Fragile Bird Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 Update Mar 16Tu 17We 18Th 19Fr 20Sa 21Su 22Mo 23Tu BC 556 498 622 737 556 598 631 682 AB 355 479 505 696 556 555 456 465 SK 156 87 115 174 200 178 205 150 MB 111 96 91 93 89 90 66 98 ON 1074 1508 1553 1745 1829 1791 1699 1546 PQ 561 703 702 764 775 648 712 656 Atl-4 9 3 11 9 5 7 12 10 North 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 2822 3374 3599 4218 4010 3867 3781 3607 We have 800 more cases since last Tuesday. The 7-day average was 3,193, now it's 3,779. Variant cases are up everywhere. I see that another 245,000 vaccine doses showed up on the CTV vaccine tracker, the first of more than a million arriving this week. Friends of mine were supposed to get their AZ vaccines yesterday, but the pharmacy didn't get their supply. They thought they'd come in on Thursday. Ontario has 176,436 vaccine doses that seem to be sitting in storage, because the government doesn't want to hand them out. A supply has to be kept back in case of outbreaks somewhere. I have never heard of anything so stupid. They should be distributing 150,000 of them and just holding back 20,000 or so, especially since we aren't doing second shots for weeks. It looks like only 1,000 to 2,000 second shots are done each day. I don't know what the heck is going on in the Maritime provinces, they've given so few shots. In the meantime, Quebec is once again forging on with new ideas. This time it's being suggested that people who have had Covid receive only one shot, that between having had the virus and receiving a first shot, they're covered just as well as someone who has received two shots. Apparently the only other country trying out this idea is France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueMetis Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 There are times when I think being a federated rather than unitary state was a mistake, then I remember Harper being in charge and realize it's a crapshoot no matter what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 SCC went 6-3 on the constitutionality of the CT. Kenney, Moe, Pallister, and Ford can go eat a dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted March 25, 2021 Author Share Posted March 25, 2021 Ah shit, 2,380 cases in Ontario today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 Update Mar 19Fr 20Sa 21Su 22Mo 23Tu 24We 25Th 26Fr BC 737 556 598 631 682 716 800 908 AB 696 556 555 456 465 692 764 717 SK 174 200 178 205 150 190 168 213 MB 93 89 90 66 98 81 111 116 ON 1745 1829 1791 1699 1546 1571 2380 2169 PQ 764 775 648 712 656 783 945 950 Atl-4 9 5 7 12 10 6 34 21 North 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 4218 4010 3867 3781 3607 4051 5203 5094 It's so depressing to see these numbers go up, just as vaccine is rolling in. And speaking of vaccine, we will receive more vaccine in April than we have received in total to date. I think the number will be about 8.5 M doses, so combined with the 4.3 M single doses done so far, by the end of April we'll have more than 12 M people vaccinated with one dose, almost 1/3 of the country. That should reduce the number of infections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 Update Mar 22Mo 23Tu 24We 25Th 26Fr 27Sa 28Su 29Mo BC 631 682 716 800 908 936 805 777 AB 456 465 692 764 717 668 644 545 SK 205 150 190 168 213 224 248 202 MB 66 98 81 111 116 57 55 53 ON 1699 1546 1571 2380 2169 2453 2448 2094 PQ 712 656 783 945 950 1009 917 891 Atl-4 12 10 6 34 21 17 9 11 North 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 3781 3607 4051 5203 5094 5364 5126 4573 Things continue to worsen across the country, with BC and Ontario being the hot spots. BC is going into a 3 week "circuit breaker" emergency restrictions. Expectations are that Ontario will announce restrictions as well. Expect more provinces to make announcements. In early March I was watching our seven day average dropping through the 2000s, and here we are at 4,717. My suspicion, from looking at Europe, is that things are going to get worse quickly. BC's weekend cases were equal to the number they had in the first two months. Ontario's numbers are at the level we had before Christmas when we announced our lockdown. I caught a news broadcast out of Calgary where a doctor was talking about people showing up in the ICU being in their 50s, some in their 40s, and a few in their 30s. The same is happening here in Ontario. I've said before I've been watching Poland because their population is almost the same as ours. In the last couple of weeks their numbers rose to the 10s of thousands, then the 20s, and then up to 35,000. They've dropped back down a bit but they are still very high. That could easily happen to us in the next few weeks. On the bright side, the vaccine situation is improving. It's a shame about the mixed messages we're getting regarding AZ, people don't know what to believe. In Europe the blood-clot issue started as 1 case in a million, but in a couple of countries the rate is 1 in 100,000. In case that worries you, think about the fact that the rate of strokes in women who take birth control pills is 8 in 100,000 and no country has tried to ban them for that reason. Pfizer will be shipping us 1 M vaccine doses a week, and today Trudeau announced that it goes up to 2 M a week in May. It was also announced that by the end of June we will receive a total of 36 M vaccine doses, without including any AZ in the number, which means enough vaccine for every adult in Canada plus 6 M second doses. Of course we all know that not all people will get vaccinated. If 20% don't, it means 12 M second doses by the end of June. Also announced today was the fact that we will start to receive J&J vaccine at the end of April, although no quantities have been given. And presumably we will hear about Novavax being approved in the next few weeks. Hang in there, stay at home, wear a mask when you go out, wash your hands, and stay in your bubble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caligula_K3 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 The situation is so frustrating here in Quebec. For once we've had a slower start on this wave than other provinces (third time's a charm!) but meanwhile our government continues to open things up and this week demanded that high school students all be in our overcrowded, poorly ventilated schools full time, even though the variants have been rapidly spreading through schools. Always with the justification of "we have to think of kids' mental health!" (aka, we need their parents at work) and "hospitalizations are relatively low" (aka, we think you're too stupid to have noticed after one year that hospitalizations are always a couple weeks behind rising cases in this pandemic, and deaths a couple weeks behind hospitalizations). I think it's going to be a very shitty April in this province and country. And then... hopefully the vaccines will save us from ourselves and our governments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 Whoa. Have you all been seeing heavy rotation of ads from a milk company called Fairlife, talking about how it’s Canadian milk? I knew that when it first came to Canada it was American milk, so I thought I would look it up to see what the hell the story was. The fucking company is a Coca-Cola company. Coca-Cola is trying to destroy Canadian dairy farmers. Yes, it is now buying Canadian milk, but I trust Coca-Cola about as far as I can spit, which isn’t very far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted April 6, 2021 Author Share Posted April 6, 2021 Update Mar 27Sa 28Su 29Mo 30Tu 31We 1Th 2Fr BC 936 805 777 840 1013 832 1074 AB 668 644 545 576 871 875 1081 SK 224 248 202 164 191 254 280 MB 57 55 53 77 71 59 - ON 2453 2448 2094 2336 2333 2557 3089 PQ 1009 917 891 864 1025 1271 1314 Atl-4 17 9 11 22 15 18 13 North 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Total 5364 5126 4573 4879 5520 5808 6830 Just numbers in this post, since I will also update the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 Update Mar 30Tu 31We 1Th 2Fr 3Sa 4Su 5Mo 6Tu BC 840 1013 832 1074 1077 999 890 1068 AB 576 871 875 1081 1071 948 887 931 SK 164 191 199 254 280 221 219 217 MB 77 71 59 - 181 - 135 62 ON 2336 2333 2557 3089 3009 3041 2938 3065 PQ 864 1025 1271 1314 1282 1154 1252 1168 Atl-4 22 15 18 13 13 18 13 9 North 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 Total 4879 5520 5808 6830 6913 6381 6335 6520 So, here we are again, back at the abyss. Provinces are setting record numbers of daily cases, BC has, Alberta has, Saskatchewan has. The north has made great headway at first vaccinations of those over 16, Yukon at 69.5%, the NWT at 67.8% and Nunavut at 51.2%, and collectively have reported 2 new cases in the last three weeks. Meanwhile, variants are making up more and more cases across the country. Peel announced that schools would be closed to in-person learning, and Toronto followed suit today, much to the annoyance of the premier. And in the meantime the Atlantic provinces appear to have things in check. In other news, the Globe and Mail is saying in a stunning story that deaths in the west appear to have been much higher last year than initially reported. Much, much higher. Tara Moriarty, a professor of laboratory medicine and pathobiology (I didn't even know that was a word) at the U. of Toronto, studied 'excess deaths' across the country. While we all looked with horror at deaths in Quebec and Ontario, it appears Covid deaths in BC may be 6 times higher than reported and deaths in Saskatchewan may be 10 times higher. "I think we had a much bigger epidemic than we knew" said the professor, in a classic understatement. Even after subtracting out drug overdose deaths, BC appears to have had 1,650 excess deaths last year, but only 290 deaths attributed to Covid-19. Saskatchewan reported 29 Covid deaths, but had 293 excess deaths. Alberta, 1,049 v. 401, Ontario 4,037 v. 3,372. It looks like our Covid death toll last year was about 3,000 higher than reported. Only the North and the Atlantic Region did not have a big discrepancy between reported Covid deaths and excess deaths. There is some speculation that many seniors had either asymptomatic Covid or symptoms that appeared to be colds, and with weakened immune systems passed away from the virus and were never tested. On the good news front, as of today we have now had 10,090,200 doses of vaccine delivered. That means by the start of next week we should have close to 30% of the Canadian population older than 16 vaccinated. 730 k Canadians have received a second dose, so we won't hit 10M with this week's doses but we'll be there by the end of next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 Looks like Ontario is going to move up to a Stay at Home order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 3 hours ago, Fragile Bird said: Looks like Ontario is going to move up to a Stay at Home order. As always with that useless buffoon Ford. Too little too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueMetis Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 When this is all over there needs to be a commission to analyze provincial and federal government response and the results need to be posted everywhere. It just pisses me off that we could have responded to this so much better, yet if anything the damn responses are getting worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 In some good news, apparently about 60% of indigenous peoples in Canada (over 18) have received their first shot of the vaccine, and in some areas of the North it’s 70%. I also heard that in Quebec they will start setting up second shot clinics. I gather the doses are pretty well all Moderna, because it’s less complicated to handle than Pfizer. As a result cases have dropped by 85% among indigenous populations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 In case you missed it, the Dancing Sikh of the Yukon got his second dose, and danced! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 I came here to slag off Ford, but Gurdeep is a joy. P.S. Fuck Doug Ford. The governments response to this pandemic has been atrocious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aemon Stark Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Doug Ford has most certainly been the Worst Case Ontario. In the meantime, we have a 8 active cases in NL, with the February outbreak well behind us. There were 3 new ones today, which at this point feels like a lot again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 I have to give Ford credit for getting his vaccine today, he did get the AZ vaccine, so that was a good thing. I saw a story from Alberta that there are vaccine clinics that are almost empty because people won’t take the AZ vaccine. With case numbers skyrocketing, perhaps people will change their minds instead of holding out for something bettter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 I think QC is potentially reaping the reward of holding back second doses. Hospitalizations there are increasing at a much slower rate than Ontario despite similar case increases. That’s speculation though - I can’t back it up with any evidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 So I've seen certain center-right folks in the US getting really upset about this over the past day, but is it going to actually be any sort of issue in Canada? https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/11/trudeau-hailfax-security-forum-taiwan-480722 Quote The organizers of one of the world’s most prestigious defense gatherings are in the midst of an uncomfortable international standoff between the Canadian government and China over a major award they had planned to give to the president of Taiwan. The standstill, which is ongoing and has not been previously reported, has created tension between the Halifax International Security Forum and the Canadian government, which is a major sponsor of the forum. Late last year, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, the forum’s organizers decided to give its John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service to Tsai Ing-wen, the president of Taiwan. Cindy McCain, a member of the forum’s board of directors, greenlit the decision to honor Tsai with the prize named after her late husband. It would have been the third time the HFX presented the McCain award. The first, in 2018, went to the people of Lesbos, Greece, for their efforts to save refugees; the second, in 2019, went to the citizen protesters in Hong Kong. HFX planned to give the third to Taiwan’s president for standing strong against China’s relentless pressure. When Canadian officials learned of the forum’s plans, they made it clear that if organizers gave the honor to Tsai, the Canadian government would pull support — and funding — from HFX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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