Things I told you about a month ago — It said that though the research isn’t yet conclusive, “the results of available studies are consistent with aerosolization of virus from normal breathing.”
Wash those hands, plebes.
Update: Solid information on the situation in New York City on today’s War Room. After the interview with the oncologist is over, stay on for mention of the Australian study using Ivermectin. I’d like to hear what our readers in the medical field have to say.
Last night: President Trump Invokes Defense Production Act Taking Control of 3M Production…
Trudeau does not specifically answer Q about whether he has talked to trump today about the 3M issue, even on follow-up. He says gov understands there are pressures across Canada because of "dwindling supplies" and says that's why gov is working to order/make more PPE.
— Annie Bergeron-Oliver (@AnnieClaireBO) April 3, 2020
CBC: Because there are currently no domestic manufacturers of N95 masks, pressure put on the global supply by the coronavirus pandemic has left Canada in a precarious position.
Background.
Just finished a great telephone briefing from former Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, who led Canada’s response to H1N1. Canada should have medical stockpiles, she says. Where did they go?
— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) April 3, 2020
Within hours of the distributor’s demand, the group had assembled a consortium of 19 different entities in need of the masks, including two major hospital chains, one city health department in Colorado, six county governments in three states, and one governor’s office. Though several of the buyers were also hoping to purchase gowns, gloves, ventilators, and other supplies, they were pooling resources to be able to put in the minimum order of 3M’s 1860 N95 mask, which protects health care workers against airborne particles and is “resistant to splash and spatter of blood and other infectious materials.”
Although the 1860 N95 masks should cost $1.27 each, according to a price list 3M issued yesterday, the Canadian dealer was charging more than $7 per mask. But the jacked-up price isn’t what killed the deal. Even the major hospital chains were desperate enough to spend the money. Instead, the group’s purchase began to fall apart when the dealer said that the Canadian military had seized 10 million of the masks and then insisted that the group not only commit to buying the remaining 20 million masks but also to five additional monthly purchases of 20 million masks, totaling $140 million.
A comprehensive timeline of China’s lies.
And YOU! And You! And You over there!
The Canadian emergency response benefit is part of the Canadian government’s massive relief package to taxpayers in the midst of the global pandemic.
Unfortunately for those same taxpayers, Trudeau has snuck non-Canadians onto the list of who qualifies for that lucrative $8,000 per person bail out.
International students, most of whom come from China, are among those eligible. So are temporary foreign workers.
Politicians warned Wednesday Canadians can expect weeks or months of social distancing, but declined to reveal their own models or estimates of just how many people could become infected or die of COVID-19.
While federal and provincial leaders stressed the need for Canadians to maintain the fight against COVID-19, they refused to disclose models that project how the virus might play out.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said releasing projection models might prompt panic.
“There are a few different models and if we give one or the other it sends two different messages,” said Ford. “These models could drastically, drastically change. If we underestimate on one side and overestimate on the other (it could) create a panic if we overestimate.”
When asked about releasing information from such models, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “There are a wide range of projections depending on how Canadians are behaving.”
In Saskatchewan they refuse to even disclose where COVID-19 cases are.
The same government that has been giving us computer models about the climate 80 years from now, given current policies, can't give us computer models about COVID-19 eight weeks from now, given current policies? #cdnpoli
— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) April 2, 2020
Related: Trudeau’s attempt to help may kill many small businesses
CRA will take wage subsidy applications in 3-6 weeks.
But how long until the money gets to small business?
He does not know.
— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) April 2, 2020
Meanwhile in Stockton…Did we mention San Joaquin County has more cases of COVID-19 than the entire Central Valley and Foothills COMBINED? 👀 pic.twitter.com/S9zvzdYK0Z
— 209 Times (@209TimesCA) March 30, 2020
On whether China's numbers are accurate, Trump says: "I'm not an accountant from China"
— Herb Scribner (@HerbScribner) April 1, 2020
More: Does this sound like a country of a billion people that has only a couple dozen new cases per day, as the official numbers state?”
Public Health Agency did not stock masks but spent $5.6M on #ClimateChange, incl studies of mosquitoes, rats, and programs on “storytelling regarding climate change”. https://t.co/VSOWKoKlyg @CPHO_Canada #covid19Canada #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/7WwPQKwq4m
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) April 1, 2020
From the comments;
The federal government announced Tuesday that it “was in the process of finalizing an agreement” with the Montreal-based protective equipment manufacturer Medicom to start N95 and surgical mask production in Canada.
But the proposed Medicom manufacturing site won’t be up and running for months. According to the company, neither the location nor the number of facilities that will be producing masks has been decided. It is aiming to start production in early summer.
Trudeau is desperately trying to source N95 masks from other countries, who are struggling with their own needs.
Guess “studies of mosquitoes, rats, and programs on “storytelling regarding climate change” were more important.
More than a third of care homes in the Paris region alone are thought to have been affected by coronavirus. But while hospital deaths are recorded in the daily toll of coronavirus, deaths in care homes are not. […]
Few of the cases in France’s retirement homes are ever tested for the virus, once an initial outbreak has been confirmed. But day after day, stories are emerging of double-digit death tolls inside these institutions, now virtually shuttered from the outside world.
As Italy and Spain have so far seen Europe’s biggest and deadliest outbreaks, so have the elderly in care homes borne the most painful brunt, enveloped by twin crises of mass infection and staffing shortages.
In Italy, hundreds of deaths have been reported in residential homes in Bergamo in the north, while 83 elderly residents went without food at a home for two days in the south because staff had to go into quarantine.
“Grim” is an understatement.
Happy social distancing, mushrooms.
Feel free to share this historical reminder with your Leftist friends and family members.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose again!
Washington, DC – March 30, 2020: Trump unveils new five-minute coronavirus test device
Update: FDA authorizes two-minute antibody testing kit to detect coronavirus
Ottawa, ON – March 31st, 2020: “our next-generation manufacturing supercluster will be leading companies in developing and scaling up new technologies to test and to treat Canadians.”
Flashback to SDA, March 27th: This is GAME CHANGER. Abbott to market, starting next week, a fast point-of-care #coronavirus test, delivering positive results in 5min and negative results in 13min. Will deliver 50K tests/day to start. Kudos to Abbott and FDA’s Jeff Shuren and team at CDRH who are in the fight.
Fake News Update: Agriculture department denies report that China has lifted ban on Canadian canola
Original post below.
A hungry China is a restless China: China to resume imports of Canadian canola, sources say
More: A food crisis looms as coronavirus forces farms to stay idle and countries hoard supplies
Breaking: CNN anchor @ChrisCuomo has been diagnosed with Covid-19. The network just informed staffers in New York. Chris is feeling well, and will continue anchoring from home. https://t.co/53yTgDJaS7
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 31, 2020
Be nice.
Via Mark Spiegel
Related items (please be sure they’re reliable sources) are invited in the comments.
Government urgency.
“Maddow” — well on her way to becoming a verb.
Via Bannon’s War Room, which I recommend for your daily watch list.
With an intro by Sarah Hoyt;
Let me put this into small bite-size ideas: Globalism, of the sort that assumes there are no real differences between cultures and that totalitarian regimes are as trustworthy as non-dictatorial regimes, is a luxury. It is the luxury of those so wealthy and pampered they can afford to ignore reality and live in make-believe. In centuries past it was the luxury of the very few and very wealthy. Briefly, for a shining moment in history, all of the West could afford to be that stupid.