“China eats weird animals disease”

… Immunising a large chunk of the UK’s 68 million people will be an immense task, never mind reaching most of the globe’s 7.8 billion residents.

Nothing on this scale has ever been attempted before.

The vaccines and their equipment – such as the vials to house them – need to be manufactured in mass quantities. Vaccine supply may not be able to meet demand for some time.

The vaccines then need to be transported from factories and delivered to health centres – including those in isolated, hard-to-reach communities across the world.

A long read but informative, short take – no return to normal next year.

Ontario is reporting a single-day record high of 1,859 new COVID-19 cases with nearly a record 59,400 tests processed in the last 24 hours.

The last record for daily infections was logged on Nov. 27 when 1,855 new cases were reported.

‘Massive undertaking’: Roadmap of Canada’s coronavirus vaccine roll-out

If all goes according to plan, Canadians will start getting vaccinated for the novel coronavirus early next year.

And one of the people spearheading those efforts is a Canadian from Sherbrooke, Que. — Nicolas Chornet, senior vice-president of international manufacturing at Moderna.

Understand that all Liberal Party projections are infinitely elastic “stretch goals.”

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other political leaders of all levels will be waiting their turn to receive a COVID-19 vaccine like most other Canadians.

“We have really based our priorities on burden of illness, so people who have died most of the disease or have been most touched with complications, and frontline health-care workers, as well as Indigenous communities and remote communities. Political leaders are not part of these groups,” said Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh, chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) in an interview on CTV’s Question Period.

If police were to cease their 24-hour presence at his boarded-up restaurant, there’s little reason to believe Adam Skelly wouldn’t make another attempt to re-open.

That was the Crown’s position Friday at a hearing requesting Superior Court Justice Jessica Kimmel enact a statutory injunction barring the controversial restaurateur — and his supporters — from attempting to do so.

If one were to consider the upward transfer of wealth and market share to Big Business since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, one would think such economic changes were intended. After all, it’s no secret that the interests of politicians and the corporate elite align more often than not.

Who wants to live in a nerdy world of no handshakes and no big sweaty crowds?

Few phrases inspire more horror in me than ‘the new normal’. It is falling from the lips of public-health experts and lockdown-loving commentators everywhere. Forget the ‘old normal’ of going maskless into the streets, or ramming yourself into a crowd of thirsty punters at the bar in a pub, or taking a lover without constantly worrying that he or she might make you ill with his or her breath. Such reckless libertinism was for the old world, apparently, the era BC (Before Covid). We are all now heading into the New Normal, a brave new world of forever social-distancing being built for us by a benevolent bureaucracy that simply wants to protect us from disease.