reopening risky indoor settings while experts warn fast-spreading coronavirus variants threaten to jeopardize recent progress and trigger a brutal third wave.

On the same day Manitoba announced its first case of the variant initially detected in the United Kingdom, the province also said it would reopen restaurants, gyms, places of worship, museums, art galleries, tattoo parlours, nail salons and libraries.

Sainted Irish Mother is now experiencing her 3rd Covid Lockdown while in hospital. Thursday there were 2 cases on her floor, Friday 5. Today? We’re waiting on the test results for Mom and the rest. Visits are once again verboten until Feb 26 at the earliest. The isolation is killing her.

Dr. Richard Horton’s “The COVID-19 Catastrophe” tells the politically correct story of the pandemic.

It is clear to everyone that the world of COVID-19 into which we have been hurled will become a turning point in our history. I started writing for this august publication about COVID in early March 2020, as the pandemic hit a nursing home within walking distance of my house. Something big was happening. We could feel it in our bones.

It is therefore inevitable that we would start logging the history of this pandemic before the pandemic is even over. In the first few months, it seemed to me that this turning point would bring us together as a nation and perhaps as a global community. But as the months went on, it became clear that there were a set of people who sensed opportunity in the air. This moment of history was not, to them, a moment to heal and unite, but a moment of leverage in which we can craft the right narrative to bend the curve of history when it is most pliable.