Let one be clear:
this was never about public safety.
It was never about stopping a virus.
This is a thinly-veiled tactic to control the right to move, express one's self, earn a living and breathe freely.
Canadians let their government do this to them.
History will not forget:
Canada is introducing a standardized national vaccine passport for domestic and international travel, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Oct. 21.
The proof-of-vaccination certificate, which Canadians will need to
travel both within the country and internationally, is based on an
international standard for Smart health cards and uses the provincial
vaccine certificate already in place as its framework.
“Today I’m happy to confirm that all provinces and territories have
confirmed that they will be moving forward with a standardized national proof of vaccination,” Trudeau said at a press conference on Oct. 21.
He said Saskatchewan, Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and
Labrador, and all three territories have already put this national
standard for proof of vaccination into use.
The digital vaccine passport will include the holder’s name and date
of birth and a QR code that includes their vaccination history. It will
also show the number of doses received, the type of vaccine, lot
numbers, and dates of vaccination. Paper copies will also be accepted.
How many cards like this exist for measles and flu shots?
I'll wait.
The push for these Kennkarte are not without hitches:
A threatened vaccine order on air and rail passengers will not apply until November 30 at the earliest and will not be compulsory, the
Department of Transport said yesterday. Unvaccinated domestic travelers
can board with proof of a negative Covid test, similar to rules for
international travelers introduced last winter: ‘Details on exceptions
will be provided in coming days.’
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The Department of Citizenship yesterday said it placed no restrictions
on domestic use of a vaccine passport for Canadians immunized against
Covid, but did not expect it to be used for ID. Parliamentary committees
have repeatedly opposed any attempts to introduce a national identity
card, while one privacy commissioner last year ruled Canadians cannot be
forced to surrender health information for ID purposes: ‘No person
shall require an individual to produce a health services number as a
condition of receiving a product or service other than a health
service.’
What utter rot.
It will include one's date of birth and history of shots (SEE above).
People already have had their privacy invaded and are already been forced into getting shots they do not want.
Did one forget?:
To reach the unvaccinated, the government is tapping into databases
of contact information provided to the Ministry of Health when
registering for or renewing a health card, as well as databases
“containing information pertaining to vaccines already administered to
persons in Ontario,” Anna Miller, a spokesperson with the ministry
explained.
“The Ministry of Health has the authority under
section 37(1)(c) of the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004
to use and link the information from these databases for planning and
delivering the COVID-19 vaccination program.
“This includes contacting individuals to encourage vaccination,” Miller said.
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Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough says it's likely that people who
lose their jobs for not complying with employer COVID-19 vaccine
policies will not be eligible for employment insurance (EI).
"It's a condition of employment that hasn't been met," Qualtrough said in an interview with CBC's Power & Politics. "And the employer choosing to terminate someone for that reason would make that person ineligible for EI.
"I can tell you that's the advice I'm getting, and that's the advice I'll move forward with."
(Sidebar: when were these conditions introduced in the form of a contract?)
Remember - this is all YOUR fault for not complying.
Also:
Federal employees opposed to compulsory vaccination yesterday launched a
$1,000-per worker fundraising drive to mount a legal challenge of the
cabinet order. The campaign came as a former privacy commissioner
described vaccine mandates as abhorrent: “We have to preserve our
personal freedom and liberty and not give into the dictates of
governments.”
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Because that's helpful:
London Health
Sciences Centre is turfing 84 employees, including 33 nurses, for not
complying with its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy as its overall
staff vaccination rate hits 99 per cent.
Of
the 84 employees being terminated with cause, 43 are working in
clinical roles and 41 are working in non-clinical departments of the
hospital, officials said Friday. The hospital has nearly 15,000
employees.
Yes. Show everyone who is boss here, hospitals.
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Make Justin eat them:
Health Canada is also looking at the possibility of extending the
shelf life of some vaccines based on new data from the manufacturers, so
they can be kept in storage for a few extra months.
Arrangements
have been made between the government, the manufacturers and COVAX, the
global vaccine sharing initiative, to donate doses that can’t be used
or stored.
(Sidebar: the COVAX that Justin stole from when his Chinese deal fell through.)
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No one wants to go into your stupid building, anyway:
The CBC yesterday said it will seal all its buildings from unvaccinated
visitors in the most extreme Covid precaution of any Crown corporation.
The ban on unimmunized people includes the general public, contractors
and TV and radio guests: “Any individual who does not meet this
requirement will be refused access.”
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Way to stand up for your fellows there, Erin:
Speaking to TVO this week,
O’Toole said the party would respect the decision by the Board of
Internal Economy on mandatory vaccinations for MPs in the House.
“The
(Board of Internal Economy), the Speaker … has decided, and
Conservatives, as we always have, will respect all public health
guidelines, including in our own conduct as members of Parliament,”
O’Toole told the Ontario network earlier this week.
“The BOIE and the Speaker has ruled, and we will respect that.”
Asked
if that means O’Toole would forbid his unvaccinated MPs from returning
to Ottawa, a senior Conservative source told Global News that “it’s up
to the Commons to make the rules … so that’s probably what (O’Toole’s)
position will be.”
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Just like with the vaccinated?:
Unvaccinated people could be reinfected with COVID every 16 months, according to a study from Yale Public Health.
The study, published in the October issue of The Lancet Microbe, models the presence of natural immunity to COVID among the unvaccinated over time.
The model is calculated based on endemic conditions,
where everyone has either been infected with the virus or has been
vaccinated for it. The projections demonstrate that natural immunity is
rather short-lived, lead author Jeffrey Townsend, a professor of
biostatistics, tells Yale Daily News.
Three
months after first contracting COVID, the risk of reinfection is about
five per cent, according to co-author Hayley Hassler. At 17 months, that
number rises to 50 per cent. Those odds vary at an individual level,
she explains.
(Sidebar: I'm sure they do.)
Yes, about that:
A new study in American veterans posted to the medRxiv*
preprint server suggests severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) vaccines are less effective in preventing infection after
six months. The decline was most significant with the Johnson &
Johnson vaccine, with vaccine effectiveness plummeting from 88% to 3%.
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But Israel paid a price for the early rollout. Health officials, and
then Pfizer, said their data showed a dip in the vaccine's protection
around six months after receiving the second shot.
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According to the study,
conducted in Cleveland, Ohio and published in the MedRxiv journal last
month, people who were infected with the coronavirus enjoy significant
long-term immunity from the virus, which is unlikely to be increased by
being injected with one of the coronavirus vaccinations now on the
market.
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Scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak
in the US state of Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who
got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of
the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots.
But why listen to facts?
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Indoor mask mandates at schools will likely to stay in place even after young children receive COVID-19 vaccines in the coming weeks, said U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
These vaccines:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says as soon as Health Canada approves the
COVID-19 vaccine for kids, Pfizer will ship millions of doses to
vaccinate children as young as five.
For the record, Justin Trudeau is a heartless prick whose disposition could be changed utterly once he is run down by an avalanche.
I really hope that this not a thing:
My "heartless prick" comment still stands.
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Yeah, and it will take two weeks to flatten the curve:
Ontario
Premier Doug Ford has announced plans to gradually lift all COVID-19
public health restrictions over the coming months, including masking
requirements by March 2022.
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Why are heads not rolling for this?:
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research in China that created a more potent form of a bat coronavirus, according to newly disclosed documents.
An experiment conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, situated
near where the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, compared mice
infected with the original bat coronavirus to mice infected with a
modified strain created by researchers, according to the documents.
The mice infected with the modified version “became sicker than those
infected” with the original version, Lawrence Tabak, the principal
deputy director at the NIH, told lawmakers in letters (pdf) on Oct. 20.
The “limited experiment” was aimed at seeing if “spike proteins from
naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable
of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model,” Tabak wrote,
adding that the “unexpected result” was not “something that the
researchers set out to do.”
Whether intended or not, the research fits the definition of gain-of-function, some experts say.
