Chinese internet authorities are trying to block a popular video highlighting the impact of Shanghai’s five-week lockdown on its residents.
“China eats weird animals disease”
Washington Post: A Chinese lab identified COVID in December 2019 but the government kept it quiet
The Washington Post editorial board has a detailed story about a laboratory in Guangzhou, China which was one of the first in the country to genetically sequence COVID-19. The lab had been sent a sample from a hospitalized patient in Wuhan who had some kind of lung infection. A researcher at the lab saw the sequencing results and recognized it as a variant of SARS on December 26, 2019.
Almost half of Canadians may have caught COVID
Canada’s COVID-19 immunity landscape has completely transformed since the emergence of Omicron — with new estimates suggesting that almost half of the population has been infected.
Researchers in B.C. analyzed thousands of blood samples in the Lower Mainland throughout the pandemic to track antibody levels in the general population, and found a massive shift in the level of infection in the past few months.
The B.C. data, provided in advance to CBC News, found close to 40 per cent of the population had antibodies from a previous infection in March, up from around 10 per cent in October. That number is even higher in children under 10, with nearly two-thirds now showing evidence of prior infection.
Majority of Canadians back inquiries into national, provincial pandemic responses: poll
A majority of Canadians favour a thorough review into how all levels of government handled the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new poll.
The survey from B.C.-based pollster Research Co. found 66 per cent of respondents backed a public inquiry into how the federal government managed the pandemic, with 23 per cent opposed.
NYT’s Leonhardt: Let’s face it — mask mandates weren’t effective anyway
Can the Gray Lady’s COVID Pope restore some common sense at the White House and the CDC? While Joe Biden and the Department of Justice plot to appeal the ruling striking down the transit mask mandate, David Leonhardt reminds us that it never did work well in practice — and likely not even in theory.
The Easy Way To Convince All Of Us “Misinformation Spreaders” We Got It Wrong About The Covid “Vaccines”
Just two pieces of data are needed: the risk-benefit calculation by age where VAERS was used for the death data, and show us the autopsy results where the proper tests were made to rule out causality.
Now vaccine-injured, former believer speaks out
Trina Huss of Saskatchewan believed she would die without receiving the COVID vaccine.
Jen Psaki Reveals the Actual Reason Behind Appealing the Mask Mandate Ruling: Preserving the CDC’s ‘Authority’
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday revealed the actual reason why the Biden administration is appealing a federal court ruling that struck down its national mask mandate for public transportation.
In an astounding display of tortured reasoning, Psaki gave a convoluted response on the way to ultimately divulging what it is all about.
Wuhan Lab Allowed to Destroy ‘Secret Files’ Under Its Partnership with US National Lab, Agreement Shows
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has the right to make a partnering U.S. lab wipe all data arising from their collaborative work, a legal document reveals.
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) of cooperation, signed between the Wuhan lab and the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, makes it obligatory for each of the two labs to delete “secret files” or materials upon the request of the other party.
Trudeau Hold-Out On Covid Regulations An Assault On Democracy
This week, a federal judge in the United States struck down a national mask mandate on planes and mass transit. In response, seven of America’s largest airlines have repealed rules that customers and staff must wear face coverings.
In the United Kingdom, managing COVID-19 is now an exercise in personal responsibility. In the city of London, few outward signs remain of the global pandemic that disrupted the world for more than two years. No mask mandate is effect for most public spaces. At the end of April, testing for the general public will come to an end.
“To me, COVID is over, I’m happy to say,” said a mother of three.
“There’s a freedom that people were waiting for here and now that it’s here, everyone’s sort of forgotten about COVID.”
Back in Canada, PM Justin Trudeau and half-Saudi Transport Minister Omar Alghabra have reiterated that masks are still required on all flights that arrive in or depart from Canada.
Toronto teacher under investigation for hostile mask email
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is investigating a teacher who has been placed on home assignment after he sent a hostile email to students claiming that those without masks are “maybe even killing me” and that any unmasked students will need to sit outside in the hallway or face “detentions and other consequences.”
Populism vs. Davos Man during COVID
“We are living in a world designed by Davos Man to direct ever-greater fortune towards Davos Man.
The billionaires have financed politicians who champion the uplifting of the already stratospherically uplifted. They have deployed lobbyists to eviscerate financial regulations, permitting banks to lend and gamble relentlessly, while depending on public largesse to cover their losses. They have defenestrated antitrust authorities, clearing the way for mergers that have enriched investment banks and shareholders, while bestowing oligarchic control upon large companies. They have squashed the power of labor movements, shrinking paychecks and handing the savings to shareholders.”….
Maskaholics
Wearing a mask may still give some people a sense of security, but they could breathe more easily if they’d face the facts.
The pandemic has eased, but not the compulsion of many Americans to cover their faces. Fully vaccinated adults are still wearing masks on their solitary walks outdoors, and officials have been enforcing mask mandates on airline passengers and on some city-dwellers and students.
White House intends to appeal court ruling that overturned federal mask mandate
The Biden administration announced on Tuesday it intends to appeal a court ruling that overturned the federal mask mandate on airplanes and public transportation.
Officials Manipulated COVID Data to Exaggerate Crisis, Mathematician Tells RFK, Jr.
From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Norman Fenton, Ph.D., could see health officials were misusing data and misleading the public.
A professor of risk information management at Queen Mary University of London, Fenton is a mathematician who focuses on critical decision-making and quantifying uncertainty.
Throughout the pandemic, he closely examined and criticized how officials used data to make decisions about lockdowns, testing and vaccines.