Wow, People Really Have A Handle On This Coronavirus Screw-Up, Don't They?

Indeed!:

Months after premiers demanded the federal government step up approvals and deliveries of rapid COVID-19 testing devices, CBC News has learned that millions of the tests delivered to provincial governments were never used.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday said he fears some Canadians won’t take the Covid vaccine if they could get one. Internal research by the Public Health Agency shows 45 percent of Canadians will wait to see if the medicines are safe: “If I tell everyone the vaccine is safe, well, we know how people feel about politicians.”

 

Because transparency:

In Ottawa, we are seeing many documents being released that relate to how the Trudeau Liberal government has been responding to the pandemic.

These documents were released because the opposition party members on the Parliamentary Health Committee were able to pass a motion that these documents would be made public, against the wishes of the Liberal members of the committee, who wanted to keep them secret.

This week we learned more. One of these released documents, an email, was quite alarming.

A section of this email read:

“The rationale here is to present a new metric to distract somewhat from unattractive delivery numbers being reported. Hajdu goes into QP with these numbers, updated weekly, so we’re in safe territory:”

This email related to challenges the federal Government was encountering at the time with the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE).

What's alarming is that knowing that media reports were not flattering, the response of the Liberal government was to deliberately manipulate the data to create a distraction.

This Liberal plan involved sending manipulated numbers with the Health Minister into Question Period.

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The Liberal MP for Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, instructed his office to write the federal procurement minister in October of last year with an urgent request for information on “isolation camps”.

Terry Sheehan's assistant Sandra Paul emailed Dove Parmer, an assistant to Minister Anita Anand on October 19, 2020, after a local reporter contacted the MP's office for information about an “isolation camp” tender notice on the federal government's procurement website.

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The federal pandemic response has been so secretive, bureaucratic and haphazard “it is hard to have faith,” one Liberal MP emailed colleagues and staff. “I am sorry if the Party may be pissed off,” wrote MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski (Thunder Bay-Rainy River, Ont.), a former consultant to the World Health Organization: “It is hard now to accept reassurances that we are prepared, that we are doing all of the right things, when we can never, ever get any specifics.”

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The 3M Company won millions in pandemic subsidies after hiring a Liberal lobbyist who boasted of “navigating the government and getting things done,” according to internal emails. Kevin Bosch, former deputy director of the Liberal Research Bureau, yesterday did not comment: “Resolve an issue that Kevin Bosch urgently raised.”

 

It's just money: 

As many as 100,000,000 individual pandemic relief payments have been issued since the outbreak of Covid-19, says the Department of Public Works. Payments include relief for the jobless, business, parents with school-age children, students and retirees: “You don’t know precisely how much money is being spent.”

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The Prime Minister and his government had only two tasks during the COVID crisis and have failed at both: Vaccine procurement and financial relief for Canadians during the lockdown.

Canada is now 38th in vaccinations, the cupboard is bare, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week ducked a question as to whether or not he’s begging for vaccines from India. The actual answer? He is.

 

(Sidebar: I know, right? People still have faith in this sock monkey so much so that they quote him even though he spent months in hiding and is presiding over a black-hole of debt and lack of investment so deep that, assuming Canada still exists, future generations will still be paying for it. His photo even headlined an article title, "The Decline of Intelligence In the West". I'm not making this up.)

 

I'm sure the India that Justin humiliated will get right on that:

India will do what it can to get COVID-19 vaccines to Canada, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said after receiving a phone call from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday.

But the pledge comes amid some renewed tensions between the two countries and with Canada wholly dependent on foreign help to get COVID-19 vaccines into Canada.

 

Because Canada is so far behind India that it must ask for help.

Pathetic. 

Oh, dear ... :

Federal officials are investigating after some COVID-19 vaccine recipients have developed the rare blood disorder thrombocytopenia, with at least several cases resulting in death.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating and assessing the reported cases, an agency spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email.

“At this time, we have not found a causal relationship,” the spokesperson said. “We will update the public as we learn more about these events.”

 

 

Japan discards Pfizer vaccines due to lack of specialised syringes:

Japan will to have to throw away millions of ordered Pfizer vaccine doses due to a shortage of specialized syringes, according to the country’s health minister, Norihisa Tamura. 

Pfizer’s vaccine is sold in vials containing six doses, which require a special low dead-space syringe, designed with a narrow plunger that can push out the last dose.

The government had ordered 144 million doses of the vaccine, meant for 72 million people, keeping in mind that each vial holds six doses.

However, the shortage of special syringes means that healthcare workers will have to use standard syringes, which draw only five doses — enough for 60 million people.

 

Also:

Just over 21% of people in Japan are washing or sanitizing their hands appropriately amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to an online survey by a team drawn from Tokyo Medical University and other institutions.

The survey was conducted in June, after a decline in the daily number of COVID-19 infections and the lifting of the first coronavirus state of emergency in late May. The research was published in the Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases in late December.