Sounds like a win/win.

Essex Windsor EMS has down-staffed ambulances today (out of service due to lack of staff), after 18 paramedics were placed on unpaid leave yesterday.

It really is insidious.

2022 Manitoba Games cancelled

The announcement was made by Sport Manitoba and the Niverville Host Society Friday afternoon. The games were scheduled to run from February 27th to March 5th and would have had upwards of 1,500 participants and required over 1,000 local volunteers.

Along with continued uncertainty about the pandemic, and public health restrictions, it became clear it would not be possible to host an event of this magnitude and execute a safe and successful multi-sport Games experience.

Everyone feels much safer already.

And the Hospitals will staff themselves.

172 Windsor, Ont., hospital staff suspended without pay for not getting COVID-19 shots

“We shouldn’t be doing things for the sake of it” Health Secretary Sajid Javid says a scheme for vaccine passports for entry to nightclubs and large events in England will not be going ahead.

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Canada opened the land border to fully vaccinated Americans on August 9th, hoping to spur recovery in their destroyed tourism industry.

Border crossings did increase somewhat at first but have steadily declined since: currently down 90% versus 2019:

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We don’t need no stinkin’ tourist dollars.

In 2019, tourism was Canada’s number one service export, totaling 3% of total exports, generating $105 billion in revenue, and accounting for 1.8 million direct and indirect jobs in Canada.

What did everyone see out there the last couple of days in our new segregated economy? Are things bouncing back?

The Manitoba marathon was a bit thin this year. 

The event usually hosts roughly 12,000 participants, but Munday said this year was closer to 3,000. Runners were required to wear masks while waiting in their corral and once they crossed the finish line. Orange pylons separated athletes into five lanes at the starting line. Once a buzzer would sound, five people would start to run, followed by a five-second pause before the next group of five could begin. Munday said the delay between runners helped ensure social distancing during what is normally the most crowded portion of the event. “We usually send them out in five waves over a period of 20 minutes,” the executive director said. “Today, we did groups of 500 over four-and-a-half hours.”

But it’s not.

They got the level of compliance they wanted/needed. If there’s still a problem its not because enough people didn’t “step up” or “buy in” to the vaccines. The same can be said about the masks and the lockdowns. The general public has done more than its fair share to help and not without considerable cost and risk to themselves.  Continuing to gas light, demonize, bully and intimidate them will not improve the competency of the leaders involved, or the efficacy of the injections. Nor will it fix a health care system that we all know has been broken for generations now .

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Nice business you’ve got there, be a shame if something were to happen to it. 

Friday, September 3rd is the date given by the province in the latest public health orders to start requiring people to be fully immunized to participate in certain activities, gym and fitness centre usage being one of them.

Spence says three shutdowns of his gym over the last 18 months have been wearing on him and his business. “Each time you lose between 15 and 20% of your clientele. And then they brought in the mask mandate, which eliminated quite a few more people. 8 out of 10 people cancelled because they wouldn’t wear masks while working out. And then they brought in the vaccines.”

With current vaccination rates in Steinbach sitting around 61.9% for first-time vaccinations, both Dyck and Spence say that a large portion of the community can no longer access their facilities due to not being fully vaccinated. This frustrates Dyck, “So, 38% of your members are now ineligible to attend your business.” According to Dyck, Anytime Fitness will not be collecting any income from members that cannot come to the gym as “that would be unethical. At the very least, we’ll freeze it indefinitely until these things sort of change, or unless there’s a change of mind or change of heart from the government.”

They won’t kill your business, they’ll just make it impossible for you to live.

Richard Fernandez-

The official narrative has shifted from “we can beat the coronavirus” to “we can coexist with it but only if you follow our shifting instructions very carefully.” The pandemic has become endemic, going from something we can beat to “another virus that we’ll have to live with.” As far back as February, an article in Nature asked if we could ever be “coronavirus-free… [by maintaining] heavy restrictions… could the world hope to rid itself of the virus?”

Probably not.

You don’t have any.

And if you do unelected officials will decide if and when they apply.

More and more Manitobans must be feeling like Charlie Brown trying to kick Lucy’s football. Unlike the leaders of jurisdictions to the west of us, Brian Pallister firmly believes that his micromanagement of human affairs need not be ended, but merely tweaked. The following is only one example of the bzyantine dance of Covid theater that residents of our province must endure.

Restaurant patrons may only sit together indoors if they are from the same household or if all those 12 and over are fully vaccinated. Outdoor maximum table size remains at eight people, but opening hours will be extended to midnight and the requirement to buy food when ordering alcohol is being scrapped.