Whoa. TRUDEAU CHASED OUT OF NEIGHBOURHOOD BY ANGRY CROWD
(h/t Adam)
And now this (@RobertFife): Reporters for The Globe and Mail and Global News refused to participate in an off the record discussion with Justin Trudeau on the Liberal campaign plane tonight. There should be no off record talks between leaders and journalists on any of the campaigns.
Are at least some elements of the mainstream media starting to break ranks over the standard Covid narrative? What’s even more surprising it that this story comes from the BBC.
“We could be digging ourselves into a hole, for a very long time, where we think we can only keep Covid away by boosting every year,” Prof Eleanor Riley, an immunologist from the University of Edinburgh, told me.
Prof Adam Finn, a government vaccine adviser, said over-vaccinating people, when other parts of the world had none, was “a bit insane, it’s not just inequitable, it’s stupid”.
It seems the Trudeau cult not only owns the media, but now it owns the polling firms. But many Canadians on Turtle Island don’t seem to care, as Dear Leader is inching ahead of O’Toole again in the latest poll. Everyone loves our little dictator.
A former Royal Marine trying to evacuate 200 dogs and cats alongside his animal shelter staff out of Afghanistan has been given fresh hope by the defence secretary.
By my calculation, we’re about 4 days out from the media riding to his rescue.
I was wrong. Here comes the Toronto Cavalry now.
It’s not just the Bus Drivers. There’s all sorts of people, in all sorts of jobs, who have been wanting to pull the pin for years already. This will be the final straw for them.
Manitoba facing shortage of school bus drivers, thanks in part to pandemic
BJ Langdon, president of Tony’s Team Transport, says there’s a shortage of school bus drivers, which might make the return to normalcy difficult. While it’s not a new issue, Langdon said, it’s one the pandemic has definitely exacerbated.
“We’ve had drivers who have had health complications in their past, and they’ve basically made it clear that it’s a great part-time job, they love doing it, they love the kids — but the problem is they cannot afford to get sick.
“You can’t blame them — even if they’re vaccinated, they still don’t want this disease, obviously.
All the added hassle is probably a bigger deterrent than anything else. There’s only so many stupid rules people are willing to put up with along side crazy hours and a small paycheck.
Speaking of Paycheck…
Cases in Israel are 976% higher than Sweden, despite their reinstated mask mandate and vaccine passport system, but sure experts, keep telling us masks and vaccine passports are the key to getting COVID “under control”
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
She claims its just a cultural reference. Sure, I’m betting some brain dead Liberals will believe that. By the way, has the media figured out yet what muslim country she immigrated from? Lets hear what you have to say about this Justin.
Don’t worry, they’re in charge.
Update: Biden Smirks, Makes Snide Remarks When Asked About Afghanistan as White House Cuts Audio Feed
Chinese state-owned shipbuilder tapped to supply ferry for Crown corporation
A huge state-owned shipyard in China is building a 1,000-passenger ferry for use by a federal Crown corporation over the objections of Canada’s shipbuilding industry and at a time when two Canadians have spent 989 days in Chinese prisons as victims of what Ottawa has called “hostage diplomacy.”
Marine Atlantic Inc. awarded a $100-million, five-year ferry charter contract in late July to Sweden’s Stena North Sea Ltd., which subcontracted construction of the 200-metre vessel to China Merchants Industry’s Jingling shipyard for delivery in 2024.
Union opposes mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for all Toronto police force members
The Toronto Police Association, which represents nearly 8,000 uniformed and civilian members of the force, said it was opposed to the announcement.
“This announcement, however preliminary, is missing critical details that are central to understanding the impacts, timelines, or potentially alternative options available to our members,” said association president Jon Reid.
“The TPA must make every effort to protect all of our members and therefore, does not support this mandatory vaccination announcement or mandatory disclosure.”
The association said the policy was announced with no documentation, procedures or orders in place to support it and added that it would be working with affected parties to explore collective options.
How many public sector unions going to roll over on this one or fight for their members?
While Dear Leader is campaigning around Turtle Island, ranting that he saved the country from the China virus, some brave souls disagree. For months while Peking Tam was ordering everyone to wear masks, the government didn’t order a single mask or PPE. I’m sure Blackie has an explanation.
Note the implication that “whiteness,” being white, equals racism and is therefore by default a thing to be discussed in terms of pathology, a thing to be cured. “Colour-blindness” – i.e., not being weirdly fixated by race – is, it turns out, deeply problematic, and must give way to deconstructing “the whiteness=greatness fallacy in white psyches.” Which is what “white psyches” are all about, you see.
This evening we encourage you to put on your psychologist’s hat and give us your take on this Karen. Remember that she has the same voting power as you.
Your somewhat more sane tips are appreciated.
Before he rides off into the Costa Rician sunset, Premier Pallister is going to lock down Manitobans good and hard one last time.
Pallister announced today that all provincial employees who work with vulnerable populations will need to be fully immunized for COVID-19 by October 31st, or undergo regular testing, to protect Manitoba against a fourth COVID-19 wave.
In addition, the province will put indoor mask requirements in place across Manitoba in the coming days, including in schools, and will expand the list of activities and services that can only be accessed if an individual is fully immunized.
“These steps are necessary to protect children in Manitoba, avoid another lockdown, and keep our health-care system safe from a fourth wave of COVID-19 and the dangerous delta variant,” says Pallister. “Despite having among the highest rates of vaccination in Canada, children in Manitoba are not yet eligible for the vaccine and we have to take every step we can to protect them from this virus, especially as they prepare to return to the classroom this fall.”
The new public health orders will require all designated provincial public service workers who have ongoing contact with vulnerable populations, especially children, to be fully immunized or submit to testing up to three times per week.
They’ve got models! With the always scary looking hockey stick. More interesting though are the breakthrough cases mentioned in the buried lede.
Of the 872,586 Manitobans considered fully vaccinated (two doses plus 14 days after the second shot) as of Sunday, just 47 have ended up requiring hospitalization. The province has seen 444 breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated individuals, with 55 of those infected with the delta variant.
Children have never been a vulnerable population but why should that stop anyone.
Update: A bit more info on the breakthroughs.
There have been 444 cases of COVID-19 that have been considered breakthrough infections, according to the province.
The numbers, accurate to Sunday, show those 444 cases coming in 872,586 Manitobans who are considered fully vaccinated (two doses plus 14 days following their second shot), for a breakthrough rate of 0.05%. It’s an increase of 42 breakthrough infections from last week’s figures.
Fifty-five of those breakthrough infections among fully immunization individuals are attributed to the delta variant, while 255 total are linked to variants of concern.
In total, 11 deaths have been reported among the fully vaccinated, including two in their 60s and nine aged 70 and over.
In the intellectual desert that the mainstream media has eagerly created, its good to know that at least some publications care to push back against the notion of vaccine passports.
Since the start of the mass vaccinations, researchers worldwide have examined whether vaccination does reduce the spread of COVID as a positive side effect. While it seems plausible that such an effect might occur, the results are meagre. Some studies found modest reductions in the spread of the original SARS-CoV-2 variant, a far cry from “stopping” transmission.
It is therefore nobody’s business to know whether another person is vaccinated or not. And there is no reason to expect, pressure or require another person to “take the jab.” The campaign to vaccinate children and young adults is particularly offensive, since they bear all the risks from short- and long-term adverse events and obtain no measurable benefits from the shot.
On the road from stirring symbol of hope and change to the Fat Elvis of neoliberalism, birthday-partying Barack Obama sold us out…
Apparently vaccines have something to do with Afghanistan. When asked about the situation there, he mumbled some drivel and then ranted about O’Toole not believing in vaccinations. I’m sure the CBC will mention this.
Sports loves to be part of whatever the latest propaganda push is.
Edmonton Elks serve as cautionary COVID tale to the rest of the CFL
In a virtual press conference, Elks president Chris Presson declined to identify the latest nine players under COVID protocols.
The question on everyone’s mind, of course, is who are they and are they vaccinated?
The thing is, the CFL’s first COVID outbreak is not, in and of itself, an issue of vaccination. Even fully vaccinated players can still come down with the virus, as evidenced when Elks offensive tackle SirVincent Rogers went public with his own experience of testing positive in Week 1.
Speaking to media via video conference while still in undergoing mandatory quarantine at the time, Rogers reported being asymptomatic and encouraged anyone not yet vaccinated to reconsider the benefits of getting the needle.
And Canadian media behaves as if no one in the country has any idea what’s going on in the rest of the world.
Baseball Has a High Vaccination Rate. It Still Hasn’t Been Able to Shut Down Outbreaks.
The New York Yankees have had a series of outbreaks in recent months despite the fact that nearly all of its players are vaccinatedTwenty-three of MLB’s 30 teams have reached the threshold of 85% of their Tier 1 employees being fully vaccinated, which includes players, coaches and essential staff members who are in close contact with players. About 86% of all Tier 1 individuals are fully vaccinated, MLB said. Many of them, including the New York Yankees, received their shots in late March and early April, around the time the season started.
There’s lessons here in all this its just that the evidence doesn’t line up with the narrative.