Canada - Coronavirus COVID-19 #2

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I spoke with my son this evening and he, age 25, is worried about side effects from the vaccine. I told him that with everyone I know who has had the vaccine, the worst side effect is a sore arm later in the day, gone the next day - same as seasonal vaccines.

I'm thinking that the AstraZeneca vaccine, with potentially deadly results for random people, has somewhat tainted views about the covid vaccine in general. Something has caused people between the ages of 18 - 40 to fear vaccine side effects. I hope that messaging is corrected so populations can return to some semblance of normal in the Fall. That is when 2nd doses roll out.

 

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How COVID-19 is spreading in Canada on domestic flights

Covid is spreading domestically and internationally because people prematurely believe that the pandemic is winding down. India made that mistake. Canadians with dual passports and reasons to "essentially" travel are bringing variants into Canada. Within Canada, covid is shared at work, indoor spaces, family gatherings and through travel that is very likely non-essential.

 

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I had a conversation with my vaccinator today. I think every appointment has 10 minutes. I told her that she probably meets a lot of people like me, living in solitude for months. Each morning I wake up and wonder what adventures I should have next. I can't see the end of the tunnel, but I know it's there.

I think people need messages of resilience rather than noise about personal struggles with belief systems.

 

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Now that "death by vaccine" has been mostly eliminated in Canada, Canadians of all ages can go ahead with confidence that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines provide protection without risk of death. I'm still bewildered that Prime Minister Trudeau proposed that a faulty 1/100,00o or 1/60,000 vaccine is okay. How often does Justin Trudeau play Russian Roulettes with Canadian's lives. Did Justin Trudeau really have the AstraZeneca Vaccine?

The AstraZeneca vaccine was never approved in the USA, although the USA manufactures and distributes the drug to other countries - like Canada.

I hope that USA AstraZeneca vaccine manufacturing pharmaceuticals are closed tomorrow on the basis that the vaccine is deadly.

 

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The mRNA vaccine seems to modify the body to be prepared for covid, whereas vaccines for polio and other deadly diseases protect the body from dealing with the virus.

I'm curious whether the discussion about releasing vaccine patent information globally is because China might have a vaccine that protects people from illness, as opposed to prepping their body for infection.

 

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Experts are calling for a more coherent border control policy that eliminates the loopholes.

"The Canadian government must create a comprehensive quarantine and screening system for international travellers to help stop the COVID-19 crisis – and to prepare for the next threat, infectious disease specialists say.

Improvements to border control systems may be too late to prevent the spikes in infections hammering Ontario, Alberta and other parts of the country. But the pandemic may yet spawn more waves and new variants that evade vaccination. And this will almost certainly not be the last pandemic.

What a system for preventing travel-related spread might look like remains a matter of debate among epidemiologists and public-health researchers. But it is almost the consensus view among them that the federal government’s current measures are unequal, incoherent and full of loopholes. Ottawa has been slow to adjust to stop the arrival of new variants from global hot spots and has done little to deal with land arrivals. Officials react rather than predict or anticipate new threats. ...

Direct travel from Mexico, the Caribbean, Brazil, the United Kingdom, India and Pakistan was temporarily halted, but that did not stop people from arriving on connecting flights or landing in the United States and crossing by land."
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Canada must create a comprehensive quarantine, screening system for international travellers: experts

 

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Indoor COVID-19 restrictions could ease by fall if 75% are fully vaccinated: PHAC

 

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and yet they won't stop gathering

Iqaluit is currently the only place in Nunavut with active cases.

Nunavut health officials plead for Iqaluit residents to stop gathering

 

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Delaying 2nd Pfizer vaccine dose may protect better against COVID-19: study

 

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CBC poll: Results give us an idea of who the vaccine hesitant in Alberta really are

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...Ylgvdz3tX7DvgGPfzfl-1K4WeN1i1yvSvdfIoF9YZkwhM

 

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Saskatchewan reports first case of vaccine-related blood clot, patient recovering

 

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Russian Roulette with the AstraZeneca vaccine - this man was one of the unlucky ones, although he was lucky enough to live. I'm of the opinion that the decision to allow a vaccine with known deadly side effects to be administered in Canada is extremely irresponsible.

I'm expecting lawsuits against the manufacturers of AstraZeneca, and the Canadian Government, from every family where the vaccine damaged health, or resulted in death. These illnesses and deaths were a foreseeable, avoidable consequence, yet they were downplayed as so rare that those who suffered the consequences were irrelevant.

"A formerly healthy 43-year-old father from Langley — who is in hospital recovering from complications following a blood clot — is warning others to watch for signs of trouble after receiving an AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.

Shaun Mulldoon and his wife Tara say that doctors confirmed to them that he's a victim of the rare but dangerous syndrome linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine. The clot in his abdomen will leave him with life-long affects after two metres of his small intestine was removed.

Shaun Mulldoon believes he wasn't adequately warned of the vaccine's risks or protected from them. ...

Her husband was vaccinated on April 22 and ended up in emergency surgery on May 9. She said that he initially felt nauseous but symptoms progressed to fever, headache and vomiting. Each time he felt ill he called his doctor or the HealthLinkBC line at 811 and was advised to stay home — even after going in to have a test for COVID-19 — which turned out to be negative. ...

"I mean there's chitter chatter about the risks of blood clots, but ... it was presented to us as being so so rare," said Mulldoon. ...

Fisman believes that Canada may have initially missed signals about the rate of risk as AstraZeneca initially was given to older people so strokes caused by the vaccine may have gone undetected.

He predicts — based on global trends — that adverse effects could potentially hit one in every 22,000 people who get the AstraZeneca jab — five times what was predicted.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/langley-man-intestine-vaccine-effect-1.6027830

 

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Why Canada could soon turn the corner in the pandemic — even if it doesn't feel like it yet

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cana...v0B0tuFgsyVWaYkbYMQTn7239CE5wS0YkCqbezYz7t3TA

 

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oh boy you guys

Vance was so upset, he filed a complaint in December with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C., writing that he has a professional duty to report doctors who pose a danger to the public. He called for Malthouse to be stripped of his licence.

B.C. doctors urge action on colleague spreading COVID-19 misinformation

 

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Labour market experts warn of a looming resignation boom because employees in Canada (and the U.S.) who have been contemplating an exit have largely held off. But as workplaces shift and there’s a better sense of what the next phase of work looks like, that pent-up attrition is set to begin and build.

A workplace resignation boom may be looming. Here’s why

 

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I spoke with my son this evening and he, age 25, is worried about side effects from the vaccine. I told him that with everyone I know who has had the vaccine, the worst side effect is a sore arm later in the day, gone the next day - same as seasonal vaccines.

I'm thinking that the AstraZeneca vaccine, with potentially deadly results for random people, has somewhat tainted views about the covid vaccine in general. Something has caused people between the ages of 18 - 40 to fear vaccine side effects. I hope that messaging is corrected so populations can return to some semblance of normal in the Fall. That is when 2nd doses roll out.

One of my sons is thus far refusing to get vaccinated, with the reasoning that one time when he got the flu-shot, he ended up getting a nasty bout of flu that winter. And.. there is no talking to him (at least from me). ugh.

 

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One of my sons is thus far refusing to get vaccinated, with the reasoning that one time when he got the flu-shot, he ended up getting a nasty bout of flu that winter. And.. there is no talking to him (at least from me). ugh.

Annual flu vaccines do not always target the correct viruses. Covid is different since it is not only potentially deadly, but it can have long lasting side effects. Hopefully the vaccination rates will soon be high enough that unvaccinated people are protected.

This article was posted here some time ago, but it's a good reminder of one of the more challenging side effects.

A third of COVID-19 survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders, study finds

 

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Canada could donate excess AstraZeneca doses to other countries, Anand suggests

 

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B.C. 19-year-old hospitalized with rare COVID-linked syndrome usually found in kids

 

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Halifax man looking for trucking job to get travel exemption into N.B. to see dying mother