“China eats weird animals disease”

Research into gain-of function at Wuhan Institute of Virology most likely cause of pandemic.

The head of the World Health Organisation privately believes the Covid pandemic started following a leak from a Chinese laboratory, a senior Government source claims.

While publicly the group maintains that ‘all hypotheses remain on the table’ about the origins of Covid, the source said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), had recently confided to a senior European politician that the most likely explanation was a catastrophic accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, where infections first spread during late 2019.

The summer travel season is off to a rocky start for America’s largest air carriers. Over the five-day Memorial Day weekend, more than 2,800 flights were canceled for one reason or another, with severe weather playing only a small part.

Meanwhile in Canada… Airport authorities didn’t expect ‘pent up demand for air travel’ this early

OTTAWA – Flying the friendly skies could bring more frowns than smiles this summer, as volumes are expected to increase while many bottlenecks still remain and the airline industry struggles to staff up.

Key statistics offered by the government in support of its use of the ArriveCAN app are “absolutely false,” according to the union that represents Canada’s border agents.

Mark Webber, president of the Customs and Immigration Union, told a House of Commons committee Wednesday that the number of people who successfully complete the ArriveCAN app prior to showing up at the border is significantly lower than what the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) claims.

ON January 23, 2020, the pharmaceutical giant Moderna and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI) signed a $1million funding agreement to begin manufacturing a Covid-19 vaccine.

In an associated press release, Dr Richard Hatchett, CEPI’s Chief Executive Officer stated: ‘CEPI has moved with great urgency and in coordination with WHO [World Health Organisation], who is leading the development of a coordinated international response, to promote the development of new vaccines against the emerging threat of nCoV-2019.’ 

My brother is currently in the Hospice at Sunnybrook.

While his spirit remains admirably strong he is now bed ridden as he can no longer stand on his own.

Just last week they loosened up the visitor restrictions allowing all vaxxed friends and relatives to stop by. Prior to that only his wife, myself and his children were allowed to see him.

Well now he is in isolation as there has been a covid outbreak on the wing. He’s been tested but we won’t know the results until tomorrow.

This will restrict his visitors again, likely to his immediate care-giver, his wife. I am her wheels so am there throughout the week.

It never rains but it pours.

Toronto’s Medical Officer of health has tested positive for COVID-19.

Dr. Eileen de Villa shared the news about her diagnosis in a tweet in which she said she’s “following public health guidelines and resting at home.”

h/t Mauser

Non-vaccine-disclosing Toronto firefighter Andrew Mason is pleased he can now finally get on a plane or train again.

However, what the 13-year veteran firefighter would most like is to get back on a fire truck.

“I’ve always been ready to go back,” he said Tuesday. “I never wanted to stop working.”

The federal government plans to change its definition of what it means to be fully protected against COVID-19 to reflect advice that a number of health experts have been recommending for months, including Canada’s top doctors.

Currently, federal employees are considered fully vaccinated if they have two doses of one of Health Canada’s approved vaccines.

Did the Covid lockdowns save lives? Statistics can help answer the question.

In April, free-market economists Phil Kerpen, Stephen Moore, and Casey B. Mulligan published a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research entitled “A Final Report Card on the States’ Response to COVID-19.” Their report considered three variables for all 50 states and Washington, D.C.: health outcomes (measured by adjusted mortality), economic performance throughout the pandemic (measured by unemployment and GDP), and the pandemic effect on education (measured by the percentage of cumulative in-person instruction). The authors investigated the relationships among the three variables using simple linear regression, a tool to summarize and study relationships between two continuous variables. This method yields a correlation coefficient that rates both the strength and the direction of the relationship between the two variables.

The federal government is set to announce Tuesday an end to the COVID-19 vaccine mandates for domestic travel on planes and trains, as well as outbound international travel, CBC News has learned.

The government may reinstate the vaccine requirement if there’s a new variant of the virus, according to sources with direct knowledge of the decision who spoke with CBC News on condition they not be named.

Canada’s woefully short summer is now in full swing and it would be a killjoy thing to do to ask people to stop and ponder whether or not we’ll soon be back to governments eyeing a return to COVID-19 restrictions. But the question needs to be asked.

Why are people calling Toronto’s airport the worst in the world?

Because Canada’s worst gatekeeper, Justin Trudeau, punishes the population with COVID rules designed to punish unvaccinated people—now everyone is suffering.

End mandates. Remove restrictions. Reopen our country. pic.twitter.com/h6V1EqeOtV

— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) June 10, 2022