Where’s Julie Andrews when you need her.
Lets review the goings on in Austria
Mid December, vaxxed go free, unvaxxed fully locked down. (click on chart for full screen)
This week they vote on making the shots mandatory. Because they obviously work so well at keeping everyone from getting covid.
As the public wakes to the fact that vaccination doesn’t prevent viral transmission, the Potemkin Passports collapse…
Israel’s Finance Minister calls for the ending of the Green Pass.
Mask mandates, vaccine passports to end in England.
Just in – Vaccination against COVID will not become mandatory in the Czech Republic, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said today at a press conference.
Stay tuned for more…
CBC- Manitoba plans to send as many as 300 spinal-surgery patients to Fargo
“We acknowledge the suffering. We acknowledge the waits,” said Dr. Ed Buchel, the provincial surgery lead for Manitoba Shared Health, adding there was no option to send patients elsewhere in Canada because every province is struggling to meet the health-care demands of the Omicron surge.
The popular scapegoat for over a year now has been the unjabbed. But as can be clearly seen, Manitoba is one of the most jabbed places in the world. Back in the beginning of December when they still reported such things it became apparent that the double and triple jabbed were clogging up the system. Quebec who still makes the numbers public confirms this is what’s going on.
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Nothing “they” said would work has worked. Its well past time to get rid of the useless masks, the ridiculous mandates and the stupid passport to nowhere system. While they’re at it the multi-millionaire, laptop class administrators in charge of the whole mess should be thrown out on their ears without the golden parachutes they didn’t earn.
Update: The big picture
So much for the “less hospitalizations” theory of vaccination.
Global- COVID-19 hospitalizations hit staggering 10,000 patients as provinces set new records
Much of the current hospitalizations are being driven by Ontario and Quebec. Ontario reported 578 COVID-19 patients in intensive care units and 3,887 in hospital overall, up from 3,595 a day before. Quebec, meanwhile, reported a new record of 3,381 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, including 286 in ICUs.
Deaths, meanwhile, have also begun to rise.
3300 Hospitalizations
#1: Age 70+ (2181 hospitalized & 110 ICU) – this group is 95% double vaccinated & 75% boosted!
#2: Age 60-69 (516 Hospital & 93 ICU) – 94% double vaccinated & 58% boosted!
#3 Age 50-59 (245 Hosp & 38 ICU) – 90% double Syringe
el gato malo- has some more numbers out of the UK and some thoughts.
The sunk cost fallacy is in full effect and careers and credibility is on the line, but facts are stubborn things, and the fact is that these vaccines are accelerating spread. They do not protect us as was promised. (and promises were definitely made) At best, these are a personal choice to mitigate risk. Probably, doing so creates a net risk for others because you are more likely to get covid and spread covid. The vaccinated are not a dead end for virus, they are crop-dusters for it and spreading it more widely.
Which brings us to some charts from Alberta’s provincial website that a lot of people were talking about last week and that had mysteriously vanished. But can still be found via the wayback machine. (click on images for full screen)
In related news: Grocery stores could close if labour, product shortages worsen.
Oh yeah, and the masks are working great too. 👌
Remember when Australia was touted in the MSM as a shining example of successful Covid policy which had wrestled the virus to the ground thereby allowing life to continue normally? You don’t read stories like that anymore, mostly because much has changed Down Under in the last eight months!
Australia now averages more than 100,000 new Covid cases per day – equal to about 1.5 million in the United States. One fine day last week, it reported 175,000, the equivalent of about 2.5 million, maybe the highest per-capita total any country has ever reported.
Deaths are still relatively low by American standards. But they have risen sixfold in the last two weeks and are now at their highest level ever, equal to almost 700 deaths in the United States a day.
Stephen McIntyre takes a look at Quebec’s numbers and finds some interesting details that other provinces aren’t publishing. (click on chart for full screen)
2/ the most obvious observation about new hospitalizations is that (unsurprisingly) they are dominated by seniors and particularly over 80s – a group which is almost totally vaxxed.
3/ a secondary observation is that, in younger agegroups, number of new hospitalizations among unvax is pretty similar to number of new hospitalizations among vax, even though population of unvax is much smaller. This is consistent with primary messaging from governments.
5/ the pressure on Quebec hospitals is coming from a different direction: fully vax 60+ seniors and especially 80+ seniors.
Emphasis mine. Read the whole thing.
(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…)
I believe that’s a covid “Bingo”.
In 2-3 week period Alphonso Davies got the booster, then Covid, and then myocarditis was detected
-another client of his agent also had myocarditis
-Davies' myocarditis was detected thru routine post-Covid screening
-so likely subclinical?
–@BogochIsaac lies 3 times in this clip pic.twitter.com/l5Am3bCdnR— Koen (@KoenSwinkels) January 15, 2022
The Herald- Covid Scotland: Case rates lowest in unvaccinated as double-jabbed elderly drive rise in hospital admissions
And if you look at the absolute numbers it all looks even worse.
You know I’m old enough to remember when they were 100% effective against hospitalization and death.
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.
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
Oh well. It's just fertility. Women’s Periods May Be Late After Coronavirus Vaccination, Study Suggests https://t.co/ndQC9QgwMH
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) January 8, 2022
Read the replies – this one nails it: It is the responsibility of the medical profession to explain this side effect first, rather than just expecting me to accept its probable safety. No way.
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?
Thread here.
And they’re nipping on the heels of the Brits in the great Covid showdown. After the longest and harshest restrictions outside of mainland China, Australia’s zero covid policies have just delayed the inevitable and probably made things worse.
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92% of people over 16 fully vaccinated, 13% boosted.
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.
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.
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City of Toronto showing fully vaxxed now leading in all categories
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
Apparently unconvinced by a screenshot, a couple of commentors have demanded I provide “a source”.
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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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.