Tuesday, October 19, 2021

When You Think of Covid Screw-Ups, Think of Canada

Yep:

The Department of Public Works in internal emails says it considered ordering copper pandemic masks but worried over the additional expense compared to cotton masks. Staff looked into the purchase after learning of a Chinese program to distribute free copper fabric masks to schoolchildren: “This is something we can do in Canada?”



The unvaccinated lepers aren't the paranoid ones, guys:

Canadians are increasingly divided over COVID-19 vaccination status, according to a new poll that shows most vaccinated people do not trust their unvaccinated friends and neighbours and believe they are lying about medical exemptions.

“There’s a lot of distrust with regards to the motivation of those people that are refusing to get vaccinated and out there protesting and claiming it’s a rights issue,” said Jack Jedwab, president and CEO of the Association of Canadian Studies and Metropolis Canada (ACS), who shared the findings of an ACS-Leger poll exclusively with the National Post.

 

Dare one introduce some facts into this debate?

As of this writing, 17,729 deaths out of  28,586 deaths (or 62%) were people over the age of eighty.

For perspective, during the 2018-19 flu patients sixty-five years or older had the highest hospitalisation and death rates than other age groups (as high as 66%).

No masks were required there, nor any need to pass off a fourteen year old's death of brain cancer as COVID-19:

 

Now, one might be a simple "anti-vaxxer" but one can read a report on how much the government is willing to fork over for glorified flu shot deaths:

The Public Health Agency of Canada is reviewing reports of 195 deaths of people who took Covid shots. The Agency said it was not proven all 195 fatalities were caused by vaccines though it budgeted for a $75 million compensation fund including payment of burial expenses: “These deaths occurred after being vaccinated with a Covid-19 vaccine.”

 

They can glean meaning from a panel member who wouldn't advise getting the shot and the subsequent silence and obfuscation:

When a leader of the expert panel advising the nation on COVID-19 vaccines suggested she would not advise a loved one to get the AstraZeneca shot, it was a low moment for vaccine confidence that left risk communicators cringing.

“If, for instance, my sister was to get the AstraZeneca vaccine and die of a thrombosis (blood clot) when I know that it could have been prevented and that she’s not in a high-risk area, I’m not sure I could live with it,” Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh, then co-chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization, told CTV’s Power Play in May.

Now, months later, as questions swirl around if — or when — third doses of a COVID vaccine for the general population might be needed, as the country prepares for a vaccine rollout to millions of children ages five to 11, NACI has gone virtually dark. The panel has stopped giving press briefings to explain its recommendations. Requests to speak with the current chair, Dr. Shelley Deeks, have been declined and the rest of the membership isn’t authorized to talk. “For the time being, Dr. Deeks is not available for interviews,” the Public Health Agency of Canada’s media relations department this week advised the National Post. “If opportunities arise in the coming months, we will reach out to you and let you know.”

The panel of voluntary vaccine advisers, once a relatively obscure group that drew little public attention, “has decided to revert to its process of submitting its recommendations to PHAC and to rely on PHAC to convey this advice to the Canadian public and media” so that the panel may focus on its deliberations and recommendations, the federal health agency said.

NACI itself floated the idea — first of hosting press briefings, and then pulling back. But NACI is playing a key role in vaccination policy making, and there has been considerable public interest in the rationale and evidence behind its recommendations. In a matter of weeks, and not months, a vaccine could be authorized for the under 12s. Is NACI considering prioritizing vaccine doses for children, the way it did for adults? If so, which children might be first? What ethical questions must be weighed when considering shots for kids, who rarely get severely ill with COVID, and, mercifully, die even less often? Even Canada’s top medical journal has been stonewalled trying to seek answers from NACI.

 

(Sidebar: only one-quarter would not get the shot for their children. Did whichever body is giving press conferences clear that?)

 

They can also read statistics:

 

They can also conclude incompetence and corruption when they read it:

The federal government's failed collaboration with a vaccine manufacturing company in China early in the pandemic has led to a delay of nearly two years in efforts to create a made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine.

Government documents obtained by The Fifth Estate show that Canadian officials wasted months waiting for a proposed vaccine to arrive from China for further testing and spent millions upgrading a production facility that never made a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine. 

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) signed an agreement with Tianjin-based CanSino Biologics in early May 2020 to "fast-track the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada for emergency pandemic use."

The CanSino vaccine, which had been created by the scientific research arm of China's military, was to be shipped to Canada for human trials that May. If successful, the vaccine was to be manufactured at a temporary facility in Montreal that the NRC had committed $44 million to upgrade.

 

Not to mention that a vaccine mandate is already unlawful.

And what will firing doctors and nurses  achieve exactly?


If any distrust is earned, it's for the people who cave into the fear continuously ramped up by a government that never let a manufactured crisis go to waste.


 

The healthcare system in Canada, touted only by Canadians as the best in the world, did not collapse because of the virus China spread around the world.

It was going downhill long before that:

Canada’s system of Socialized medicine means that scarce resources are allocated by central bureaucracies. This rationing of care leads to shortages. That’s why people wait in queues for procedures and surgeries.

The decision to fire anyone who isn’t vaccinated means that they will fire up to 20% of healthcare workers, making the system even more backed up. 

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So can we finally question the design of our health-care system? Can we admit the costs are unsustainable and the results intolerable because the system gets the incentives terribly wrong, for everyone from patients to providers to politicians? If so, join us for the virtual/actual Economic Education Association conference, titled “Meeting the Healthcare Challenge,” which I helped organize and will address, on Oct. 22-23, where nothing will be off the table except abuse.

If not, the results will continue to be sickening.

 

 

Did they think that no one would notice?: 

A news report released by CBC Edmonton on how an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) operates which featured a mannequin and was later used for other stories aired on the channel was not filmed inside an ICU and is not evidence that the pandemic is a “scam” despite claims made online.

The report, released on October 2, included interviews and a demonstration featuring a mannequin of how an ICU facility differs from other hospital wards. Some of the same footage within the training facility was later aired in another report about COVID-19 projections for Alberta.

 


Also - no one ever says Italy:

Protests erupted in Italy as its COVID health pass became mandatory for all workers.

Police were out in force, schools ended classes early and embassies issued warnings of possible violence amid concerns that the anti-vaccination demonstrations could turn violent, as they did in Rome last weekend.

The violence in the capital was blamed on a small far-right group, Forza Nuova, which experts say infiltrated last weekend's protests.

The new rule means employees will have to show the pass to enter their place of work. The pass proves the individual has been vaccinated, has recovered from COVID-19 in the last six months and or has recently tested negative.

Employees and employers risk fines if they don’t comply. Public sector workers can be suspended if they show up five times without the pass.

 


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