“China eats weird animals disease”

Ontario, the epicentre of Canada’s third wave of COVID-19, is currently subject to what Premier Doug Ford has called the “strictest measures in all of North America.”

On Tuesday, Ontario’s official COVID-19 Science Advisory Table issued an oblique criticism of the current lockdowns. In a statement, the team of more than three dozen public health researchers branded some of Ontario’s current restrictions as belonging to policies that “won’t work.” They are far from the first in Ontario to question the efficacy of measures that are unprecedented in Canada, including empowering police to ticket anyone outside their home without valid reason.

Ontario reports 4,212 new COVID-19 cases; 32 more deaths

Ontario reported 4,212 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and 32 deaths, as some early signs hinted case growth may be slowing.

Ontario reported 3,469 new COVID-19 cases and 22 deaths on Tuesday, along with 4,447 new cases on Monday and 4,250 on Sunday.

The province’s rolling seven day average of new cases now stands at 4,326, up from 4,319 yesterday.

Top Canadian WHO adviser under fire after downplaying airborne threat of COVID-19

An influential Canadian doctor and top adviser to the World Health Organization has come under fire from international experts for his controversial comments downplaying the risk of airborne spread of the coronavirus.

Dr. John Conly, an infectious diseases physician and professor of medicine at the University of Calgary, not only denied that aerosol transmission is a primary route of transmission, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, but also said that N95 masks can cause “harms” — including acne.

“Any time you look at benefits, you need to look at harms, of which there are many harms with N95s — and I think to ignore them you are at your peril,” Conly told a panel discussion at the University of Calgary on April 9 on the role of airborne transmission in the COVID-19 pandemic.

OTTAWA — Whenever Doug Ford puts on that feel-your-pain “folks, I’m being honest with you” face, his pandemic-fighting plan from yesterday is about to be slammed into reverse – and replaced by something even worse.

I’ve been watching politicians since covering Calgary city council alongside a television reporter and future premier named Ralph Klein – yes, I’m that old – and I’ve never seen such raging ineptitude as Ford is now showing as Ontario premier.

And never have life-or-death actions and reactions fallen so short of the minimum threshold for competent leadership.

Everyone is piling on Ford. I’m not a fan but the real culprit in this mess is Justin Trudeau and his cronies.

Ford has been brutal in his use of lockdowns, they could have been much more selective had the lessons of the first lockdown been learned. The focus should have switched to isolating and protecting the most vulnerable, our elderly. Allowing large scale infection prone employers to operate while small businesses were shuttered was clueless. 

My Mother died of Covid she contracted in a hospital in March never having been offered a vaccine. Unconscionable. 

Justin on the other hand screwed the entire nation over by taking direction from Beijing and completely bungling the vaccine file.

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says Canada’s international and U.S. border restrictions will be in place for another month, at least.

In a pair of announcements made Tuesday, Blair said that Canadian and U.S. officials have agreed to keep the border between the two countries closed to non-essential travel, as well as the existing restrictions on non-U.S. international travel into Canada will be extended until May 21.