More than 7,000 people registered for their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, amid threats by Quebec officials to tax the unvaccinated.
“Our highest in several days,” tweeted Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé, noting that 5,000 appointments were also made on Monday. “This is encouraging.”
Dubé notes the appointments were made across all the age groups, and 107,000 doses of vaccine were administered Tuesday alone.
The Trudeau government’s stubborn insistence that all cross-border truckers entering Canada show proof of double vaccination starting this coming Saturday sums up officialdom’s continuing fight against the pandemic to a tee.
Ont. reports 46 net new virus-related deaths; 505 patients with COVID-19 now in ICU
Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott says about 54 per cent of people hospitalized with COVID-19 were admitted due to the virus while 46 per cent were admitted for other reasons. For those in the ICU, 83 per cent per cent were admitted due to COVID-19 and 17 per cent were admitted for other reasons and are now testing positive, she added.
Another 9,783 new cases were logged today but due to testing restrictions, that number is likely a significant undercount of the true number of new infections in Ontario.
Here is the Pfizer CEO clip saying his company’s two dose covid vaccine provides “limited, if any” protection against omicron. @twitter needs to explain what the copyright claim is here. Seems to clearly be fair use & it’s obviously very newsworthy: pic.twitter.com/LrbgkPO6PH
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 11, 2022
Possible legal consequences begin for Sunwing passengers after feds spot 12 alleged infractions
Health Canada has started the process for possible legal consequences for some of the passengers on the infamous Sunwing flight to Cancun on Dec. 30.
However, the alleged infractions the agency is looking at are not related to the partying on the plane, according to Quebec prosecutors.
“These files do not cover the events that occurred during the flight, the images of which made the headlines,” said Audrey Roy-Cloutier, a spokesperson for the Quebec Crown prosecutors’ office.
Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab – but feared debate could hurt ‘international harmony’
Leading British and US scientists thought it was likely that Covid accidentally leaked from a laboratory but were concerned that further debate would harm science in China, emails show.
An email from Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, on February 2 2020 said that “a likely explanation” was that Covid had rapidly evolved from a Sars-like virus inside human tissue in a low-security lab.
The email, to Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Francis Collins of the US National Institutes of Health, went on to say that such evolution may have “accidentally created a virus primed for rapid transmission between humans”.
But a leading scientist told Sir Jeremy that “further debate would do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular”. Dr Collins, the former director of the US National Institutes of Health, warned it could damage “international harmony”.
Gee Wiz! I’m old enough to remember when this was a conspiracy theory. Just like the CIA buying off journalists. “International Harmony” should be read as “Free Money from the ChiComs & Faucis etc”
While it’s a terrible idea, if federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos actually believes millions of Canadians should be vaccinated against their will, then the Trudeau government can do it under the Emergencies Act.
In the article published by the Brownstone Institute, SUNY Cortland Assistant Professor Jared McBrady outlined how Trudeau and other leaders including French President Emmanual Macron were “othering” the unvaccinated.
McBrady described “othering” as the “process of dehumanizing through marginalizing a group of humans as something different, less than, and other. Such othered groups become an easy target to scapegoat, unfairly bearing the blame for a society’s ills.”
Last night, Project Veritas released a video allegedly exposing classified documents about COVID and the pandemic response. In the video, Project Veritas showed portions of a memo written by Marine Corps Major General Joseph P. Murphy about the pandemic origins and response. If the conclusions Murphy drew even approach the truth, political affiliation no longer means anything for anyone who lost a loved one to COVID or cares about someone who suffered a vaccine injury.
THE headline, in lofty bold type across two full pages, screams: ‘6million follow anti-vaxxer lies’. The Mail on Sunday is firing a full salvo from the good ship Booster. On the same pages it ‘exposes’ some anti-vaxx military-style group ‘planning mayhem’ and hands the Health Secretary Sajid Javid a column to call out ‘dangerous nonsense’ from extreme anti-vaxxers.
German police have been criticised for using Covid-tracking data to trace contacts from bars and restaurants as part of an investigation.
The case, stemming from November last year, began after the fatal fall of a man while leaving a restaurant in the western city of Mainz.
Police seeking possible witnesses made use of data from an app known as Luca, which was designed for users to register time spent in restaurants and taverns to track the possible spread of coronavirus.
The Ontario government quietly dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, producing a new dataset that reveals how many people were actually admitted to hospitals in the province because they were suffering from COVID-19.
When it comes to battling the COVID-19 pandemic, not only is the federal government too slow to act, it fundamentally misunderstands what’s happening in Canada now. Justin Trudeau’s government divides its time between useless attempts to keep Omicron out of the country and blaming the unvaccinated for our problems. Meanwhile, it’s dragging its heels on the one thing that might really help.
Quebec is announcing it will impose a health tax on Quebecers who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Quebec Premier François Legault made the announcement in Montreal on Tuesday afternoon, as the number of pandemic-related hospitalizations continues to climb.
Gettin Biblical out there.
Scientists consulting with the U.S. government early in the pandemic believed COVID-19 originating from a lab in Wuhan, China, was possible or even likely, but Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins worked to shut the hypothesis down, according to several emails.
The emails were revealed Tuesday in a letter from Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking member on House Judiciary Committee, and GOP Rep. James Comer, the ranking member on House Oversight Committee. Some of the emails included notes from a Feb. 1, 2020, conference call in which at least 11 scientists theorized about the virus’s origin, with many leaning toward the lab leak theory.
OTTAWA — All three main opposition parties are calling for a review of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s plan to continue using anonymized cellphone location data of Canadians to track travel patterns during the pandemic.
Ontarians have been told that the reason they have been plunged into lockdown once again is that COVID-19 is overwhelming the hospital system. While it is true that more people struggling with Omicron are now being admitted to hospital, that doesn’t tell the full story.
