Monday, January 18, 2021

Wow, People Really Have a Handle On This Coronavirus

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Downes's position reports to and obeys Trudeau’s defence minister, Harjit Sajjan. A handful of weeks after sending out this gaslighting letter to every Canadian soldier who was in Wuhan for the Military Games, Major General Downes resigned. ...

Our source details Canada’s coverup response to a critical pneumonia outbreak in a contingent of 176 Canadian soldiers stationed in Wuhan, over two months before the People’s Republic of China reported outbreaks in the same city, but just a few weeks before the first officially recognized case on November 17, 2019.

While the contingent was returning to Canada on a Polaris jet, one third of the members were quarantined in the back of the plane. They were perhaps the first Canadians to ever quarantine from the Wuhan Virus. Strangely, upon return to Canada, the senior ranks of the armed forces decided to end the quarantine of the soldiers and send them back to their homes across the country.

What was the response of Justin Trudeau’s surgeon general to this? And don’t be fooled, the surgeon general reports directly to Trudeau’s defence minister — he is a political soldier.

Naturally, the government decided to cover it up. When soldiers started asking to be tested, the answer was no. See, if several dozen Canadian soldiers tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies in January 2020, having been infected in October 2019, the Chinese would be in very, very hot water. Irrefutable proof that they had lied about the origins of the virus.

The letter was sent out on Jan. 22,  around the time the Canadian government realized the Wuhan Virus crisis was going to be taking up all of the air in the room for a very long time. While Dr. Theresa Tam, the chief medical officer of health was telling Canadians to calm down and quit being racist to the Chinese, the military was scrambling to contain this news.

“We are not aware of any 2019 NCOV cases among CISM MWG participants,” the letter read. 

“We are confident that the number of suspected 2019 NCOV cases as well as the number of countries reporting suspected cases will increase in the next 30 days. The increase in case count will continue to generate significant media attention and public concern particularly as travel peaks during the first week of February due to the Chinese New Year.”

The military, in consultation with political leadership, refused to test the critically sick soldiers for COVID-19, which might explain why they were not aware of any confirmed COVID cases, when the contingent was swept by extreme cases of pneumonia. 

The first COVID-19 case that journalists have been able to confirm was a 55-year-old man on November 17. He could have been infected 14 days prior to that, meaning the first confirmed infection could have been as little as five days after the final departure of athletes from Wuhan. Trudeau wants us to believe that our soldiers were just infected by some other random virus in Wuhan, causing critical pneumonia and year-long coughing.

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Several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with symptoms similar to those caused by the CCP virus in the autumn of 2019, contradicting claims by a senior researcher from the facility who said there were no infections among the staff scientists.

The revelation is part of a fact sheet released by the U.S. State Department on Jan. 15, which slams the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for excessive secrecy around the origin of the CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.

 

(Sidebar: it goes without say that we don't have to trade with China nor tolerate its white-washing ways.)

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Just like North Korea and "Hotel California", you can check out any time you like but you can never leave: 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today the federal government is open to strengthening pandemic restrictions on international travel as concerns mount about Canadians travelling abroad — but suggested the government's pre-existing measures are still effective.

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Why, it's like hastily-made and heavily promoted vaccines are now suspect:

Quebec health authorities are examining how seven residents of a Montreal long-term care centre contracted COVID-19 despite being among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the province.

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Fifty-five people in the United States have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, according to reports submitted to a federal system.

Deaths have occurred among people receiving both the Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, according to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a federal database. The system is passive, meaning reports aren’t automatically collected and must be filed. VAERS reports can be filed by anyone, including health care providers, patients, or family members.

VAERS reports “often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors,” according to the reporting system’s website. Still, reports on VAERS represent “only a small fraction of actual adverse events,” the site states, although underreporting is believed to be less common for serious events.

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Because bad planning:

Canada’s shipments of COVID-19 vaccines from drug giant Pfizer will be cut in half over the next four weeks, putting a major dent in the rollout of shots as case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise in many parts of the country.

The company is reducing shipments to all countries that receive the vaccine from its European plant, so it can complete work to upgrade the facility. The upgrade will  allow the company to produce more vaccines this year, but will delay shipments for many countries.

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If Canadians had any sense of self-preservation or independence, Justin would be on the supply list:

Given the slow pace of vaccine delivery from Ottawa and the weirdly lethargic approach to getting needles in arms at the provincial level, Canadians are once again confronted with the fact that their governments have a lot of trouble doing things.

Whether it is maintaining acceptable stockpiles of personal protective equipment, securing the nation’s borders, implementing a robust testing regimen, properly tracing contacts, overseeing and enforcing quarantine or self-isolation orders, managing and staffing long-term care (LTC) facilities … you name it, we’re not very good at it. ...

The short explanation is: we are bad at logistics because we don’t have to be good at it. The longer explanation probably has something to do with Canada’s somewhat unique geopolitical position.

From the very beginning, one of the more confounding things about COVID-19 has been how variable and often unpredictable its effects have been. This is true of individual cases, but equally so when it comes to outcomes by country. To put it directly, some countries have done much better than others in managing the pandemic, and while some of the correlations are what one might have predicted going into it, a lot of what has happened is very surprising. ...

Here in Canada, we have struggled with both vaccine supply (a federal responsibility) and injections (the provinces’ job). We have acquired just over 700,000 doses, and less than 60 per cent of those doses have made it into Canadian arms. The result is that barely one per cent of Canadians have been vaccinated, and the feds and provinces are each blaming the other for dropping the ball. ...

By some measures, Canada’s income supports for both individuals and businesses have been the most generous in the world. In a nutshell, Canada’s top-line response to the global pandemic has been to print money and hope that it convinces enough people to hunker down until this whole thing goes away. ...

What the pandemic has revealed about the Canadian welfare state is that it is basically little more than a giant insurance scheme. The global geopolitical lottery has made us rich, and we are able to use that wealth to insure ourselves against enormous losses. But what we don’t seem inclined to do is take the steps that would protect Canadians from those losses in the first place.

And that may be because we don’t have any major security concerns to worry about, domestically or abroad. It’s a peaceable kingdom, and we stopped caring about our security and self-defence in 1940, when we handed that over to to the Americans.

Which is probably a big reason why we aren’t any good at logistics. We don’t have to be, because someone else pretty much takes care of it for us.

 

Canadians simply want others to take care of them and foot their bills.

Socialism tends to create that sort of moral and physical laziness.



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