Category: Safe and Effective

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It’s not just Saskatchewan.

(Sure is taking them a long time to get that fixed.)

Ontario is also experiencing technical difficulties.

Check the other provinces for me, report back in the comments.

David F I’ve been following BC’s Covid information for a while. The “Data summary” report that shows cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status has not updated since December 16. No reason has been given, but I expect it’s because their ‘risk of getting COVID’ stat plummeted, and someone was proactive about saying “whoa, we can’t publish that”.

Peter Nova Scotia has been meticulous, albeit subject to the ususal caveats about quality, in putting out their data daily. Cases and hospitalizations by vax status were featured prominently on the dashboard. Then a note appeared that data would be updated when Panorama was updated, this was data as at December 14, 2021 updated on December 17, 2021. That has remained unchanged for a month now, methinks the data exists but is un-publishable because of the story it would tell?

Cordilleran – The Alberta “Vaccination Outcomes” data changed a lot from yesterday (Saturday) to this morning (Sunday). (Read on…)

Get the Booster, Get the Covid, Get the Myocarditis…

I believe that’s a covid “Bingo”.

“Mild”

Do tell.

Maggie Haberman, NYT-     Been avoiding this but … covid is the absolute pits. Been lucky it isn’t worse, but at its worst it was like a bad flu and it’s dragged on/lingered. I’m vaxxed and boostered and still got a breakthrough case. Would welcome folks not continuing to say it’s all mild.

Be sure to check the comments and replies below her tweet for such gems as…

A colleague (double vaxxed, no booster) that’s Covid+ has begun her fourth week at home with what she describes as a strep level sore throat, along with a host of debilitating other symptoms.

and

I had a breakthrough that lasted 3 weeks, and not being able to even get up to throw up or to pee, not being able to eat anything, is not mild.

Alexandria Omicron-Cortez

Conservative Treehouse;

Despite virtue-signaling that all the good people remain locked down in the leftist epicenters of COVID restriction; and despite saying that anyone who does not adhere to the rules and regulations of the lockdown are being selfish; Ms. AOC was recently noted partying maskless without social distancing in Miami, Florida.

Not to worry, a couple of doses of Nyquil and some rest, and AOC will be ready for booster shot number four in no time.

Related: AOC Accuses COVID Virus Of Just Wanting To Date Her

Coming to Canada?

The mass vaccination program may not be so great at preventing transmission and infection, but at least it’s successful at preventing hospitalization and death, right?

If trends in the UK are anything to go by, even that narrative seems to be taking on a lot of water.

The latest figures published by the UK Health Security Agency show that despite the elderly and vulnerable receiving a booster shot in September and October, …. the triple/double vaccinated population still accounted for 4 in every 5 Covid-19 deaths throughout December 2021.

With the vaccinated population accounting for 7 in every 10 Covid-19 cases, 6 in every 10 Covid-19 hospitalisations, and 8 in every 10 Covid-19 deaths, is there really any justification for turning the NHS into the National Booster Service and the introduction of vaccine passports in which an unvaccinated person must take a test to be permitted entry but a vaccinated person does not?

We Broke Them

Seriously, this was the right thing to do until they get this mess figured out.

As I’ve remarked in the past — I’m not the enemy here. We deserve transparent, accurate information so that we can determine for ourselves if the government’s Covid-19 policies are logical.

Saskatchewan has been the worst place in Canada to ride out this pandemic — with the exception of all the other provinces. The Sask Party government deserves credit for realizing after the first lockdown that such policies do incredible harm with very little reward, and for resisting federal pressure to conform. So, that part is good. But I won’t carry water for the Potemkin Passports, not when the data clearly shows that the vaccines do little to slow transmission.

Safe And Effective ®

All the best people told me this was all in their heads.

“It is reassuring that the study found only a small, temporary menstrual change in women,” Dr. Diana W. Bianchi, director of Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said in a press release. “These results provide, for the first time, an opportunity to counsel women about what to expect from COVID-19 vaccination so they can plan accordingly” […]

Additional research is needed to determine how COVID-19 vaccination may affect other menstrual characteristics, such as pain and mood changes, as well as levels of bleeding, Edelman, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health and Science University, said in a press release.

Taking Over The ICU

In Ontario…

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City of Toronto showing fully vaxxed now leading in all categories

Stephen McIntyre weighs in.

Update on negative efficacy in the UK. 

Editors note: I’m not the one who choose this overly simplified, stupid metric that doesn’t really give us much in the way of useful information. There’s much better ways of doing this that would include age, weight, comorbidities, etc. But since the powers that be have been hitting us over the head with it for over a year now I’m quite content to let them own it.

Having said that it does look like a bit of sanity is starting to creep in.

Montreal Gazette- If you’ve had COVID-19, hold off on the booster, Quebecers told
INSPQ cites “uncertainties over the benefits and risks associated with the administration of a booster in people previously infected.”

More from Denmark

A Miracle Has Happened (Bumped)

Apparently unconvinced by a screenshot, a couple of commentors have demanded I provide “a source”.

Okey Dokey.

Update: This is astonishing. I linked the source page above at 21:06:17 Eastern January 6th. This evening the page screenshotted above has been removed and replaced with charts that don’t mention vaccine status at all. You must download the database for yourself to find the vaccine status breakdowns (which for the past few days are patently ridiculous).

This is about the fourth time that the SaskHealth dashboard has been reconfigured immediately after posts appeared here reporting the vax vs unvax new case statistics – and that’s also patently ridiculous.

Morning Update, from betacamsp:

The Excel data, downloaded this Friday morning, indicates that 847 of 913 cases yesterday were in the vaccinated. I have no faith in the data but that sounds more in line with the neighboring provinces.

Exactly.

Errors happen. But errors shouldn’t be lingering for days on a government website, staffed by people whose job it is to ensure that information is accurate, or if it is in question, that the appropriate disclaimers are front and center.

Yesterday John Gormley, God love him, actually reported to tens of thousands of Saskatchewan listeners — with a straight face — that 99% of new cases were in the unvaccinated, because the SaskHealth dashboard told him so. Words fail.

From the comments;

I just downloaded the CSV files and had a poke at them.

Garbage data. If I presented data and summaries like that to my clients I’d be fired, quickly for incompetence.

Like Nini I just did some basic checksums to see if things literally added up, and they don’t at all. They sure as shit don’t correspond to whatever that graph was presented yesterday for any of the previous dates either. Either the data they used for the graphs is not the same as the data from the spread sheet or I don’t know what. I literally cannot conceive of how they got the information in the graph from the information in the tables. They couldn’t even get a basic summation correct, January 6th it was fluffed up by 8%. spot checking a few other day’s summaries there are similar errors in not even being able to create a summary of just a few rows of data accurately. In fact some days show hundreds of new cases in the one total, 68 new cases in a different total for the same day and ZERO contributing cases for both those totals, so its either 480% over or it’s %cannot calculate% over or it’s all total bullshit made up to fit some kind of curve.

If this is spat out by a program, the programmer should be fired as should the project manager. This is literally grade four math stuff being able to add up 20 lines of 1-3 digit numbers accurately by hand much less using a computer.

I spend endless time telling my children they must be prepared to “Show their work” for their math and science. I’d fail them on the spot for this crap.

Jesus Christ on his Throne, this is fucking bonkers.


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It Doesn’t Matter if the Vaccines Don’t Stop Infection or Transmission

Never mind that’s what was promised  and the fall back position of you’re less likely to wind up in hospital or die seems to be eroding by the hour with negative efficacy becoming the new normal. Did anyone stop to think what happens when a highly infectious variant takes over and everyone starts calling in sick? Multi-millionaire hospital administrators I’m looking at you right now.

National Post- ‘It’s a crisis’: Canadian hospitals closing, cancelling surgeries amid COVID-related staff shortages.  ‘We are struggling with each shift. At the best of times we struggle, but it is worse right now: There are a lot of staff with COVID or isolating’.

There’s all sorts of early treatment options out there that will actually reduce the level of infection and get people back to work quicker. Swallow your pride and do your damn job. We can’t keep shutting everything down because you can’t admit you got it wrong.

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Good Morning Ontario!

The vaccines, mandates, masks, and passport systems have been such a resounding success you get to start year 3 of the pandemic with another lockdown.

Global- Ontario moves schools to online learning, bans indoor dining and issues new COVID capacity restrictions.

In completely unrelated news a couple of days ago in Australia…

Update: How much thought did you put into this Doug?

Vitamin D and kitty kat Covid

Bret Weinstein interviews two researchers on a topic that is thankfully starting to gain some traction: vitamin D.

At the 1 1/2 hour mark, the discussion shifts to the less well-known but critical topic of animal reservoirs. They identify a key problem with the mass vaccination program which could explain, in part, why it is driving itself to failure.

“As soon as you discover that a virus has an animal reservoir, you know that it will never be extinct. Smallpox has no animal reservoir; that is why we could drive it to be extinct.”

Wuhan Flu: It’s Just Trolling Us Now

“All 25 researchers were fully vaccinated and one had a booster shot. Before leaving for the station, they underwent a PCR test in Belgium two hours before flying to South Africa…In South Africa, they quarantined for 10 days and took another PCR test. A further test was needed when leaving Cape Town for Antarctica and a final one five days after that.”

Two-thirds of the researchers have tested positive.

Doing what I do….

This humorous clip from Seinfeld pretty much sums up current pandemic policy as it turns full circle to regurgitate the failed policies of the past. Kramer appears to be channeling any number of pandemic central planners like Fauci, Brent Roussin or Bonnie Henry.

“I’ve always done what I do. I’m doing what I do. The way I’ve always done it. The way I’ll always do it.”

“Kramer, what the hell are you talking about?”

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