President Joe Biden plans to sign restrictions Monday on travel to the United States to mitigate Covid-19 transmission, two White House officials confirmed Sunday.
That title is as accurate as the “Trump Muslim Ban”.
“China eats weird animals disease”
Ontario reports 2,417 new Covid cases
Ontario is reporting 2,417 cases of #COVID19 and over 48,900 tests completed. Locally, there are 785 new cases in Toronto, 404 in Peel, 215 in York Region and 121 in Niagara.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 280,573 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 24, 2021
‘I’m very concerned about the potential for its spread’, UK COVID-19 variant detected at Barrie long-term care home
The United Kingdom COVID-19 variant has been identified at a Barrie long-term care home coping with a massive outbreak of the virus.
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) confirmed that six COVID-19 cases from Roberta Place Long-Term Care Home have been identified as the highly contagious coronavirus variant.
Quebec researchers say they have found an effective drug to fight COVID-19
A team of researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute believes they have found an effective weapon against COVID-19: colchicine, an oral tablet already known and used for other diseases.
For Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, who led the study, this is a “major scientific discovery” and colchicine is the first “effective oral drug to treat out-of-hospital patients.”
“To be able to offer this, from Quebec, and for the planet, we are very happy,” said Tardif.
UK Govt Shares ‘Manipulative‘ Coronavirus Scare Video
In what has been described as “emotionally manipulative propaganda”, the British government has released a high-production lockdown ad campaign, attempt to guilt the public into obeying the country’s lockdown restrictions.
What Was Amazon Waiting For? The timing of the tech giant’s offer to assist vaccine distribution efforts raises some eyebrows.
January 20 was Inauguration Day. It was also the day that a major American employer offered to help in the Covid-19 vaccination effort. In a letter from Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer CEO Dave Clark to newly inaugurated President Joe Biden, the company offered to vaccinate its more than 800,000 “essential” employees and “to leverage our operations, information technology, and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration’s vaccination efforts.”
‘What happened to the PLAN?’ Biden roasted after claiming ‘nothing we can do to change pandemic’s trajectory’
US President Joe Biden was pilloried online after saying he is powerless to change the “trajectory” of the coronavirus pandemic in the coming months, directly at odds with repeat campaign vows to “shut down the virus.”
The president voiced pessimism about the ongoing outbreak on Friday as he prepared to sign a pair of executive orders aiming at pandemic-related relief, saying the death toll could soon top 600,000 – adding 100,000 fatalities to a projection he gave just one day prior.
Biden is an enfeebled sack of shit. The media that enabled him is full of shit. The corrupt political class aka “The Swamp” the backed him is full of shit. The Corporate class that supported him is full of shit. Anyone who voted for him is full of shit. But Orangeman Bad.
Camera operator covering lockdown protest kicked out of Yonge-Dundas Square by police officer for being ‘non-essential’
A CityNews camera operator was kicked out of Yonge-Dundas Square on Saturday by a police officer and told they were “not essential” while gathering footage of the police presence in the square.
Over the past several months, anti-lockdown protests have been held in the square on Saturdays. Last week, there was a heavy police presence due to the stay-at-home order which resulted in the arrest of the organizer and two others.
One of our CityNews’ camera operators was gathering footage of the police presence today in anticipation of gatherings that exceed the province’s five-person limit when he was told he had to leave the square.
Oh the media scorned!
Video of the protest, a couple of arrests made so far.
Toronto anti lockdown demonstrators at CTV chanting “Tell The Truth” pic.twitter.com/nbVpSi2IRW
— Rowan (@canmericanized) January 23, 2021
Ontario reports 2,359 new Covid cases, plus lamentable quotes and WHO gets Honest?
Ontario is reporting 2,359 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 63,500 tests completed. Locally, there are 708 new cases in Toronto, 422 in Peel, 220 in York Region, 107 in Hamilton and 101 in Ottawa.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 23, 2021
Some COVID-19 quotes from political, medical leaders have not aged well
It’s been one year since COVID-19 showed up in Canada.
In that time we’ve learned quite a bit about the virus that has come to dominate all of our lives. We’ve also learned that our political and medical leaders aren’t perfect and have made mistakes in what they have advised the public when it comes to the virus.
WHO Changes CCP Virus Test Criteria in Attempt to Reduce False Positives
The World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned experts not to rely solely on the results of a PCR test to detect the CCP virus.
In updated guidance published on Jan. 20, the WHO said that lab experts and health care practitioners should also consider the patient’s history and epidemiological risk factors alongside the PCR test in diagnosing the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
The new guidance could result in significantly fewer daily cases.
What really happened? Word got out, WHO couldn’t sustain the lie.
No sledding allowed: Ottawa to clamp down on Mooney’s Bay hill crowds
Ottawa bylaw officers will be increasing patrols to enforce these rules in light of “consistent large crowds, numbering in the hundreds, over the past two weeks,” the statement said.
It’s a secret: California keeps key virus data from public
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has from the start said his coronavirus policy decisions would be driven by data shared with the public to provide maximum transparency.
But with the state starting to emerge from its worst surge, his administration won’t disclose key information that will help determine when his latest stay-at-home order is lifted.
State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public.
Fourth Canada-bound flight with COVID impacting ‘all rows:’ Health Canada
Health Canada recorded its fourth Canada bound flight on Thursday where ‘all rows’ were impacted by positive COVID-19 cases.
On Thursday, Air Canada Rouge flight 1803 between the Jamaican capital of Kingston and Toronto on Friday, Jan. 15 was posted to Health Canada’s online list of COVID-impacted flights as having ‘all rows affected’ by passengers who eventually tested positive for the respiratory virus.
h/t Marvin
‘Clear and present danger’: Petition calls on feds to ban non-essential travel due to COVID-19 variants
Fears the COVID-19 variants could spread through Canada, causing the pandemic to get even worse, has a number of health officials calling on the federal government to take further action to ban non-essential travel.
New form of African swine fever identified in Chinese pig farms, likely caused by illegal vaccines
A new form of African swine fever has been identified in Chinese pig farms. According to Reuters, industry insiders say that the disease was most likely caused by illegal vaccines, and serves as a fresh blow to the nation where the COVID-19 coronavirus was first identified. China is the world’s largest producer of pork.
Ontario reports 2,662 new Covid cases… All citizens who have tested positive are to report to the nearest disintegration chamber
Ontario is reporting 2,662 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 71,800 tests completed. Locally, there are 779 new cases in Toronto, 542 in Peel, 228 in York Region, 128 in Waterloo and 118 in Windsor-Essex County.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 22, 2021
Durham doctor and her husband, a Toronto paramedic, are charged with failing to disclose info about contact they had with U.K. visitor
A Durham doctor and her husband, a Toronto paramedic, have been charged with failing to disclose information to local public health officials about contact they had with a U.K. visitor in light of the spread of a new variant of the COVID-19 virus present in Britain.
The couple, Dr. Martina Weir and Brian Weir, are alleged each to have failed to provide accurate information about “all persons that the defendant may have had contact with during their period of communicability,” as well as “providing false information in relation to contact with anyone who travelled from the United Kingdom,” according to court documents.
Diane Francis: Was the botched vaccine roll-out a result of Trudeau placing too much faith in China?
The Canadian government’s failures on the vaccine file may end up being the biggest Liberal scandal yet, according to information that’s come my way.
As I wrote earlier this week, any delay in getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible will cost lives. So far, just over one per cent of the country has received at least one dose of the vaccine, which puts us behind many other developed countries.