Welcome to Canada eh? What is happening in our country? pic.twitter.com/TdmB8K2eUG
— 🍁🇨🇦CanAditude🇨🇦🍁 (@CanAditude) February 24, 2021
“China eats weird animals disease”
Germany: Covid-19 Triggers New Wave of Anti-Semitism
“Why are the majority of anti-Semitic acts attributed to ‘right-wing’ German perpetrators? One can see a political motive behind this — growing anti-Semitism can be used politically as a weapon ‘against the right.'” — Tichys Einblick.
… A 2017 survey of German Jews by the University of Bielefeld found that 60% of anti-Semitic attacks were said to have been carried out by Muslims, compared to 19% by far-left extremists and 19% by far-right perpetrators. Muslims were also said to be responsible for 81% of anti-Semitic attacks involving physical violence. The survey found that 70% of German Jews believe that mass migration from the Muslim world has fueled anti-Semitism in Germany.
Nevertheless, German police, possibly under orders from political authorities, systematically assign unsolved anti-Semitic hate crimes to the far right. In one well-known case, police blamed far-right extremists for chanting the Nazi slogan “Sieg Heil” at an Islamist al-Quds rally in Berlin.
Ontario reports 1054 new Wuhan Flu cases … and Me Sainted Irish Mudda
Ontario is reporting 1,054 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 54,900 tests completed. Locally, there are 363 new cases in Toronto, 186 in Peel and 94 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 602,848 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 24, 2021
Tale of two vaccine roll-outs: COVID-19 numbers plummet in Toronto’s long-term-care homes, while Ontario’s remain ‘stubbornly high’
After being at the centre of COVID-19 deaths and mass outbreaks, the city’s long-term-care homes have new, hopeful data that could be a sign of encouraging things to come.
This week, Toronto Public Health reported a “substantial decline” in the rate seniors have tested positive in long-term-care homes, from 10.9 per cent in November to just 0.6 per cent as of the week of Feb. 7 — well below the overall city rate of 4.8 per cent.
It was the “first sign” Mayor John Tory said this week that the city’s vaccination efforts were working.
Mom has been in hospital almost 3 months. She’s 96, currently in a rehab where she caught Covid after dodging a bullet during previous outbreaks at two separate hospitals. No one thought vaccinating hospitalized seniors was a good idea?
Mom is in isolation, alone, I have not yet spoken to her since hearing of the Covid diagnosis yesterday.
Canada’s top doctor says vaccines could allow toughest restrictions to lift before September
But Dr. Theresa Tam says some of the more personal measures, like wearing masks and limiting close contact outside our households, may be with us longer.
Expect a smooth transition from Covid Lockdown to Climate Lockdown.
Do We Have the Courage of this Jailed Canadian Pastor Who Refuses to Be Silent?
Not long after Jesus was crucified and buried, two of his disciples, Peter and John, were jailed by the Jerusalem authorities for telling people that He had been resurrected from the dead after three days in the tomb, that He had talked multiple times with the disciples, and that He had ascended to Heaven.
I finally know someone who has Covid. Me Sainted Irish 96 Year Old Mudda caught it at the hospital.
There has been an outbreak on her floor for the past week, she was being treated for suspected pneumonia but her test came back positive last night.
All of this because she was immobilized when she arrived at St. Joe’s for treatment of edema before Christmas.
She was caught in a Covid lockdown at St. Joes and she was bedridden for two weeks which exasperated a knee problem.
They decided a stint at Runnymede rehab was called for but she was further waylayed and kept immobile at St. Joe’s due to an earlier outbreak at Runnymede which delayed her departure.
St. Joes’ helped by botching a cortisone shot to her knee and then broke Mom’s hearing aids for added measure.
It’s very frustrating, I have seen Mom at the hospitals perhaps 8 times since Christmas between Covid outbreaks.
The isolation will kill her before Covid does.
She sounded good yesterday when we spoke on the phone, her release date had been scheduled for March 8th which cheered her up but that is unlikely now, as she has already missed a week of physio alone hindering her progress.
Ontario reports 975 new Kung Flu Kases – Toronto BBQ Lockdown Costs 187K?
Ontario is reporting 975 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 26,000 tests completed. Locally, there are 343 new cases in Toronto, 186 in Peel and 89 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 585,707 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 23, 2021
City of Toronto seeking $187K from Etobicoke BBQ owner who defied lockdown
The City of Toronto is seeking to recoup the $187,000 it says it spent forcing an Etobicoke barbecue eatery to comply with public health lockdown measures.
Police were repeatedly called to Adamson BBQ in Etobicoke last November after the restaurant’s owner, Adam Skelly, openly defied lockdown measures and allowed in-person dining. Scores of Skelly’s supporters and anti-lockdown protesters swarmed police officers on scene, and city officials were forced to change the locks to keep the restaurant in compliance with public health orders.
Skelly was charged both criminally and non-criminally with trespassing, intent to obstruct police, violating indoor dining rules, holding an illegal gathering and operating a business without a licence.
Have they gone after BLM?
WHO’s COVID origin probe lacks credibility, scientists warn
Multiple scientists at major institutions around the world are sounding an alarm over what they say was an incomplete and unreliable investigation by the World Health Organization into the origins of the SARS-Cov-2 virus.
39% of federal employees received $819 million in paid leave last year
As the private sector faced lockdowns and unprecedented unemployment, thousands of public sector employees were paid to stay at home.
Liberal MP implies premiers who end lockdowns are being criminally negligent
“So my question is if PHAC’s models have been largely correct and the health experts are predicting this type of exponential case growth, if P/Ts choose to move forward with lifting public health measures despite the evidence, are they culpable for the resulting deaths?” asked Turnbull before quoting the criminal code.
Flamin’ hot hypocrite: Joe Biden refuses to condemn Cuomo’s nursing home deaths scandal
Joe Biden, who blamed President Trump entirely for all 300,000 (at the time) deaths in the U.S. from COVID during his campaign, has gone strangely silent about the revelations that New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered nursing homes in New York to accept COVID patients from hospitals and then covered up the 15,000 deaths that predictably came as a result of sticking the sickest people into the same living quarters as the most vulnerable. He’s more than silent, actually, his spokesweasel, Jen Psaki, has refused to condemn Cuomo
Chinese Regime Turned to Military for CCP Virus Cover-Up: Former Trump Adviser
The Chinese regime turned to its military, rather than its health authority, to cover-up and contain the CCP virus outbreak, according to a former White House deputy national security adviser.
This was one reason why the United States was unable to obtain any useful data from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the burgeoning stages of the pandemic, Matthew Pottinger, who served under the Trump administration, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” in an interview that aired on Feb. 21.
Vax bias matters – Canada’s vaccinators are planning to prioritize ‘adults in racialized and marginalized communities’
Canada’s vaccination rollout has gone poorly, to say the least. The country currently ranks just 40th in vaccine doses per capita. It is being soundly whipped by Morocco, Turkey, and Serbia — nations which aren’t known for bragging insufferably about their single-payer healthcare systems. Even worse for Canadians, they trail the United States. For a country that views its identity through the prism of its southern neighbor, this must be a most demoralizing experience.
On Monday, Canada’s national advisory committee on immunization announced that ‘saving lives’ will be shoved violently down the list of priorities in its vaccination drive. Instead, the country is placing a focus on racial equity — ‘Black Lives Matter More’, if you will.
Unmasking the Medical Experts
Masks have become an unwelcome staple of American life with no end in sight. Mask recommendations change faster and more frequently than the weather. How did we get here?
h/t Marvin
WARMINGTON: Pearson bracing for potential ‘chaos’ as new hotel rules implemented
This holding pattern of flights coming into Pearson International Airport is not expected to be in the sky.