Yesterday the BBC published an interesting piece about the origin of the coronavirus. The piece notes that a team of scientists working for WHO are belatedly examining the evidence for the virus’ origins in China. The group of 10 is scheduled to visit Wuhan next month to examine the wet market once thought to be the site where the virus may have jumped from some intermediate mammal to humans.
Provincial health officials are reporting more than 2,400 new COVID-19 cases today, pushing the seven-day average of daily infections above 2,300 for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
Ontario logged 2,408 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus today, up from the 2,202 confirmed on Tuesday but lower than the record 2,432 cases on Dec. 16.
Forty-one more virus-related deaths were confirmed today, including 16 residents of long-term care homes.
Canada’s Pandemic Response Deeply Flawed, Says Former Provincial Emergency Agency Chief
The premise and focus of Canada’s pandemic response has been misguided—but it’s not too late to change course, says a former emergency management expert and retired Canadian army officer, who has been trying to get all of Canada’s premiers on board with his detailed action plan since the spring.
David Redman is a former executive director of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency who later spent nearly 10 years as an organizational consultant working on best practices for emergency management. He also served as an officer with the Canadian Armed Forces for 27 years, leading complex missions as lieutenant-colonel.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is in trouble. Ford surprised a lot of people by announcing a sweeping shutdown on Monday. He’s in trouble because a lot of people don’t think a sweeping shutdown is necessary.
He’s also in trouble because other people think the shutdown is entirely necessary, but isn’t happening fast enough. Reports originally said it would start just after midnight on Thursday, but the government shifted the date until Saturday, with Ford arguing businesses needed more time to prepare.
The borders are fine, there is nothing to worry about but we have still banned flights from the United Kingdom.
That was essentially the message from a gaggle of cabinet ministers and public health officials who were trotted out to discuss Canada’s response to a new strain of COVID-19 found in Britain and the decision to ban flights from the UK.
After countless politicians have been caught violating their very own coronavirus restrictions, it’s a non-elected government official who will be the first to step down over it.
Dozens of passengers on Canadian airlines have been slapped with fines or warning letters by Transport Canada in recent months for refusing to wear a mask on board a flight, with more incidents involving Alberta airports than any other province.
Anyone can see Albertans are practicing to be ‘Muricans. We’re going to trade Cali, Washington, and Oregon for the province.
Why does the left stick with shutdowns when it’s clear that they destroy small business? Simple. That’s the signature of communists consolidating their power.
“We know people may have made mistakes over the Thanksgiving time period,” Dr. Birx scolded the nation on CBS’ Face the Nation. “If you’re young and you gathered, you need to be tested about five to 10 days later. But you need to assume that you’re infected.”
Then Birx made her own “mistake”.
A recent report that reviewed the cost-benefit balance of lockdowns, widely imposed by governments around the world to prevent the spread of the CCP virus, said the restrictions do more harm to public health quality than no restrictions.
A Chinese scientist at the centre of unsubstantiated claims that the coronavirus leaked from her laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has told the BBC she is open to “any kind of visit” to rule it out. The surprise statement from Prof Shi Zhengli comes as a World Health Organization team prepares to travel to Wuhan next month to begin its investigation into the origins of Covid-19.
The remote district of Tongguan, in China’s south-western province of Yunnan, is hard to reach at the best of times. But when a BBC team tried to visit recently, it was impossible.
The chief executive officers of 68 Canadian companies that paid out dividends while receiving the pandemic wage subsidy earned an estimated $30 million in dividends themselves during the quarters in which their firms accepted the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), according to an analysis of share ownership stakes by the Financial Post.
Earlier this month, a Post investigation revealed that at least 68 companies that received more than $1 billion in CEWS — a subsidy designed to help companies that have seen their revenue drop significantly cover payroll costs and keep employees in their jobs — paid out more than $5 billion in dividends over the past two quarters.
Time magazine was wrong. And not just in its lame pick of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as its person(s) of the year. It was wrong in the concept.
2020 was not, by any stretch, a year in which a person or persons could be selected as being most impactful. It was an “event” year; one event visited every corner of the globe, and in one measure or another played out in the lives of almost everyone. The event was, obviously, the coronavirus pandemic, and as that word so clearly marks, it had a greater universal impact than any other event since the end of World War II.
Ontario is reporting more than 2,200 new cases of COVID-19 as the number of virus-related hospitalizations surpasses 1,000.
Ontario is reporting 2,202 new infections today, up from the 2,123 logged on Monday but down from the record 2,432 confirmed on Dec. 17.
LILLEY: Trudeau needs to ban flights or test the passengers
Last month, as he urged Premiers to do everything they could within their powers to stop the spread of COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he hoped none were doing anything than what was best to stop COVID-19.
“I would hope that no leader in our country is easing public health vigilance because they feel pressure not to shut down businesses or slow down our economy,” Trudeau said.
Toronto Mayor John Tory says he can’t believe some “adults” still aren’t getting the message about the deadly danger of COVID-19 transmission as the entire province prepares to go into a lockdown at midnight Boxing Day.
He pointed to tickets being handed out in T.O. over the weekend for illegal games of shinny hockey at city rinks as one example.
Nephrologist Dr. Branko Braam says the situation has become so dire, his hospital has had to open a COVID-19 ward and health-care staff who have never worked in that type of unit are having to step in and help treat patients.
