Author: Blazingcatfur

Ontario reports a few thousand new Covid cases, maybe… and … Ontario’s Swamis offer up a new batch of predictions for after restrictions eased

Ontario reports 63 new COVID-19 deaths; hospitalizations down 25 per cent from January peak

Ontario reported 63 new COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, as hospitalizations continued a slow decline from their January peak.

Ministry of Health spokesperson Alexandra Hilkene said four of the deaths occurred on Monday, 14 more occurred on Sunday and 20 occurred on Saturday, with the remainder occurring between Jan. 28 and Jan. 4.

Over the past 30 days, 1,238 Ontario residents have died of COVID-19.

New modelling suggests hospitalizations will ‘rebound’ in all but most favourable of scenarios

New modelling from Ontario’s science table suggests that hospitalizations are likely to “rebound” and remain at a “prolonged peak” following the lifting of some public health restrictions this week.

The latest projections, released on Tuesday morning, use three different scenarios based on varying levels of immunity acquired through infection to chart the path ahead.

BA.2 33% more infectious than ‘original’ Omicron COVID strain, study finds

The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant, which has quickly taken over in Denmark, is more transmissible than the more common BA.1 and more able to infect vaccinated people, a Danish study has found.

The study, which analyzed coronavirus infections in more than 8,500 Danish households between December and January, found that people infected with the BA.2 subvariant were roughly 33 per cent more likely to infect others, compared to those infected with BA.1.

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O’Toole faces caucus revolt as 35 MPs sign letter calling for leadership-review vote

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole faces a caucus revolt, with 35 MPs signing a letter calling for a leadership-review vote over concerns about the direction of the Official Opposition party.

The letter, sent to caucus chair Scott Reid on Monday, would require a leadership-review vote by Conservative MPs as early as Wednesday’s regular caucus meeting. If more than 50 per cent of caucus voted against him, Mr. O’Toole would have to step down immediately.

MPs would then have to elect an interim caucus leader while the Conservative Party calls a leadership race. Two sources said at least 63 of the elected 119 Conservative MPs are willing to vote against Mr. O’Toole.

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Study: Weed Makes You Stupid

Anyone who ever had a garage band knows how hard it is to find a good, reliable drummer. The band I had in my younger days went through several talented guys. They were great musicians and improved the entire venture exponentially — when they remembered to show up. Which wasn’t often. We fired one after another and finally resorted to taking turns on the drums ourselves. (We were awful.) But these talented, brilliant drummers loved getting high, and so things like remembering to show up for their commitments often fell by the wayside. Their pot use made them unreliable people. And this was a couple of decades ago when weed was still relatively weak.

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France’s Macron Tries to Reclassify Muslim Terrorism as Mental Illness

Denying Islamic terrorism is the real delusion.

There’s hardly a Muslim terrorist attack committed by a single perpetrator in Europe or America in the last five years that the authorities and the media haven’t tried to spin as mental illness.

Both Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the Syrian Muslim mass killer who shot up a Boulder supermarket, and Faisal Akram, who took a Texas temple hostage to secure the release of ‘Lady Al Qaeda’, had their attacks blamed on mental illness.

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Denmark’s state modeller: why we’ve ended all Covid laws

As of tomorrow, February 1st, Denmark will be the first country in Europe — arguably the world — to put an end to all Covid-related laws. Even if you have the disease, it will only be recommended that you isolate, and even then only for three days. If you have no symptoms, you can go to meet your friends.

Most remarkably, Denmark is taking this step at a time when Covid-19 cases have never been higher — and are still growing.

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The Mechanic in the Freedom Convoy

Embedded with the truckers. Repairing their rigs. Telling the world what he sees and hears.

Justin Trudeau, Canada’s Prime Minister, has dismissed the truck drivers’ freedom convoy now protesting in Ottawa. He says these people are a “small fringe minority” expressing “unacceptable views.” But the public response that the convoy encountered enroute tells a starkly different story.

Another Canadian named Justyn is a mechanic from small town Alberta. He’s part of the convoy. When a rig breaks down, he helps get it back on the road.

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Family wants no contact with accused US IS member

The family of a US woman accused of leading an Islamic State squadron and plotting attacks on American soil wants no contact with her as she faces federal terrorism charges.

Prosecutors told Allison Fluke-Ekren on Monday that much of her family has requested that she be barred from speaking to them.

Ms Fluke-Ekren, 42, is accused of training women and children to use weapons and suicide vests in Syria.

She faces up to 20 years in prison.

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Justin Trudeau accuses Erin O’Toole of irresponsible leadership, says Canadians ‘disgusted’ by protesters’ actions

… The Liberals and NDP have both disavowed the protests, as has the association representing truckers in Canada. But the Conservatives have embraced them and Mr. O’Toole has called on the Prime Minister to meet with the protesters – something Mr. Trudeau rejected on Monday.

“If we choose to put up with and tacitly support conspiracy theorists and folks peddling disinformation, that’s a reflection on what we choose to do as politicians and who we are as leaders,” the Prime Minister said.

“I think through this pandemic Canadians have seen and have a right to expect responsible leadership. Unfortunately that’s not what we’ve always seen from the likes of Erin O’Toole or even more, [People’s Party of Canada Leader] Maxime Bernier.”

Go Incognito

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The BLM Mystery Where did the money go?

In early April 2021, Ziploc bags filled with rocks and Ku Klux Klan flyers were thrown on lawns and dropped on street corners around Huntington Beach, California. “White civil rights!” one flyer read. “Our Ancestors settled the land, established the country, made the laws — we’re the majority, why shouldn’t we control our destiny???” Word began to circulate on social media that there would be a “White Lives Matter” rally in front of the Huntington Beach Pier on April 11 at 1 p.m.

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Jonathan Kay: To Ottawa progressives the trucker convoy is a military invasion they are bravely resisting

It says a lot about Canada that a guy like me is labelled (i.e., “denounced as”) a conservative. In any sane world, I’d be instantly recognized as — in almost all respects — just another insufferably doctrinaire Toronto progressive. I live downtown, own an electric car, edit essays for a black-turtleneck web site catering to academics, hold forth on the importance of vaccines, and wile away my evenings tweeting smugly about whatever thumbsucker I just read in The New York Review of Books or BlubberTusk.

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The truckers versus Trudeau

The ‘freedom convoy’ against vaccine mandates shows Canadians won’t give up their freedoms without a fight.

Canadian truckers have driven into the heart of the political debate over Canada’s vaccine mandates.

A 70 kilometre-long ‘freedom convoy’ travelled from Vancouver to the Canadian capital, Ottawa, last week, to protest a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border. An estimated 10,000 protesters then converged at Parliament Hill in Ottawa over the weekend, and pledged not to leave until the vaccine mandate is revoked. The mandate was implemented by prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government earlier this month.

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