There has been a lot of discussion about the need to make the vaccine mandatory for kids aged 5-11 in Canada, but the reality is COVID-19 is not a threat to this age group.
In fact, even Pfizer has indicated that they believe not all kids need the vaccine.
More than a year after a B.C. doctor began circulating a letter declaring the COVID-19 pandemic “over” and speaking at rallies against masks and vaccines, there’s still no resolution to the numerous complaints filed against him.
Superheroes come in all sizes 🦸🏽♀️🦸🏻🦸🏿♂️🦸🏼♀️ Watch as real kids express thanks to their superheroes; the 5-11 year old #Covid19 vaccine clinical trial volunteers. We’re incredibly grateful to the trial participants and their families 💙 #ScienceWillWin pic.twitter.com/A3I0ERr4TV
— Pfizer Inc. (@pfizer) November 1, 2021
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The vaccine mandates pushed by the federal and provincial governments have divided Canadians, and the way the unvaccinated are berated is “extremely ugly,” a former judge says.
“I would never have thought such a thing could happen in Canada,” said Brian Giesbrecht, who served as a provincial court judge in Manitoba from 1976 to 2007.
“The idea of forcing people to be vaccinated, and then yelling at them if they don’t do what you say, is something that should not occur in a country like Canada.”
When Alberta backtracked on its plans to do away with most COVID-19 restrictions and bring in a vaccine passport system in September, their main rationale was hospital capacity issues.
While their modelling had told them they’d be fine, more people than predicted were being admitted to hospital with COVID-19. Protect the hospitals, they said. That was the guiding principle.
Ontario reports more than 600 new COVID-19 cases, 2 more deaths
Ontario is reporting the highest daily COVID-19 case count in nearly a month, logging more than 600 new infections today.
Provincial health officials confirmed 636 new cases today, up from 508 cases on Saturday and 563 on Friday
U.S. border is reopening to Canada. What you need to know before you travel
The U.S. is set to reopen its land border to non-essential travellers, including from Canada, on Nov. 8 after an over year-and-a-half closure.
The border has been closed since March 2020 to non-essential travellers due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
While Canada reopened its land border to non-essential American travellers in August, the U.S. did not reciprocate until now.
You will need to spend up to 200 bucks for a test to re-enter Canada.
Earlier this week, The White House said it was confident that it could beat any Republican challenges to its new workplace vaccine mandate and claimed Thursday that the GOP was trying to block the Biden administration from saving lives.
Quebec’s health-care facilities have started suspending unvaccinated workers who refuse to comply with a health order that they be tested for COVID-19 at least three times per week, the government confirmed Friday.
Children aged five to 11 will be eligible for the one-off incentive when vaccinations are opened up to primary school children next week.
It marks an expansion of a previous policy brought in in July, when New York began offering a $100 reward to adults after the number of people wanting jabs began to slow.
“Good news, kids are eligible for the $100 vaccine incentive,” Mr de Blasio told a press conference on Thursday.
A COVID-19 infection during pregnancy can leave an imprint on the fetus, according to a growing body of research, though it’s unclear whether that effect is long-lasting.
Two studies published last month show that the disease, particularly when it’s severe, can affect the immune activity at the time of birth and that boys may be affected differently than girls.
It’s far too early to know whether babies exposed to COVID-19 during pregnancy will be any different from those born without that exposure, said Dr. Andrea Edlow, a maternal-medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, who helped lead one of the studies.
Now watch the narrative gradually shift to vaccinated mothers. “You probably had Covid but were asymptomatic because you were fully vaccinated.”
The eight previous Public Health England / UK Health Security Agency ‘Vaccine Surveillance’ reports on Covid-19 cases show that double vaccinated 40-79 year olds have now lost lost 50% of their immune system capability and are consistently losing a further 4-5% every week (between 3.7% and 7.9%).
Projections also now show that 30-49 year olds will have zero Covid / viral defence at best, or a form of vaccine mediated acquired immunodeficiency syndrome at worst, by the first week in January and all double vaccinated people over 30 will have completely lost that part of their immune system which deals with Covid-19 in the next 18 weeks.
Wouldn’t it be great if there were Covid treatments that would help keep people alive while developing natural immunity, as the human immune system evolved to do?
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Austria will soon bar the unvaccinated from entering a long list of public places, among them bars, cafes and hotels, the country’s chancellor said, pointing to an unexpectedly rapid surge in Covid-19 cases.
The entry ban will come into effect next week and will apply to cafes, bars, restaurants, theaters, ski lodges, hotels, hairdressers and any event involving more than 25 people, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg told reporters on Friday. The move could affect a large swath of Austria’s population, with some 36% of its residents still not fully immunized against the virus.
A Saskatoon bishop has written an open letter on what he calls the severity of vaccine mandates. He copied both the Premier Scott Moe and Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark in the letter.
Bishop Mark Hagemoen of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon wrote the letter after a City of Saskatoon bylaw that would have restricted gathering sizes in Saskatoon — including for places of worship, unless proof of vaccination was required — was recently defeated.
“The vaccine mandates for the general population are becoming severe and perhaps ethically questionable in our current circumstances — at least as these relate to environments outside of health-care facilities,” said Hagemoen in the letter.
Ontario reports 508 new COVID-19 infections as province expands booster shot eligibility
Ontario reported over 500 new COVID-19 cases for a second day in a row as the province expanded eligibility for booster shoots on Saturday.
Provincial health officials logged 508 new coronavirus infections today, down from 563 yesterday but up from 356 a week ago.
Business greets Canada-U.S. border opening as glass half full due to testing rule
OTTAWA – Monday’s reopening of the Canada-U.S. land border is sparking a mixed reaction among Canadian business leaders: They’re excited that people and not just goods will be crossing the border again but are wary of remaining red tape.
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Business Council of Canada say the Canadian requirement for returning travellers to provide a recent, negative molecular test is an unnecessary obstacle to kick-starting business travel and tourism.
They say proof of vaccination is all that should be needed and the test requirement should be scrapped.
Erin O’Toole is stuck up in a tree, and he can’t get down.
His own party is at the bottom, waiting, and he doesn’t know what to do. His voters are waiting. His leadership-race supporters are there too and, well, that’s a bit awkward.
He doesn’t dare go anywhere people might ask questions about politics, or government, or issues of the day, because one of those questions might be about vaccines, and whether his MPs are vaccinated. So Mr. O’Toole doesn’t go out into the public eye much. He doesn’t say much.
