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Ontario reports 170 new Covid cases … and … Oz Rising Up

Ontario is reporting a slight day-over-day drop in new COVID-19 cases and three more deaths on Saturday.

Provincial health officials logged 170 new coronavirus infections, down from 192 on Friday but up from a week ago when 176 cases were reported.

Americans, when you watch Australian cops bashing the crap out of Aussies for exercising their right to protest, I just want to remind you that Australians are completely disarmed.

That’s all 🙂pic.twitter.com/NTMeTi2sOq

— Sydney Watson (@SydneyLWatson) July 24, 2021

Chaos as thousands gather for anti-lockdown protests

There has been chaos in the heart of Sydney as anti-lockdown protesters, many maskless, took to the streets to protest COVID-19 restrictions, sparking police clashes and 57 arrests.

Thousands walked through Sydney’s inner-city, despite the city being in lockdown. Some of the protesters were carrying placards with anti-vaccination messages. Many appeared not to be wearing masks.

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WATCH: Psaki refuses to provide number of ‘breakthrough’ cases of COVID in the White House

White House Press Sec. Jen Psaki refused on Friday to give a reporter a definitive answer as to how many people in the White House have tested positive for COVID after having been fully vaccinated.

by Sarcasticat•July 24, 2021July 23, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Leftist scumbags, Leftists - intolerance of political right, vaccine controversy, White House

Unvaccinated people might not be who the media tell you they are, new data reportedly shows

In the face of missed vaccination targets and a rise in COVID-19 infections, the Biden administration and its mainstream media counterparts have selected their scapegoat for the continuation of the pandemic — vaccine-refusing Republicans.

by Sarcasticat•July 24, 2021July 23, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Leftist scumbags, Leftists - intolerance of political right, MSM bias to the left, MSM Lies, vaccine controversy

WARMINGTON: Vancouver airport now separates passengers based on vax status

YVR posted signs July 5 separating international arrivals into ‘fully vaccinated’ and ‘unvaccinated’ lines.

by Sarcasticat•July 24, 2021July 23, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, vaccine controversy, Vancouver

‘The harm done by lockdown will last for decades’

Carl Heneghan on where we went wrong in the fight against Covid.

Over the past 18 months, we have had three national lockdowns. We have grappled with all kinds of other restrictions, too – masks, social distancing and more. Yet despite all this, over 125,000 people have died. Have any of the measures actually worked? And have they justified the enormous collateral damage they have undoubtedly caused?

by Blazingcatfur•July 24, 2021July 23, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

NIH clearly collaborated on dangerous research with China says WAPO

Will Rand Paul succeed in his criminal referral for perjury? Will Anthony Fauci press a slander claim? All of that might make for good fodder for punditry, Washington Post reporter Josh Rogin argues in a new column, but like their dispute, it mostly misses the point.

The real issue isn’t a narrow definition of “gain of function” when it comes to viral research. It’s that the National Institute of Health collaborated on clearly dangerous research with a country that lacked the expertise to conduct it, and the openness to deal with any consequences of it. And, Rogin warns, they’re going to do it again unless we focus on the real issue rather than the technicalities

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2021July 23, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Peter Daszak and the Virus

Peter Daszak is in many ways typical of the international world of disease prevention. As the president of EcoHealth Alliance, Daszak has spent millions of dollars of grant money from the National Institutes of Health in recent years. His organization’s special focus is on preventing the outbreak of emerging diseases, such as coronaviruses. He was deeply involved with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) because his organization had funded bat coronavirus research that lab was doing when the COVID-19 outbreak occurred in late 2019.

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2021July 23, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Canada’s vaccine passport won’t come until December, at the earliest

Leaked presentations reveal that Canada won’t have a national Covid-19 vaccine passport system until December 2021, at the earliest. A total lack of national infrastructure, however, means that could be delayed even further.

The internal PowerPoint presentation, prepared by the Treasury Board of Canada, reveals that even more than a year after the global pandemic hit, Canada still lags other countries in developing a system to issue and recognize proof of immunity to Covid-19.

h/t FH

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2021July 23, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, WTF?

Coronavirus: Was US money used to fund risky research in China?

Republican Senator Rand Paul alleges that US money was used to fund research there that made some viruses (not the coronavirus) more infectious and more deadly, known as “gain-of-function”.

But his assertion has been firmly rejected by Dr Anthony Fauci, the US infectious diseases chief.

… US researcher and biologist Alina Chan at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has highlighted issues with the wording of the government’s pause to funding in 2014.

It says that it would stop funding research that “may be reasonably anticipated to confer attributes to influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses such that the virus would have enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility in mammals via the respiratory route.”

This could imply that research on viruses may not intend to produce “gain-of-function”, although that could be the end result of it.

Related … House Democrats Block Bipartisan Bill Declassifying COVID-19 Origins

House Democrats blocked consideration of legislation that would require the U.S. Director of National Intelligence to declassify information and data related to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and that namely targeted what role the Wuhan Institute of Virology played in the outbreak.

In May, the Senate Republican-backed COVID-19 Origin Act was passed unanimously in the Senate. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) brought the Senate bill to the House floor on Tuesday night before Democrats voted it down.

What if they knew all along that the virus originated in the Wuhan lab but kept that information secret?

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2021July 23, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

Ontario reports 192 new Covid cases … and … Economy doomed without vaccine certificates!

Ont. reports 192 new COVID-19 cases as seven-day average slowly rises

Ontario is reporting just under 200 new cases of COVID-19 today as the province continues to see a slight uptick in the rolling seven-day average.

Provincial health officials are reporting 192 new COVID-19 cases today, up from 185 on Thursday and 135 on Wednesday.

‘Vaccine certificates’ called essential to keeping economy open

While it’s still unclear if the Ontario government will even consider implementing a similar “vaccine certificate,” experts, academics and members of the province’s science-based COVID-19 policy advisory group say this kind of measure is not only necessary — it is essential. That is, they say, if we want to go into a store, our workplaces, see a Jays game, get a haircut, make money — get back to being normal.

“We have to acknowledge the inevitability of these certificates if we want to keep the economy open,” said Peter Juni, scientific director of the Science Advisory Table, which released a brief Wednesday on the merits of vaccine certificates.

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2021July 23, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Did scientists stifle the lab-leak theory?

Jeremy Farrar’s pandemic tale raises more questions than it answers

In September 2019, even as a new respiratory virus may have started circulating in a central Chinese city, some prominent figures issued a wake up call to the world about the risks of a pandemic. The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, a group of 15 politicians and scientists brought together by the World Health Organisation, warned that a new disease could spread rapidly around the planet, killing millions of people while sparking panic, crippling economies and destabilising security. “The world is not prepared for a fast-moving, virulent respiratory pathogen pandemic.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2021July 22, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Video: China Refuses To Cooperate With WHO Investigation; Says Lab Leak Possibility Is A “Conspiracy Theory” And “Against Science”

Zeng Yixin, deputy head of China’s National Health Commission announced Thursday that Chinese authorities will not participate in phase two of the WHO’s probe, which involves a further visit to the Wuhan lab.

h/t Marvin

by Sarcasticat•July 22, 2021July 22, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", China, WHO

Ontario reports 185 new Covid cases … and… Your Papers Please?

Ontario reports 185 new COVID-19 cases, 7 more deaths

‘Vaccine certificate’ with access to perks for the double-vaxxed touted by science table as way for Ontario to accelerate the jab

The group of experts supplying the province with science-based policy recommendations is asking the premier to consider letting those who are double-vaxxed relax — and get priority entrance to movies, restaurants and gyms.

Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table released a 21-page brief Wednesday afternoon suggesting that the province’s power brokers issue a “vaccine certificate” to help differentiate between those who’ve gotten both of their shots — and those who haven’t.　

For Ontarians in the soon to be Hermit Kingdom of Canada this will be an internal passport only as our mix and match vaccines are not widely accepted by the outside world.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2021July 22, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Opposition calls for COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Alberta schools this fall

The Alberta NDP wants COVID-19 immunization clinics in schools when classes resume this fall to ensure more students get their second dose of vaccine as soon as possible.

by Sarcasticat•July 22, 2021July 21, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Alberta, Education, NDP, vaccine controversy

Vaccinated Canadians won’t be spending time around the unvaccinated: poll

The Angus Reid survey shows 53 per cent of people polled say they won’t spend time around those who have not yet received their shots.

by Sarcasticat•July 22, 2021July 21, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, vaccine controversy