Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (nCoV-2019)

[DirectionNorth]

Probablty the best course of action is to have restrictions for a few weeks until other jurisdictions (and Ontario if we can) have enough data to test the virulency of the variant, then make decisions from there.

 

[DSC]

Toronto Public Health (TPH) data shows that vaccination has been effective in Toronto's COVID-19 response, with breakthrough infections happening in only 0.17 per cent of fully vaccinated individuals in the city. This represents 3,936 cases among almost 2.3 million Toronto residents 12 and older who were fully vaccinated at the time this data analysis was completed.

See: https://www.toronto.ca/news/breakth...-vaccinations-are-effective-against-covid-19/

 

[picard102]

Restrictions on anyone who is vaccinated, at this point, is a poison pill for the government.

 

[DSC]

Restrictions on anyone who is vaccinated, at this point, is a poison pill for the government.

Yes, things will need to get pretty serious before Ford will impose any kind of general shut-down but I can see more and more local restrictions as local MOHs look at their local figures.

 

[Bayer]

Restrictions on anyone who is vaccinated, at this point, is a poison pill for the government.

It wouldn't be if they were justified. Being tired of the pandemic would be an irrational reason to preclude restrictions, provided it is demonstrated that they are required. We have been lucky in that our pandemic response (even here in Ontario) has not been based on wishful thinking as much as it has in other provinces or Western countries. I hope this continues.

 

[DSC]

As usual on a Monday the figure of new cases is down today (to 887). Number in hospital down by 3.

 

[picard102]

It wouldn't be if they were justified.

Justification would need to be nothing short of vaccines being completely ineffective and a higher mortality rate.

 

[Bayer]

Justification would need to be nothing short of vaccines being completely ineffective and a higher mortality rate.

The only justification that is required is, once again, overwhelmed hospitals.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

From CTV:

Merck Canada to manufacture COVID-19 antiviral drug in Canada for global distribution

In a deal Ottawa hopes will help jump-start Canada's biomanufacturing industry and better secure its supply chain for future public health emergencies, Merck Canada is partnering with Thermo Fisher Scientific to manufacture its COVID-19 antiviral drug, molnupiravir, in Canada for global...

www.ctvnews.ca

AoD

 

[tiffer24]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1468009354884493316

 

[DirectionNorth]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1468009354884493316

How does the owner know?

The people who fake a vaccination passport are disgusting.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

How does the owner know?

The people who fake a vaccination passport are disgusting.

Not nearly as disgusting as decision-makers that ensures that a passport is easy to fake.

AoD

 

[DirectionNorth]

Not nearly as disgusting as decision-makers that ensures that a passport is easy to fake.

AoD

Stupid politicians and people all around ...

 

[Northern Light]

There have been a spate of recent stories in the media about non-human animals (humans are part of the Animal Kingdom) testing positive for COVID.

COVID-19 virus found in 3 Quebec deer, Canadian officials say | Globalnews.ca

Three deer in Quebec's Estrie region have been found to carry the virus that causes COVID-19, the federal government announced.

globalnews.ca

The story above, specifically considers Wild Deer.

Now.......COVID remains a respiratory transmission disease.........

In humans, we generally advise not to be within 2M of an infected individual (or those for whom you lack knowledge of any kind)..........

In my experience (and I checked w/some others), the general consensus was that a Wild Deer would never let a human get remotely that close...........typically a Wild Deer's tolerance for someone quiet and kind is about 8M.
A distance, in the outdoors in which COVID transmission would border on the impossible.
As such, I don't suppose someone might have credible reasons we're testiing Wild Deer for COVID, or why the media would broadcast the news as if to warn people.

Even if you hunt; you don't shoot the Deer from point-blank range...........FFS...........

Just sayin..........

*****

On a similar note; apparently Hippos in a Belgian Zoo tested positive for COVID:

Runny-nosed hippos test positive for Covid-19 in Belgium

Two hippos at a zoo in Antwerp, Belgium, have tested positive for Covid-19, in what is believed to be the first such infection reported in the species.

www.cnn.com

Newsflash......as a normal person.........if you ever get anywhere close to 2M from a Hippo.............you have far bigger problems than COVID.......the Hippo is likely to kill you. They're a bit ornery!

Hippos kill about 500 people each year; I'm entirely confident that's far more humans than they are going to give COVID to.......

 

[zang]

How does the owner know?

The people who fake a vaccination passport are disgusting.

Well, if any of those 42 dies, and it's traceable to the unvaccinated person, there should really be a press for at minimum manslaughter charges. We've done the same for knowingly transmitting HIV. Johnson Aziga in fact, was convicted on 1st degree murder charges.