Category: Wuhan Flu

Why does the Rest of Canada have to be in a Solidarity Lockdown with Quebec?

Lorne Gunter has some important questions for Canadian officials:

Alberta (which had two well-known outbreaks in meat-packing plants that skewed its statistics in mid-April), has had only a few dozen new cases a day this week despite opening up beauty salons, restaurants and most retail a week ago. Golf courses and provincial parks have been open for three weeks.

I would argue even Ontario is no longer so serious that its phased lockdown cannot proceed. More than three-quarters of Ontarians who have test positive are now COVID-free.

The problem remains Quebec.

Quebec still has more than half of the cases in the entire country. And fewer than a third of infected Quebecers have recovered.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Warning – 2020 Pandemic Lockdown Edition

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German dissident who fought against the Nazis until they locked him in a concentration camp and then murdered him in 1945, 21 days before Adolf Hitler committed suicide. On their most recent podcast, Drew Pinsky and Adam Carolla discussed a famous Bonhoeffer quote, relating to how deeply it applies today:

No matter what the issue, be it a virus, guns, building codes, or driving cars, much like beavers “do what they do”, so do politicians and political bureaucrats: no amount of regulation and control over the population is ever enough. With the recent worldwide lockdown, the government has instilled fear in the minds of many. And most of these many will now be compliant subjects for the rest of their lives. 🙁

“I knew nothing about it until I saw it on Facebook”

CBC: Local leaders are refuting claims made by Saskatchewan Health Authority that they were consulted on hospital closures;

“They may think that an off-the-cuff remark about doing this is consultation, where I don’t,” he said. “That seems to be a big problem with this government. They say they consult but they really don’t consult. They talk about something and then that’s it and then they go down their path they want to go.”

The red stars mark the locations of the rural ER’s involved in the closures.

That’s free money laying on the table for the NDP’s Ryan Meili, should he simply choose to pick it up.

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Covid death, or passive euthanization? A nurse told her he’d had a morphine shot in the hours before he passed away, but he was not given oxygen, nor did staff call an ambulance.

Florida Governor DeSantis delivers a media smackdown.

Trust the experts: ‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’

The problems in meat packing plants continue. (link fixed)

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WooOOOOooflu…

Sweden’s path is not living up to the hype. They currently have the highest COVID death rate in the world among reports of inadequate treatment. As for herd immunity — Important COVID19 update today on Sweden, from official press conference: serology survey of ~1100 people from 9 regions during week 18, with sensitivity 98.3% & specificity 97.7% was completed. Age pattern is as expected but seroprevalence is low, alas.

All 50 states are starting to re-open — in contrast to Saskatchewan where rural ER’s remain shuttered by order of a paralyzed Sask Health bureaucracy, while the border to Montana is closed and flights to Montreal remain open.

Another week, another Theresa Tam flip flop on masks.

CDC: “Hold my hand sanitizer”.

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China – 108 MILLION now back into lockdown.

But they’ve learned their lessons well: Xi’s 50 Cent Army is hard at work spreading blame America propaganda.

Ontario sees spike in new cases.

Covid Patients Testing Positive After Recovery Aren’t Infectious, Study Shows

Trump Takes ‘Historic’ Action To Move Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Out Of China, Back To U.S.

Related: A Neil Cavuto segment goes horribly wrong.

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The Latest from Texas

The state of Texas is an interesting “laboratory” for us all to watch right now:

As Texas reopens, a kind of normal is returning. Last week I was able to make an appointment and obtain a haircut, all perfectly legal. I went to a nearby lake this weekend and saw what looked like a pretty normal number of people, out fishing and kayaking and biking in the sun that’s known to kill the virus with its blaring UV light. It was so nice I took the camera and could have snapped enough pics for a wildflower calendar. Texas really is beautiful before the sun turns the state into a brick oven.

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