Even the most ovine of floor sticker-following mask-wearers will start questioning your motives at some point:
The Prime Minister’s Office has named a Canadian supplier blamed for selling substandard pandemic masks for use at municipal nursing homes in Toronto. The city’s solicitor had asked that the name be withheld: “So consider that confidential.”
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The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal says it’s seen a flood of complaints over mandatory mask orders. The province’s Human Rights Code “does not protect people who refuse to wear a mask as a matter of personal preference or because they believe wearing a mask is pointless,” said the Tribunal.
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Who would vote for you even if there were an election?:
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole says that if his party forms government in the next election he’ll call a public inquiry into the Liberal government’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the federal response “at every stage has been slow and confused.”
O’Toole also called on the government to appoint a “special monitor” from the Office of the Auditor General to track the pandemic response in real time.
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No, the problem is that she spoke:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has disagreed with the agency’s director, Rochelle Walensky, who asserted that people vaccinated against COVID-19 don’t spread the infection.
“Dr. Walensky spoke broadly,” a CDC spokesperson told the New York Times. “It’s possible that some people who are fully vaccinated could get COVID-19. The evidence isn’t clear whether they can spread the virus to others.”
So, like with everything else, they just don't know.
Wonderful.
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There is a link between AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots in the brain but the possible causes are still unknown, a senior official for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in an interview published on Tuesday.
“In my opinion we can now say it, it is clear that there is an association with the vaccine. However, we still do not know what causes this reaction,” Marco Cavaleri, chair of the vaccine evaluation team at the EMA, told Italian daily Il Messaggero when asked about the possible relation between the AstraZeneca shot and cases of brain blood clots.
I'll just leave this here:
On Thursday, March 11, Denmark became the first country to suspend all use of AstraZeneca's vaccine. ...
Around three hours after Denmark's announcement, Norwegian officials said they would also suspend use of the AstraZeneca vaccine. ...
The Financial Times first reported that Iceland had also suspended the use of the vaccine, and Kjartan Njálsson, assistant to the director of health in Iceland, told CNN that officials were awaiting advice from the European Medicines Agency (EMA). ...
Bulgaria said Friday it was pausing use of the AstraZeneca vaccine. ...
The health ministry for the Democratic Republic of Congo said Friday that it was delaying the launch of AstraZeneca's vaccine, Reuters reported. ...
Ireland on Sunday suspended the use of the shot after receiving a safety alert from the Norwegian Medicines Agency the day before. The alert said that there were four new reports of serious rare clotting events, including some complicated by low platelet counts, in adults under 65 after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine. ...
The Netherlands said Sunday it would stop using AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine for at least two weeks. ...
Indonesian officials said Monday the country would delay its rollout of AstraZeneca's vaccine, local media reported. The announcement came just six days after it had been approved by the country's regulators. Officials said they were waiting for more information from the WHO. ...
The German government announced Monday that it was suspending the use of AstraZeneca's vaccine as a "precaution" and on the advice of Germany's national vaccine regulator, the Paul Ehrlich Institute, which called for further investigation of the cases, the Associated Press reported. ...
President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that France would suspend use of AstraZeneca's vaccine for 24 hours while it waited for an announcement by the EMA on Tuesday, local media first reported. ...
The Italian health authority announced Monday that it had extended a local ban of AstraZeneca's vaccine in the Piedmont region to become a national one, local media first reported. The authority said that it was a "precaution" until the EMA has made a decision as to whether the shot increases the risk of blood clots, and was in line with similar measures adopted by other European countries. ...
Spanish Minister of Health Carolina Darias said Monday that Spain would also suspend the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for at least 15 days due to concerns about possible side effects. ...
Cyprus announced Monday that it would temporarily postpone vaccinations until the EMA had concluded its investigation. ...
Portugal suspended use of AstraZeneca's vaccine Monday. Graça Freitas, head of health authority DGS, told a news conference that the side effects being evaluted were severe but rare. There had been no cases in Portugal, he said, Reuters reported. ...
Latvia initially suspended the use of a specific batch of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot on March 9. The Latvian health authorities announced Monday that it would go further, pressing pause on the entire AstraZeneca vaccine rollout as an "additional precaution" for two weeks. ...
Janez Poklukar, Slovenia's Minster of Health, said Monday that the country has temporarily suspended its use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine based on "precautionary reasons" ahead of the EMA's decision. ...
Anders Tegnell, Sweden's state epidemiologist, announced Tuesday that the country had paused its AstraZeneca vaccine rollout as a "precautionary measure" until the EMA had completed its investigation into whether blood clots and low platelets were caused by the shot. Tegnell said that there had been no similar cases in Sweden. ...
Luxembourg's Ministry of Health said Tuesday that Luxembourg had "temporarily" suspended vaccination with AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot to align itself with other EU countries who had done the same. It said that it would pause the rollout until the EMA's decision on whether or not AstraZeneca's vaccine causes blood clots, which is expected later this week. ...
Thailand on Friday became the first Asian country to suspend use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, which was due to start that day. It then said Monday it had reversed the decision and administer the first doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine Tuesday. ...
At least three EU countries — Austria, Estonia and Lithuania — have suspended use of a specific batch of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution following the death of a vaccinated person. The batch consisted of 1 million doses that were distributed among 17 EU countries, according to the EMA.
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North Korea has decided not to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, a state-run sports website reported on Tuesday, making it the first country to skip the games because of the pandemic.
The decision was made March 25 by the country’s Olympics committee, which cited the need to protect its athletes amid the global health crisis, reported Sports in the DPR Korea, a website run by North Korea’s sports ministry. North Korea won seven medals at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
You weren't going to get a peace deal with them, anyway, South Korea.
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