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[amor de cosmos]

Health measures are being expanded at the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia in Prince George to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 after outbreaks in two inpatient units.
 
In a statement, Northern Health says only essential visitors will be allowed in any area of the facility as of Thursday. This includes visits for compassionate care, including end-of-life care, and visitors accompanying patients with physical or mental care needs.
 
The health authority says it is also reinstating physical distancing, occupancy limits and masking protocols.

The Northern Health region has been struck hard by the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting more than double the provincial average of new COVID-19 cases and more than four times the hospitalization rate of other health regions per 100,000 people.
 
Many patients have been transported outside of the health authority after hospitals in the region started reaching capacity. 
 
Dr. David Forrest, a critical care specialist at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, says roughly two-thirds of COVID-19 patients admitted to his hospital's ICU Wednesday were from the Northern Health Authority. 
 
"What's unusual about this is, I think the number of patients that are requiring critical care right now related to a particular disease. And so that is certainly straining resources because it's a massive surge compared to what we usually see," Forrest said.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...tions-1.6203850
 

VANCOUVER — Politicians accustomed to sparring in British Columbia's legislature have joined forces outside the house to push for higher vaccination rates in the north, but a longtime member of the Opposition Liberals says the "Alberta influence" is a factor in a part of B.C. where intensive care units can't accommodate the influx of COVID-19 patients.
 
Mike Bernier said proximity to neighbouring Alberta "set us back from day one" when it comes to some northern residents shunning vaccination.
 
"It would be the Alberta influence. A good portion of people in Dawson Creek, Pouce Coupe, the Fort St. John area, are very closely related, whether it be for personal reasons or through work, with Alberta," he said. "And we've seen the problems in Alberta with a solid message of trying to get people vaccinated until just recently, and the crisis that they're in."
 
Bernier said some were so angry when B.C. introduced vaccine passports that they posted online messages about shooting him for supporting the policy.
 
Most residents in the B.C. region aren't anti-vaxxers, Bernier said. "They're strong willed and do not like government intervention. They just want to work and raise their families and are very skeptical of government officials in general telling them what to do."
 
Bernier, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 two days before his appointment for a first dose of a vaccine last May, has steadfastly spoken in favour of vaccination, making him a target of threats. About 100 people rallied last month outside his office in Dawson Creek, where Northern Health says 55 per cent of those eligible had received a second dose as of Tuesday. B.C.'s overall vaccination rate was about 82 per cent on Thursday.
 
"I got contacted by the RCMP because they had made a big Facebook rally page, and somebody went on there about 10 minutes beforehand saying 'perfect, now we know where he is. Let's get our guns and go shoot this guy so we don't have to listen to him any more,'" Bernier said.
 
"I can't back down on the message of what I know and think is right for the people in my region. And, you know, nobody's going to deter me from that just by making some threats."

https://www.timescol...cian-1.24362762

B.C. Hydro to require mandatory vaccinations for thousands of workers and contractors
Energy company joins LNG Canada in implementing mandatory vaccination
https://www.cbc.ca/n...ite-c-1.6203978
 

The researchers have discovered that glycolysis and glutaminolysis are the metabolic pathways that the virus “prefers” when attacking the lungs. Both are key processes in cellular energy supply and function.

“The study shows that when SARS-CoV-2 infects lung cells, glycolysis and glutaminolysis play an important part in its spread and growth,” says the paper’s last author, Ujjwal Neogi, researcher at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. “By blocking these pathways, we can limit viral production. We also observed several toxic metabolites, such as lactate and glutamate, in the blood plasma of the most severely ill patients.”

One of the study’s key findings is a biomarker for the severity of the disease.

“We’ve identified a carbohydrate, mannose, as a biomarker for severe COVID-19,” says the study’s first author Shuba Krishnan at the same department.

The researchers say that more now needs to be learned about the elevated levels of toxic metabolites in severely ill patients:

“Changes in these metabolites can have lasting effects on insulin resistance, neurocognitive disorders, and organ failure,” explains Carl Johan Treutiger, researcher at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet. “The elevated level of mannose has a potential correlation with the risk of developing type 2 diabetes after COVID-19 infection.”

https://www.alphagal...y/ItemId/213425

Poor oral health may impact COVID-19 severity, especially for cardiac patients
https://medicalxpres...act-covid-.html

Why COVID vaccines didn’t win a science Nobel this year
Nobel prize insiders and observers say timing and politics meant vaccine technology was an unlikely winner — but science’s most prestigious prize shouldn’t be far off.
https://www.nature.c...586-021-02754-6

We’re Losing Our Humanity, and the Pandemic Is to Blame
“What the hell is happening? I feel like we are living on another planet. I don’t recognize anyone anymore.”
https://www.propubli...mic-is-to-blame

 

Cases of norovirus are up by almost 40% in England as hundreds of outbreaks of the winter vomiting virus have spread through schools and care homes in the past month.

https://ca.news.yaho...-162324061.html

‘Crimes Against Humanity’: Venezuela’s VP Says US ‘Blocked’ $5 Billion COVID-19 Loan from IMF
https://sputniknews....1089755636.html

70% Of Tamil Nadu's Population Has Antibodies: 3rd Sero Survey
Tamil Nadu Sero Survey: In April, the second sero survey had shown that only 29 per cent of the state's population had the antibodies.
https://www.ndtv.com...-survey-2568738
 

RIYADH: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s economic losses will amount to almost $200 billion by the end of 2021 as a result of the pandemic, the World Bank estimated.
 
The region’s GDP contracted by 3.8 percent in 2020 and is forecast to grow by 2.8 percent in 2021, the multilateral lender said in a report.
 
Costs of the pandemic losses are calculated by comparing where the region’s GDP would have been if the pandemic had not hit, the bank said.
 
Thirteen out of 16 countries in the region will have lower standards of living in 2021 than their pre-COVID levels, and recovery will depend on a rapid and equitable rollout of vaccines.

https://www.arabnews...usiness-economy

Over 2.217 bln COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on Chinese mainland
http://www.ecns.cn/n...pk8242953.shtml
 

A Colorado kidney transplant candidate who was bumped to inactive status for failing to get a covid-19 vaccine has become the most public example of an argument roiling the nation’s more than 250 organ transplant centers.
 
Across the country, growing numbers of transplant programs have chosen to either bar patients who refuse to take the widely available covid vaccines from receiving transplants, or give them lower priority on crowded organ waitlists. Other programs, however, say they plan no such restrictions — for now.
 
At issue is whether transplant patients who refuse the shots are not only putting themselves at greater risk for serious illness and death from a covid infection, but also squandering scarce organs that could benefit others. The argument echoes the demands that smokers quit cigarettes for six months before receiving lung transplants or that addicts refrain from alcohol and drugs before receiving new livers.
 
“It is a matter of active debate,” said Dr. Deepali Kumar, an expert in transplant infectious diseases at the University of Toronto and president-elect of the American Society of Transplantation. “It’s really an individual program decision. In many programs, it’s in flux.”
 
*snip*
 
The lack of consistent practice across programs sends a mixed message to the public, said Dr. Kapilkumar Patel, director of the lung transplant program at Tampa General Hospital in Florida, where covid vaccines are not required.
 
“We mandate hepatitis and influenza vaccines, and nobody has an issue with that,” he said. “And now we have this one vaccination that can save lives and make an impact on the post-transplant recovery phase. And we have this huge uproar from the public.”
 
Nearly 107,000 candidates are waiting for organs in the U.S.; dozens die each day still waiting. Transplant centers evaluate which patients are allowed to be placed on the national list, taking into account medical criteria and other factors like financial means and social support to ensure that donor organs won’t fail.
 
“We really make all kinds of selective value judgments,” said Dr. David Weill, former director of Stanford University Medical Center’s lung and heart-lung transplant program who now works as a consultant. “When we’re selecting in the committee room, I hear the most subjective, value-based judgments about people’s lives. This is just another thing.”

The centers can choose to place candidates on inactive status for a variety of reasons, including medical noncompliance, according to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing, which oversees transplants. As of Sept. 30, that category accounted for 738 of more than 47,000 registrants waiting in inactive status, though it’s not clear how many are tied to vaccination status.

A particularly thorny question involves unvaccinated people who need transplants specifically because covid infections destroyed their organs. As of late September, more than 200 lungs, as well as at least six hearts and two heart-lung combinations, had been transplanted for covid-related reasons in the U.S., according to UNOS data.

Many of those organs were transplanted earlier in the pandemic, before any covid vaccine was widely available. That’s no longer the case, Weill said. “If you’re just now getting vaccinated, you’ve done it at gunpoint, actually,” he said. “It’s not just a personal choice; they’re making some kind of a statement.”

Such patients are usually younger and healthier than other transplant candidates, aside from the covid-related damage, and they’re often acutely ill enough to go to the top of any transplant list. “The sick covid patient might go ahead of the stable cystic fibrosis patient,” Weill said.

https://khn.org/news...wn-on-waitlist/
 
A group of doctors and scientists is urging President Joe Biden's administration to drop its plans to distribute coronavirus booster shots to fully vaccinated adults, Politico reported.
The experts urged officials on a September 27 call to administer the booster shots only to the people who are most at risk of severe COVID-19, Politico reported, citing five people familiar with the call.
https://www.business...-report-2021-10
 

THURSDAY, Oct. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- It is an excruciating statistic: One in every four COVID-19 deaths in the United States leaves a child without a parent or other caregiver, researchers report.
 
The analysis of data shows that from April 2020 to July 2021, more than 120,000 children under the age of 18 lost a primary caregiver (a parent or grandparent who provided housing, basic needs and care), and about 22,000 lost a secondary caregiver (grandparents who provided housing, but not most basic needs).
 
"Children facing orphanhood as a result of COVID is a hidden, global pandemic that has sadly not spared the United States," study author Susan Hillis, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher, said in a U.S. National Institutes of Health news release.
 
Overall, about 1 in 500 children in the United States have become orphans or lost a grandparent caregiver to COVID-19, according to the study published Oct. 7 in the journal Pediatrics.
 
Children of racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 65% of youngsters who lost a primary caregiver to COVID-19, compared with 35% of white children, even though whites account for 61% of the U.S. population, and people of racial and ethnic minorities represent 39% of the population.
 
Orphanhood or the death of a primary caregiver due to COVID-19 was experienced by: 1 of every 168 American Indian/Alaska Native children, 1 of every 310 Black children, 1 of every 412 Hispanic children, 1 of every 612 Asian children, and 1 of every 753 white children.
 
Compared to white children, American Indian/Alaska Native children were 4.5 times more likely to lose a parent or grandparent caregiver, Black children were 2.4 times more likely, and Hispanic children were 1.8 times more likely.

https://www.webmd.co...ver-to-covid-19
 

Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden‘s handling of the Covid pandemic on Thursday, and blamed vaccine hesitancy on a lack of trust in Biden.
 
“During my administration, everybody wanted the vaccine,” Trump said in a phone interview with Sean Hannity. “There was nobody saying ‘oh, gee, I don’t want to take it.’ Now they say that and that’s because they don’t trust the Biden administration. I can think of no other reason.”
 
He added, “When I was there, everybody wanted it.”

https://www.mediaite...t-get-the-shot/

Edited by amor de cosmos, 08 October 2021 - 07:53 AM.

[LJ]

Correct......taking away needed surgeries from others, spreading Covid and death is all about avoiding tyranny.  

 

Looks like there are finally consequences.....

 

 

https://globalnews.c...siness-licence/

And that restaurant is still open and serving customers.

 

I missed putting the /s in my previous post.

[Victoria Watcher]

There is concern from other occupants of the building, meanwhile, about the isolation sites and the potential for transmission. Only an estimated 30% of unhoused people have been vaccinated, according to Island Health chief medical health officer Dr. Richard Stanwick.

 

 

https://www.capitald...housed-victoria

[amor de cosmos]

Ucluelet First Nation has proclaimed a state of emergency, allowing only residents whose travel is essential to enter its territory after confirmation of a COVID-19 outbreak.
https://www.timescol...reak-1.24362984

Victoria bus drivers, other transit employees must be vaccinated by Nov. 29
https://www.timescol...v-29-1.24362972
 

A Hope, B.C., restaurant where the owner refuses to check the vaccine passports of patrons was open for business as usual Thursday night in defiance of a closure order. 
 
Rolly's Restaurant was served notice its business licence had been suspended effective 1:30 p.m. PT Thursday.
 
But when CBC News called Rolly's that night, staff said the owner was too busy with customers to come to the phone.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...-fine-1.6204925
 

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Teachers Federation is urging members to get vaccinated as it calls for a government mandate to ensure an equitable policy across the province, where some of the largest employers are requiring staff to be protected against COVID-19.

Union president Teri Mooring said Friday that it's up to the provincial government to take leadership at a time when cases among schoolchildren are climbing instead of relying on 60 school districts to come up with their own vaccine mandates.

https://www.timescol...date-1.24362869

Lockdown comes as First Nation in central B.C. declares COVID-19 emergency
https://www.timescol...ency-1.24362926

Poll finds growing support for vaccine passports in B.C.
https://www.timescol...-b-c-1.24362986
 

New Canadian data suggests the bold strategy to delay and mix second doses of COVID-19 vaccines led to strong protection from infection, hospitalization and death — even against the highly contagious delta variant — that could provide lessons for the world.

Preliminary data from researchers at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Quebec National Institute of Public Health (INSPQ) shows the decision to vaccinate more Canadians sooner by delaying second shots by up to four months saved lives.
 
The researchers excluded long-term care residents from the data, who are generally at increased risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19, in order to get a better sense of vaccine effectiveness in the general population — and the results were exceptional. 
 
The analysis of close to 250,000 people in B.C. from May 30 to Sept. 11 found two doses of any of the three available COVID-19 vaccines in Canada were close to 95 per cent effective against hospitalization — regardless of the approved vaccination combination. 
 
That means for every 100 unvaccinated people severely ill in Canadian hospitals, 95 of them could have been prevented by receiving two doses of either the AstraZeneca-Oxford, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, or some combination of the three.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...cines-1.6205993

possibly a publicity stunt

Interior Health has shut down a restaurant in Kelowna, B.C., for failing to comply with the province's vaccine mandate.
 
Renegade Kitchen and Craft Bar has publicly stated it would not check vaccine status as required by provincial government health orders.

Documents taped to the restaurant's windows outline weeks of demands from the health authority and management's refusals to comply.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...ports-1.6206073

Researchers find more severely COVID-19 infected mothers more likely to have preterm birth
https://www.newswise...-preterm-birth/
 

The world is in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, but the origins of the disease, which according to Johns Hopkins University has left nearly 5 million people dead, still remain a mystery, with scientists offering different explanations, including one which suggests that the virus appeared due to a leak in a Chinese laboratory.

SARS-CoV-2 did not originate in a cave in the Chinese province of Yunnan, claims a group of French scientists. Last year, a group of Indian researchers published an article, in which they suggested that the Mojiang cave could be the birthplace of the novel coronavirus, as a virus similar to SARS-CoV-2 was discovered in Mojiang in 2012.

At the time, six miners came down with a severe respiratory disease after cleaning the cave of bat faeces in order to mine copper. The men were aged between 30 and 60 and three of them succumbed to the disease. A subsequent examination revealed that the miners were infected with a coronavirus, which was named RaTG13. Samples of the virus were collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Indian scientists suggested that RaTG13 was a close relative of SARS-CoV-2. Their French colleagues, however, have claimed the contrary.

According to the preliminary findings of their study, which will be published next year, the individuals infected with RaTG13 displayed symptoms very different from those displayed by COVID-19 patients. They also questioned why the doctors and people the Chinese miners were in close contact with didn't fall ill.

The retrospective study of the miners' medical reports showed that unlike COVID-19 patients they had coughed up blood and mucus. CT scans showed that the miners didn't have the lung scarring seen in many hospitalised COVID-19 patients.

*snip*

The French scientists argue that the findings of their study refute previous allegations about the lab leak.
 

"Dismissing the Mojiang mine theory leaves the laboratory leak narrative without any scientific support thus making it simply an opinion-based narrative", reads the study.

https://sputniknews....1089790809.html

Cases of major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders have increased by more than 25 per cent worldwide, according to a world-first study of the impact of COVID-19 on mental health.
https://www.news-med...9-pandemic.aspx
 

In a paper published in Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, researchers found that farmers in East Africa (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) were able to better adapt to the impact of COVID-19 than those in the Southern African countries of Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

These regional differences, the researchers said, could largely be explained by the difference in arrival times of lock-down measures, access and adoption of technology and cultural differences in adapting to the new situation.

https://phys.org/new...ricultural.html
 
Brazil surpasses 600,000 COVID deaths
https://medicalxpres...vid-deaths.html
 

High-income nations should heed the World Health Organization's calls to delay COVID-19 vaccine boosters until 10% of people in every country are vaccinated, two bioethicists say in a paper published today.

"We maintain that offering boosters to people in wealthy countries takes humanity down the wrong path. It places everyone, vaccinated or not, at greater risk," says the paper, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
 
The authors are Nancy Jecker, professor of bioethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and Dr. Zohar Lederman, a bioethicist and emergency medicine physician at Rambam Healthcare Campus in Haifa, Israel.
 
They pointed to vaccine-tracking data showing that, as of Oct. 6, 2021, 77% of all vaccine jabs had gone to people in upper middle- and high-income countries, while less than 2% had gone to people in low-income countries.
 
Such a disparity is antithetical to health equity, and it is equally problematic for nations to offer boosters to broad populations of people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 – a sensibility Jecker characterizes as "You get none and I get three."
 
"From a purely utilitarian standpoint, the additional protection from a booster is much less than the protection from initial doses," Jecker said, citing a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "The first two doses of Pfizer give you 90% plus protection; if you receive a booster, perhaps you'll receive a 10% or 20% boost to protection. We ought to allocate doses to people who will acquire the most protection: those who are unvaccinated."
 
*snip*
 
Jecker explained that an individual's responsibility differs from that of a policy-setting government. But individuals in wealthy nations can and should advocate for their governments to do the right thing, following the WHO's request to hold off on administering boosters until more people in poorer nations are vaccinated, and donate to charities such as UNICEF that are helping to distribute vaccines to low-income nations.  
 
The paper concludes that the "unfettered nationalism" driving wealthy nations' rush for boosters is self-defeating. It risks prolonging the pandemic by allowing the virus to replicate and mutate in ways that could make it impervious to vaccines. In the end, "putting one's own nation first requires helping people everywhere," the authors said.

https://medicalxpres...ons-covid-.html

Donald Trump's former adviser Peter Navarro says he urged him twice to fire 'evil' Anthony Fauci
https://www.business...e-fauci-2021-10

not the onion

A Capitol riot suspect has requested leniency because she is unvaccinated and is afraid of getting COVID-19 in jail, court filings show.
 
Dona Bissey, 53,  from Bloomfield, Indiana, faces four charges, including entering and remaining in a restricted building, violent entry, and disorderly conduct in the Capitol.
 
Her attorney has requested that she receive no jail time and just 18 months probation.
 
"Simply put, if Ms Bissey is incarcerated at the D.C. Jail or in the BOP, which has seen 259 inmate deaths and over 43,000 infections from COVID-19, she is extremely likely to suffer severe illness or even death," her attorney A. J. Kramer wrote in the filing.

https://www.business...g-covid-2021-10

Proud Boy Rabbi Offers Religious Exemptions for COVID-19 Vaccines
https://www.miaminew...ccines-13073048
https://www.dailykos...cines-via-email

More women left the work force in September than the US economy added jobs
https://www.business...e-delta-2021-10

Edited by amor de cosmos, 09 October 2021 - 07:43 AM.

[Spy Black]

There is concern from other occupants of the building, meanwhile, about the isolation sites and the potential for transmission. Only an estimated 30% of unhoused people have been vaccinated, according to Island Health chief medical health officer Dr. Richard Stanwick.

 

 

https://www.capitald...housed-victoria

Man is there ever something completely screwy with the concept of spending huge sums of money to "not get these people sober" ... but to supply them with food, shelter, pot, methadone, and any other pharmaceuticals that might make an ongoing addicts life that much easier to maintain as an ongoing addict.

 

What on earth got us to the point where we are assembling drug addicts and criminals in hotels and motels, providing them with everything they need in order to maintain their lives as drug addicts and criminals ... and doing it all on the public dime?

 

COVID seems to have morphed into some sort of blanket program to bring every drug addict and criminal in Canada out to Victoria in order to set up a fully funded program that allows for them to continue to live what only a few years ago was considered an unacceptable lifestyle.

 

Insanity.

[Nparker]

If they are living in former hotels or other buildings (purchased with my tax dollars BTW) they are not "unhoused".

[Victoria Watcher]

i'm not in favour of forced vaccination.

 

but of all the populations that i might consider it would be these ungrateful children.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 October 2021 - 09:11 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Over the past week, Canada saw an average of 3,745 new cases of COVID-19 per day. That's less than half of the more than 8,000 new infections per day predicted by earlier modelling presented in September, Tam said.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...g-tam-1.6204669







what’s the point of the modelling if it’s off by 50%?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 October 2021 - 03:39 PM.

[Barrrister]

Unfortunately. having a drug addict in the extended family, I find it disconcerting how much the basic science of the situation is misunderstood. Worse still I believe that the scientific status of drug addiction is intentionally misunderstood or ignored.

At best people in the poverty industry are willfully blind.

 

Put at its most simple and clearly understood position meth, cocaine, oxyi and heroin addicts are seriously brain damaged and I mean that in the literal sense.

This not controversial science (unless you are an anti vaxxer that believe there are little transmitters in the vaccine), Myself I will go with the universal conclusions of the Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins, Berkley and every other major research hospital in the world. Nor is this some wing nut theory since the damaged centers of the brain are clearly visible on MRI and other scans. And the damage is profound.

 

It is why I believe it is almost criminally irresponsible what we are doing with these poor suffering souls. In terms of the vaccine, the part of the brain that calculates risk is at best seriously impaired and at worst virtually non existant in long term drug addicts. They are unable to comprehend the risk of a situation such as taking fentanyl. Asking them to understand the risk of being unvaccinated  is totally beyond many of them to actually understand. They really are that brain damaged.

[Nparker]

...I believe that the scientific status of drug addiction is intentionally misunderstood or ignored. At best, people in the poverty industry are willfully blind...

Their willful blindness is a deliberate measure to ensure the crisis continues for preservation of the industry itself.

[Victoria Watcher]

this headline and article is pretty rich.  trust the CBC to twist this right up backwards.

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...isons-1.6200527

 

 

and of course CBC shuts off online comments on this piece.  we can comment on randy bachmans guitar being found 45 years later, but a covid story is deemed by our media masters not to be commented on.

 

 

 

https://www.reddit.c...e_used_by_some/

 

 

 

Jarniewski's parents died decades ago, but she says they would have denounced any comparisons between the pandemic and the Holocaust.

 

She's doing what she can to counter it by educating people about the Holocaust and pushing for stricter anti-hate laws in Canada.

 

"I've often said that, you know, as difficult as it is to have lost my parents so long ago, I'm glad that they didn't have to experience this, to hear this kind of hate again."

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...isons-1.6200527

 

yes that's a great idea right?  honour the legacy of holocaust victims and survivors by restricting free speech.  smh.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 October 2021 - 06:12 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

September 3:

 

New modelling released by Tam Friday showed if the current rate of transmission of COVID-19 remains the same, Canada could see more than 15,000 new cases a day by the beginning of October.

 

That would be almost twice the 8,500 daily cases Canada was seeing on average at the height of the third wave, though so far hospitalizations are not rising as quickly as they did in the spring.

 

 

TODAY:

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 October 2021 - 06:29 AM.

[Spy Black]

this headline and article is pretty rich.  trust the CBC to twist this right up backwards.

Trotting out Nazi tropes of any type, focused on anything that makes direct or indirect reference to Jews, is most definitely anti-Semitic, regardless of what point the "user" is trying to make.

 

It's simple really ... you can't make your point on the back of Jews who suffered at the hands of Nazi's ... it doesn't matter what your point is, and it doesn't t matter how vigorously you protest that you're not anti-Semitic.

To try and make a point (any point) in this manner is anti Semitic, whether the person trying to make the point realizes it or not.

 

It may actually come down to a debate focused on the difference between "intentional anti semitism" vs. "ignorant anti semitism" ... but it's all anti semitism nonetheless.

[Victoria Watcher]

so no comparisons can ever be drawn to nazi techniques or circumstances?  even ever so lightly?  because this offends jews?  not so sure.

 

saying things that might offend some - or many or even most - jews is no equal to antisemitism.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 October 2021 - 07:04 AM.

[amor de cosmos]

John Carroll, long-time owner of popular White Rock restaurant Charlie Don't Surf, died Thursday from COVID-19.
https://www.cbc.ca/n...id-19-1.6206560

The COVID-19 vaccine was developed using a fetal cell line. So were Tylenol, ibuprofen...and ivermectin.
Exposing yet another anti-vaccine campaign of disinformation
https://vajenda.subs...e-was-developed
 

ROME (Sputnik) - Police in Rome fired water cannons to break up a massive protest against COVID-19 digital certificates outside the seat of the Italian government on Saturday.

Some 10,000 people, outraged by the government's push to make "green passes" mandatory in workplace, demanded that Prime Minister Mario Draghi resign, according to Rai News 24.

Masked protesters tried to break into the head office of the main Italian labor union, CGIL, which backs green passes. They crashed the front door but were driven out by police forces.

https://sputniknews....1089800188.html
 
Fury in Vietnam over killing of 13 dogs as owners contract Covid-19
https://www.thestar....ntract-covid-19
 

Уроженец города Миасс (Челябинская область) журналист, телеведущий и основатель Телевизионного агентства Урала (ТАУ) Иннокентий Шеремет более двух недель находится в больнице Екатеринбурга, ему поставлен диагноз «коронавирусная инфекция». Журналист тяжело переносит болезнь. Информация об этом опубликована на официальной странице Шеремета в социальной сети Facebook.

«Я ***л [потерял] всю свою жизнь, превратил ее, свое здоровье и здоровье сотрудников ТАУ в катастрофу. Я уничтожил свою жизнь и здоровье, бизнес, здоровье десятков сотрудников новостей „Девять с половиной“, потому что я *** [слабый человек] и жевал сопли. Я не решился сказать себе и своим сотрудникам „идите и срочно поставьте вакцину“. Жизнь, здоровье и телевидение превращены в катастрофу. Сейчас чтобы попытаться подняться с кровати и не потерять сознание из-за гипоксии [я не могу], и теряю сознание», — отметил он в своем видеообращении.
 
A native of the city of Miass (Chelyabinsk region), journalist, TV presenter and founder of the Ural Television Agency (TAU) Innokenty Sheremet has been in a hospital in Yekaterinburg for more than two weeks, he was diagnosed with coronavirus infection. The journalist is seriously ill. Information about this was published on the official page of Sheremet on the social network Facebook.
 
“I *** l [lost] my whole life, turned it, my health and the health of TAU employees into a disaster. I destroyed my life and health, business, and the health of dozens of Nine and a Half News staff because I was *** [a weak person] and chewed snot. I did not dare to tell myself and my employees “go and deliver the vaccine urgently”. Life, health and television have become a disaster. Now, in order to try to get out of bed and not lose consciousness due to hypoxia [I cannot], and I lose consciousness," he said in his video message.

https://ura.news/news/1052510075
 
NYC Security Guard Stabbed After Asking Apple Store Customer to Wear a Mask
https://www.mediaite...to-wear-a-mask/
 

Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen West announced Saturday night that he has pneumonia related to a COVID-19 infection. 
 
The former Florida representative and lieutenant colonel announced on Twitter that there was "concern" about his oxygen saturation levels, which are at 89 percent. 
 
"I want to thank all of you for your prayers. Angela and I just completed the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy and are in the observation period. There’s a concern about my oxygen saturation levels, which are at 89 and they should be at 95," West said. 

"My chest X-rays do show COVID pneumonia, not serious. I am probably going to be admitted to the hospital," he added.
 
The news comes after West, a critic of current Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ® announced on Friday that both he and his wife had contracted the disease. 
 
West clarified at the end of a series of tweets that his wife, Angela, is vaccinated. However, West himself has not yet had the jab. According to the Friday Twitter post, West said that he was experiencing a low-grade fever and light body aches. 
 
He added that he was suspending his in-person campaign events until he was cleared to return.

"Col. West will be available through virtual means to do events until his family's health issue is rectified. He is already taking Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin protocols," the tweet read.

https://thehill.com/...navirus-related
 

Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church is repaying millions of dollars it received in COVID-19 disaster funds that prompted backlash from church-state separation groups and others last year. 
 
Lakewood received about $4.4 million through the Paycheck Protection Program to cover payroll and other expenses as it shuttered in-person services for seven months last year. After the Chronicle reported the loan, Osteen’s name trended nationally on Twitter as people criticized him.

https://www.houstonc...PP-16519313.php
https://www.rawstory...steen-ppp-loan/

[Spy Black]

so no comparisons can ever be drawn to nazi techniques or circumstances?  even ever so lightly?  because this offends jews? 

Simple answer would be "no", you can't ever draw those comparisons.

 

This understanding is solidly established in civilized society in response to the deaths of 6 million Jews at the hands of the Nazi's.

Understanding the reasons why such comparisons are forbidden forms the very foundation of what does, or doesn't constitute anti semitism (along what constitutes an informed, decent human being)

Trite comparisons to mask wearing or vaccinations belittle and diminish the atrocities perpetrated against the Jews.

 

On a lighter note, such comparisons are also incredibly lazy, and tend to display an overt ignorance of the subject matter. Those who choose to make such comparisons, and who don't understand why their comparisons always land with a disgusting "thud" generally don't represent the best society has to offer in terms of educated, informed, and compassionate human beings.

[Victoria Watcher]

but just a year ago American mainstream media referred to border detainment practices as concentration camps, and the US president was routinely called a Nazi. The media even likened a Republican stage design to a Nazi symbol.

civilized society compared a lot of things to the Nazi regime just a year ago. What suddenly changed?

[Spy Black]

I guess that depends on your definition of "civilized society".

I guess that depends on who (exactly) called the sitting President a "Nazi".

And I guess it's up to the viewer as to whether the stage design in question did in fact resemble a Nazi symbol.

 

"concentration camp" is not a phrase unique to Naziism ... it's a reference to prisons worldwide that contain people for their personal beliefs (often political or religious) as opposed to holding them for crimes they may have committed.

There have (unfortunately) been concentration camps in a large number of countries throughout history ... far too many to make note of.

[Victoria Watcher]

Top House Democrats compare Trump’s rise to Hitler’s

 

https://www.cnn.com/...ison/index.html

[Mike K.]

I guess that depends on your definition of "civilized society".
I guess that depends on who (exactly) called the sitting President a "Nazi".
And I guess it's up to the viewer as to whether the stage design in question did in fact resemble a Nazi symbol.

"concentration camp" is not a phrase unique to Naziism ... it's a reference to prisons worldwide that contain people for their personal beliefs (often political or religious) as opposed to holding them for crimes they may have committed.
There have (unfortunately) been concentration camps in a large number of countries throughout history ... far too many to make note of.

Concentration camp absolutely is a colloquial reference to Nazi labour and death camps.

Definition from Merriam-Webster: a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard —used especially in reference to camps created by the Nazis in World War II for the internment and persecution of Jews and other prisoners