“China eats weird animals disease” – Page 353

RINNER: Canada’s current pandemic response isn’t supported by the facts

A few weeks ago, British philosophers Ian James Kidd and Matthew Ratcliffe wrote about “Covidworld, our new altered reality where accepted norms do not apply.” They note how the entire planet is captivated by COVID-19 as the one and only issue of importance. And they describe the “enormous and wide-ranging collateral damage caused by lockdowns and other measures.” Like many critics of the ongoing tunnel vision on SARS-CoV-2, I am concerned about the lack of proportion in our collective response and allege that this response is not backed by the facts about the pandemic.

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Bill Gates says bars and restaurants should ‘sadly’ be closed for 4-6 months, no return to ‘normal’ until 2022

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes a return to “normal” life is further down the road for the US than people expect, despite a Covid-19 vaccine being approved and distributed this week.

Conceding that by the summer of 2021, the US should be “way closer to normal than we are now,” Gates, who has donated millions to vaccination efforts through his foundation, believes a full return to normal will likely not be possible until after 2022.

.@BillGates on Covid: "Even through 2022” we should be prepared for life to not return to “normal”

Says “sadly" it’s "appropriate” for bars and restaurants to close over the next "four to six months" pic.twitter.com/cmDD8pv3XR

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 13, 2020

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COVID models are “not able to handle the complexity of reality”: Marco Navarro-Genie joins Sheila Gunn Reid

From 6,000 deaths and and 300,000 cases by the end of April in Ontario alone, to 60,000 cases a day by the end of the year in Canada, the COVID-19 models have always garnered some form of skepticism.

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Americans Said No to Coronavirus Contact Tracing Spy Apps

But will they be able to stay off the “national server” if the Democrats take over?

When the NHS, Britain’s socialized medicine system, debuted its contact tracing app, six million eagerly rushed to download it. After a few days, 10 million had downloaded and installed the app, and after a month, around 40% of smartphone users had put a monitoring device on their phones that would trace their social interactions and could tell them to isolate at any moment.

by Blazingcatfur•December 13, 2020December 13, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Surveillance Society"

FUREY: The facts still show COVID-19 is not a problem in Canadian schools

On Thursday, 114 schools were abruptly ordered shut in the Windsor-Essex region of Ontario by the area’s chief medical officer. School boards were caught off guard by the announcement, which has pushed over 56,000 students into online learning until at least the beginning of January.

“The health and safety of students and staff remains a priority for the [Windsor-Essex County Health Unit],” reads the news release. “This action is being taken in an effort to keep our community safe and prevent further spread of COVID-19.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 13, 2020December 13, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Couple is kicked off a United flight to New Jersey after their two-year-old daughter refused to wear a face mask – and now face lifetime ban from airline

A young mother says she and her husband were kicked off a United Airlines flight because their two-year-old daughter refused to wear a mask.

Eliz Orban was in tears during a video she shared Friday on Instagram showing herself in the airport along with her husband and daughter, Edeline, after getting off the plane.

‘We just got kicked off a flight because our two-year-old would not put on a mask,’ Orban, who was flying with her family from Colorado to Newark, New Jersey, said.

by Blazingcatfur•December 13, 2020December 13, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", WTF?

Ontario reports 1,677 new Covid cases

Ontario reported 1,677 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday along with 16 new deaths, as the province’s total confirmed death toll since the pandemic began approached 4,000.

“Locally, there are 456 new cases in Toronto, 356 in Peel and 143 in York Region,” Health Minister Christine Elliott wrote on Twitter.

Coronavirus: Germany to go into lockdown over Christmas

Germany is to go into a hard lockdown over the Christmas period as the number of deaths and infections from the coronavirus reaches record levels.

Non-essential shops will close across the country from Wednesday, as will schools, with children to be cared for at home wherever possible.

Chancellor Angela Merkel blamed Christmas shopping for a “considerable” rise in social contacts.

The latest figures showed 20,200 more infections and a further 321 deaths.

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North Korea accused of using COVID-19 to crack down on human rights

North Korea is using the coronavirus pandemic to crack down even more on its people, seven members of the United Nations Security Council said.

Germany, Britain, France, Belgium, Estonia, the United States and the Dominican Republic made the accusation Friday during a private, virtual meeting, Reuters reported.

“The DPRK’s human rights violations pose an imminent threat to international peace and security. The DPRK government diverts resources away from its people to its illicit ballistic missile and nuclear programs,” the seven countries said in a statement.

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Freed by the vaccine? Don’t hold your breath

The promise of vaccination has been used, not to liberate us, but to keep us locked down for longer.

Ninety-year-old Margaret Keenan will be the answer to a pub-quiz question for years to come: who was the first person in the UK to be vaccinated against Covid-19? The answer to the question ‘Who was the second person in the UK to be vaccinated against Covid-19?’ might be, too.

by Blazingcatfur•December 13, 2020December 12, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

“I’ll take the fine every day”: Ontario spa owner fighting for women in small business

From booming business to barely scraping by: Spa owner continuing to operate defying COVID restrictions.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2020December 12, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Arbitrary and Illogical: California resumes unjustified Covid-19 stay-at-home orders.

Last Friday, five Bay Area counties announced that they were once again going into shutdown, for four weeks, due to rising Covid-19 rates. Nine months after it became the first region in the U.S. to introduce a stay-at-home health order—originally scheduled for three weeks, its restrictions have never been fully lifted—the Bay Area is resetting the clock, with a shutdown not quite as strict as in March but likely to have more severe social and economic effects.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2020December 12, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

What really explains the Asia Covid exception?

Why has Pacific Asia “performed” so well on Covid-19? No country in this region has had an epidemic anything like as damaging as those in Europe, North America or South America — from Japan to South Korea, Australia to Taiwan.

The answer is of more than just epidemiological interest. Respect for the response of governments in this region has become a matter of political folklore — people like Jeremy Hunt talk about it all the time — and is fundamentally changing the reputation of the “Asian model” among the liberal commentariat. Where before there was scepticism and a distrust of the activist, technology-enabled, centralised control state, it is now commonly seen as having been more effective than Western democracies.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2020December 12, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

FLASHBACK: Media Said A Vaccine By End Of Year Was Impossible, Even Fact-Checked Trump Making Claim

Following the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine through an emergency use authorization, it is important to look back at all the media outlets who insisted the world wouldn’t see a vaccine before the end of 2020.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2020December 12, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Trump Derangement Syndrome

Ontario Reports 1,873 New Covid Cases

Ontario is reporting more than 1,800 new cases of COVID-19 and a record-high number of tests processed in the last 24 hours.

On Saturday, the province logged 1,873 new cases of the virus and 17 more deaths.

The province reported 1,848 new infections on Friday and a record 1,983 on Thursday.

Uptick in homeless sheltering on TTC vehicles during pandemic

Homeless people are taking shelter inside the TTC.

A number of social media posts have documented a number of people sleeping on streetcar seats and making makeshift clotheslines out of the yellow plastic barriers the transit authority has put up to ensure social distancing in its vehicles.

Don’t blame Covid, “Free Trade” and the China Class are responsible for this.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2020December 12, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Canada introduces national compensation program for vaccine injuries ahead of pandemic vaccine rollout

People who are vaccinated to protect themselves against COVID-19 and experience an adverse event after the immunization will be eligible for compensation, the federal government says.

The announcement of the no-fault program is part of Canada’s preparations to roll out coronavirus vaccines, beginning with the Pfizer-BioNtech version that will start to be administered next week.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2020December 12, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"