The first Covid lockdowns saved 10,000 lives in Europe and US and had ‘little or no effect’ on the virus death rate, updated analysis suggests.
A review by an international team of economists found draconian shutdowns only reduced Covid mortality by 3 per cent in the UK, US and Europe in 2020.
The experts, from Johns Hopkins University in the US, Lund University in Sweden and the Danish think-tank the Center for Political Studies, said that equates to 6,000 fewer deaths in Europe and 4,000 fewer in the US.
In Uvalde, Texas, some of the worst fears about the police response to the school shooting rampage were confirmed on Friday when state law enforcement officials acknowledged that more than an hour lapsed after the shooting began, as the police waited to enter the classroom where students were trapped inside.
In an emotional and at times tense news conference, Steven C. McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, gave the most detailed accounting of the shooting yet, diverging in substantial points from the original timeline given by officials.
‘It was clearly the wrong decision’: Top Texas cop breaks down as he reveals 19 officers stood outside classroom where gunman trapped victims doing NOTHING because Uvalde police chief thought everyone was dead despite kids continuing to call 911
Texas’ Director of Public Safety broke down in tears as he admitted 19 cops stood outside the classroom where the gunman in Tuesday’s shooting had his victims trapped and did nothing because they thought everyone inside was dead, despite ongoing 911 calls from inside from children begging for help.
Col. Steven McCraw made the admission at a press conference on Friday where he said it was ‘the wrong decision’ and came as the result of the Chief of the Uvalde School District Police Department Pete Arredondo mistakenly believing all of the kids in the classroom had already been killed.
Police say they thought that every shot the gunman fired after that was aimed at the door and designed to keep them at bay.
Grief turned to anger for relatives of the 19 children and two teachers killed in America’s latest school shooting as it emerged that the gunman was inside for an hour before being shot.
Video clips showed that parents had rushed to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, after hearing reports of gunshots. They could be seen remonstrating with heavily armed police who had set up a perimeter, apparently to await a tactical intervention team.
The trauma of the tight-knit mainly Hispanic community was compounded by information from the authorities about how Salvador Ramos entered by an unlocked back door “unobstructed” because no school protection officer was on the scene as previously claimed.
I deferred my holiday because of lockdown but now the owner refuses to accept vaccinated guests – and has kept my money
Before the pandemic, I booked a £2,000 retreat, hanging out with horses on a Canadian ranch, for May 2020. When lockdowns began, the ranch informed customers that no refunds would be given but that bookings would be honoured when they were ready and able to travel again. I knew they were a small family business so I accepted that. Now I’ve received a newsletter stating that vaccinated customers are not welcome as the vaccine could transfer to the animals. The ranch owner declares that we will not receive refunds because the business is “nearly bankrupt” and suggests we sell our holiday to someone unvaccinated.
Guns are the leading cause of death among children, new CDC statistics show. But while the horrific massacre in a Texas elementary school rightly outrages the nation, such mass shootings are not the primary reason for that grim statistic.
Most young people killed by guns are shot in gang violence or other crime — which has only gotten worse since the George Floyd race riots and their long anarchic aftermath.
Homicides of youth between the ages of 10 and 17 rose 47% in 2020. That 47% increase far outpaced the record-breaking 29% spike in post-Floyd homicides across all age groups in 2020.
Is it possible that the puerility of the so-called woke movement is finally meeting the dismissive rejection and scorn it deserves?
Up to now it has had a pretty free flow, with the exception of a few brave souls on university campuses or in our schools taking lonely stands, and in most cases being harassed, called ugly names, or even pushed out of their professions.
Libs of TikTok — an account known for reposting videos of radical leftist activists on social media — was suspended from Instagram on Thursday.
Because the account or “activity on it” did not follow Instagram’s community guidelines, Libs of TikTok was suspended from Instagram, according to a screenshot of the suspension notice. Libs of TikTok has 30 days to “disagree with the decision” — or else the account “will be permanently disabled.”
The federal movement to buy the handguns and assault rifles of legal owners in Canada as if it would somehow reduce gun crime is a joke.
Criminals and gun-bangers get their guns from stockpiles smuggled in from the United States. They don’t buy them from legit gun owners and they don’t buy them legally.
‘Extremely serious’: Calgary man involved in terrorism activity sentenced to 12 years
CALGARY – A man who admitted to terrorism-related acts with the militant group Islamic State, saying he didn’t know any better,has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Hussein Borhot, 36, appeared Thursday before Court of Queen’s Bench Justice David Labrenz for a sentencing hearing in Calgary.
“Quite clearly, you intended to assist or facilitate the activities of a terrorist group. You carried that plan into action,” Labrenz told Borhot as the judge accepted a joint sentencing recommendation from the Crown and the defence.
Four unidentified air carriers are apparently on board with ‘biometric travel documents.’
Canada’s Liberal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that it is working with top airlines in the hopes to mandate all travelers use a form of “digital identity documents” complete with facial recognition biometric data for pre-boarding flights.
According to a May 14 statement published in the Canada Gazette on Regulations Amending the Secure Air Travel Regulations and the Designated Provisions Regulations, Canada’s Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness spoke about such “digital” travel documents during an air travel participant exercise.
Investments in new tools for Canada’s security agencies to deal with “extremist ideology” and “misinformation” are being made by the government, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
“We need new tools to fight all of these pending threats, and that’s why we’ve turned to all of our security agencies to look at new ways of ensuring peoples’ safety,” Trudeau said in French while addressing media in Vancouver on May 24.
“Because, as we know, what happens in the virtual world has impact in the real world. It doesn’t stay on the internet.”
A 27-year-old man is dead after being shot by police near an elementary school in Scarborough’s Port Union area on Thursday afternoon in an incident that prompted hundreds of children at nearby schools to go into lockdown.
Toronto paramedics told CP24 they were called to the corner of Lawrence Avenue East and Port Union Road at 1:24 p.m. for a shooting.
Montreal sauna suspected origin of Canada’s monkeypox outbreak: doctors
Monkeypox cases in Canada are suspected to have originated from a local sauna in Montreal, doctors have told Global News.
The country’s first two cases were reported by Quebec public health officials on May 19.
Dr. Robert Pilarski, a general physician in Montreal, who treated one of those patients last week, said the individual likely got the virus from a sauna he recently visited.
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — It was 11:28 a.m. when the Ford pickup slammed into a ditch behind the low-slung Texas school and the driver jumped out carrying an AR-15-style rifle.
Twelve minutes after that, authorities say, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos was in the hallways of Robb Elementary School. Soon he entered a fourth-grade classroom. And there, he killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in a still-unexplained spasm of violence.
At 12:58 p.m., law enforcement radio chatter said Ramos had been killed and the siege was over.
What happened in those 90 minutes, in a working-class neighborhood near the edge of the little town of Uvalde, has fueled mounting public anger and scrutiny over law enforcement’s response to Tuesday’s rampage.
The six critical questions Uvalde cops need to answer over Texas school shooting
6) What were the 150 police officers at the scene doing other than holding back parents?
Tucker Carlson accuses Texas cops of ‘BS’ lies over why school shooter wasn’t taken down until more than an hour after he’d begun slaughter and says the way police handled bloodbath is a ‘moral crime’
CALGARY – A man who admitted to terrorism-related acts with the militant group Islamic State, saying he didn’t know any better,has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
