Friday, March 05, 2021

Nothing To See Here

Controlling a narrative is far more important than admitting people have no idea what they are doing:

James Coates, the pastor of Grace Life Church in the suburbs of Edmonton, has been stuck in jail for more than two weeks, and plans to appeal his bail conditions on Thursday.

He has been charged with violations of the Public Health Act, relating to Alberta's strict lockdown measures, and with breaking bail conditions. His trial date has been set for sometime in May.

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Police in Hamilton have dropped a criminal investigation into theft of millions of pandemic masks imported from Shanghai by the Department of Public Works. There were no leads and no suspects, the department said: “The products were not recovered.”

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The author wrote, “As my COVID fatigue has gotten the better of me in recent weeks I started to say to myself, ‘What would Anne do?’ or ‘How would Anne describe this time?’ and ‘How would she cope?’” As if somehow being stuck at home with Netflix and Amazon Prime is comparable to hiding in a 400 sqft. annex with seven other people unable to leave, unable to speak for two years for fear of being discovered by Nazis and being sent away via cattle car to their death.

The article has since been deleted by The Globe, with the outlet citing that the piece did not meet editorial standards.


(Sidebar: then why publish it in the first place.)

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So, no one thought of doing this before?: 

The debate over the safety of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic is coming under researchers’ microscopes.

Three new projects are aiming determine how many teachers and school staff in Canada have had COVID-19, to help inform prevention strategies in neighbourhoods, schools and daycares.

About $2.9 million will be spent on the research in British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec as part of the work of the national COVID-19 immunity task force.

All three projects will ask teachers for blood samples to determine how many have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, which would indicate a previous COVID-19 infection.



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