Citynews- Quebec orders shops, bars, restaurants, churches to operate at 50 per cent capacity
“It’s important to say that in this fight, vaccination is not sufficient,” Legault told reporters in Montreal. “The second thing is that we have to reduce contacts to be less often around other people.” And for the second year in a row, Legault walked back from plans to relax COVID-19 restrictions ahead of the holidays, keeping the maximum at 10 people instead of raising it to 20 on Dec. 23.
CTV- Montreal Canadiens game to be played tonight without fans in Bell Centre amid COVID-19 concerns
Westphalian Times- The Montreal public health said of the 95 cases of the Omicron variant in the city of Montreal, 90% were fully vaccinated.
Quebec’s covid passport system has been going since September 1st.
Quebec’s vaccination status: 80% double, 6% triple
Your Moral And Infected Superiors: BuzzFeed staff who attended a company party in New York tested positive for COVID despite wearing masks, showing vaccine passports and being triple jabbed.
Media has stopped ‘naming and shaming’ unvaccinated NHL players. Unexpectedly.
Update: Rather than waste time I don’t have picking my way through the trolling and the insults, I’ve chosen to delete all the comments on this post. My apologies to those of you who did contribute something useful.
Do better, or I’ll start hammering down the lot of you.
GB News- Covid-19: 78,610 cases recorded in UK today, highest daily total since pandemic began
80% double vaxxed (age 12 and up), 40% have had booster shots.
Westphalian Times- Canadian province stops giving boosters to elders who have had COVID in the past due to severe, life-threatening side effects
The side effects were so severe that the establishments under Zhang’s supervision had to stop giving the boosters to vaccinated elders who had COVID-19 within 48 hours.
Le Devoir- A third dose too much for seniors who have had COVID-19
Notice to those 70 and over: If you have suffered from COVID-19, a third dose of the vaccine is no longer recommended. The Quebec Immunization Committee (CIQ) changed its mind after seniors in CHSLDs who had already contracted the disease suffered significant side effects during the booster dose.
You’ll probably have to use something like google translate for the last article if it pops up in French. (if you don’t speak French)
As we have all been reminded ad nauseum, Vaxx passports were said to be critical to ending the pandemic. For some reason, these Spanish health care workers did not get that memo.
All of the professionals had been fully vaccinated—including with booster shots.
Sur reported on Monday that the health workers who attended the Christmas meal had all taken an antigen test before the meal.
Having been assured for months that Vaccine Apartheid would allow people (at least those outside the ranks of the unclean) to resume a normal life, maybe the clincher is for people to figure out a way to eat and drink without removing their mask:
“Although I know that those attending the celebration took measures, the virus is still there and you should not lower your guard,” Bueno said. “It is necessary to keep a distance, it is essential to use the mask indoors and it should be used in outdoor spaces where there is an agglomeration of people.”
Back to your basements, you ungrateful hedonists! Don’t make me come down there!
“What you have to do is take measures so that it does not happen again,” he said.
Sportsnet- Raptors president Ujiri joins growing list of NBAers with COVID
“On Sunday, Giants of Africa held our first in-person event since 2019. It was organized in compliance with all current public health guidance – everyone who attended had to show proof of vaccination, and to wear masks when not eating or drinking,” said Ujiri in a statement issued by the team. “Unfortunately, after the gala, we learned of positive COVID-19 tests among our guests – and even though I am fully vaccinated and have received a booster shot, I also subsequently tested positive.
Sam Amico- Despite 97 percent vaccination rate, NBA has already at least equaled last year’s total number of players/coaches entering COVID protocol.
Crying fire in a crowded Covidhouse: “those impacted are compliant with the city’s vaccination policy and are vaccinated.”
The standard narrative of the pandemic of the unvaccinated is starting to look more like the Titanic after it hit the iceberg these days.
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit will on Friday reinstate capacity limits for bars and restaurants, and cap social gatherings, to curb soaring COVID infections in the region. Sunday’s announcement follows a superspreader event at a Kingsville restaurant that has infected at least 42 people…
All patrons had been checked for their vaxx passport prior to entry, so safeguarding the narrative required some inventive journalism:
However, at least one of the party-goers is said to have faked their status, he added. He wouldn’t say where he heard that.
I know, I know. The vaccines work….they work so well that we have to return to pre-vaccine lockdowns and capacity limits.
Despite every cruise line requiring passengers and crew to be fully vaccinated before boarding, a cruise ship returning from a sail across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea with thousands of passengers onboard detected an outbreak of COVID-19, according to AP News.
Norwegian Breakaway, owned by Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd, departed from the Port of New Orleans on Nov. 28 and sailed to Belize, Honduras, and Mexico, with more than 3,000 people on board.
Ahead of returning to its homeport in New Orleans, the cruise line detected 17 COVID infections among its guest and crew. Those who were infected were fully vaccinated and were forced into quarantine.
One of the very few journalists in Canada raising the alarm bells on paediatric Covid vaccinations is Anthony Fuery.
Parents, in Canada, he urges “would be well-advised to read what the NACI release on kids’ vaccines actually says — it is far less of a ringing endorsement than many would have you believe“. Read the whole thing, as I did, here.
Meanwhile, a question for Sick Children’s Hospital in Toronto.
If these vaccines are “safe and effective” for kids, and side effects so very rare, why did you need to prepare an entire, official protocol for dealing with post- mRNA vaccine-induced Myocarditis and Pericarditis?
And if parents think vaccinating their children is so groovy, why is the government of any province in this godforsaken country enabling paediatric vaccination without parental consent?
And if the vaccinations are so great, why do TV doctors and public health officials need to blow through taxpayers’ money like drunken sailors, portraying themselves as superheroes and appealing directly to children without paying any price? Is Covid just their bank machine, their celebrity generator, their reason for living? Is sacrificing children just a next, necessary step for them to continue to terrify and control the population while never missing a paycheque, children’s hearts be damned?
And if vaccinating kids without parental consent doesn’t ring any alarm bells, maybe vaccinating infants and toddlers will.
As I have explained before, I’m not a vaccine opponent — I’m a vaccine mandate opponent.
But we live in a democracy, and for nearly two years the rights and freedoms that were our birthright in purportedly free nations have been surrendered to the whims and models of public health officials who have been granted power without accountability.
Without direct accountability for their (many) failures, there cannot be trust. When repeated failure doesn’t result in termination and replacement, and we are instead held hostage to these incompetency repeat offenders by our elected governments – there should not be trust.
The Daily Sceptic has for some time been reporting on the apparent negative vaccine effectiveness visible in raw U.K. health data. Despite some age ranges now showing that the vaccinated are more than twice as likely to get Covid as the unvaccinated, this is routinely adjusted out, leading UKHSA to un-intuitively claim that the vaccines are still highly effective even against symptomatic disease.
A recent post by new contributor Amaneunsis explains the Test Negative Case Control approach (TNCC) used by authorities and researchers to adjust the data, and demonstrates that while a theoretically powerful way to remove some possible confounders, it rests on an initially reasonable-sounding assumption that vaccines don’t make your susceptibility to infection worse:
Amanuensis then compares results between the two different statistical approaches in a Qatari study to explore whether violation of this assumption is a realistic possibility and concludes that the multi-variate logistic regression found in their appendix supports the idea that viral interference can start happening a few months after initial vaccination.
What other angles can we explore this idea through? One way is to read the literature on prior epidemics.
H1N1
Between 2009-2010 there was a pandemic of H1N1 influenza, better known as Swine Flu. In April 2009 a small outbreak was detected in northern British Columbia. Researchers from Canada’s public health agencies researched the outbreak by doing interviews, testing and sero-surveys of the affected population. They were especially interested in the question of how effectively the routine trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) was protecting people against H1N1.
The effect they saw was unexpected and previously unknown: people who had taken the flu vaccine had a more than doubled chance of getting sick with flu during the H1N1 outbreak […]
This result was shocking to the researchers. They were well aware of the impact these results could have on public support for the influenza vaccine programme and thus they didn’t merely double check their results, or request another team replicate their findings. They waited a year and a half, until six different investigations were all saying the same thing.
Emphasis mine.
So long as the voiced concerns of front line doctors are sanctioned and silenced, and legitimate inquiry about this vaccine’s efficacy and safety profile is countered with defamation and threats, instead of transparency and debate — those discussions will be hosted here.
The fact that papers published as recently as 2018 are talking about negative vaccine effectiveness as a new, not really understood effect should give governments serious pause for thought. Most people in public health are clearly unfamiliar with this phenomenon – as indeed we all are – and are thus tempted to either ignore it, delete it from their data, or try to convince the public that it must be a statistical artefact and anyone talking about it is guilty of spreading “misinformation”. The reports in these papers provide recent evidence that vaccines making epidemics worse is in fact a real phenomenon and that it has been previously detected by serious researchers who took every effort to avoid that conclusion.
Read it all, (and the reference links, too) as we always should.
Related: FDA is asking for 55 years to release the data they used to approve the Pfizer vaccine.
There’s something truly evil going on within the Canadian medical establishment.
Especially, it seems, among paediatricians with their pronouns in their bios.
The President of the Canadian Medical Association is this person (“she/her”). That poor child.
What is this actually about?
Why are these wicked organizations, public health bureaucracies, pharmaceutical companies, and what seems to be the entire medical establishment targeting children in advertising for an unnecessary, experimental therapeutic for a virus that doesn’t actually harm them, insist upon masking children forever (which seems more and more like a fetish to me) while adults go unmasked in most settings?
Why?
What are we to make of paediatricians who put their sons in a hockey mask for a third time, and then share this peculiar behaviour with the general public, positioned as virtuous? Why is the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in children being minimized and pooh-poohed by physicians who should know better?
We parents are supposed to trust these maniacs? In paediatricians we trust? What is going on?
I spoke to a paediatric allergy specialist a couple of weeks ago about vaccine-caused myocarditis, the minimal risks to children of Covid and the way in which the Ontario government has tied the hands of doctors who wish to exempt certain children from the vaccine for medical reasons. Physicians granting exemptions are under Stasi-level scrutiny by the province and the regulating bodies, and at risk of losing their license to practice medicine for daring to exempt anyone from getting the magic juice. This specialist told me that he’s never seen anything like it in his entire career.
More vax bribery for children here.
A featured comment posted here yesterday, from Natalie Gordon: Are we missing adverse vaccine reactions days 1-14 in Canada, (1-21 in Saskatchewan)?
Re: Covid-19: Stronger warnings are needed to curb socialising after vaccination, say doctors and behavioural scientists [https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n783/rr]
Examining the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Emergency Use Authorization Review Memorandum, note on page 41 Pfizer reports “Two serious cases of suspected but unconfirmed COVID-19 were reported, both in the vaccine group.” Pfizer attributes this to one of three possibilities. “It is possible that this event represented reactogenicity following the second vaccination, a COVID-19 case with false negative test that occurred less than 7 days after completion of the vaccination series, or an unrelated infectious process.”
I am aware of a young woman age 35 who had a previous case of confirmed COVID illness two months before she received her vaccine. Eight hours after her first Pfizer dose she became severely ill with headache, cough, fever, facial swelling and red rash, vomiting, diarrhea, shaking, inability to ambulate without assistance, strange visual and auditory hallucinations, swollen tongue, and dyspnea, which she partially recovered from after another ten hours. She was left with extreme fatigue being unable to get out of bed without assistance and unable to function properly for three more days after she was able to get out of bed. In the midst of her worst illness, her frantic husband contacted the official Government of Manitoba Health Links number. He was informed that her reaction did not fit the description of known reactions to the vaccine and therefore she must have acquired the virus before the vaccine and became symptomatic with COVID after the vaccine. He was advised that they must both self isolate for fourteen days and get a PCR test at the earliest opportunity. He was also advised that he not take her hospital or call an ambulance since she was likely highly infective and would endanger medical personnel and other patients. When she recovered enough to walk, she visited her family doctor who refused to take a report of an adverse reaction because the doctor considered this reaction to be within the normal parameters of vaccine response. Also due to the fact that any illness that occurs between day 1-14 is by government policy classified as COVID, she was included in the provincial statistics are a suspected COVID case in an unvaccinated person.
As a retired Human Geneticist with extensive experience in the epidemiology of genetic variants, I was absolutely appalled by her situation. If the Government of Manitoba is routinely classifying any illness in days 1-14 post vaccination as COVID then many cases of potential adverse vaccine reaction are being missed. Further, many cases of COVID may be adverse vaccine reactions not COVID. The 1-14 day standard is used all over Canada. The next door province of Saskatchewan recently changed their standard from 1-14 days to 1-21 days!
We simply must begin seriously considering if the COVID illnesses we see in days 1-14 in any region with this standard (1-21 in Saskatchewan) is in fact an adverse reaction to the vaccine. Are these adverse reactions are being classified incorrectly as COVID? We also need to know if the PCR tests of those who are being diagnosed as COVID cases during this period are actually detecting spike protein being released into the bloodstream after administration of the vaccine. I worry that our intense fear of causing vaccine hesitancy during a pandemic is also causing us to overlook potential adverse reactions. The multiple anecdotal reports coming from antivaxxer social media where hospital personnel complain ERs full of COVID patients are actually vaccine reactions may have some basis in truth. If this puzzling issue of days 1-14 (1-21 in Saskatchewan) is not resolved we will only increase vaccine hesitancy among antivaxxers because it will appear we are deliberately trying to conceal something.
More: Did you think unvaccinated meant they hadn’t had a vaccine? Think again.
Natalie Gordon’s academic background: I have BSc in Biochemistry a PhD in Human Genetics from the University of Manitoba with my area of speciality being Epidemiology of Genetic Variants of Folate metabolism I did a postdoctoral fellowship in CancerCare Manitoba in innate immunity and infection related preterm delivery in pregnancy. I also did a postdoctoral fellowship in Plants Science in Biostatistics. I am now semi retired but I am still writing and published. You can do a quick search of my peer reviewed publications in Google Scholar.
Let’s return once again to the manner in which SaskHealth is doing public reporting of new cases of Covid-19, (which thankfully seem to be in steady decline).
The problem here should be self-evident: the unvaccinated and newly-vaccinated do not have the same immune status — that’s just a statistical and immunological fact. It’s inexplicable that they’ve been grouped as one. They are not the same, and data from the two groups should not be combined. Why not? Because, if a recent vaccination promotes a behavioral or immune response that makes newly vaccinated more susceptible to infection, (as discussed here), that data is being suppressed.
Here’s Dr Clare Craig, in the British Medical Journal, to explain:
Thinking beyond behavioural change as an explanation for increased COVID post vaccination.
Dear Editor,
As well as the papers cited by the authors, other studies have shown a similar effect. A Danish study showed a 40% increase in infections in the first two weeks after Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination, despite not vaccinating in homes with recent outbreaks.[1] Indeed, the original Pfizer trial demonstrated a statistically significant 40% increase in ‘suspected COVID’, with 409 cases in the vaccination arm in the first week of the trial, compared with 287 in the placebo arm.[2] Other publications have omitted mention of the period immediately after vaccination.[3] [4] There is substantial anecdotal evidence of people who had tested negative prior to vaccination, becoming infected shortly afterwards, invariably attributed to exposure just before vaccination.[5] Others have raised concerns about this.[6]
The REACT study of prevalence in January showed that the odds ratio of having a positive swab was 1.48 in healthcare and care home workers and 1.38 in other key workers (when compared to all workers).[7] It seems highly unlikely that behavioural change alone (in the over 80s) could account for an increase in the risk of infection of a similar magnitude to that assumed by being in high-risk employment. […]
The Pfizer vaccination causes a transient fall in lymphocytes for the first three days after vaccination.[12], The phase 2 trials of AstraZeneca similarly showed a fall in neutrophils.[13] Post vaccination neutrophil depletion[14] and lymphocyte depletion[15] has been shown for other vaccines and the latter has been known about since 1981.[16] There is conflicting literature on whether this effect results in susceptibility to viral infections but there is certainly evidence suggesting that is the case in children.[17] Given the evidence of white cell depletion after COVID vaccination and the evidence of increased COVID infection rates shortly after vaccination, the possibility that the two are causally related needs urgent investigation.
This response is only referring to susceptibility to COVID in the first two weeks of vaccination; it is not commenting on the efficacy of vaccines after this period.
And yes, the double-vaxxed have surpassed the (so-called) “unvaccinated” as a percentage of new cases for the first time.
Most vaccines — against polio, smallpox, measles and other diseases — prevent infection and spread. But not COVID-19 vaccines. Now that the battle is against the delta variant, they’ve become disease-tamers rather than infection preventers.
Governors and mayors from Maine to Los Angeles are demanding that public employees, and even nurses and doctors, hailed just months ago as heroes, get vaxxed or go without a job.
Just as politicians don’t read the bills before voting on them, they don’t keep up with science but still want to tell the rest of us what to do.
The groundbreaking findings in Lancet show that fully vaccinated people who came down with COVID infected others in their household at the same rate (about 25%) as unvaccinated people did (about 23%). The vaccinated had just as much viral load in their upper respiratory tract, making them just as contagious.
The British researchers also found that vaccinated people were only somewhat less likely to contract the virus (25%) compared with the unvaccinated (38%). That conflicts with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showing the vaccinated are far less likely to contract COVID.
One thing is for sure: The science is uncertain on this. So, government should not be using a heavy hand to impose mandates claiming to make workplaces safer.
