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[Rob Randall]

Russia's outlook scenarios for 2021-2023 suggest no second wave of coronavirus: TASS

 

I like stories like this because it triggers fond memories of my youth. Kind of like the smell of hockey card bubble gum. You'd open up a crisp, freshly-delivered Victoria Times newspaper and there would be a little story at the bottom of page A8; Soviet Grain Harvest Exceeds Forecasts: TASS

 

My unscientific theory of this whole local restaurant thing is the positive cases are all young cooks socializing on their off hours and bringing it to work. I bet the servers are wary of the back staff. You'll note nearly every news release says the person had no contact with the public.

Edited by Rob Randall, 27 September 2020 - 08:39 AM.

[Mike K.]

Indeed, it does appear to be back-end restaurant staff a little too often.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

My unscientific theory of this whole local restaurant thing is the positive cases are all young cooks socializing on their off hours and bringing it to work. I bet the servers are wary of the back staff. You'll note nearly every news release says the person had no contact with the public.

 

i thought you could play video games remotely now though.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 27 September 2020 - 08:45 AM.

[spanky123]

here is a woman that’s happy to be on CRRB EI for an entire year.

https://www.timescol...hers-1.24210764

"I'm sick and tired of not knowing," she said.

"Now that we've got this thing and it's going to last for six months, that provides me with a little bit of relief, because now at least I know for those six months, but I'm sick and tired of everything being done at the last minute."

 

Good for her and the millions of other Canadians in the same boat. The alternative of course would have been TO GET ANOTHER JOB. Help wanted signs abound but we have to make sure that our theatre workers aren't forced into doing something they would rather not.

[Victoria Watcher]

that’s what I thought too. every big retailer is hiring.

[Victoria Watcher]

One place Peel hasn’t seen many outbreaks is in restaurants. In fact, Loh said, he couldn’t think of a single case that he knew of where a server had passed the virus on to a customer or vice-versa. “If I was seeing that I would absolutely be (saying) let’s look at the restaurants and bars,” he said. “My impression is that the industry is so focused on making sure that they stay open, that they have taken all kinds of precautions to limit their interactions.”


https://nationalpost...ding-in-ontario


and yet we are intent on destroying our restaurant industry.

[todd]

meanwhile: https://www.liveleak...cES7_1594754284

[Victoria Watcher]

The Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) expires on Sunday, ending the income support program the federal government rolled out during the COVID-19 pandemic to help people with payouts of up to $2,000 a month.

 

The government says about 8.8 million Canadians have received the benefit since April. Roughly half of the four million Canadians still getting the payments through Service Canada and who are eligible for employment insurance are expected to be transitioned to a modified EI program.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...pt-27-1.5740854

[Love the rock]

I was standing in line to get inside a credit union last week close to one of our hotels turned low barrier housing and over heard an interesting conversation. Two guys  talking about how great it was to get CERB deposed in their commissary accounts in jail . Especially since they didn’t even apply. No faith in the system anymore.

[LJ]

Time for Canada to swallow up Point Roberts. 

Yeah, we can trade them for Quebec.

[spanky123]

I was standing in line to get inside a credit union last week close to one of our hotels turned low barrier housing and over heard an interesting conversation. Two guys talking about how great it was to get CERB deposed in their commissary accounts in jail . Especially since they didn’t even apply. No faith in the system anymore.

Shouldn’t be a surprise, I said at the beginning that the homeless could qualify and there were groups charging to do up forms if you couldn’t do it yourself.

8.8M people have collected CERB according to the article. The Feds initially expected 2.5M which suggests the potential for a huge number of fraudulent claims. Some sources have claimed 3 out of every 4.

[Victoria Watcher]

Advocacy group warns that 500,000 sharks may need to die for a COVID-19 vaccine

https://www.ctvnews....ccine-1.5122624

 

 

 

 

In doing so, Canada joins the premier league of the vaccine nationalists, a handful of rich countries that has pre-purchased (so far) more than half the world’s expected short-term supply of vaccines.

https://theconversat...l-health-146908

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 September 2020 - 04:30 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

 

 

so more than 50% of hospitalizations are people over 70.

 

and less than 1% of the deaths are those under 50.  only 3.3% of deaths are those under 60.  71% of the deaths are those over 80.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 September 2020 - 04:44 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

quebec:

 

 

https://www.quebec.c...-quebec/#c63035

 

 

 

now in canada your life expectancy is about 81.1.  or actually 85.2 if you make it to 65.

 

https://www150.statc...?pid=1310040901

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 September 2020 - 05:13 AM.

[amor de cosmos]

1 in 3 parents plan to skip flu shots for their kids during COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.eurekale...u-1i3092220.php
 

A type of anti-bacterial T cells, so-called MAIT cells, are strongly activated in people with moderate to severe COVID-19 disease, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden that is published in the journal Science Immunology. The findings contribute to increased understanding about how our immune system responds against COVID-19 infection.

“To find potential treatments against COVID-19, it is important to understand in detail how our immune system reacts and, in some cases, perhaps contribute to worsening the disease,” says Johan Sandberg, professor at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge, at Karolinska Institutet and the study’s corresponding author.

T cells are a type of white blood cells that are specialized in recognizing infected cells, and are an essential part of the immune system. About 1 to 5 percent of T cells in the blood of healthy people consist of so-called MAIT cells (mucosa-associated invariant T cells), which are primarily important for controlling bacteria but can also be recruited by the immune system to fight some viral infections.

https://www.alphagal...y/ItemId/197798
 

Squalene, an organic compound harvested from shark livers, is used in a variety of areas, including pharmacology. It is the main ingredient in adjuvants, which are used to improve immune system responses to vaccines. Squalene-based adjuvants are currently used in vaccines to prevent different strains of influenza and coronaviruses.

Up to 500,000 sharks could be killed in order to produce a coronavirus vaccine, warned Shark Allies, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to restoring and preserving the shark population. The group's estimates suggest that in order to vaccinate the world’s population with one inoculation for COVID-19, around 250,000 sharks would need to be killed. Given that previous studies said people would need two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to develop an immune response, means that half a million of sharks could be killed to rid humanity of COVID-19.

https://sputniknews....nservationists/
 

Now, an organizational chart of the $10 billion initiative, obtained by STAT, reveals the fullest picture yet of Operation Warp Speed: a highly structured organization in which military personnel vastly outnumber civilian scientists.

The labyrinthine chart, dated July 30, shows that roughly 60 military officials — including at least four generals — are involved in the leadership of Operation Warp Speed, many of whom have never worked in health care or vaccine development. Just 29 of the roughly 90 leaders on the chart aren’t employed by the Department of Defense; most of them work for the Department of Health and Human Services and its subagencies.

Operation Warp Speed’s central goal is to develop, produce, and distribute 300 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by January — and the military is intimately involved, according to Paul Mango, HHS’ deputy chief of staff for policy. It has already helped prop up more than two dozen vaccine manufacturing facilities — flying in equipment and raw materials from all over the world. It has also set up significant cybersecurity and physical security operations to ensure an eventual vaccine is guarded very closely from “state actors who don’t want us to be successful in this,” he said, adding that many of the Warp Speed discussions take place in protected rooms used to discuss classified information.

https://www.statnews...ry-involvement/

Southwest China's Yunnan Province on Sunday confirmed a previously suspected case of bubonic plague
https://www.globalti...t/1202277.shtml

Mass inoculation against the novel coronavirus infection with the Sputnik V vaccine may begin in Russia in late October
https://tass.com/society/1205921

The Australian state of Victoria has further eased COVID-19 restrictions, including scrapping a nightly curfew ahead of schedule
http://www.ecns.cn/n...pz4255252.shtml

[Victoria Watcher]

It saved lives in past epidemics of lung-damaging viruses. Now, the life-support option known as ECMO appears to be doing the same for many of the critically ill COVID-19 patients who receive it, according to a new international study.

 

The 1,035 patients in the study faced a staggeringly high risk of death, as ventilators and other care failed to support their lungs. But after they were placed on ECMO, their actual death rate was less than 40%. That's similar to the rate for patients treated with ECMO in past outbreaks of lung-damaging viruses, and other severe forms of viral pneumonia.

 

The new study published in The Lancet provides strong support for the use of ECMO -- short for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation -- in appropriate patients as the pandemic rages on worldwide.

It may help more hospitals that have ECMO capability understand which of their COVID-19 patients might benefit from the technique, which channels blood out of the body and into a circuit of equipment that adds oxygen directly to the blood before pumping it back into regular circulation. Small studies published early in the pandemic had cast doubt on the technique's usefulness.

 

 

 

https://www.scienced...00926145200.htm

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 September 2020 - 08:40 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

province:

 

 

 

april 9 - 132 (hospital) and 68 (ICU) 

april 22 - 103 and 46

may 1 - 79

may 8 - 73 (hospital) and 20 (ICU)

 

 

 

 

island:

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 September 2020 - 08:51 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

the states closest to the bc population (5.017m) are:

 

south carolina (5.14m) and alabama (4.90m).

 

new cases yesterday

 

bc ~100 (?)

alabama  730

south carolina  614

 

deaths yesterday

 

bc

alabama unknown

south carolina  3

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 September 2020 - 09:39 AM.

[Greg]

the states closest to the bc population (5.017m) are:

 

south carolina (5.14m) and alabama (4.90m).

 

new cases yesterday

 

bc ~100 (?)

alabama  730

south carolina  614

 

deaths yesterday

 

bc

alabama unknown

south carolina  3

 

You should really use 7-day rolling numbers or numbers from Tuesday-Friday. There are too many spots in the US that only partially report through the weekend, so you get wonky numbers when you look at Sunday or Monday.