But the super chains are still open:
A third of Ontario’s long-term care homes are reporting COVID-19 outbreaks, marking a new record for the province, as advocates say spread among staff has forced some facilities to seek new sources of support to care for residents.
According to provincial data, 207 of the 626 long-term care homes in Ontario are currently experiencing outbreaks of the virus, including 19 new ones reported Sunday. ...
While older Canadians may be at the highest risk for COVID-19 complications, Duncan said the steady spread of the virus among long-term care workers is compounding critical resource shortages that could jeopardize the health of staff and residents alike.
So, what is being done to prevent the virus from even getting into these homes in the first place?
Shutting down churches? Schools? Dragging people out of their homes?
Has that even worked?
Some people are "special":
Quebec Liberal member Pierre Arcand has been removed from his shadow cabinet positions in the national assembly after vacationing in Barbados while the COVID-19 pandemic surged in the province.
(Sidebar: but not removed entirely because accountability.)
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When Rod Phillips jetted off for a sunny Caribbean vacation on Dec. 13, he touched off a political storm that engulfed him when he returned home to Ontario. ...
The party said Ashton, who represents the riding of Churchill-Keewatinook Aski, reached out to Canadian officials for “best practices,” but did not notify leader Jagmeet Singh or the party whip of her travel plans. ...
The MP representing the Ontario riding of Brampton West says she flew to Seattle on Dec. 23 to attend a small memorial service for her uncle and father, who died within weeks of each other earlier in the year.
Khera has been back in Canada since the end of December. ...
Zuberi, who represents the Montreal riding of Pierrefonds-Dollard, said in a statement posted to Twitter that the trip was an “error in judgment.” ...
Dominique Anglade, who currently heads the party, said she asked Arcand to return to Canada after word of his Caribbean travels got out. ...
The member of the governing Coalition Avenir Quebec is currently in Peru visiting his husband, who he said he has not seen in about a year. ...
Saskatchewan’s highways minister apologized on Jan. 1 for travelling to California over the holidays, but gets to keep his seat in cabinet. ...
Shortly after Allard’s trip came to light, Premier Jason Kenney issued a directive summoning caucus members and senior staff back to the province. ...
The MLA for the Alberta riding of Calgary-Klein also opted to jet off to Hawaii over the Christmas break.
A spokesman for Kenney said he had been asked to return home on the earliest possible flight ...
Nixon’s legislative colleague, representing Lesser Slave Lake, spent part of the weekend returning from a “previously planned family trip” to Mexico. ...
Another social media apology came from yet another Calgary-area MLA after it was revealed she travelled to the United States to visit her sister. ...
The MLA for Red Deer-South in Alberta struck a different tone in his Facebook post in which he disclosed a recent trip to Phoenix, Ariz. ...
A spokesman for the United Conservative Party caucus says the MLA for Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo in Alberta is currently in Mexico, and party officials haven’t been able to reach him.
If only crucial medicines could be as airborne as these hypocrites:
Before the pandemic, the McMaster Nuclear Reactor in the Canadian province of Ontario could ship its iodine-125 isotope anywhere in a couple of days.
But since spring, deliveries of the isotope, used to treat about 70,000 patients a year with a procedure called brachytherapy, have been delayed as long as 10 days.
“There’s fewer flights, so it’s creating longer routes,” said Karin Stephenson, manager of commercial operations at the reactor. “It’s been really challenging trying to get our product around.”
It is a problem in Canada, where a limited domestic market and restrictions on international travel, like a 14-day quarantine for arrivals, have hit air passenger traffic harder than in some other countries like the United States. Travel volumes are down 90 percent at Canadian airports on an annual basis, according to the government.
U.S. cancer specialists and the American College of Radiology said they had not heard of any widespread concerns over shipping isotopes.
Charity is bad, wicked, heathenish and American so don't do it!:
Alberta Health Services has shut down a small pizza shop in Calgary, after inspectors found it was servicing a group of patrons at a table. According to management however, those were not patrons, but employees being treated to a free meal.
According to the Calgary Herald, Keith Luce is the manager of the restaurant and attests that the patrons were his employees. “That was the day we were basically laying out plans for our shutdown, and giving them their official layoff letter,” said Luce. “And then there was food we were testing for our new carry-away menu.”
In case one has forgotten where this dreadful virus came from:
China’s initial response was rife with missteps.
Wuhan health authorities only confirmed the outbreak on Dec. 31, 2019, after whistleblower doctors had shared information on social media.
Government documents leaked to The Epoch Times have since revealed that COVID-19 cases may have surfaced months earlier. Wuhan hospital data shows that patients were hospitalized with symptoms similar to COVID-19 as early as September 2019, while several people died in October 2019 from pneumonia, lung infections, and other COVID-19-like conditions.
In the early weeks of the epidemic, the Chinese regime continually downplayed the crisis and denied that the disease could be transmitted among humans. The World Health Organization repeated Beijing’s claims, and would wait until Jan. 30 to declare the outbreak a global health emergency.
Chinese authorities didn’t implement containment measures until Jan. 23, with a lockdown on Wuhan. However, by then, 5 million people had already left Wuhan, amid a typical peak season for domestic and international travel for the Lunar New Year holiday.
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