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[Victoria Watcher]

big drops (15-20%) in ontario and quebec again today.

 

 

 

Quebec is reporting 666 new cases of COVID-19, its lowest single-day total since late September

 

 

 

^ that's not going to fit Tam's graph very well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 February 2021 - 09:33 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

10% drop again in UK today over same report day last week. new cases.

[Victoria Watcher]

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says he has full confidence that Canada's provinces will be able to handle the influx of COVID-19 vaccine doses arriving in the country in the weeks and months ahead.

 

"We're going to see a significant ramp-up in these last weeks of February and into March ... so we're very confident, and provinces certainly tell us they're anxious and ready to receive more vaccines, as I know all Canadians are," LeBlanc said Sunday in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live. "We're quite confident it will be very effective."

 

The minister said Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin — the commander in charge of Canada's vaccine logistics — has been conducting a series of rehearsals and tabletop exercises with counterparts in each province to prepare for the 23 million doses expected between April and June. 

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...ivery-1.5922218

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 February 2021 - 01:13 PM.

[todd]

https://globalnews.c...r-freedom-rally

They even had a doctor. Dr. Stephen Malthouse: https://www.cbc.ca/n...nurse-1.5918050

Edited by todd, 22 February 2021 - 06:15 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

‘Insulting to everybody’: B.C. government’s ‘self-care bingo’ card goes viral in the wrong way

https://globalnews.c...elf-care-bingo/

 

 

 

 

awesome.  in response to the crisis the government suggests we just sit down and cry.  in our blanket fort.   

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 February 2021 - 06:18 AM.

[todd]

‘Insulting to everybody’: B.C. government’s ‘self-care bingo’ card goes viral in the wrong way
https://globalnews.c...elf-care-bingo/

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awesome. in response to the crisis the government suggests we just sit down and cry. in uor blanket fort.

Yeah we didn’t have a lot of choice in which government we could choose. I find the older I get the less I cry, should I be concerned?


https://youtu.be/XXYlFuWEuKI

Edited by todd, 22 February 2021 - 06:43 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Canada to receive 640K vaccine doses this week with Pfizer, Moderna deliveries

 

The two companies will ship more than 475,000 shots this week before scaling back slightly to 445,000 doses per week

 

 

 

https://nationalpost...erna-deliveries

[todd]

“Isolation and sanitation during COVID-19 may affect human microbiome, scientists say“

“..Although some microbes can make us sick, others are good for us, and a diverse and rich microbiome is essential to our health, he said...”:

https://www.ctvnews....s-say-1.5317868

[Victoria Watcher]

IKEA Israel to offer COVID-19 vaccines at stores. Should Canada follow suit?

 

https://globalnews.c...accines-canada/

 

 

 

 

 

 

As Israel's vaccine campaign inches closer to completion, the world is watching closely for a glimpse into what life could be like after the coronavirus pandemic.

 

https://www.abc.net....ersial/13160576

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scotland’s COVID-19 vaccination program has led to a sharp drop in hospitalizations, researchers said Monday, boosting hopes that the shots will work as well in the real world as they have in carefully controlled studies.

 

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine reduced hospital admissions by up to 94% four weeks after people received their first dose, while the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine cut admissions by up to 85%, according to scientists at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Strathclyde and Public Health Scotland.

 

https://www.news957....spitalizations/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 February 2021 - 06:59 AM.

[todd]

IKEA Israel to offer COVID-19 vaccines at stores. Should Canada follow suit?

Do we have any vaccine? I wouldn’t be surprised if those meatballs would do the trick.

[Rob Randall]

Can anyone tell me that the vaccine is NOT like the most popular toy at Christmas?

 

Whether it's PS5 or Cabbage Patch Dolls or whatnot, whatever store has them is due to buying arrangements with manufacturers signed months previously, and any new shipments after that go to whoever can write the biggest cheque?

 

Because it just seems I'm hearing identical excuses as to why we're empty handed. Israel is at 50% while BC/Alberta (same population) is, what, around 5% or something? Are we not throwing enough cash?

[todd]

Can anyone tell me that the vaccine is NOT like the most popular toy at Christmas?
 
Whether it's PS5 or Cabbage Patch Dolls or whatnot, whatever store has them is due to buying arrangements with manufacturers signed months previously, and any new shipments after that go to whoever can write the biggest cheque?
 
Because it just seems I'm hearing identical excuses as to why we're empty handed. Israel is at 50% while BC/Alberta (same population) is, what, around 5% or something? Are we not throwing enough cash?

I don’t know about you but I usually don’t inject my Christmas presents.

[tanker]

We're empty handed because we are leaderless. These people are lying to us like always. For example check out internal cabinet aid's emails about the N95 mask deception: 

 

https://www.blackloc...tions-by-email/

 

When the vaccine ones come out look out below.

[amor de cosmos]

As I write, I am in hotel quarantine in Sydney, after returning from Wuhan, China. There, I was the Australian representative on the international World Health Organization’s (WHO) investigation into the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Much has been said of the politics surrounding the mission to investigate the viral origins of COVID-19. So it’s easy to forget that behind these investigations are real people.
 
As part of the mission, we met the man who, on December 8, 2019, was the first confirmed COVID-19 case; he’s since recovered. We met the husband of a doctor who died of COVID-19 and left behind a young child. We met the doctors who worked in the Wuhan hospitals treating those early COVID-19 cases, and learned what happened to them and their colleagues. We witnessed the impact of COVID-19 on many individuals and communities, affected so early in the pandemic, when we didn’t know much about the virus, how it spreads, how to treat COVID-19, or its impacts.
 
We talked to our Chinese counterparts — scientists, epidemiologists, doctors — over the four weeks the WHO mission was in China. We were in meetings with them for up to 15 hours a day, so we became colleagues, even friends. This allowed us to build respect and trust in a way you couldn’t necessarily do via Zoom or email.

This is what we learned about the origins of SARS-CoV-2.

https://theconversat...onavirus-155554

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recorded nearly 409,000 coronavirus cases and 1,438 deaths among healthcare personnel nationwide, but the agency acknowledges its data is incomplete.
http://www.ecns.cn/n...ux8632757.shtml
 

The director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said in a new interview that statements made by former President Donald Trump and other Republicans who dismissed mask wearing during the coronavirus pandemic may have cost tens of thousands of lives. 
 
"The evidence was pretty compelling by last March or April that uniform wearing of masks would reduce transmission of this disease," Francis Collins told Axios. "And yet, with a variety of messages through a variety of sources, mask wearing became a statement about your political party or an invasion of your personal freedom."
 
Collins also said that pleas from national public health officials like himself to commit to face coverings while in public "got categorized in all sorts of other ways that were not factual" by politicians, despite scientific proof showing that mass mask-wearing helps slow the spread of the coronavirus

https://thehill.com/...of-thousands-of

Edited by amor de cosmos, 22 February 2021 - 07:54 AM.

[Rob Randall]

We're empty handed because we are leaderless. These people are lying to us like always. For example check out internal cabinet aid's emails about the N95 mask deception: 

 

https://www.blackloc...tions-by-email/

 

When the vaccine ones come out look out below.

 

Not interested in conspiracy theories that our leaders are trying to kill us.

[Victoria Watcher]

low new deaths coming in today across the country.  later this week we should drop well under 50 deaths per day.  it's very hard to come by national hospitalization rates but i'm sure it's dropping lots too.

 

 

https://www.worldome...country/canada/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 February 2021 - 08:22 AM.

[Mike K.]

It's quite the thing seeing the articles claiming the vaccine is reducing COVID rates, while countries like Canada where vaccine rollout has been dismal, are toe-to-toe with countries that are vaccinating at rapid pace.

 

Could one of you who follows this speak to the latest theories on what's happening?

[Rob Randall]

^What were we doing differently in the summer when cases were a few hundred a day and deaths were almost zero? I have no idea.

[Victoria Watcher]

^What were we doing differently in the summer when cases were a few hundred a day and deaths were almost zero? I have no idea.

 

it was just the seasonal nature of the disease.  i think.

 

it's hard to know if this new drop is seasonal since the virus arrived here in feb/march last year so you cannot really compare the two years.

 

flu used to act like this:

 

 

but now with this current virus we have wiped out the flu.  but do our precautions and closures and wearing PPE etc. mean that it is to be expected the "COVID season" will end slightly earlier than flu season?

 

because we are at week #7 or 8 now.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 February 2021 - 09:19 AM.

[todd]

"..Prince Philip, 99, Who Remains Hospitalized for Sixth Day": https://people.com/r...n-the-hospital/

 

 

1988- "Prince Philip reportedly said: “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.”: https://www.express....tes-jokes-virus

 

 

I hope he's alright.