Discussion posted by: IRWeasel
As Toronto’s COVID-19 case numbers continue to rise, the city’s top doctor laments that people just aren’t getting the message. Using some of her most dire language yet, Chief Medical Officer Eileen de Villa said Monday that some tough realities may be coming if people don’t do their part to contain the spread.
Discussion posted by: OFRU
Just over 100 years ago, a new strain of influenza infected a third of the world’s population — but within just three years, the threat of this deadly flu had all but passed. This was a time before modern medical care and even before humans understood what viruses were. So what’s changed since then? It’s a question plenty of you have asked in recent months: how do pandemics end? And how will the one we’re currently living through end?
Article Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-health-care-throne-speech-1.5726111
Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul
Government has obligation to address pharmacare, charities, food and vaping regulations What determines a government’s actions? As the late British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is famously quoted, “Events, dear boy, events.” This year, governments around the world have faced one of the biggest possible “events” with the COVID-19 pandemic. It has upended political, economic and social plans, not to mention the sickness and death it has caused. The Governor General will be delivering the new Speech from the Throne on Sept. 23, promoted as Canada’s roadmap to pandemic recovery.
Discussion posted by: TheRage
“The reason we needed to spend so much to rescue the incomes of Canadians and their businesses is because the Liberals ignored military intelligence and let thousands of people come here from China after we knew there was a pandemic there, including 2,000 people from the most infected region of China,” points out Poilievre. The CBC revealed in April that the Trudeau government had received military intelligence in early January showing that there was a viral outbreak in China that was a real risk to Canada. Clearly, that intelligence was ignored. Poilievre can be seen in a YouTube video, that has been viewed 1.8 million times, questioning Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on whether she and the Liberal cabinet saw that military intelligence and she repeatedly refused to answer.
Discussion posted by: TheRage
More than a thousand people gathered in central London on Saturday to protest against lockdown measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, before the event was broken up by police. The protest, which led to 32 arrests, came as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering whether to reimpose some lockdown restrictions across England. Demonstrators carried banners saying “Covid is a hoax” and “My body, my choice: No to mandatory masks,” as well as chanting at police: “Choose your side.”
Discussion posted by: TheRage
A health inspector found problems with COVID-19 control measures at a 17th Avenue sushi restaurant, but what they found in the kitchen forced the complete closure of the restaurant. Inside the kitchen, the inspector found eight separate problems that led AHS to close the restaurant. They included: A raw pig’s head stored unwrapped in a cardboard box in the cooler; Multiple uncovered food buckets in the cooler, including broth; Mouldy food on the exterior and interior edges of numerous food containers; Mouldy food debris on the walls and shelves of the walk in cooler; Raw fish stored next to raw vegetables and above cooked food; Unlabelled chemical spray bottles; Lack of a cleaning schedule.
Discussion posted by: IRWeasel
No gun or knife was used to make this big score — this thief simply slipped on a white face mask and used the coronavirus as his weapon. It was a clever COVID-cover, employed to pull off the perfect car heist. It worked so well the alleged COVID-criminal using social distancing protocols didn’t just get away with one Mercedes worth six figures.
Article Link: https://globalnews.ca/news/7329359/patty-hajdu-china-coronavirus-data/
Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul
Health Minister Patty Hajdu continues to defend the Chinese government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying all countries have difficulties calculating the extent of the virus spread. In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, Hajdu was asked about her comments earlier in the year when she dismissed as a conspiracy theory a question about whether China had underreported their cases and the severity of the new, highly contagious disease…
Discussion posted by: TheRage
It’s bracing to discover on the day’s major issue you stand shivering among the exposed minority. And, when it comes to big issues, there’s never been one in human history — not even involving world wars — as the global response to this ongoing pandemic. Maybe that’s because we’re so interconnected nowadays, or perhaps we just aren’t used to dealing with sick people anymore. So, with such pandemic bombardment, it’s surprising any other Calgarian feels similarly about this current situation — believing our collective response is more worrisome than the actual virus. Why then stick with such an unpopular viewpoint? it’s because politicians cannot help but pass more laws for the apparent good of those they represent and, once the citizenry is fearful enough, this new-rules rush goes into overdrive.
Discussion posted by: IRWeasel
An Alaskan dentist known for running afoul of the law has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for various misdemeanors that include extracting a patient’s tooth while riding on a hoverboard. Seth Lookhart was sentenced in Anchorage Superior Court on dozens of charges stemming from actions that ranged from his scooting antics to Medicaid fraud and removing a patient’s teeth without their permission, reports the Anchorage Daily News.