Amir Attaran is a professor of Law and Medicine at the University of Ottawa. On Wednesday evening he caught a lot of attention with a Twitter thread suggesting it would be wrong for the federal government to provide field hospitals if needed.
“China eats weird animals disease”
Economy Creates 62,000 Jobs As Recovery Slows
Canada is still more than half a million jobs short of the jobs lost in the initial China Virus lockdowns.
Beverly Hills and Louisville Revolt Against Dining Bans as Lockdown Defiance Continues to Spread Across America
In Beverly Hills, California, city leaders are demanding L.A. County repeal its ban on outdoor dining, while restaurants in Louisville, Kentucky pledge to reopen regardless of what the governor orders.
The revolution begins not just in California, but in the most elite liberal city in the United States. Priceless!
The Plot Against Small Businesses
If one were to consider the upward transfer of wealth and market share to Big Business since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, one would think such economic changes were intended. After all, it’s no secret that the interests of politicians and the corporate elite align more often than not.
Down with the New Normal
Who wants to live in a nerdy world of no handshakes and no big sweaty crowds?
Few phrases inspire more horror in me than ‘the new normal’. It is falling from the lips of public-health experts and lockdown-loving commentators everywhere. Forget the ‘old normal’ of going maskless into the streets, or ramming yourself into a crowd of thirsty punters at the bar in a pub, or taking a lover without constantly worrying that he or she might make you ill with his or her breath. Such reckless libertinism was for the old world, apparently, the era BC (Before Covid). We are all now heading into the New Normal, a brave new world of forever social-distancing being built for us by a benevolent bureaucracy that simply wants to protect us from disease.
What Do You Think Of The New “COVID Vaccination Cards” That Were Just Revealed To The Public?
This week, the U.S. Department of Defense unveiled the very first images of the “COVID-19 vaccination record cards” that will be given to every person that gets one of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Now that such a record is going to be available, it is probably inevitable that some schools, businesses and government entities will want to starting requiring people to provide “proof of vaccination”.
Facebook ramps up censorship, ‘will start removing false claims’ about COVID vaccine
The press release issued yesterday states that “[g]iven the recent news that COVID-19 vaccines will soon be rolling out around the world, over the coming weeks we will start removing false claims about these vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts on Facebook and Instagram. This is another way that we are applying our policy to remove misinformation about the virus that could lead to imminent physical harm.”
‘COVID Karens’ call police on (compliant!) Fitness Connection in Toronto
Welcome to Fitness Connection, a fantastic local gym in Richmond Hill. Full disclosure, I go to this gym!
Adamson Barbecue’s flouting of COVID-19 rules is opposed by 76 per cent of Ontarians, Toronto Star commissioned poll says
Ontarians are skewering a rebel barbecue restaurateur who has defied COVID-19 restrictions, a new poll suggests.
The Campaign Research survey for the Toronto Star found three-quarters of respondents — 76 per cent — oppose Adam Skelly’s highly publicized flouting of pandemic health orders.
Only 19 per cent supported Skelly, whose refusal to close Adamson Barbecue in Etobicoke to in-person dining during a mandatory lockdown, has generated headlines and led to charges.
Hmmm. I like Nick Kouvalis but he could be wrong.
One Rule for Me: ‘High Value’ Executives, Athletes, Media Freed from Two Weeks’ COVID Quarantine
Elites from the world of business, entertainment, and the media will be able to enjoy bypassing the strict coronavirus two-week quarantine that ordinary passengers have to abide by if they are travelling from ‘high risk’ coronavirus countries.
No legal grounds for employers to force employees to get vaccinated, say experts
TORONTO — As a potential COVID-19 vaccine gets closer to reality in Canada, so does the reality that as employees who have been working remotely return to their workplaces, there are uncharted legal and ethical waters ahead.
Among the issues to be navigated: Could employers force staff to get vaccinated?
There is no legal precedent for that, say employment lawyers.
The case for Chinese reparations
It is time we started to talk about reparations. I am not of course referring to the demands made by certain communities to be given vast cash payouts for things that happened before they were born, to people they never knew, by people they never met. I am talking about the need of the citizens of the world to be given reparations by China for what it did to us all this year.
Ontario Reports 1,780 new Covid cases
Ontario is reporting nearly 1,800 new cases of COVID-19 ahead of a planned announcement later today that could see some regions face additional public health restrictions.
The Ministry of Health says that there were 1,780 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus confirmed on Thursday, along with another 25 deaths.
LILLEY: Canadians won’t be fully vaccinated for more than a year, military document says
The federal government has already started running war games on delivering doses of COVID-19 vaccines across Canada, even though doses may not arrive for months and Canadians won’t be fully vaccinated for more than a year. Those are details found in a planning document signed off on by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance and obtained by the Sun.
Ontario Considering Kung Flu Vaccination ID – May Restrict The Un-Vaccinated
Residents of Ontario who refuse to be vaccinated for COVID-19 may face some limits, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams says.
Someone may have to show proof of vaccination, for instance, to enter a nursing home or hospital without personal protection equipment, he said Thursday.
Proof might also be required to attend school, although no decision has been made yet, he said.
Canadians worry vaccine won’t come fast enough to stop coronavirus surge: Ipsos
Most Canadians are worried Canada’s vaccine distribution will not happen soon enough to stop soaring COVID-19 case counts and deaths.
An Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found that 74 per cent of respondents are worried that the public distribution of a vaccine would be too slow to stop a greater spread of COVID-19.
Related… Doctors say CDC should warn people the side effects from Covid vaccine shots won’t be ‘a walk in the park’
Public health officials and drugmakers need to warn people that coronavirus vaccine shots may have some rough side effects so they know what to expect and aren’t scared away from getting the second dose, doctors urged during a meeting Monday with CDC advisors.
The recommendations come as states prepare to distribute the potentially life-saving vaccinations as early as next month.