captainmorgan
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The “Lab-leak” inquiry at the State Department:
An Open Letter by former Assistant Secretary Christopher Ford
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People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier charged after anti-rules rallies in Manitoba
The leader of the far-right party only made it to his second of 10 scheduled events on his so called Mad Max Manitoba Tour through a number of southern Manitoba communities on Friday before being arrested outside of St Pierre around 2:30 on Friday afternoon by St Pierre RCMP.
A former federal Conservative who served as a cabinet minister in Stephen Harper’s government, Bernier’s tour was to have included a stop at The Forks in Winnipeg on Saturday afternoon, as well as one in Winkler on Friday evening, as he was hoping to spread an anti COVID-19 health order message to his followers.
“It is the duty of the RCMP to enforce the laws of Manitoba, and those include public health orders,” RCMP spokesperson Tara Seel said in an email to the Winnipeg Sun. “Mr. Bernier knew of the health orders and has already received a ticket. The continuation of the offence of violating the current public health orders in Manitoba has resulted in his arrest. St. Pierre-Jolys RCMP arrested Mr. Bernier just outside of St. Pierre. He is charged under the Public Health Act with Contravening a Provision of the Act for assembling in a gathering at an outdoor public place and for failing to self-isolate in accordance with the Order upon arrival in Manitoba.
Bernier had already received a ticket for violating health orders, when he appeared at his first event in Niverville on Friday.
One local leader who will not be disappointed in the news of the arrest is Mayor Martin Harder of Winkler, where Bernier was scheduled to appear on Friday evening at an event billed as the Winkler Freedom Driving Rally.
“You can’t just have people saying ‘my freedom and the constitution are being violated, so we’re just going to violate every health order there is,’” he said. The Mayor also admitted he has received many messages online from Manitobans pushing lies about COVID-19 and the vaccines.
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The leader of the far-right party only made it to his second of 10 scheduled events on his so called Mad Max Manitoba Tour through a number of southern Manitoba communities on Friday before being arrested outside of St Pierre around 2:30 on Friday afternoon by St Pierre RCMP.
A former federal Conservative who served as a cabinet minister in Stephen Harper’s government, Bernier’s tour was to have included a stop at The Forks in Winnipeg on Saturday afternoon, as well as one in Winkler on Friday evening, as he was hoping to spread an anti COVID-19 health order message to his followers.
“It is the duty of the RCMP to enforce the laws of Manitoba, and those include public health orders,” RCMP spokesperson Tara Seel said in an email to the Winnipeg Sun. “Mr. Bernier knew of the health orders and has already received a ticket. The continuation of the offence of violating the current public health orders in Manitoba has resulted in his arrest. St. Pierre-Jolys RCMP arrested Mr. Bernier just outside of St. Pierre. He is charged under the Public Health Act with Contravening a Provision of the Act for assembling in a gathering at an outdoor public place and for failing to self-isolate in accordance with the Order upon arrival in Manitoba.
Bernier had already received a ticket for violating health orders, when he appeared at his first event in Niverville on Friday.
One local leader who will not be disappointed in the news of the arrest is Mayor Martin Harder of Winkler, where Bernier was scheduled to appear on Friday evening at an event billed as the Winkler Freedom Driving Rally.
“You can’t just have people saying ‘my freedom and the constitution are being violated, so we’re just going to violate every health order there is,’” he said. The Mayor also admitted he has received many messages online from Manitobans pushing lies about COVID-19 and the vaccines.
People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier charged after anti-rules rallies in Manitoba
People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier was arrested just outside St Pierre on Friday for violating public health orders.
captainmorgan
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Worrying news from China. Doctors in the country say patients with the Delta variant are becoming sicker and their conditions are worsening more quickly than they did with the initial version.
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Ten people connected to Delta variant outbreak at Calgary hospital were fully immunized
Most people who tested positive at a Calgary hospital for the more contagious COVID-19 variant first reported in India had mild symptoms, except one person who was admitted into intensive care.
Several people connected to the Delta variant outbreak at Foothills Medical Centre were also fully immunized before testing positive, health officials confirmed earlier in the week.
Sixteen patients on two units of the hospital tested positive for the variant, as well as six health-care workers.
“It's important to remember that even after immunization, it's still possible to contract COVID-19,” Kerry Williamson, spokesman for Alberta Health Services, said in an email Friday.
“However, if immunized with either one or two doses, people are less likely to experience severe illness or require hospitalization.”
Williamson could not say if the person who needed treatment in ICU was vaccinated.
He said of those infected with the variant, six patients and five health-care workers were fully immunized with two doses of vaccine. Seven patients and one health-care worker had one dose.
“(The vaccines) are about 33 per cent effective against the Delta variant after the first dose and rise to more than 80 per cent after the second dose,” Williamson said. “Which is why it's so important to get immunized, with both first and second doses.”
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Most people who tested positive at a Calgary hospital for the more contagious COVID-19 variant first reported in India had mild symptoms, except one person who was admitted into intensive care.
Several people connected to the Delta variant outbreak at Foothills Medical Centre were also fully immunized before testing positive, health officials confirmed earlier in the week.
Sixteen patients on two units of the hospital tested positive for the variant, as well as six health-care workers.
“It's important to remember that even after immunization, it's still possible to contract COVID-19,” Kerry Williamson, spokesman for Alberta Health Services, said in an email Friday.
“However, if immunized with either one or two doses, people are less likely to experience severe illness or require hospitalization.”
Williamson could not say if the person who needed treatment in ICU was vaccinated.
He said of those infected with the variant, six patients and five health-care workers were fully immunized with two doses of vaccine. Seven patients and one health-care worker had one dose.
“(The vaccines) are about 33 per cent effective against the Delta variant after the first dose and rise to more than 80 per cent after the second dose,” Williamson said. “Which is why it's so important to get immunized, with both first and second doses.”
Ten people connected to Delta variant outbreak at Calgary hospital were fully immunized
Most people who tested positive at a Calgary hospital for the more contagious COVID-19 variant first reported in India had mild symptoms, except one person who was admitted into intensive care.
captainmorgan
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Things a heating up in South Africa again, India variant confirmed a month ago.
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Steep rise of India variant cases in Russia, new wave coming.
captainmorgan
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Russia has less than 10% of population vaccinated, the people don't trust Putin.
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India variant in Fiji.
DIY-HP-LED
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I don't get my second Pfizer jab until august 5th, I'm hoping they can move the date up a bit, cause the Delta variant might land on my doorstep before then!
captainmorgan
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July will be a deadly month for the world.
DIY-HP-LED
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Warm weather and outside makes no difference at all to this one, it will be worse here in the fall and winter, much more contagious than the rest.
DIY-HP-LED
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Unvaccinated people gathering in groups with no masks and lots of vaccinated people with mild or asymptomatic cases, recipe for disaster.
DIY-HP-LED
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I dunno when mRNA vaccines will come out of emergency use statues, but when they do, I expect the vaccinated numbers will go up dramatically. Employers and healthcare insurance companies will require it, so will schools and universities. If say 1% (like in the hospital) refuse to comply that's 99% who do, if their employer requires it, I imagine it would be the same for schools. Hopefully the statues of these vaccines will change this summer by say August. If a delta variant wave starts decimating the unvaccinated, it might also drive up vaccination rates as hospitals fill. In most places 80to 90% of people over 60 have been vaccinated, here 90% of 65 and older have had one shot.
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Just laughing at the people not trusting Putin.
As far as people can stay more outdoor or keep windows open to let in fresh air it will help. Confined air is a major problem. Air exchanges in buildings were designed for lowest cost with (what was thought then) adequate ventilation. Wonder if that will change in the future?
DIY-HP-LED
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The delta variant likes fresh air and bright sunshine, spreads fast through warm tropical countries, summer won't help and winter should be even worse.
captainmorgan
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Russians don't like open windows, apparently they are clumsy and fall out of them.
DIY-HP-LED
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I think Joe might have to surge vaccines, equipment and personnel into some red states with low vaccination rates. This delta variant, crowds, no restrictions and no masks is gonna add up to trouble in some regions with low vaccination rates. Vaccinated people can get mild or asymptomatic cases of it and kids can spread it too, the unvaccinated are gonna be fucked.
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Coronavirus: Moscow orders new restrictions as COVID-19 infections soar | CTV News
Moscow orders new restrictions as COVID-19 infections soar
MOSCOW -- Moscow's mayor on Saturday ordered a week off for some workplaces and imposed restrictions on many businesses to fight coronavirus infections that have more than doubled in the past week.
The national coronavirus task force reported 6,701 new confirmed cases in Moscow, compared with 2,936 on June 6.
Nationally, the daily tally has spiked by nearly half over the past week, to 13,510.
After several weeks of lockdown as the pandemic spread in the spring of 2020, the Russian capital eased restrictions and did not reimpose any during subsequent case increases.
But because of the recent sharp rise, "it is impossible not to react to such a situation," Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
He ordered enterprises that do not normally work on weekends to remain closed for the next week while continuing to pay employees.
Food courts and children's play areas in shopping centers also are to close for a week beginning Sunday, and restaurants and bars must limit their service to takeout from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Earlier in the week, city authorities said enforcement of mask- and glove-wearing requirements on mass transit, in stores and in other public places would be strengthened and that violators could face fines of up to 5,000 rubles (US$70).
Although Russia was the first country to deploy a coronavirus vaccine, its use has been relatively low; many Russians are reluctant to get vaccinated.
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said 18 million Russians have received the vaccine -- about 12 per cent of the population.
For the entire pandemic period, the task force has reported nearly 5.2 million infections in the country of about 146 million people, and 126,000 deaths. However, a report from Russian state statistics agency Rosstat on Friday found more than 144,000 virus-related deaths last year alone.
The statistics agency, unlike the task force, counts fatalities in which coronavirus infection was present or suspected but is not the main cause of death.
The agency's report found about 340,000 more people died in 2020 than in 2019; it did not give details of the causes of the higher year-on-year death toll.
The higher death toll and a lower number of births combined to make an overall population decline of 702,000, about twice the decline in 2019, Rosstat said.
Moscow orders new restrictions as COVID-19 infections soar
MOSCOW -- Moscow's mayor on Saturday ordered a week off for some workplaces and imposed restrictions on many businesses to fight coronavirus infections that have more than doubled in the past week.
The national coronavirus task force reported 6,701 new confirmed cases in Moscow, compared with 2,936 on June 6.
Nationally, the daily tally has spiked by nearly half over the past week, to 13,510.
After several weeks of lockdown as the pandemic spread in the spring of 2020, the Russian capital eased restrictions and did not reimpose any during subsequent case increases.
But because of the recent sharp rise, "it is impossible not to react to such a situation," Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
He ordered enterprises that do not normally work on weekends to remain closed for the next week while continuing to pay employees.
Food courts and children's play areas in shopping centers also are to close for a week beginning Sunday, and restaurants and bars must limit their service to takeout from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Earlier in the week, city authorities said enforcement of mask- and glove-wearing requirements on mass transit, in stores and in other public places would be strengthened and that violators could face fines of up to 5,000 rubles (US$70).
Although Russia was the first country to deploy a coronavirus vaccine, its use has been relatively low; many Russians are reluctant to get vaccinated.
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said 18 million Russians have received the vaccine -- about 12 per cent of the population.
For the entire pandemic period, the task force has reported nearly 5.2 million infections in the country of about 146 million people, and 126,000 deaths. However, a report from Russian state statistics agency Rosstat on Friday found more than 144,000 virus-related deaths last year alone.
The statistics agency, unlike the task force, counts fatalities in which coronavirus infection was present or suspected but is not the main cause of death.
The agency's report found about 340,000 more people died in 2020 than in 2019; it did not give details of the causes of the higher year-on-year death toll.
The higher death toll and a lower number of births combined to make an overall population decline of 702,000, about twice the decline in 2019, Rosstat said.
captainmorgan
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Read that in some part of Russia, ambulances were lined up with a 3 hour wait to offload covid patients.
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