From lockdowns to flu shots that don't work but one will get if one ever wants fresh air again:
In the month of May, Canada has seen a significant increase in vaccine supplies. Next week alone, officials say Canada is expected to receive 4.5 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines.
(Sidebar: But not Astra Zeneca? Why ever not?)
Tam said this means Canadians can look forward to enjoying an “outdoor summer.”
Should those thresholds be met, activities such as camping and dining on patios could return and be safely maintained. The emphasis, though, is on outdoor activities. Even if Canada reaches that vaccination goal, mask-wearing and physical distancing will still be around.
“For all intents and purposes, it may seem like summer. You’re going on your patio, you’re going outdoors, but you should feel you have another layer of protection,” she said.
That's called extortion, b!#ch.
But just as mask-wearing and hand-sanitising was supposed to save us ...
Oh, wait:
Tam does not see great risk for Canada, she says: “Canada’s risk is much, much lower than that of many countries. It’s going to be rare, but we are expecting cases. It doesn’t matter how few those cases are. We are preparing the whole country in the event that you might pick up a rare case. That actually is what we’re doing right now, preparing. It is going to be rare, but you’re going to have some.”
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Take Susan Delacourt at the Toronto Star, one of the more respected columnists at Canada’s largest-circulation newspaper. Last June, she proclaimed the “global pandemic is demonstrating every day how much it matters to have Canadian-style health care and a political system that is not American.” In October, she praised the competence of Canada’s leaders, again suggesting that “all Canadians need to do is glance south to see what happens when politicians drop the ball or ignore the medical advice they’re getting.” A column last month, however, painted an image of a far less functional country in which “people are angry, frustrated, incredulous that this pandemic just won’t quit and they need someone to blame.”
Throughout 2020, numerous columnists suggested the greatest threat to Canada’s low covid-19 rates was not internal, but rather the United States. The Globe and Mail’s Robyn Urback, for instance, worried last April that President Donald Trump would soon blackmail Canada into opening its borders “to feed the mirage of his country’s return to normalcy” and thereby invite a stampede of infected Americans into Canadian cities. A year later, she now blames complex systemic deficiencies in the Canadian health-care system for “this country’s mediocre performance.”
And then there were those like the Ottawa Citizen’s Andrew Cohen, who continuously argued Canada was winning the pandemic because Canadians were just, well, better people.
Unlike the United States, he wrote last March, Canadians are lining up obediently to follow the instructions of their “calm, competent and professional” leaders. “Canadians accept big government, which is how we built the social welfare state. Two-thirds of us voted for progressives last year. We defer to authority.”
(Sidebar: and how did that work out, stupid?)
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We’ve been told lots of things…….
“Canada’s risk is much, much lower than that of many countries. It’s going to be rare.”
Theresa Tam, Jan. 31, 2020“What we worry about is actually the potential negative aspects of wearing a mask, where people are not protecting their eyes, or other aspects of where the virus could enter your body, and that gives you a false sense of confidence.”
Theresa Tam“The evidence to date is that this is not easily transmitted between people.”
Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ontario’s Associate Medical Officer, Jan. 25, 2020“The system is working. Ontarians can rest assured that the province’s integrated health care system today is far more prepared to respond to any potential health risks than in the past.”
Christine Elliott, Ontario’s Minister of Health, Jan. 25, 2020“Canada has, unfortunately, very recent experiences with a virus of this type. Our experience with SARS in 2003 meant that we created protocols and a system that is handling concerns around this threat very well.”
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Jan. 31, 2020“We’ve never recommended the wearing of masks in public. Nevertheless, I’m aware that certain other cultures in society like to do so.”
Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Jan. 27, 2020“There will probably be more harm caused by racism, xenophobia, discrimination, harassment, racial taunts directed specifically toward the Chinese Canadian community, and others of Asian descent, than will be caused by the coronavirus.”
Kristyn Wong-Tam, Toronto City Councilor, Jan. 29, 2020“The risk of Coronavirus to our community remains low. We must not allow fear to triumph over our values as a city.”
John Tory, Mayor of Toronto, on Jan. 29, 2020, encouraging people to go shopping and to restaurants“If we all stopped moving for two weeks and nobody talked to anybody for two weeks and we all just stayed put, in fact we would see this virus would die.”
Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu
(Merci)
As I was saying, no one is really out of the woods no matter what he or she is forced to do:
“Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor or outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing,” said CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. “If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic. We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy.”
However, Canada’s top public health officials suggests a different approach would be taken here.
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“We have more of what I’d call a collective or community approach,” Dr. Howard Njoo, deputy chief public health officer, told a briefing in Ottawa on Thursday. “So it’s not about what an individual should be able to do with one or two doses.”
He said even as more Canadians get their shots, public health measures such as physical distancing, mask wearing and frequent hand washing remain key.
Njoo added the rate of new infections, the number of new cases resulting from each infection, test positivity rates and impact on the health-care system are all factors that should be weighed.
“If all that is looking good at a certain point in time — along with high vaccine coverage — that’s the point I think that certainly local health authorities will be able to consider loosening restrictions on what Canadians are able to do.”
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The question of whether Canada should create COVID-19 vaccine passports was answered by Health Minister Patty Hadju this week when she confirmed that the federal government will create such a system to allow Canadians to travel internationally again.
So, enjoy your lockdown paranoia because global house arrest will be a thing for a long time:
It is far from the first time that public fears about COVID-19 did not match the reality on the ground. B.C. anesthesiologist Pooya Kazemi is one of a community of Canadian doctors actively criticizing overzealous lockdown measures. As he told National Post, “there is definitely a huge mismatch between what the literature shows and how people are behaving.”
North America is now definitively entering the final days of COVID-19. Even in Canada — with ongoing third waves in both Ontario and Alberta — deaths remain way down from their January highs and mass vaccination is rapidly shielding whole sections of the population from lethal harm. But as our pandemic deliverance approaches, physicians and researchers are now warning of a new public health challenge: When normalcy arrives, many may refuse to accept it.
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A familiar pattern has emerged whenever a pollster asks the public to gauge the risks of COVID-19: Across the board, people think the disease is deadlier and more pervasive than it really is.
A recent survey from the Netherlands found that Dutch people think COVID-19 is about as dangerous as Ebola — a disease that kills 50 per cent of its patients.
A survey of pandemic anxiety among more than 6,000 Canadians last spring found that stress was particularly high among those of “younger age” — the one group that is relatively insulated from the epidemiological consequences of the disease. The same survey also found an “association between left-wing views and stress worsening.”
(Sidebar: I'm sure that's just a coincidence.)
More:
A church in Aylmer, Ont., known for defying COVID-19 restrictions will be forced to temporarily lock its doors while the church itself, as well as its pastor and assistant pastor, face $48,000 in fines and $69,000 in legal costs.
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Pawlowski also appeared on "The Ingraham Angle," where he confirmed he had spent 30 hours in solitary confinement following his arrest, in addition to being mistreated in other ways by the police. He also emphasized they "have no rights whatsoever." The pastor shared how he had escaped from Poland, for Canada, where he thought he'd have more freedom:
I escaped tyranny and communism. I came to Canada because they offered me freedom. Here we are again. A repetition of history. I will fight to the death. That's what I said to the officer. You are not going to intimidate me. You can shoot me dead but I will fight until the day I die.
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Here is the summary data through May 8, 2021.
Total reactions for the experimental mRNA vaccine Tozinameran (code BNT162b2,Comirnaty) from BioNTech/ Pfizer: 5,368 deaths and 170,528 injuries to 08/05/2021
- 12,435 Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 54 deaths
- 8,551 Cardiac disorders incl. 636 deaths
- 62 Congenital, familial and genetic disorders incl. 4 deaths
- 4,828 Ear and labyrinth disorders incl. 3 deaths
- 153 Endocrine disorders
- 5,413 Eye disorders incl. 9 deaths
- 37,167 Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 270 deaths
- 115,627General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 1719 deaths
- 279 Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 24 deaths
- 4,047 Immune system disorders incl. 25 deaths
- 12,099 Infections and infestations incl. 589 deaths
- 4,142 Injury, poisoning and procedural complications incl. 72 deaths
- 8,904 Investigations incl. 196 deaths
- 2,961 Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 109 deaths
- 59,217 Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 58 deaths
- 194 Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) incl. 11 deaths
- 73,4 Nervous system disorders incl. 535 deaths
- 231 Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions incl. 9 deaths
- 83 Product issues
- 7,002 Psychiatric disorders incl. 81 deaths
- 1,143 Renal and urinary disorders incl. 82 deaths
- 1,241 Reproductive system and breast disorders incl. 2 deaths
- 16,257 Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 619 deaths
- 18,516 Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 46 deaths
- 564 Social circumstances incl. 9 deaths
- 142 Surgical and medical procedures incl. 9 deaths
- 9,851 Vascular disorders incl. 197 deaths
Total reactions for the experimental mRNA vaccine mRNA-1273(CX-024414) from Moderna: 2,865 deaths and 22,985 injuries to 08/05/2021
- 1,047 Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 19 deaths
- 1,674 Cardiac disorders incl. 301 deaths
- 8 Congenital, familial and genetic disorders incl. 2 deaths
- 535 Ear and labyrinth disorders
- 29 Endocrine disorders incl. 1 death
- 793 Eye disorders incl. 4 deaths
- 4,952 Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 100 deaths
- 16,192 General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 1255 deaths
- 98 Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 6 deaths
- 587 Immune system disorders incl. 4 deaths
- 1,906 Infections and infestations incl. 151 deaths
- 1,042 Injury, poisoning and procedural complications incl. 53 deaths
- 1,395 Investigations incl. 68 deaths
- 670 Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 58 deaths
- 7,143 Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 58 deaths
- 60 Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) incl. 11 deaths
- 9,617 Nervous system disorders incl. 294 deaths
- 62 Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions
- 11 Product issues
- 1,118 Psychiatric disorders incl. 45 deaths
- 383 Renal and urinary disorders incl. 32 deaths
- 135 Reproductive system and breast disorders incl. 1 death
- 2,822 Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 255 deaths
- 2,901 Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 22 deaths
- 214 Social circumstances incl. 9 deaths
- 131 Surgical and medical procedures incl. 16 deaths
- 1,526 Vascular disorders incl. 100 deaths
Total reactions for the experimental vaccine AZD1222/VAXZEVRIA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19) from Oxford/ AstraZeneca: 2,102 deaths and 208,873 injuries to 08/05/2021
- 6,221 Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 86 deaths
- 8,504 Cardiac disorders incl. 261 deaths
- 83 Congenital, familial and genetic disorders incl. 2 deaths
- 5,774 Ear and labyrinth disorders
- 174 Endocrine disorders incl. 2 deaths
- 9,158 Eye disorders incl. 7 deaths
- 62,739 Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 99 deaths
- 158,518General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 604 deaths
- 319 Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 18 deaths
- 2,135 Immune system disorders incl. 8 deaths
- 12,002 Infections and infestations incl. 138 deaths
- 4,991 Injury, poisoning and procedural complications incl. 33 deaths
- 11,441 Investigations incl. 38 deaths
- 7,621 Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 31 deaths
- 93,094 Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 24 deaths
- 178 Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) incl. 5 deaths
- 125,892Nervous system disorders incl. 318 deaths
- 128 Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions incl. 1 death
- 64 Product issues
- 10,895 Psychiatric disorders incl. 17 deaths
- 1,976 Renal and urinary disorders incl. 20 deaths
- 2,519 Reproductive system and breast disorders
- 18,411 Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 228 deaths
- 26,202 Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 13 deaths
- 475 Social circumstances incl. 4 deaths
- 431 Surgical and medical procedures incl. 14 deaths
- 10,653 Vascular disorders incl. 131 deaths
Total reactions for the experimental COVID-19 vaccine JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S) from Johnson & Johnson: 235 deaths and 2,873 injuries to 08/05/2021
- 79 Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 7 deaths
- 169 Cardiac disorders incl. 22 deaths
- 3 Congenital, familial and genetic disorders
- 45 Ear and labyrinth disorders
- 3 Endocrine disorders incl. 1 death
- 110 Eye disorders incl. 1 death
- 783 Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 6 deaths
- 2,071 General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 67 deaths
- 20 Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 1 death
- 35 Immune system disorders
- 140 Infections and infestations incl. 6 deaths
- 117 Injury, poisoning and procedural complications incl. 2 deaths
- 507 Investigations incl. 11 deaths
- 56 Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 6 deaths
- 1,348 Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 9 deaths
- 4 Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps)
- 1,852 Nervous system disorders incl. 32 deaths
- 5 Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions
- 4 Product issues
- 116 Psychiatric disorders incl. 2 deaths
- 35 Renal and urinary disorders incl. 3 deaths
- 29 Reproductive system and breast disorders
- 366 Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 18 deaths
- 172 Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 1 death
- 20 Social circumstances incl. 1 death
- 80 Surgical and medical procedures incl. 10 deaths
- 502 Vascular disorders incl. 29 deaths
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In Ontario (as of this writing):
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Maj. Gen. Dany Fortin, who has become familiar to Canadians for his key job in the COVID-19 vaccine roll out has stepped down after being placed under military investigation.
(Insert sad trombone noise here.)
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