High-efficiency masks up to six times better at filtering aerosols than cloth, surgical masks: Canadian study
… The researchers found that R95 masks were able to filter out 60 per cent of exhaled aerosols, and KN95 masks could filter out 46 per cent.
On the other hand, cloth masks and surgical masks only filtered out 10 per cent and 12 per cent of exhaled aerosols, respectively.
These are the only masks I have used.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed “incidents” of Taliban violence against Americans heading to the Kabul airport to flee Afghanistan .
Austin said Sunday there have been “some tough encounters with [the] Taliban,” just two days after President Joe Biden denied Americans were having trouble getting to the airport.
OTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says Canada will work tirelessly to evacuate people from strife-ridden Afghanistan “for as long as it is safe to do so.”
Speaking at a news conference today, Sajjan said the challenging security conditions in Kabul are changing rapidly, even by the hour, but Canadian personnel are doing everything in their power to get people to safety.
Police have quizzed the manager of one of Birmingham’s biggest mosques after he posted a Facebook message appearing to praise Taliban leaders in prayer during the capture of Kabul.
The post sparked fury among some worshippers, who include Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban regime 20 years ago. One mosque attendee has withdrawn his child from planned Islam classes because of it.
Why praise a Foreign Taliban? Birmingham has its own homegrown variant!
Arrest over Birmingham homophobic attack in Gay Village – but two men still wanted
During Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s first week, his campaign plane touched down at the Winnipeg airport, parking right next to the aircraft carrying his chief rival: Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.
“I can’t verify this, but we’ve been told it broke down already,” O’Toole joked with his campaign team.
In a quest to move from Official Opposition to government, the Conservatives are flying high over what they believe to be a smooth, strong start to their campaign.
‘We should give them a chance’: UK Sharia Council scholar says the Taliban have ‘grown up’ and ‘every Muslim I know’ is celebrating their return as she accuses Western media of ‘misrepresenting’ their views on women’s rights
A UK Islamic Sharia Council scholar has claimed that the Taliban have ‘grown up’ and British Muslims are ‘celebrating’ the return of the jihadi group to power.
Since taking over Afghanistan, the jihadi group has claimed it will not carry out violence against women, and will not ‘seek vengeance’ on those who stood against them during the brutal 20-year war in the region.
Sharia Council scholar Khola Hasan today told BBC Radio 4 that the Islamist group’s recent posturing on women’s rights was a ‘good start’, and ‘every single person that I know, as a Muslim’ was ‘celebrating’ their return.
This can’t happen in Canada because we imported “Magic Islam.”
Anecdotes tell us what the data can’t: Vaccinated people appear to be getting the coronavirus at a surprisingly high rate. But exactly how often isn’t clear, nor is it certain how likely they are to spread the virus to others. And now, there’s growing concern that vaccinated people may be more vulnerable to serious illness than previously thought.
“What we’ve witnessed this week in Afghanistan is a watershed moment in Western decline”, Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote. “America cares more about pronouns than the fate of Afghan women.”
You could see it from the Western diplomatic response after the Taliban conquered Kabul without firing a shot and arrived in the capital as tourists.
“The Afghan government should engage with the Taliban to reach an inclusive agreement”. Even before Afghanistan had fallen into hands of the Taliban, that intrepid EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell was already begging the Afghans to reach an agreement with the Islamists.
EDMONTON — Erin O’Toole acknowledged a long-simmering sentiment within Conservative circles on Saturday: the Tory leader’s carbon-pricing scheme is not universally beloved among the party faithful.
Under the plan, unveiled in April as a loyalty-card style of carbon pricing, consumers would see what they pay on fuel stored into an account that can be used for green purchases later.
“It does price carbon and I do get some questions about it and some people frustrated about that, but it shows my commitment,” O’Toole said.
Prince Charles warns UK bosses: ‘Go green or we are done for’ in his most powerful intervention to date in the fight against climate change, as he calls for business leaders to join the ‘epic battle’ to avert ‘catastrophe’
Prince Charles today makes his most powerful intervention to date in the fight against climate change, telling Britain’s business leaders they must help, or the planet is ‘done for’.
Drawing emotionally on his family connections to wildfire-racked Greece, the prince issues a robust challenge to big business to join his crusade for action ‘before it’s finally too late’.
The heir to the throne says that humanity’s ‘only hope’ is for business chiefs to join world leaders in an ‘epic battle’ to avert ‘climate catastrophe’.
He’s gonna be a real popular Welfare King. Not sure they’ll be much need for William.
If only Justin Trudeau had been as serious about getting our Afghan allies to safety in Canada as he was about accepting 25,000 Syrian refugees after he became prime minister in 2015.
The Taliban were attempting to demonstrate they control the areas around the chaotic Kabul airport on Sunday, where Nato said 20 people died in the past week.
As witnesses reported Taliban fighters to be firing into the air and using batons to force people to form orderly queues outside the main gates and not gather at the perimeter, the militant group that retook the Afghan capital last week after 20 years said it was seeking “complete clarity” on the evacuation plan being led by foreign forces.
It was not clear, however, whether the Taliban’s increasingly organised presence around the airport would also result in it controlling who is able to enter the airport and leave the country as the group’s spokesmen used the situation at the airport to criticise the US.
Ontario reports 700+ new COVID-19 cases; highest test positivity since early June
Ontario’s daily COVID-19 case count continues to move upward to levels not seen in more than two months, with officials reporting 722 cases on Sunday and two additional deaths.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases now stands at 564, up from 534 yesterday.
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and Wife Hospitalized After Testing Positive for COVID-19
Civil rights leader and Chicago resident Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. along with his wife, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19, according to the prominent political activist’s organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
In a statement, the organization said the reverend, who is 79 years old, and Jacqueline Jackson, 77, were admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Their conditions haven’t been released.
An observation frequently attributed to Mark Twain, that “it is easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled,” is the most accurate explanation I can find of where we are today.
I will add this one caveat: it is easy to fool people only when they willingly choose to be foolable when they allow others to tell them what’s true and what’s not. Because it’s infinitely easier to do that.
