Wow, People Totally Have a Handle On This Coronavirus

The coronavirus that never came out of China ever is causing more complications than it never did before:

Coronavirus patients in northeastern China are reportedly taking longer to recover from the virus and to exhibit symptoms than patients from the original outbreak in Wuhan, one of China’s top doctors told state TV Tuesday.

Dr. Qiu Haibo, who is taking care of patients in the northeast, said the more than two-week incubation period is making it hard to keep the virus from spreading and could show the virus is changing, Bloomberg reported.

Patients in the northeast also mostly have lung damage rather than in their heart, kidney and stomach as in Wuhan.

This is not happening because it isn't.




I'm sure this is nothing to be concerned with:

Persistent shortages of pandemic supplies for health care workers leave the country unprepared for an expected second wave of Covid-19 infections this summer, says the Canadian Medical Association. The group compared doctors’ dilemma to dispatching firefighters into a burning building without personal protection: “They are being told to ration.”

As of this writing, the death toll in Canada stands at 6,145.


Not that this should matter to the government that spent the better part of five months covering for China, flip-flopping and dragging its feet. That government is not accountable to anyone.

Count how many people resign or lose their jobs over this.

Don't hold one's breath:

Dr. Theresa Tam, the country’s chief public health officer, said that quicker action could have been taken in responding to the global pandemic.

“The virus itself (was) travelling across the world very fast,” she told the standing Commons committee on health on Tuesday.

That's right, you stupid cow:

The next pandemic will first emerge outside of Canada. The majority of new influenza strains emerge in Asia where the close proximity of humans, poultry and domestic pigs in farming communities facilitates mingling and genetic exchange between human and avian influenza viruses.  

The next pandemic virus will be present in Canada within 3 months after it emerges in another part of the world, but it could be much sooner because of the volume and speed of global air travel. This assumption regarding timing is based on the last two pandemics. In 1918, returning soldiers who had influenza and traveled by train carried the virus from Québec to Vancouver within a few weeks. Given the increase, different patterns and speed of modern travel, a new virus once arriving in Canada could spread quickly in multiple directions throughout the country.  

The pandemic virus may arrive in Canada at any time of year (i.e., potentially outside of the usual influenza season in Canada). The first peak of illness in Canada could occur within 2 to 4 months after the virus arrives in Canada. The first peak in mortality is expected to be approximately 1 month after the peak in illness. Based on past pandemics, when the pandemic virus arrives close to the usual annual influenza season in temperate climates (November to April), the interval from the arrival of the virus to the height of the epidemic can be very short. 

A pandemic wave will sweep across Canada in 1-2 months affecting multiple locations simultaneously. This is based on analysis of the spread of past pandemics including the 1918 pandemic. The influenza pandemic will occur in two or more waves. In any locality, the length of each wave of illness will be 6 to 8 weeks. The pandemic will last 12 to 18 months and more than one wave may occur within a 12 month period.

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Jan. 29: Canada now has three cases. Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer,on Twitter: “I am concerned about the growing number of reports of racism and stigmatizing comments on social media directed to people of Chinese and Asian descent related to 2019-nCoV coronavirus… Everyone has a part to play in preventing the spread of the virus. The Chinese community and all travellers from affected areas are a key part of these efforts….Racism, discrimination and stigmatizing language are unacceptable and very hurtful. These actions create a divide of Us Vs Them. Canada is a country built on the deep-rooted values of respect, diversity and inclusion.”

Stigma as a public health concern is a major preoccupation of Tam, who in 2019 authored a report: Assessing Stigma: Towards a more inclusive health system.

No one cares what you think now.




F--- you. You knew very well what was going on and chose to do nothing:

Difficulties gathering federal data on the spread of COVID-19 has hampered Canada’s response to the pandemic, experts told Members of Parliament over several hours of scathing testimony Wednesday.

The criticism of Canada’s method of gathering crucial information about the number of cases came from several witnesses at the House of Commons health committee.

Canada has struggled to get real-time epidemiological information about how many people have the disease, who they are and what kinds of people are affected the most.

To wit:

Jan 27: Canada confirms its first case of COVID-19 related to travel in Wuhan, China.

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Warning about travel to Wuhan, China: 

January 6 – (US) The Center for Disease Control issued a travel notice for the epicentre of the outbreak
January 9 – (Canada) Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam tweets a travel warning to the area

Are the feds blaming their precious Quebec, too?




No, the phenomenally stupid lack of preparation since the SARS outbreak, the justifiable fear that your too-big-to-fail healthcare system would crumble under the weight of a virus allowed into the country and deliberate overlooking of the country's most vulnerable contributed to the tragedy of elderly residents dying alone and in pools of their own waste. Everyone made it a point to keep the liquor stores open and Netflix running:

At the same time the acute-care sector was searching for space, some hospitals, physicians and long-term care facility administrators were discouraging families from sending infected nursing-home residents to the hospital, saying little could be done to effectively treat COVID-19 in patients who were old and chronically ill.

As a result, it appears most of the nursing- and retirement-home residents who have succumbed to COVID-19 in Canada died inside the virus-stricken, understaffed facilities, while many of the hospital beds opened for coronavirus patients sat empty.

It's just money:

Rising household debts are set to heap even more strain onto the Canadian economy in coming months, leaving the Liberal government to grapple with the difficult question of how and when to unwind its massive support programs, economists say.

Canada has for years held some of the highest household debt levels among developed nations, something in sharp focus amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Applications open May 25 for a $2 billion commercial tenants’ relief package that MPs warn will not work. “We didn’t want to be bailing out failing businesses,” said the CEO of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: “I don’t know if people think they can negotiate a program with us, but that’s not the way the world works.”

Cutting off the beer fund will undoubtedly result in riots and the borrowed money will run out soon.

When that happens, leave town and return when the smoke clears.




Censorship and punishment- it's the Canadian way!:

Members of the Commons health committee yesterday expressed outrage after a Canadian scientist claimed reprisal for publicly criticizing the Public Health Agency and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The expert witness said he was blacklisted from a grant application by the Agency: “We’re talking about science.”

Yes, the Liberals have learned from the Chinese communists. 


Also:

Canada's cyber spy agency says authorities are investigating possible security breaches at Canadian organizations doing COVID-19-related research — less than a week after it warned that Canadian intellectual property linked to the pandemic is a "valuable target" for state-sponsored actors.

"We've seen some compromises in research organizations that we've been helping to mitigate and we're still continuing to look through what's the root cause of those," said Scott Jones, head of the Communications Security Establishment's Cyber Centre, during an appearance in front of the Commons industry, science and technology committee this evening.

"Yes, we've seen activity coming from organizations where they've seen malicious activity, or at least suspicious [activity], and we're working with them to determine whether or not it was malicious, where it came from and who, and was a success or not."

Those are excellent questions:

Our governments have been telling us to stay home because Canada is in lockdown. Travel has been restricted between provinces — Ottawa residents haven’t been able to visit their cottages in Quebec until this week; people in Pointe-a-la-Croix, Que. still can’t cross the Restigouche River to see family in Campbelltown, N.B.

(Sidebar: ahem ...)

Yet travelling by air is still a thing. While the volume of travellers is down more than 90 per cent on last year in the seven weeks to May 19, there were still 269,501 arrivals at the four Canadian airports open to international travel (Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver). ...

Who on earth is flying around in these dangerous days? The Canada Border Services Agency is not sharing that information. “Individual and tailored requests are not able to be compiled at this time,” the agency said, when I asked the nationality of passengers.

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The original rationale for the lockdown was to not overwhelm the hospitals. That’s been accomplished – so why are we still in lockdown? 

The lockdown has resulted in a damaged economy that will take months, if not years, to fix. The onus is on public officials to reopen the economy now.