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
And he’s not afraid to show it.
If an economy was recovering from pandemic restrictions and actually growing, these kinds of supply chain management issues would not be happening. Are attempts to involve the police a result of the encouragement of neighborhood snitching during the pandemic?
According to The Independent, the shortage of menu items caused a large enough uproar that London’s Metropolitan Police was forced to publish a tweet about the “KFC Crisis.”
Please do not contact us about the #KFCCrisis – it is not a police matter if your favourite eatery is not serving the menu that you desire.
With all the smartest people in the room predicting a Trudeau majority, this is our opportunity to burn the Conservative Party to the ground.
Jonas J. Smith announced his candidacy on July 13. He was acclaimed as the Yukon candidate. He ran in the 2019 election and was nearly successful, narrowly losing to Liberal candidate Larry Bagnell by less than one per cent of votes.
The decision to end his candidacy came down from the party’s “central campaign” according to Smith, who said he was informed of the decision early on Aug. 12 — his statement on the end of his candidacy went out late that afternoon. […]
“This comes as shocking news to me, my family, my local campaign team and my thousands of supporters across the territory,” said Smith in his press release. “With an election call imminent, this is devastating news for the conservative movement in the Yukon and I fear will have repercussions across the country.”
Smith said he was told the reason for his disallowment was his “opposition to calls for implementation of mandated workplace vaccinations and vaccine passport requirements in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Federal conservative leader Erin O’Toole has been vague in comments around mandatory vaccination policies, although he has been strident in encouraging vaccination for all Canadians.
Don’t blow it.
h/t Sean M.
Yes, you will: If “mandatory” fails to work, then what do politicians do for an encore?
According to this roundup of current CNN stories on the topic, there’s no Covid problem that can’t be solved with the firm application of Vaccine Apartheid, coupled with loading the unvaccinated with financial costs that they cannot afford.
Wen previously suggested that life should be made as difficult as possible for those who are still opting not to take the shots, and that Americans should be banned from engaging in social events and forced to undergo PCR tests twice a week if they want to stay unvaccinated. She also previously advocated directly linking the amount of freedom Americans should be allowed to their vaccination status.
As one would expect with all centrally planned systems, Britain’s “ping” system for tracking Covid exposure is breaking down.
Britain’s supermarkets, wholesalers and hauliers were struggling on Thursday to ensure stable food and fuel supplies after an official health app told hundreds of thousands of workers to isolate after contact with someone with COVID-19.
This is what a backbone looks like.
Jesus Christ, what happened to you, Manitoba?
Loosened restrictions mean Manitobans are able to enjoy restaurants again in a way they haven’t since the COVID-19 pandemic began — provided they’re fully vaccinated, have waited two weeks since their second shot, and most importantly, have proof.
One Winnipeg restaurateur told 680 CJOB he’s excited for his customers who have been able to get back to some form of normalcy when it comes to going out to eat. Yet amid the new experience of scanning QR codes to confirm patrons are fully vaccinated, he says his restaurant experienced another first — a faked code.
Fionn MacCool’s manager Jay Kilgour told 680 CJOB that the incident happened over the weekend. […]
When the province launched the secure QR codes as digital and physical proof of vaccination last month, premier Brian Pallister said the benefits of the vaccination cards were earned by Manitobans who have made the effort to get vaccinated and follow restrictions.
Your Premier is a deranged psychopath. Look over the fence to next door to remind yourselves how normal people live.
If this bunch has their way, we can look forward to permanent worldwide lockdowns. Why is zero Covid even a goal?
It comes as more than 1,200 ‘Zero Covid’ scientists – who believe that coronavirus should be completely eradicated with global lockdowns and social distancing – accused the UK of ‘endangering the world’ and creating conditions for the emergence of a new variant by pressing on with ‘Freedom Day’ on July 19.
‘We started easing restrictions before everybody was vaccinated.
What’s the plan for vaccinating everybody ? Jail for the refuseniks?
Here in North America many have been rightfully critical of the Covid lockdowns. But what we put up with pales in comparison to what’s going on down under.
Police will be asking people who are outside their homes what their reasonable excuse is, and will be cracking down on activities like unnecessary shopping.
“You don’t need that pair of shoes today,” said local commander Assistant Commissioner Tony Cooke.
Trudeau says: Canada won’t open border fully until 75% people vaccinated…
So, what’s the plan for when this thing “goes away on it’s own” and we’re still short of the target? Because that threshold of 75% double-dose will never be met. Even in Saskatchewan where the hesitant are growing numb from the lectures, pleading and insults, we’re only crawling our way to 70% on the first shot.
Oh, the humanity…
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[T]here are those among us who think we should view Trudeau skirting this farkakta system he’s in charge of as a non-event: “Let’s just get over this. He’s the prime minister,” his former foreign policy adviser Roland Paris told Global News — as if we were talking about renovating 24 Sussex Drive, or buying new government jets, or any of the other things that inform world-weary “omigod we’re so petty and cheap” takes on Canadian politics.
Sorry, no. Idiotic policy-making and hypocrisy are quite rightly newsworthy in politicians on their own; when they combine as spectacularly as this, it’s an opportunity to pay close attention to both, not look away.
Many of us have seen this coming for quite some time. It’s par for the course when computer models substitute for rational judgement.
Should we aim for higher,” [Tam] asked. “Yes, I think we should. As I said, shoot for higher, shoot for gold, shoot for the stars. That gives us a better buffer for managing the COVID-19 situation.”
Shooting the economy in the head should not be confused with shooting for the stars.
