Imagine a virus so deadly that it can be detected only at a liquor store and is so contagious that even the thrice-vaccinated must wear masks and never venture out of their houses.
Yeah, I can't imagine it, either:
For argument’s sake, let’s use the Science Table’s assumptions. And those bring us to the concern that is motivating all this talk of restrictions: That by the end of the year there will be a certain volume of persons admitted to ICU beds (400-600 people) that is enough to overwhelm the hospital system.
Ignore for a moment the fact that these projections have been wrong more than they’ve been right. Let’s assume that this is what happens. The question we now need to ask is how is it that after almost two years of concern around hospital capacity we find ourselves almost back to square one, where a relatively small number of seriously ill people is enough to cause so much calamity for such a large and well-funded system?
Yes, the Ford government has somewhat scaled up ICU capacity and created field hospitals (whatever happened to those?). But we’re still left with this predicament that our lives must suffer the increasingly documented harms of these innocuous sounding “non-pharmaceutical interventions” because the myth of the great Canadian healthcare system has been exposed as a colossal lie.
Ontario is doing such a stellar job managing this that it can afford to cancel Christmas for fun:
Ontario must introduce stronger public health measures to blunt the impact of Omicron, which could soon cause 10,000 cases per day in “the hardest wave of the pandemic,” the province’s COVID-19 experts said Thursday.
South Africa delivered some positive news on the omicron coronavirus variant on Friday, reporting a much lower rate of hospital admissions and signs that the wave of infections may be peaking.
Only 1.7% of identified Covid-19 cases were admitted to hospital in the second week of infections in the fourth wave, compared with 19% in the same week of the third delta-driven wave, South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla said at a press conference.
Health officials presented evidence that the strain may be milder, and that infections may already be peaking in the country’s most populous province, Gauteng.
These restrictions:
Given what science teaches us about this virus and its transmissibility, the vaccine passport makes no sense from the point of view of public health. Quite to the contrary, its implementation runs counter to good policy, because it grants unchecked access to public spaces to individuals who may easily carry the virus and who – as some data suggests – may, in fact, be more likely to be infected than their unvaccinated counterparts.
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According to an October survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), 68% of hospitality industry businesses and 62% of arts and recreation businesses nationwide are experiencing lower sales since vaccine passports came into effect.
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“A complex free society is not a machine that the government can easily micromanage. We have to account for things like human volition and freedom in the stringency of our measures,” Kenney said. “If anything, and I think this was a consensus amongst premiers with whom I spoke last night, we’re kind of at the population’s outer limits after 21 months.”
Then stop enforcing them, Jason.
Yep.
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Trust your government filled with snowboard instructors, graphic arts designers and other people who never lost a pay cheque in the past two years:
Canadian public health officials were eyeing the “high pandemic potential” of infected travellers arriving in Canada from dozens of countries seeing outbreaks of COVID-19 in the weeks just prior to the World Health Organization formally declaring a pandemic, according to newly released documents.
But they didn't stop flights from China.
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In late March, Canada closed its borders to foreigners visiting for non-essential reasons. Since then, there have been more than seven million entries into the country by land or air by Canadians and foreigners, according to the CBSA. That number includes multiple entries by the same individuals.
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Trudeau said he believes that, despite widespread pandemic fatigue, Canadians will do what it takes to control the spread of Omicron because they are now "empowered with knowledge."
Oh, are they, Justin?
Like this knowledge?:
“Overall, our data provide strong evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans robustly establishes the two arms of humoral immune memory: long-lived BMPCs and memory B cells,” the researchers noted. This is perhaps the best available evidence of long-lasting immunity, Radbruch and Chang explained, because this immunological memory is a distinct part of the immune system that’s essential to long-term protection, beyond the initial immune response to the virus ...
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In the report, available here, the United Kingdom Health Security Agency admitted that “antibody levels appear to be lower in people who acquire infection following two doses of vaccination” (p. 23). The researchers believe the antibody drop is permanent.
The report also shows that vaccinated adults are being infected at much higher rates than the unvaccinated. The vaccine interferes with the body’s innate ability to produce antibodies after an infection – not just against the spike protein, but other pieces of the virus.
(Sidebar: the Japanese seem to have an evolutionary advantage. Hhhmmm ...)
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Since its launch in June until Nov. 30, 2021, the program received 400 claims of COVID-19 vaccine-related injury, and fewer than five have been approved.
Also - senile man laughs at the COVID dead in his country (but do worry about the former kingmaker who just doesn't care for the jab).
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Pastors do not check baptismal certificates at the door. Now Quebec wants them to become a vaccine gendarmerie, demanding not a public confession of sins, but rather a display of vaccinated virtue.
That is an intolerable affront to religious liberty. Canadians — including the courts on the rare occasions that they have adjudicated on pandemic restrictions — have proven themselves remarkably accommodating of affronts to fundamental liberties.
(Sidebar: Father, I don't know what country you're living in but the courts in Canada are staffed with judicial activists and are accountable to no one.)
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Starving them out didn't work:
Unvaccinated Canadians in New Brunswick are now allowed to access all grocery stores again, after intense pressure from the public led the government to retract its policy leaving it up to businesses how to treat people who refuse the abortion-tainted COVID shot.
On Friday, the province of New Brunswick backtracked on an aspect of its COVID-19 “winter plan” which compelled grocery stores to either enforce social distancing or require all patrons to be “fully vaccinated.” It had been initially rolled out on December 4, and was immediately met with large pushback from the public, independent news media, and the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).
“An option allowing stores that sell groceries to ask patrons 12 and over for proof of vaccination, instead of implementing distancing requirements, is being removed from the province’s mandatory order,” wrote the province on Friday. “The original intention was to give stores a choice, and that those choosing the proof-of-vaccination option would offer delivery or curbside pickup; it was never the intention for anyone to believe they could not access groceries.”
Only three days after the announcement of the coercive measure, the JCCF sent a “demand letter” to the province rebuking them for their now overturned policy while informing them the measure was in transgression of the law.
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Why don't we just seal off Quebec?:
Quebec is shutting down a number of industries, along with in-person learning at schools, over skyrocketing cases of COVID-19 and an increase in hospitalizations.
Health Minister Christian Dubé announced that bars, cinemas, concert halls, gyms and spas will be closed as of 5 p.m. on Monday.
Remote working, which was strongly recommended, is now being made mandatory.
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Pfizer Inc. funded presentations to Canadian health professionals earlier this year that claimed rival COVID-19 vaccines could cause cancer and were inappropriate for immunocompromised people — claims that experts say were not true.
Why, that doesn't sound co-operative at all!
Also:
A new federal law threatening ten years’ imprisonment for vaccine protestors is undemocratic, says a British Columbia senator. “Protest is one of the hallmarks of our democracy for unions and for different groups that want to put forward their views,” said Senator Larry Campbell: “Any time we limit this, we lessen our freedoms.”
And:
New email dump showing Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins coordinating a propaganda campaign to attack the Great Barrington declaration last October. More coming soon so here's a teaser... pic.twitter.com/hVrNkjAYaS
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) December 17, 2021
🚨 🚨 BREAKING 🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/93rXj8UB57
— Tracey Wilson (@TWilsonOttawa) December 17, 2021
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