COVID-19 News and Discussions

[Cyber_Rebel]

Quebec to impose 'significant' financial penalty against people who refuse to get vaccinated
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-to-i ... -1.5735536

An update from the 10 P.M. Curfews their Premier previously enacted.

Quebec Premier François Legault announced the province will apply a "significant" financial penalty for residents who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 for non-medical reasons.

The premier made the announcement at a news conference Tuesday afternoon, describing the measure as a "health-care contribution," though the exact amount has not yet been determined.

The province is consulting with the finance minister and its legal advisers about implementing the measure, but Legault already said $50 or $100 "is not significant" enough for him.

Now, let's see how it's working...

Thousands sign up for 1st dose of COVID-19 vaccine as Quebec threatens to tax the unvaxxed
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/thou ... -1.5736806

More than 7,000 people registered for their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, amid threats by Quebec officials to tax the unvaccinated.

"Our highest in several days," tweeted Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé, noting that 5,000 appointments were also made on Monday. "This is encouraging."

Dubé notes the appointments were made across all the age groups, and 107,000 doses of vaccine were administered Tuesday alone.

Well, that was fast... have I ever mentioned just how much I Canada? Who would've thought punitive measures as an incentive actually do work?

[Xyls]

Love it.

[Xyls]

Quebec to impose 'significant' financial penalty against people who refuse to get vaccinated
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-to-i ... -1.5735536

An update from the 10 P.M. Curfews their Premier previously enacted.

Quebec Premier François Legault announced the province will apply a "significant" financial penalty for residents who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 for non-medical reasons.

The premier made the announcement at a news conference Tuesday afternoon, describing the measure as a "health-care contribution," though the exact amount has not yet been determined.

The province is consulting with the finance minister and its legal advisers about implementing the measure, but Legault already said $50 or $100 "is not significant" enough for him.

Now, let's see how it's working...

Thousands sign up for 1st dose of COVID-19 vaccine as Quebec threatens to tax the unvaxxed
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/thou ... -1.5736806

More than 7,000 people registered for their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, amid threats by Quebec officials to tax the unvaccinated.

"Our highest in several days," tweeted Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé, noting that 5,000 appointments were also made on Monday. "This is encouraging."

Dubé notes the appointments were made across all the age groups, and 107,000 doses of vaccine were administered Tuesday alone.

Well, that was fast... have I ever mentioned just how much I Canada? Who would've thought punitive measures as an incentive actually do work?

My province of New Brunswick is also considering this, and I won't be surprised if all the Atlantic Canadian provinces follow Quebec's lead here. Rest of the country not so sure.

I think in these provinces the question is more of whether they NEED to do this. Most of these provinces have 12+ vaxx rates of around 93-95% with the first dose at least which I believe are the highest in the world. Newfoundland I believe is at about 98% I have heard of the over 12 age group.

[Yuli Ban]

[raklian]

Yikes! People with Long Covid are missing immune T cells. Isn't that what HIV does to our immune system as well, to an extent, right?

Good luck fighting future infections with an immunological profile like that. T cells don't usually regenerate in adulthood.

[weatheriscool]

Biden sending medical teams to 6 states to help hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19
Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON – The federal government is sending military medical teams to six states – New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico – to help hospitals overburdened by COVID-19, President Joe Biden announced Thursday..

Biden announced the deployments when outlining new steps the administration is taking to address a surge in infections driven by the omicron variant.

When you need something done, call in the military," Biden said.

His remarks come as hospitalizations for COVID-19 are setting records. Some hospitals are delaying elective surgeries as states are deploying National Guard members to health care facilities.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclu ... 220113_1_3

[Yuli Ban]

[Yuli Ban]

[wjfox]

[Yuli Ban]

A record spike in COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant is causing a nationwide worker "sickout," disrupting businesses ranging from grocery stores to airlines.

The past few weeks have been "hellacious," Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian said in a Thursday conference call with stock analysts and reporters. The executive said 8,000 of his employees have contracted COVID-19 in the last four weeks alone — about 10% of the carrier's workforce — a toll that contributed to more than 2,200 cancelled Delta flights since December 24.

Although a precise count of the number of employees who are out sick or quarantining is hard to come by, about 5 million Americans could be isolating due to COVID-19 at the peak of Omicron, according to Andrew Hunter, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics. That could reflect about 2% of the nation's workforce forced to stay home due to illness, he added.

[Xyls]

Lul: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... -sage-says

Expect another Omicron wave in early summer, Sage says

[raklian]

Lul: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... -sage-says

Expect another Omicron wave in early summer, Sage says

This is going to be about survival by attrition... and using one's smarts. Our gene pool is about to be tested to its limits, with a significant amount of pruning around its edges. I wouldn't be surprised our resulting gene pool will leave our descendants looking like the grey aliens with their slender bodies and elongated heads with large, black unblinking eyes.

[Yuli Ban]

[wjfox]

[andmar74]

This is going to be about survival by attrition... and using one's smarts. Our gene pool is about to be tested to its limits, with a significant amount of pruning around its edges. I wouldn't be surprised our resulting gene pool will leave our descendants looking like the grey aliens with their slender bodies and elongated heads with large, black unblinking eyes.

This seems very negative, but of course it's the US..

We are doing fine, the number of hospitalizations is dropping, there's almost no restrictions left. Omicron can't beat us ,it's nowhere near.

[wjfox]

It looks like the U.S. might have peaked in terms of Omicron, although it's a little too early to say.

Case numbers are still extraordinarily high, and deaths too.

Meanwhile here in the UK, we've definitely peaked, and hospitalisations have reached a plateau (~50% what we saw in Jan 2021). Our deaths have been uncomfortably high though, approaching 400/day recently, though I expect they'll peak in the next few days.

[raklian]

This is going to be about survival by attrition... and using one's smarts. Our gene pool is about to be tested to its limits, with a significant amount of pruning around its edges. I wouldn't be surprised our resulting gene pool will leave our descendants looking like the grey aliens with their slender bodies and elongated heads with large, black unblinking eyes.

This seems very negative, but of course it's the US..

We are doing fine, the number of hospitalizations is dropping, there's almost no restrictions left. Omicron can't beat us ,it's nowhere near.

You know what I said was tongue-in-cheek.

Omicron has beaten those who died from it. That's just my view.

This wave is not what I'm really worried about. I'm worried about the one we will have in the summer after our immunity (either vaccine- or natural-induced) against Delta and Omincron has worn off. Better hope we'll have a multivalent vaccine before then.

[andmar74]

I forgot to mention long-covid. I'm getting more worried about this. Even vaccines don't stop it.

[R8Z]

No surprise that they demand censorship of the opposing views. Also using the word "baseless" and committing into doing exactly what has been one of the most critical things of the discourse of their intellectual opponents is incredibly ironic and validating towards JRE and their followers (censor first, question later).


So... No, saying something like "it might be likely that a virus was not a naturally originated virus as its origins pinpoint it into one the only places were there is lab dedicated to gain-of-function research of coronaviruses in a region historically without natural coronaviruses originating from" is not a baseless statement and if you try to censor that sort of thing it is especially confusing as to why would anyone have this first gut desire to shut down whoever tries to find what is the reality of the whole situation. Note: Wuhan is the only place in the East where they study coronaviruses in this way. There are only two more labs that do gain of function research and both are far away, in the US.

The above is considered dangerous misinformation by some sources still to this day, although in the past it was much more likely that you would be called a conspiracy theorist by even entertaining the idea of an artificial origin. The above was nothing but literally the statement of facts surrounding the events that led to the global pandemic.

I've lost hope for big tech (like Google and their products) as they purposely misinform and censor without care whatever is in vogue to disagree with, but as long as people are free to discuss in open forums and other platforms, there is hope.

[andmar74]

Japan had a nice run where the delta variant mysteriously disappeared. Now, though, Covid-19 cases are exploding with omicron.
https://www.google.com/search?q=covid-1 ... e&ie=UTF-8