Ontario reports 1,076 new covid cases… And Masks? We don’t need no stinking Masks!

Ontario reports 1,076 new covid cases… And Masks? We don’t need no stinking Masks!


Government missed out on an offer of N95 masks at the start of the pandemic: documents

Documents tabled with the House of Commons health committee show the federal government missed an opportunity to purchase critical pandemic-related supplies at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic — scarce personal protective equipment (PPE) that medical professionals scrambled to obtain in the weeks that followed.

CBC News has reviewed thousands of pages of internal government documents that have been turned over to MPs on the committee, which is probing Canada’s pandemic response to this point.

The many emails depict a government grappling with a sudden crisis and the rush to secure the equipment the country needed as it faced down the surging pandemic.

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Pfizer to ramp up vaccine deliveries but questions remain about Trudeau’s targets

Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the military commander leading Canada’s vaccine logistics, said today that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will significantly ramp up its deliveries of doses next month.

Fortin said 444,000 Pfizer doses will be delivered each week for the first two weeks of March.

While those delivery figures are significantly higher than the amounts Canada has been receiving in recent weeks — only 70,000 Pfizer doses were delivered this week, for example — they raise questions about the government’s ability to hit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promised target of six million doses delivered by the end of March.

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How Amnesty Causes Human Misery, Endangers Public Health

Mexican police officers were arrested last week and charged in the killing of more than a dozen Guatemalan migrants on the way to the United States.

Their bodies were shot and burned near the U.S. border in a violence-riddled corridor frequently used by smugglers.

Such tragedies are not uncommon. Mexican police particularly at the state and local level have often been accused of exploiting and killing migrants. Criminal organizations routinely prey on vulnerable people who are often smuggled through violent and cartel-controlled areas.

The left often paints amnesty as a humanitarian act, but clearly, the facts paint a darker reality. Promises of mass legalization and weakened enforcement lead to these tragedies.

But pushing amnesty and permitting catch-and-release in the middle of a pandemic will lead to far greater human misery with the spread of COVID-19.

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“Check your aversion to Rebel Media”: Feds circulate our report on masks

Liberal party staffers circulated a story published by Rebel News last year, asking Minister of Health Patty Hajdu and staff to “check” their “aversion” and review our interview concerning a Chinese manufacturer trying to send medical supplies to Canada.

From there, a Hajdu staffer forwarded the email chain to a staffer working for Minister of Procurement Anita Anand.

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Travel Ban: White House Considers Restricting Travel To And From … Florida

Trump never did this, right? It wouldn’t have been in keeping with his “reopen everything ASAP” approach to the pandemic. The closest he got that I can recall was in the earliest days of COVID last March, when most of the country was seeing relatively low caseloads but New York City was blowing up. At that moment the virus could still semi-plausibly be framed by Republicans as a “blue-state problem,” in which case why not seal off the blue states where the problem was raging? Trump’s former pandemic advisor, Tom Bossert, explicitly called for a cordon sanitaire of NYC at the time, in fact.

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READ: Liberal MP’s urgent “isolation camps” email to feds… from October 2020

Terry Sheehan’s assistant Sandra Paul emailed Dove Parmer, an assistant to Minister Anita Anand on October 19, 2020, after a local reporter contacted the MP’s office for information about an “isolation camp” tender notice on the federal government’s procurement website.

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Libs want public ‘distracted’

One interesting aspect about a minority government is the ability for the opposition parties to out vote the government in parliamentary committees.

In Ottawa, we are seeing many documents being released that relate to how the Trudeau Liberal government has been responding to the pandemic.

These documents were released because the opposition party members on the Parliamentary Health Committee were able to pass a motion that these documents would be made public, against the wishes of the Liberal members of the committee, who wanted to keep them secret.

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FUREY: The public health experts continue to fear-monger

In January, public health experts fear-mongered that we would see 20,000 cases per day by mid-February in Ontario. It turns out there has been a massive decline in cases – now Ontario is at about 5% of that prediction.

Why aren’t health experts celebrating the fact that their predictions didn’t come true? Instead, they’re now warning Ontarians about a new variant of COVID-19.

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Universities’ Insane COVID Rules And Snitch Culture Are Training The Next Generation To Embrace Totalitarianism

If you think state and federal government COVID-19 policies are too restrictive, you haven’t been to a college campus lately. Schools across the country have imposed extreme, micromanaging rules on 19-22 year olds—a demographic more likely to die from the seasonal flu and pneumonia than COVID.

h/t Marvin

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India To Do Its Best To Provide Vaccines To Canada: PM Modi To Justin Trudeau

PM Trudeau, who made a telephone call to the prime minister, said that if the world managed to conquer COVID-19, it would be significantly because of India’s tremendous pharmaceutical capacity and PM Modi’s leadership in sharing this capacity with the world, according to a Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) statement.

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The WHO’s Covid shame – Their investigation into the pandemic was little more than an appeasement of Beijing

The WHO’s Covid shame – Their investigation into the pandemic was little more than an appeasement of Beijing

Since the pandemic started, China has promoted various narratives on its possible origins. First, the country’s top scientists blamed a Wuhan market selling wild animals, which was rapidly cleaned up and all the samples kept secret. Then officials suggested the devastating disease might have come from outside the city, even pointing the finger at a possible laboratory leak — from a United States military base in Maryland rather than within their own borders. More recently, following the slaughter of infected mink at farms in Europe, prominent figures focused on these furry mammals as hosts of the virus, while pushing hard with another theory that Covid might have been imported on chilled or frozen food.

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John Robson: Smug Liberal government is too incompetent to get vaccination right

John Robson: Smug Liberal government is too incompetent to get vaccination right

You may think we have a vaccination crisis in this country. And if you’re not a paid or volunteer Liberal flak you may think it’s about health not PR. But it’s really a crisis of government competence. The reason they can’t vaccinate is they can’t do much of anything.

For instance buy sidearms or ships for the armed forces. Get guns away from criminals or tell criminals from law-abiding citizens. Decide when to lock us down or explain why. Deliver a budget or explain why they haven’t. Balance the books. Fix health wait lists. Maintain infrastructure. Be transparent.

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