‘You can’t open in January’: An infection-control epidemiologist on Omicron in schools

Natalie Philippe, a public health nurse for Public Health Sudbury and Districts, says that a school outbreak does not always involve transmission within the school. Instead, it is declared when two cases are reported in a single classroom. Often, she says, “outbreaks that occur in schools are actually from contact that occurred outside of school.” Her region has been a hotspot since the end of October — and the city’s schools have not been spared. “We know that with Omicron, we are going to be dealing with something even stronger,” Philippe says.

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200 groups call on broadcasters to drop 2022 Beijing Olympics

“All of your companies are at serious risk of being complicit in China’s plan to ‘sport wash’ the severe and worsening human rights abuses and embolden the actions of the Chinese authorities,” reads the letter. “By broadcasting Beijing 2022 your companies will legitimize these abuses and promote what is being widely described as the ‘Genocide Games.’”

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What You Should Know About Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Monoclonal Antibodies, Paxlovid, Molnupiravir, and BioNTech and Pfizer’s Comirnaty Jab…And Why Democrats May Be Fresh Out of Monsters

You understand, of course, that Western Civ’s mass formation psychosis, like a horror movie franchise, requires the constant re-invention of its monsters and hobgoblins, and a constantly refreshed arsenal of weapons to defeat them. Covid is our mutating monster, but Big Pharma’s silver bullets and wooden stakes have proven quite lame. So, the resourceful superhero, Dr. Fauci (“The Science”), has induced his magic messenger, Santa Claus (a.k.a. the FDA), to deliver two brand-new light-sabers to humankind to keep millions of disordered minds churning with hope of slaying the object of their fear.

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Jordan Peterson On Trudeau’s Vaccine Edict: “You’d Have To Kill Me First”

What a difference a border makes. The quote comes from a featured article in Newsweek, America’s most prominent news magazine.

Then we have Canadian media exposure. Simply put–there isn’t any. At least nothing which can be found using the most popular internet search engines.

Eating disorders among youth spike across Ontario due to pandemic

Experts have warned that Canadian youth are facing unprecedented physical and mental health challenges as a result of lockdowns and other restrictions.

Applications for Canada’s expanded lockdown support not open until 2022

People in Canada who are impacted by local measures aimed at curbing the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant will have to wait until 2022 to apply for recently expanded financial support.

Racist school board unanimously approves plan to pay non-white teachers more

If you feel like you live in an alternative universe where reductionism replaces logic and superficiality trumps character, here’s more evidence that you may be right. We might just be living in a racist version of The Twilight Zone.

Vaccine Escape Mutations “Will Become a Major Mechanism of Transmission”, Say Researchers

When the vaccine rollout got underway, some scientists argued that mass vaccination would set up an evolutionary selection pressure in favour of vaccine-resistant strains, potentially prolonging the pandemic.

1619 Project Founder: Parents Shouldn’t Be in Charge of Kids’ Schooling and That’s ‘Just the Fact’

Hannah-Jones appeared on ‘Meet the Depressed’ with Chuck Todd and shared her view that parents should leave the molding of their children’s minds and morals to “the experts.”

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The data age is here: Good or bad, we’re all digitally addicted and there’s no recovery in sight

If Madonna penned a new pop song for teens growing up in the Zettabyte Era, she could do worse on the lyric front than: “We are living in a data-rich world, and I am a data-rich girl.” What is a zettabyte? It equals 1,024 exabytes, which is a billion terabytes, or a trillion gigabytes. Expressed with all the zeros, a zettabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — phew.

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The year the culture wars colonised sport

Football, cricket, Olympic gymnastics… no sport is now safe from woke politics.

In 2021, the culture wars thoroughly colonised all of our favourite sports.

Nowhere was this clearer than in football. The people’s game was rife with woke politics this year, as it was last year. Players are still ‘taking the knee’ before each game, more than 18 months after the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, which first inspired all the knee-taking. The kneeling still frequently features as a highlight alongside shots and saves on Match of the Day, in case we hadn’t got the message yet.

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Who won the Cold War, anyway?

Conservatism may have won the Cold War, but conservatives lost the peace in the West

Thirty years ago this December 26, the impossible happened. One of the bloodiest states of the twentieth century (a horrific and highly competitive category) dissolved without violence. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had all but ended months earlier, when Russians took to the streets to defy the communist hardliners who had seized the government from an impotent Mikhail Gorbachev. That popular countercoup was itself largely bloodless: the soldiers called upon to enforce the hardliners’ rule refused to shoot their own countrymen.

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Defense seeks dismissal of indictment for Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot

Defense attorneys want dismissed the indictment against five men accused of plotting to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, because of what they call “egregious overreaching” by federal agents and informants.

The government alleges that the men were upset over coronavirus restrictions last year when they conspired to kidnap Whitmer, a Democrat then spoken about as a possible vice-president, even scouting her second home in northern Michigan.

Five people are charged with kidnapping conspiracy and face trial on 8 March in Grand Rapids. They have pleaded not guilty and claim to be victims of entrapment. Federal prosecutors have argued the men were not entrapped.

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