Herd Immunity in La Crete

I could not find a version of this story other than the CBC one. But its definitely worth the click.

CBC- Health expert urges caution after blood-testing firm claims ‘pandemic is over’ in Alberta hamlet

More than 1,200 people in the hamlet of La Crete, 700 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, paid $100 each in mid-December to have their blood tested for antibodies by Ichor Blood Services, a private lab specimen collection company based in Calgary. The tests found antibodies in most of the 991 unvaccinated individuals who were tested. Ichor CEO Mike Kuzmickas said he believes the results show La Crete is relatively safe from COVID-19. “The pandemic is over in La Crete; they have reached herd immunity,” Kuzmickas told CBC News in an email last month.

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Funny how the CBC “expert” seems to have no idea or knowledge of these studies. 

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This Is Not The Two-Tier Health Care System I Was Promised

Tommy Douglas, finally dead.

“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.

Dogblogging: Animal Abuse

h/t Colonialista, who added this comment:

So many things are wrong here. Yes, the mask is obvious, ridiculous, pathetic and potentially dangerous. But look more carefully. The dog is a flattie (i.e. a flat coated retriever). A breed designed to jump into near freezing water, retrieve a duck and dry up back on the boat by soaking up every tiniest bit of sun rays. So the idiot owner puts boots over his webbed feet and makes him wear some kind of belt/vest contraption. Also, note the harness the dog is wearing and the Gentle Leader on his face, both devices a testimony that the owner has never bothered to teach the dog to walk on a loose leash (it is easy, all my flatties do it) and instead prefers the magnificent animal constrained like a draft horse. And it looks like the Gentle Leader is poorly fitted, too tight over the face thus putting pressure right under the poor dog’s eyes, that too is dangerous. Maybe it is not such a bad idea if liberals adopt dogs from Korean meat farms instead?

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Vancouver Isn’t So Awesome

From the website VancouverIsAwesome.com comes a story that shows that it sure ain’t that awesome any longer:

I really didn’t want to be a grump in my first column of the new year.
But after receiving 1,086 mostly redacted pages on Dec. 23, 2021 from the City of Vancouver that never answered the question I posed in December 2020, I’m confident I’ve earned the right to be a wee bit prickly in today’s entry.

The question: Can you tell me how much the city paid to buy the Balmoral and Regent hotels from the Sahota family?

The answer in December 2020: No, we can’t.

I laugh at Canadians who sincerely believe that there is little to no corruption in their country.

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