The Current Canadian Government …
Leadership?
So, the GOVERNMENT, in their wisdom has made three choices in the change of direction of vaccines:
1. Ignoring proper temperature storage of a certain make of vaccine.
2. Ignoring recommendations of NOT administering to people over 65 of a certain make vaccine.
3. Ignoring the recommended time lapse between doses of two-shot vaccines.
I suppose, in so doing, that they may be able to get more people vaccinated in time for the next Federal election. Everybody will so please with the government for getting the vaccination program so far along.
If you accept this, you are an idiot, and shouldn’t even bother voting. Give this some thought before you stick an “X” next to the Liberal representative in your riding, eh?!?!
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This country is so strange at the moment, I am almost wordless.
- Gun confiscations (now, without any ‘grandfathering’ option)
- Parliament turns down harsher penalties to the Criminal Code for violators that posses smuggled guns … really, DEFEATED IT!
- thinking of ‘forced vaccinations’ for citizens - did I hear that right? And now forced residency at a secret ‘hotel’ for travellers with unproven Covid negative tests.
- COVID free passports … Really?
- crackdowns/arrests on free assembly and demonstrations in Nathan Phillips square.
- 1 trillion dollar deficit, and climbing
- billions of dollars in infrastructure projects, and they cannot list even ONE.
- Trudeau given 30 days to make a decision on Huawei 5G …. That deadline has passed with no indications of anything. Who the hell does he answer to? Nobody obviously.
- total incompetence on the part of the Health Minister and the Prime Minister, for failing to keep necessary health safety inventory, yet no one is held responsible or dismissed. And now the problems with the vaccination rollout. Fail that badly at work and see what happens!
- playing patty-cake with China, letting our two un-charged Canadians rot in a Chinese prison - thanks Canada - and inviting the PLA to train here too … cripe!
- no published plan for the future of Canada after COVID. Even I have a plan!
You must certainly see and know what is going on in Canada lately. Prime Minister Trudeau and his hand picked leaders are dragging this country downhill so fast, a slow turnaround will not fix it.
I don’t even need to list the ways, if you read any news or social media.
And now we have the gun craziness … confiscation from legal, law-abiding registered owners! Just stupid. What a great place for organized crime Canada is going to be. You think any security system or a phone call to the police will get them to your place in time? No way!
So, our current (and future) problems are:
Debt
Islamophobia ?
Reduced Immigration checks
Sex education for our 5 year olds
(You’re seven now. Do you want to be a boy or girl?)
Confiscation of ALL guns (look at Germany under the Nazi’s to see what happened there, along with famous move by Pol Pot, to name just one). The state will protect us! FROM WHO! We need protection from the STATE!
*** DID YOU KNOW THAT EVERY CITIZEN OF SWITZERLAND IS ISSUED A RIFLE, AND KNOWS HOW TO USE IT! DON’T SEE ANY MASS SHOOTINGS OVER THERE, DO WE?!
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So, the Liberals put forward bill C-21, with updated information on gun confiscation from their Order-in-Council move of last spring. So, lets not worry about the wording in this right now, lets move on to something else, related.
This is how Turdeau and the Liberal Party ARE NOT MAKING CANADA SAFER FOR ANY CITIZEN:
- The liberals defeated a motion last week that would make harsher penalties for a variety of gun crime.
- (The Bill-C21 includes banning of air-soft guns and BB guns … yep, you read it right!)
- Will let municipalities ban hand guns (what???? The Fed’s say we can have them, and now the City says you can’t???) Something simply has to be illegal.
- nothing here will stop criminals from getting and using guns.
And then two days later they introduce C-22:
- Bill C-22, does this:
Mandatory minimum sentences are being removed for:
– Use of firearm in commission of offence
– Possession of restricted or prohibited weapon knowing possession is unauthorized
– Possession of loaded handgun
– Possession of weapon obtained through crime
– Weapons trafficking
– Unauthorized import/export of firearm
– Illegal discharge of a firearm with intent
– Robbery with firearm
– Extortion with firearm
The Liberals, however, and saying they have increased penalties for gun crime! Show me where??
Really, I mean really???? Removing this minimum MANDATORY sentencing, because, as they go on to say, it kinda trapped a lot of people into harsh sentences that just, kinda, made a bit of a mistake, and they shouldn’t be punished so hard!!!
What the hell are they thinking!
Wait a minute, if minimum sentences are thrown out, maybe all the gun owners should just sell their now banned guns on the street. I mean, geeez, what are you gonna get, 3 months of house arrest? Think about this for a minute. ……I leave it with you. And no, this is not a threat, just an observation I am pointing out. Yep, just an observation.
The true portrait of COVID-19 in Quebec
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PHOTO AGENCE QMI, JOËL LEMAY
PATRICK PROVOST, PROFESSOR AT LAVAL UNIVERSITY
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 05:00
LAST UPDATED Wednesday, 22 June 2022 05:00
While the vaccination passport will no longer be required to board a plane or train in Canada as of June 20, 2022 (but still required to enter the country) and the federal government also suspends the mandatory vaccination of its officials (which may, however, be reimposed again), let's paint a true picture of COVID-19 in Quebec.
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The mortality rate
As of June 19, 2022, the cumulative data for Quebec as a whole are as follows: 15,462 COVID-19-related deaths (Chart 2.1) out of a total of 1,077,256 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (Chart 1.1), for a calculated mortality rate of 1.44%.
This mortality rate is largely overestimated, mainly (i) by the inclusion, in the numerator, of deaths with, and not because of COVID-19, apparently as numerous, and (ii) by the exclusion, at the denominator, of cases of asymptomatic or unreported infections, several times more numerous than reported symptomatic infections.
The real portrait
So what is the true portrait of COVID-19 in Quebec?
The official figures of the Institut de la statistique du Québec and the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ), consulted on June 19, 2022, show the following health reality in Quebec:
1 there has been no excess mortality from all causes since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, except for people aged 70 and over during the first wave (April-June 2020) and shortly after the imposition of holiday lockdown/curfew or the deployment of the 3rd dose of vaccine (January 2022),
2 more than 90% of 70-year-olds who died with or from COVID-19 had two or more pre-existing medical conditions (Table 2.2),
3 69.2% of those who died were over 80 years of age (section 2.3), bringing the average age of people who died with or from COVID-19 beyond their life expectancy at birth,
4 the number of deaths (Table 2.1) compared to the number of cases (Table 1.1) is 0.07% among people with no pre-existing conditions, 6 times higher in the presence of a pre-existing medical condition (0.4%) and 98 times higher in the presence of two or more pre-existing conditions (6.9%), according to data last updated on May 2, 2022, and
5 between 0 and 5 people under the age of 40 (with less than one pre-existing medical condition) have died in Quebec since the beginning of the pandemic (Table 2.2).
Analysis of official government data revealed early on two of the main risk factors for complications and death from COVID-19: advanced age and the number of pre-existing medical conditions, especially obesity.
The threat of COVID-19 was very real, but was it the magnitude we were told?
Especially since, according to public data available on the INSPQ and Partenariat Données Québec websites, about 2.1% of hospitalizations were for COVID-19 between April 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021 in Quebec; 20,616 hospitalizations due to COVID-19 out of a total of 986,607 hospitalizations (this number was down 17.5% compared to 1,995,554
At worst of the crisis, COVID-19 hospitalizations reached a peak of 5.9% of the total.
Justified measures?
Did the pandemic reality described above justify:
1 impose such severe and comprehensive, rather than targeted, health measures to contain a threat that targeted a well-known category of people?
2 not to consider, as accurately as possible, the collateral effects of binding health measures?
3 to exclude doctors from care and any assessment of the risk/benefit ratio of a medical intervention (COVID vaccination) with their patients?
4 to exceed the right of people to consent, freely and enlightenedly, to an always experimental injection?
5 to resort to mass vaccination of the entire population for a disease that particularly affects very old and sick people?
6 to impose the vaccination obligation on young people, healthy or who are not at risk of complications to COVID-19?
7 to impose the vaccination obligation on workers (including teleworkers) under penalty of dismissal in case of refusal?
8 restrict the right of access to public places and hinder the freedom to travel by train or plane to people who are not "adequately" vaccinated, while injections do not prevent infection or transmission, but rather seem to facilitate infection?
9 that a government assumes power by proclaiming and perpetuating a state of health emergency and certain measures beyond the emergency period?
10 not to encourage the maintenance of good health through the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits?
11 not to allow, or even encourage, the use of preventive, early or alternative treatments, as other countries have done?
12 muzzle professionals and academics critical of health measures, through pressure from their professional order or institution, otherwise they will lose their right to practice or employment?
13 such intense, polarized and polarizing media coverage sowing fear, anxiety and division? or
14 to encourage the denunciation, social exclusion of a minority of unvaccinated people and the division of society?
Depoliticize decisions
Faced with the threat posed by COVID-19 at the time, as uncertain as it was unexpected, initial precautionary measures were required, although even before the pandemic reached Quebec, it was known that COVID-19 particularly affected the elderly in Italy.
The pandemic has evolved over the months, of course, leading the government to review and adapt certain measures to the health context of the moment.
However, in some cases, it has imposed decisions against science (e.g. curfew) or has been far too late in doing so, such as the lifting of the latest binding health measures.
This reveals the importance of depoliticizing decisions that violate individual rights and freedoms, for example, by a Council of Independent Academics (CUI) in government, so that these decisions are based on science and taken more quickly.
A balance sheet is necessary
Despite the election campaign on the horizon, and during which political parties will probably avoid going back on this dark period in Quebec's history, we cannot avoid an examination of conscience or deep collective reflection to ensure that, next time, the deployment of measures is appropriate, proportional and adapted to the threat, and adjusted quickly as necessary. You should avoid going out in fear when the noses start to flow, as in every autumn.
An assessment of the management of this crisis, which has revealed the limits, even the flaws, of our system and our democratic life, is necessary.
We owe this to too many elderly people whom we have not been able to protect, as well as to people whose rights and freedoms have been violated for too long.
Yes, You Should Still Wear a Mask After Covid-19 Vaccination
Experts don’t yet know if Covid-19 vaccines prevent the virus’ spread—and it may take months to find out
02/18/2021
With Covid-19 vaccines rolling out across the United States, the beginning of the end of the nation’s struggle with the pandemic may be coming into sight. But while the two currently approved Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are more than 90 percent effective at preventing the development of serious illness, scientists don’t know whether someone who has been vaccinated can carry the live virus and spread it to others.
Initial vaccine trials focused on vaccine safety. These were designed to gather data quickly and accurately on how effectively the vaccines prevented large groups of people from getting seriously sick with Covid-19.
In the push to get a vaccine approved for emergency use as quickly as possible, other effects of the vaccines were left untested. Scientists must test a smaller pool of people with greater frequency to understand how the virus travels between people after vaccination—an effort that became secondary to studying vaccine safety and efficacy.
“We design the trials to determine how we reduce the disease burden and keep people from progressing to hospitalization and death and being on a ventilator—that was and I think, still is, the first primary purpose of developing a vaccine,” says Larry Corey, co-director of the Covid-19 Prevention Network, a group formed in part by the National Institutes of Health to address the need for vaccines.
Now, as new, highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 variants from California, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil spread globally, understanding transmission as it relates to vaccine rollout efforts is vital.
Most vaccines still seem to prevent worst outcomes, like hospitalization and death, against the new variants. However, it may be months before researchers have conclusive findings about how viral transmission from vaccinated individuals to unvaccinated individuals works.
In the meantime, health experts recommend vaccinated people continue to adhere to current mask and social distancing practices.
“You’re self-protected, but you still could be a danger to other people, especially if you start using behavioral disinhibition, saying, ‘I'm vaccinated, I'm invulnerable’,” Corey says. “You could acquire Covid and it will be silent, and then you can infect a bunch of people who are not as lucky as you to be vaccinated at this point in time.”
The two approved mRNA vaccines provide systemic immunity, meaning they encourage the production of antibodies in the blood and trigger a whole-body response to the virus. However, the virus typically first infects the mucus of a person’s nose and mouth, where those antibodies don’t actively fend off pathogens. A study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in November shows that people who recover from natural Covid-19 infections develop antibodies to protect the mucosal regions in the respiratory tract, but there is no evidence yet that the same is true with vaccine-induced immunity.
Deborah Lehman, a professor of clinical pediatrics at UCLA, says if a Covid-19 vaccine is able to prevent the virus from living in the mucosal passages, it may not be able to spread to other people.
Since scientists haven’t yet found evidence that the vaccines provide mucosal immunity, someone who is vaccinated and has no symptoms of illness may be carrying the live SARS-CoV-2 virus and spreading it to others when they cough, breath or sneeze.
“You could have a lot of people vaccinated who are walking around but are still acquiring the virus—potentially still being infectious—and we don't really see a reduction on a population basis of disease burden,” Corey says.
To test whether this population is spreading live virus, Corey says researchers need to collect samples from a large group of vaccinated people multiple times per week for evidence of viral shedding. Corey’s team at the Covid-Prevention Network (CoVPN) proposed a study of 20,000 vaccinated college students to track transmission on a campus; it’s still awaiting federal funding. Lehman says studying the viral load in vaccinated people can help researchers understand how infectious they are compared to non-vaccinated people.
Given the rate of vaccinations, the duration of testing, and quantity of samples needed, Corey and Lehman expect researchers won’t collect enough data on transmission to have an answer until the fall. Having more information about virus transmission is crucial to the future of informed public health recommendations. If vaccinated people can still spread the virus, it could change the timeline for reopening businesses, allowing large gatherings and loosening current restrictions.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doesn’t provide significant immune protection until 12 days after the first dose and only reaches 52 percent efficacy after a few weeks, per a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in December. The Moderna vaccine is similarly 51 percent effective two weeks after the first immunization, per its application for authorization.
During this time, the body is still relatively vulnerable to infection. People will need to be mindful of when their friends and family got vaccinated in order to understand their immunity status, which will get complicated over time as more of the population gets vaccines.
“Vaccination hubs and centers are reinforcing the information that after the first dose and after the second dose you need to continue to practice these public health measures,” Lehman says. “[Immunity] takes a while and I think that's true for all vaccines.”
Ann Marie Pettis, who leads a national organization of infection preventionists, says experts are working to provide the most up-to-date Covid-19 information to the research community and general public so people can make safe decisions.
“There're so many more questions than answers, unfortunately,” Pettis says. “You just have to stay in touch with the data and with the science and try to keep track of what the experts are coming up with, from day to day.”
Until scientists are certain about the risks of transmission, and a large enough portion of the population is vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, Pettis says all people must continue to wear masks, practice social distancing and maintain good hygiene.
While widespread vaccination is a major milestone in combatting the Covid-19 pandemic, Lehman says it’s no “magic bullet.” Until more information becomes available, people should continue to live, work and travel with an abundance of caution for public health.
“The vaccine gives us all a certain amount of comfort, which is good, but I think it would be a mistake to just assume, get two vaccines and then we can have large gatherings again,” Lehman says. “It’s going to be a while before we feel comfortable recommending that all those restrictions be relaxed.”
Re-printed from Apple News. Author: Claire Bugos is a journalist and former print intern at Smithsonian magazine. She is a recent graduate of Northwestern University, where she studied journalism and history.
