COVID-19 news & status

Thank you Rig

I don't even know what to say. This is in Saskatchewan, Canada.

https://www.620ckrm.com/2021/10/12/covid-enforcement-team-and-secure-location-for-covid-isolation/?fbclid=IwAR2iGOJ5TO2DDix0NNb27Gfutnvc0yqO0SohTUoWRqDnw8GrFhM_nuMeMLw

Hmmm... "Your papers, please!"
Oh, it is definitely all about disease control, dontcha know.
And aren't "we" cute with our naming conventions. Hopefully the "clients" will not have too many menial tasks to "pay for" their stay.

Big Brother is watching you. Praying it doesn't come to a province near you.

Yeah, we have that. If you test positive they shunt you off to quarantine. If you escape they "recapture" you.

Plus, this weekend a massive vaxathon. Purportedly so we can all have summer.

Interesting thought that was brought up at the rally we attended on the weekend.......

As of October 30th you must be vaccinated to get on a plane or train in Canada. This means that we are literally hostages in our own country. If you are not vaxxed you can not leave the country. There was a speaker at the rally who grew up under communist rule in Russia. He was telling us how, when he was young, he literally was not allowed to leave the country. He was saying how this rule makes Canada NOT a free country. We have a right to mobility. We have a right to leave and enter the country as Canadians. But now the government is discriminating who can leave and who is a hostage here. I thought this was interesting to mention as it shows how far governments are going that claim to be "democratic, free nations".

ETA: I just read a news article concerning my city. The case of FULLY VAXED now surpass those who are not vaccinated.

It's getting really crazy Ontario.

I still believe in free choice, I don't think mandates of restrictions are the answer. Would it stop the virus if there was 100% vax? Not sure that it would.

Here in the states, airlines and others that have made vax mandatory for employment are struggling as people are quitting vs getting vaxxed or some getting fired. Causing shortages in many industries.

Thank you Rig.

As mentioned in my journal, they are now calling people up to get them booked for an appointment. I was called on Sunday. Yep, the government is now harassing us to get vaxxed.

Something interesting to watch coming out of Ontario, Canada. Apparently, 15% of our health care workers are unvaccinated. This 15% refused the mandatory vaccine at this time. The mandated vax date comes down Friday for my city. Different cities have different dates. My city is a huge, huge, healthcare facilities city. We have teaching hospitals and research centres.

The government is now saying that if the 15% actually refuse and get fired there will be a collapse of the provincial health care system.

Unfortunately, similar things are happening here. Medical professionals, airline attendants and others with companies that have mandated vax, as losing employees and it is causing shortages and delays, depending on the industry. Its amazing how us lay people can see the results very clearly, but the higher up think a mandate with make everyone jump on the bandwagon. This isn't going to end well I fear.

My employer has announced that we have to file a vax status by 11/1 so they know the "lay of the land." If/when the Bid~n flubministration ever finds their round tuit and gets their 100 employee mandate on paper, or WalMart, Kroger, etc demand vax, they will be prepared.

Narrowminded wrote:Unfortunately, similar things are happening here.  Medical professionals, airline attendants and others with companies that have mandated vax, as losing employees and it is causing shortages and delays, depending on the industry.  Its amazing how us lay people can see the results very clearly, but the higher up think a mandate with make everyone jump on the bandwagon.  This isn't going to end well I fear.

Yes, I saw the news about Southwest Airlines having to basically shut down flights. That was interesting.

I am also hearing that many fully vaxxed people are now rising up about the mandates. They are not standing for forced vax and violation of rights.

As I have said all along...I am not anti-vax. I am pro-autonomy. We should ALL be able to choose what is right for us as individuals. Gay, straight, abled, disabled, religious, non-religious, young, old, vaxxed, non-vaxxed.

When we deny the rights of one we deny the rights of all. It's a slippery slope.

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Rig, will you decline to submit your personal medical information to your employer? I would imagine they are in breach of privacy to ask for it. You don't even have a mandate yet. Even a mandate is not law, and even a law is unlawful if it is in breach of human rights and the Nuremburg code.

Had dinner with friends tonight who have a close friend working at the hospitals still and filling out death certificates. The default is COVID and you cannot change it.

The default? Wow!

Annie, I'm not sure how I will respond as yet. I don't know if it is a "fill in the blanks" questionnaire or not, if it is, I may default to answering things with "MYOB" (mind your own business.) On the other hand, I may try to give a full explanation of my position, not that it will matter. As far as the legal aspects in regard to privacy, that appears to be widely ignored, if not non existing, under the current Bid~n flubministration, where whatever they want to do is fine, and if what you want to do differs, you will be punished.

Pedi, that is outrageous! But on that same score, I had an interesting experience at WalMart a few days back. A woman standing in the lengthy customer service line got triggered by someone's comment and went off on a 10 minute rant -- She is an RN who specializes in cardio<something> and got fired by asking questions and challenging decisions on patient care related to Covid. The most interesting tidbit she dropped was that the two big health organizations here, which run all the hospitals and have a ton of MD's employed (including mine) have decreed that any MD who prescribes hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin to a patient for Covid will be fired immediately.

Remember, you aren't considered Vaxxed until 2 wks after your second shot.
from OpenVaers Red Box Summaries at https://openvaers.com/covid-data

I agree with Rig, it is outrageous they are using Covid like that. I knew it happened early on, but I thought or maybe hoped that was changing.

It is also outrageous that they will fire you (MD) for prescribing a med that "they" (non-physicians) don't approve of. Hydroxychloroquin is what cured my FL friend. He had pneumonia from Covid and was out of the hospital in 3 days and that was early on in this whole mess.

Scary what is going on around the world.

The insurance companies are pushing for patients to pay for their hospitalizations when the hospitals stop getting extra for COVID patients. We think the number will drop at that point. They also had an elderly friend who’s wife died of a heart attach at home (no s/sx of illness) and her death certificate listed COVID as the cause of death. The life insurance company declined paying to the beneficiaries because it was a COVID death.

Pedi that is so very wrong.

Agreed, but many things are wrong with this entire issue.