Coronavirus outbreak

[HKSR]

3 hours ago, Alflives said:

ARe schools closed still?  Anyway the schools without masking will be massive places of  transmission.  Likely the teachers will all be gettiing very ill with the kids no longer wearing masks.  Feel sorry for teachers.  @stawns

Some districts are starting spring break this week and others started last week.  

[Warhippy]

On 3/24/2022 at 8:56 AM, cuporbust said:

Let's talk about them? Do you actually follow the world economic forum? I mean, the actually website,  not the " propaganda" , as you put it ? Let's start there with that question.  

 

Just a side note , it's not just Canadian conservatives and American Republicans that are assessing the facts . 

 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/justin-trudeau-german-mp-chrstine-anderson

 

 

 

 

A little more on these idiots you mentioned.  I stand by my statement.  Being lambasted by these three is a gd badge of honour because a decent human being should in fact be opposed to everything they stand for.

 

Trudeau faced harsh critics in the EU Parliament this week. Here's who launched the attacks

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently addressed the European Union Parliament and warned of growing threats to democracy, he received an angry backlash from some elected members who accused him of responding to the recent anti-vaccine mandate convoy protest like a dictator.

The public rebukes by a handful of far-right, populist and anti-vaccine members of the European Parliament claiming Trudeau violated civil rights in response to the protest that occupied Ottawa for almost a month went viral on social media.

 

Trudeau's Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in history in February, giving police and other authorities extraordinary powers to disrupt the protest.

The verbal thrashing came after Trudeau addressed the assembly in Brussels, Belgium, where 705 elected members (MEPs) from the 27 EU member states constitute the largest elected assembly in Europe.

The European Union Parliament has a history of making news when outspoken members make controversial remarks. Some of those members represent parties that oppose the existence of the EU itself. 

CBC News takes a look at what was said, who said it and how the European Parliament is vastly different from parliaments elsewhere in the democratic world.

 

What did MEPs say about Trudeau?

Describing Trudeau as someone who "tramples" fundamental human rights and freedoms, Independent Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakušić said Canada once stood for civil rights but now seems more like a "dictatorship of the worst kind."

"Under your quasi-liberal boot in recent months," Kolakušić said, "we watched how you trample women with horses, how you block the bank accounts of single parents so that they can't even pay their children's education and medicine, that they can't pay utilities, mortgages for their homes."

Ontario's police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit, launched an investigation on Feb. 20 after a 49-year-old woman reported being seriously injured by a Toronto Police Service officer on a horse as police were clearing out people who had occupied Ottawa's downtown core.

"Mr. Trudeau, you are a disgrace for any democracy," said German MEP Christine Anderson, the political spokesperson for the ID parliamentary group in the European Parliament through her party Alternative for Germany. 

Anderson went on to accuse Trudeau of civil rights violations during the trucker convoy protest, calling him a dictator who treats citizens as "terrorists."

Another Alternative for Germany MEP, Bernhard Zimniok, accused Trudeau of "trampling on democratic rights" by cracking down on people for protesting "disproportionate" public health measures.

 

Who are the MEPs who accused Trudeau of being a dictator?

Mislav Kolakušić, whose speech in the assembly went viral on his Twitter feed, is a failed Croatian presidential candidate and is not affiliated with any political party in the European Parliament. He has aligned himself with anti-vaccine voices inside and outside of the assembly.

Reuters reported earlier this year that Kolakušić had accused French President Emmanuel Macron of "murdering citizens" through vaccine mandates and that he claimed "tens of thousands of" Europeans had died from vaccine side-effects during the pandemic.

Reuters said Europe's drug regulator pushed back against that claim, describing it as "incorrect" and a "misrepresentation of data."

Kolakušić was also one of six MEPs censured by the European Parliament for refusing to present an EU Digital COVID certificate to enter the assembly. Anderson was another of the MPs punished in that incident.

Both Anderson and Zimniok are members of the political party Alternative for Germany, described by the BBC as a far-right political party that employs rhetoric "tinged with Nazi overtones."

A German court ruled recently that the party is "a suspected threat to democracy" after an administrative court in Cologne found that there are "sufficient indications of anti-constitutional goals within the AfD."

Alternative for Germany is one of the national parties that fall under the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament. With 63 members from 10 countries, it is the fifth-largest group in the assembly.

Identity and Democracy is made up of domestic political parties opposed to the EU. They hold far-right positions on issues like immigration, EU membership and social welfare. The ID group includes France's Rassemblement National party, which was founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen.

 

What is the European Parliament?

As the second-largest elected assembly in the world after India's Parliament (which has 788 seats to Europe's 705), the European Parliament is one of the seven institutions of the European Union. And while it's called a parliament, it more closely resembles a city council or the UN General Assembly than a parliament in the Westminster tradition.

The assembly sits in two cities: Strasbourg, France and Brussels. It does not have a prime minister. The person who holds the title of "president" in the European Parliament is not a head of government in any sense. The president acts more like a Speaker in the Westminster system, presiding over sittings and chairing debates.

The European Parliament also does not have government and opposition sides, so there are no equivalents to cabinet ministers sitting in the assembly.

Unlike national parliaments, the European Parliament cannot propose legislation. That task is reserved for the European Commission, the appointed executive branch of the EU that functions as a cabinet and acts on behalf of elected member governments.

The European Parliament can amend or reject legislation, has some budgetary approval powers and is required to approve some acts of international co-operation, such as data-sharing initiatives and funding for international development initiatives.

The institution rarely makes the news unless it takes some extraordinary political action — such as refusing to approve the EU budget — or unless its members make outlandish or controversial statements.

It also has a tradition of seating MEPs who are vehemently opposed to the European Union's existence. Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party and the Brexit Party — political entities assembled to pull the United Kingdom out of the EU — led his party to 29 seats in the European Parliament in 2019.

Edited March 25, 2022 by Warhippy

[Warhippy]

 

Numbers are going down.  Everything is being repealed and it appears at least as though there is little to no bumps in the transition back to post covid life.

Except for the idiots on the slow roll convoy in the Okanagan using train horns attached to their trucks.....

Edited March 25, 2022 by Warhippy

[JM_]

5 minutes ago, Warhippy said:

 

Numbers are going down.  Everything is being repealed and it appears at least as though there is little to no bumps in the transition back to post covid life.

Except for the idiots on the slow roll convoy in the Okanagan using train horns attached to their trucks.....

are they still doing that where you are?

[Warhippy]

2 minutes ago, JM_ said:

are they still doing that where you are?

Yup.  One second, lemme show you what happened here two days ago.  It was literally awful.  2 trucks had train horns attached to their trucks.

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/8708692/penticton-b-c-freedom-rally/

 

 

[JM_]

2 minutes ago, Warhippy said:

Yup.  One second, lemme show you what happened here two days ago.  It was literally awful.  2 trucks had train horns attached to their trucks.

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/8708692/penticton-b-c-freedom-rally/

 

 

 

I guess along with long covid, we get long stupid. 

[Warhippy]

2 minutes ago, JM_ said:

 

I guess along with long covid, we get long stupid. 

It's genuinely insane

 

[-Vintage Canuck-]

B.C. COVID-19 pandemic update:

 

As of Friday, March 25, 2022, 90.8% (4,526,941) of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.2% (4,344,849) have received their second dose.

 

In addition, 93.4% (4,330,844) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 91.0% (4,218,752) received their second dose and 57.3% (2,654,589) have received a third dose.

 

Also, 93.8% (4,055,879) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose, 91.4% (3,954,301) received their second dose and 59.0% (2,553,879) have received a third dose.

 

B.C. is reporting 218 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 355,092 cases in the province.

 

The new cases include:

• Fraser Health: 45
• Vancouver Coastal Health: 28
• Interior Health: 80
• Northern Health: 18
• Island Health: 47
• People who reside outside of Canada: zero

There are 260 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 50 are in intensive care.

 

In the past 24 hours, two new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,983.

 

The new deaths include:

• Vancouver Coastal Health: one
• Northern Health: one

There have been three new health-care facility outbreaks at Amica Douglas House, Acacia Ty Mawr and Sunridge Place Seniors (Island Health), for a total of seven facilities with ongoing outbreaks, including:

 

long-term care:

• Hillside Village (Interior Health)
• The Heights at Mt. View, Selkirk Seniors Village, Amica Douglas House, Acacia Ty Mawr and Sunridge Place Seniors (Island Health)

acute care:

• Surrey Memorial Hospital (Fraser Health)

assisted or independent living:

• none

From March 17-23, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 15.8% of cases.

From March 10-23, they accounted for 26.2% of hospitalizations.

 

Past week cases (March 17-23) - Total 1,485

• Not vaccinated: 211 (14.2%)
• Partially vaccinated: 24 (1.6%)
• Fully vaccinated: 1,250 (84.2%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (March 10-23) - Total 386

• Not vaccinated: 84 (21.8%)
• Partially vaccinated: 17 (4.4%)
• Fully vaccinated: 285 (73.8%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 17-23)

• Not vaccinated: 60.6
• Partially vaccinated: 18.0
• Fully vaccinated: 26.7

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 10-23)

• Not vaccinated: 23.9
• Partially vaccinated: 15.5
• Fully vaccinated: 6.0

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,468,257 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

 

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022HLTH0102-000434

[-DLC-]

If 218 new cases are "reported" I'd times that by about 10. 

 

The lack of testing really means you can't trust the numbers that are being put out there. If anything, this create a false sense of safety and allow people to ignore them.

 

I just learned last night that a very dear family friend (whose wife has lung issues) has COVID. So we're carefully monitoring the situation.

 

I'm dreading the return to school tomorrow...I just feel that we're going from zero to a hundred and it'll mean putting the brakes back on again. I feel like public pressure factored in but not everyone is on board with completely dropping safety measures yet. I'm fully expecting a two steps forward, one back deal.

 

 

[4petesake]

The numbers speak for themselves.

 

 

 

[thedestroyerofworlds]

5 minutes ago, 4petesake said:

The numbers speak for themselves.

 

 

 

But people still get the Rona with the jab, so it don't work.  I watched a bunch of bitchute videos so I've done the research and know more than the scientists who wrote that fake news you posted.

 

Check mate sheep.

 

/sarcasm 

[HKSR]

Is it me or has the BCCDC got rid of positivity numbers now too?  On the cusp of potentially another wave, but yeah let's just stop reporting stuff since the pandemic is over.

[-Vintage Canuck-]

B.C. COVID-19 pandemic update (yesterday):

 

As of Monday, March 28, 2022, 90.8% (4,527,693) of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.3% (4,350,266) have received their second dose.

 

In addition, 93.4% (4,331,308) of eligible people 12 and older have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 91% (4,219,816) received their second dose and 57.4% (2,661,745) have received a third dose.

 

Also, 93.8% (4,056,300) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose, 91.4% (3,955,179) received their second dose and 59.2% (2,559,757) have received a third dose.

 

Over a three-day period, B.C. is reporting 556 new cases of COVID-19, including one epi-linked case, for a total of 355,648 cases:

• March 25-26: 207 new cases
• March 26-27: 197 new cases
• March 27-28: 152 new cases

The new cases include:

• Fraser Health: 110
• Vancouver Coastal Health: 109
• Interior Health: 144
• Northern Health: 42
• Island Health: 151
• People who reside outside of Canada: zero

There are 288 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 48 are in intensive care.

 

In the past 72 hours, six new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,989.

 

The new deaths include:

• Fraser Health: two
• Vancouver Coastal Health: two
• Island Health: two

There have been no new health-care facility outbreaks. The outbreak at Hillside Village (Interior Health) has been declared over, for a total of six facilities with ongoing outbreaks, including:

 

long-term care:

• The Heights at Mt. View, Selkirk Seniors Village, Amica Douglas House, Acacia Ty Mawr and Sunridge Place Seniors (Island Health)

acute care:

• Surrey Memorial Hospital (Fraser Health)

assisted or independent living:

• none

From March 18-24, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 16.1% of cases. From March 11-24, they accounted for 24.8% of hospitalizations.

 

Past week cases (March 18-24) - Total 1,486

• Not vaccinated: 217 (14.6%)
• Partially vaccinated: 22 (1.5%)
• Fully vaccinated: 1,247 (83.9%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (March 11-24) - Total 391

• Not vaccinated: 82 (21%)
• Partially vaccinated: 15 (3.8%)
• Fully vaccinated: 294 (75.2%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 18-24)

• Not vaccinated: 61.6
• Partially vaccinated: 16.8
• Fully vaccinated: 26.7

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 11-24)

• Not vaccinated: 23.3
• Partially vaccinated: 13.4
• Fully vaccinated: 6.2

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,481,922 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

 

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022HLTH0103-000447

[Warhippy]

China is shutting down.

 

Shanghai with 5 day rolling lockdown.  Port cities to follow.  This will mean further supply chain issues

[stawns]

I'm hoping they not only keep the vax mandate, but extend it to third doses and, down the road, four.  They can't let people lax on the vaccines, imo 

 

They're dumb to lose the masks too, but that's probably an unwinnable fight until it's to the point where they have no choice.

[-Vintage Canuck-]

B.C. COVID-19 pandemic update:

 

As of Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 90.8% (4,527,947) of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.3% (4,350,994) have received their second dose.

 

In addition, 93.4% (4,331,521) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 91% (4,220,194) have received their second dose and 57.5% (2,663,607) have received a third dose.

 

Also, 93.8% (4,056,500) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose, 91.5% (3,955,515) have received their second dose and 59.2% (2,561,341) have received a third dose.

 

B.C. is reporting 287 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 355,935 cases in the province.

 

Note: The numbers of new and total cases are provisional due to a delayed data refresh.

 

The new cases include:

• Fraser Health: 75
• Vancouver Coastal Health: 67
• Interior Health: 61
• Northern Health: 21
• Island Health: 63
• People who reside outside of Canada: zero

There are 273 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 46 are in intensive care.

 

In the past 24 hours, one new death (Northern Health) has been reported, for an overall total of 2,990.

 

There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at Ayre Manor (Island Health), for a total of seven facilities with ongoing outbreaks, including:

 

long-term care:

• The Heights at Mt. View, Selkirk Seniors Village, Amica Douglas House, Acacia Ty Mawr, Sunridge Place Seniors and Ayre Manor (Island Health)

acute care:

• Surrey Memorial Hospital (Fraser Health)

assisted or independent living:

• none

From March 21-27, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 16.5% of cases and from March 14-27, they accounted for 22.3% of hospitalizations.

 

Past week cases (March 21-27) - Total 1,517

• Not vaccinated: 230 (15.2%)
• Partially vaccinated: 20 (1.3%)
• Fully vaccinated: 1,267 (83.5%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (March 14-27) - Total 313

• Not vaccinated: 58 (18.5%)
• Partially vaccinated: 12 (3.8%)
• Fully vaccinated: 243 (77.7%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 21-27)

• Not vaccinated: 65.7
• Partially vaccinated: 15.1
• Fully vaccinated: 27.0

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 14-27)

• Not vaccinated: 17.5
• Partially vaccinated: 10.8
• Fully vaccinated: 5.1

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,484,833 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

 

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022HLTH0104-000454

[Warhippy]

On 3/29/2022 at 10:01 AM, stawns said:

I'm hoping they not only keep the vax mandate, but extend it to third doses and, down the road, four.  They can't let people lax on the vaccines, imo 

 

They're dumb to lose the masks too, but that's probably an unwinnable fight until it's to the point where they have no choice.

While that's a nice thought.

 

Honestly, if you watch the news; papers; social media.  Covid is yesterdays news.  it took a back seat to Ukraine.  Which took a larger back seat to Will Smith slapping a guy.

 

To the larger parts of the population, covid is effectively over.  Watch and wait to see what happens.

[sonoman]

Double vaxxed and boosted.  Will probably wait for a 4th dose until fall for better protection over winter indoors. 

[King Heffy]

12 minutes ago, sonoman said:

Double vaxxed and boosted.  Will probably wait for a 4th dose until fall for better protection over winter indoors. 

I'm hoping for a combined dose with a flu shot in the near future, but I'll take that dose once it's recommended by the medical professionals.  Hopefully we're getting enough doses to the developing countries though.

[-Vintage Canuck-]

B.C. COVID-19 pandemic update:

 

As of Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 90.8% (4,528,240) of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.3% (4,351,830) have received their second dose.

 

In addition, 93.5% (4,331,797) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 91.1% (4,220,677) received their second dose and 57.5% (2,665,395) have received a third dose.

 

Also, 93.8% (4,056,759) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose, 91.5% (3,955,946) received their second dose and 59.3% (2,562,901) have received a third dose.

 

B.C. is reporting 291 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 356,252 cases in the province.

 

The new cases include:

• Fraser Health: 60
• Vancouver Coastal Health: 53
• Interior Health: 102
• Northern Health: 19
• Island Health: 57
• People who reside outside of Canada: zero

There are 276 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 43 are in intensive care.

 

In the past 24 hours, six new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,996.

• Fraser Health: one
• Interior Health: one
• Northern Health: three
• Island Health: one

There have been no new health-care facility outbreaks, for a total of seven facilities with ongoing outbreaks, including:

 

long-term care:

• The Heights at Mt. View, Selkirk Seniors Village, Amica Douglas House, Acacia Ty Mawr, Sunridge Place Seniors and Ayre Manor (Island Health)

acute care:

• Surrey Memorial Hospital (Fraser Health)

assisted or independent living:

• none

From March 22-28, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 17.7% of cases. From March 15-28, they accounted for 20.4% of hospitalizations.

 

Past week cases (March 22-28) - Total 1,583

• Not vaccinated: 256 (16.2%)
• Partially vaccinated: 23 (1.5%)
• Fully vaccinated: 1,304 (82.3%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (March 15-28) - Total 363

• Not vaccinated: 61 (16.8%)
• Partially vaccinated: 13 (3.6%)
• Fully vaccinated: 289 (79.6%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 22-28)

• Not vaccinated: 73.3
• Partially vaccinated: 15.8
• Fully vaccinated: 28.0

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 15-28)

• Not vaccinated: 18.6
• Partially vaccinated: 11.9
• Fully vaccinated: 6.1

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,487,827 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

 

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022HLTH0105-000463