They’re starting to get the hang of this.
Victoria police retreat as construction workers protesting vaccine passports & shutdowns throw projectiles & charge. pic.twitter.com/M3TXErfM7H
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) September 21, 2021
For context: the jab has been mandated for the construction and trade industries, or these men are all faced with losing their jobs. The union which is supposed to represent them, CFMEU, has not defended their right to freedom of choice and sold them out.
I’m old enough to remember when it was one-in-a-million: Incidence of myopericarditis overall was approximately 10 cases for every 10,000 inoculations.
Summary and Conclusions This is the largest series in the literature to clearly relate the temporal relationship between mRNA COVID vaccination, symptoms and CMR findings. In most patients, symptom onset began within the first few days after vaccination with corresponding abnormalities in biomarkers and on ECG. Cardiac MRI confirmed acute myocardial and pericardial changes with the presence of edema demonstrated with both tissue mapping and late gadolinium enhancement. Symptoms settled quickly with standard therapy and patients were discharged within a few days. No major adverse cardiac events and no significant arrythmias were noted during inpatient stay. Further follow up will be required to ascertain the longer-term outcomes of this patient group.
If you’ve been vaccinated and experience chest pain after — don’t ignore it. (Lord knows how many cases went unreported in those who recovered without seeking medical attention).
Don’t interpret any of my posts to suggest you shouldn’t get vaccinated. This isn’t a team sport in which you must pick a side (much as some of you want it to be). You are allowed to hold than one position at the same time. It’s not contradictory to choose vaccination and oppose mandates. It’s not contradictory to be vaccinated and yet skeptical of government claims about risk and effectiveness. It’s not contradictory to be vaccinated, while rejecting coercion and the scapegoating of those who choose not to.
I’m sure these things are completely unrelated.
Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest tells anti-vaxxers they’re not welcome at Fortescue
Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group scrambles to fill key management positions after mass exodus
Update: And surprise, surprise they aren’t.
Durham Region(Ontario) mandates contact tracing for gatherings in people’s homes
Durham Region’s top doctor has quietly passed new rules mandating that all residents must conduct contact tracing of anyone who comes to their house for a “social gathering.” This is regardless of how many people are in attendance, how well they know each other, and the purpose of the visit. If someone is found to not be complying, they can be hit with a $5,000 fine. Dr. Robert Kyle, Durham Region’s medical officer of health, issued this as a Sec. 22 class order under the Ontario Health and Protection and Promotion Act that came into effect on Sept. 10.
These people are simply too stupid to be running our lives.
What’s the difference between Israel and Canada?
While most countries are still trying to finish inoculating their populations for the first time, Israel is already preparing for a second round of booster doses. The country is making efforts to secure sufficient supply in case a fourth round of Covid-19 shots is needed, according to a top health official.
“We don’t know when it will happen; I hope very much that it won’t be within six months, like this time, and that the third dose will last for longer,” Health Ministry Director General Nachman Ash said in an interview with Radio 103FM.
Israel began a drive to administer booster shots at the beginning of August, and has so far inoculated about 2.8 million people with a third dose.
How significant is it that the two top FDA officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in The Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters? This is a remarkable sign that the project of government-managed virus mitigation is in the final stages before falling apart.
The booster has already been promoted by top lockdown advocates Neil Ferguson of Imperial College and Anthony Fauci of NIH, even in the face of rising public incredulity toward their “expert” advice. For these two FDA officials to go on record with grave doubts – and their perspective is certainly backed by the unimpressive booster experience in Israel – introduces a major break in the narrative that the experts in charge deserve our trust and deference.
What’s at stake here? It’s about more than the boosters. It’s about the whole experience of taking away the control of health management from individuals and medical professionals and handing it over to modelers and government officials with coercive power. […]
At no point in these 19 months have we seen a clear admission of failure on the part of government officials. Indeed, it’s mostly been the opposite, as the agencies double down, claiming effectiveness while citing no data or studies, while social media companies backed it all by taking down contrarian posts and brazenly deleting accounts of people who dare cite dissenting science.
The vaccine was the biggest gamble of all simply because the program was so expensive, so personal, and so wildly oversold. Even those of us who opposed every other mandate had hopes that the vaccines would finally end the public panic and provide governments a way to back out of all the other strategies that had failed.
That did not happen.
Most people believed that the vaccine would work like many others before them to block infection and spread. In this, people were merely believing what the head of the CDC said. “Our data from the C.D.C. today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick,” Rochelle Walinsky told Rachel Maddow. “And that it’s not just in the clinical trials, it’s also in real-world data.”
“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,”President Biden said, reflecting what was the common view in the summer of 2021.
That of course turned out not to be the case. The vaccines appear to have been helpful in mitigating against some severe outcomes but it did not achieve victory over the virus. Israel’s surge in infections in August was among the fully vaccinated. The same happened in the UK and Scotland, and that precise result began to hit the US in September. Indeed, we all have vaccinated friends who caught the virus and were sick for days. Meanwhile, team natural immunity has received a huge boost from a large study in Israel that demonstrated that recovered Covid cases gain far more protection than is conferred by the vaccine.
The fallback position then became the booster. Surely this is the answer! Israel was first to mandate them. Here again, the problems began to show, as yet another magic bullet of disease mitigation failed. Then the inevitable headline came: Israel preparing for possible fourth COVID vaccine dose. So think about this because there is a sense in which the vaccines rank among the biggest failures: in a matter of a few short months, we’ve gone from the claim that they fully protect to they are pretty okay provided you get regularly scheduled boosters forever.
Read the whole thing.
Updated with link to referenced Lancet letter.
From the midwits who did such a bang up job of getting out of Afghanistan.
Path out of the Pandemic –PRESIDENT BIDEN’S COVID-19 ACTION PLAN
NEW – Australian public health chief: "We will be looking at what contact tracing looks like in the New World Order."pic.twitter.com/ksRxh1vShF
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) September 9, 2021
h/t WPB
Hedge fund managers sometimes joke the stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions. And then there’s Anthony Fauci.
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.” *
While it is undeniably true that Covid subsidies have incentivized the withdrawal of employees from the workplace, who is going to seek a long term career in an industry such as hospitality that could be shut down repeatedly at the drop of a hat? Offering higher wages will do little to encourage people to stay in a career with prospects that are this dim. Furthermore, what investor is going to stake capital in this same industry that is rapidly filling up with stranded assets?
In June, 60 per cent of B.C. hospitality workers who were no longer working in the industry had voluntarily left their positions.
“Canadian businesses unable to find enough workers may be forced to operate at a reduced capacity, missing out on the opportunity to fully recover from long months of lockdowns or curtailed operations,” the economist stated.
Boy, 13, turned away from B.C. walk-in clinic because he isn’t vaccinated
“Going to the ER seemed drastic,” she said, “but I thought maybe we could get it checked at the walk-in clinic.”
When Stein called the Enderby Medical Clinic to see if the doctor had space, the receptionist said he did, but then asked if her son had been vaccinated. After hearing the boy hadn’t been, she was told to take him to the emergency room at Shuswap Lake General Hospital in neighboring Salmon Arm.
“I was flabbergasted,” she said. “The doctor wouldn’t see us. He was only accepting fully vaccinated patients.”
No worries, in a few years it will be because of skin colour and how you vote.
Australia is planning ahead for mass detentions of people in the name of suppressing COVID. A thousand bed facility that won’t be ready until the end of the year is being constructed about a hundred miles inland from Brisbane, in Queensland Australia.
But all is not lost.
From September 13, NSW residents that are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be given new freedoms.
Residents of hotspots can leave home for an hour of recreation on top of their exercise hour, while people in other areas can meet five others outdoors.
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
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.
Back in spring…
Yesterday…
B.C. announces province will start COVID vaccine passport for non-essential services
By Oct. 24, only fully vaccinated British Columbians, 12 years and older, will be permitted entry into certain social, recreational and discretionary events and businesses
Several impounded dogs due to be rescued by a shelter have instead been shot dead by a rural council in NSW under its interpretation of COVID-19 restrictions, alarming animal activists and prompting a government probe.
Bourke Shire Council, in the state’s north-west, killed the dogs to prevent volunteers at a Cobar-based animal shelter from travelling to pick up the animals last week, according to council’s watchdog, the Office of Local Government.
“OLG has been informed that the council decided to take this course of action to protect its employees and community, including vulnerable Aboriginal populations, from the risk of COVID-19 transmission,” a spokesman from the government agency said.
The shelter was located in a region of Australia where there are no COVID cases. But quick thinking there, dragging out Aboriginals as human shields.
Australians are finally pushing back.
Around 20,000 gathered to peacefully protest in Brisbane and has taken a route twice as long as the Freedom Rally in July.
Beginning at the Botanical Gardens, protesters walked alongside Parliament House and then down into the retail heart of Brisbane, flooding Queen Street Mall.
Police closed the main streets and allowed the protest to move along unimpeded. They maintained communication with protesters and their organisers throughout with no incidents of violence reported. […]
The situation has turned violent in parts of the Melbourne protest, with reports that police have fired rubber bullets into the crowd.
Thousands came out to march for two and a half hours until police broke the group apart and started hunting down stragglers. Tear gas and pepper spray was deployed against both the media and protestors, including Rebel News reporter Avi Yemini.
More: Chaotic scenes as protesters break through police barricades in Melbourne, Australia
