Coronavirus

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On BA.4.6

The number of cases caused by another Omicron subvariant called BA.4.6–which is capable of evading immunity from vaccination and previous infection—is steadily rising. It currently accounts for 13 percent of the sequenced samples.

The growing number of BA.4.6 cases led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to issue a warning indicating that Evusheld—the only monoclonal antibody authorized for COVID-19 prevention in immunocompromised individuals and people who can’t take the COVID-19 vaccine—may be completely ineffective against subvariants like BA.4.6.

The agency has directed healthcare providers to inform patients using Evusheld about the risks of COVID-19 infection as the BA.4.6 subvariant circulates. The advice is to get tested if symptoms develop and seek medical attention immediately if the COVID-19 test is positive.

 

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Two different drugs used now against Covid. Evusheld is more a preventive one as Paxlovid blocks virus replication once infected.

Paxlovid is an oral antiviral that blocks the virus from replicating inside a person who’s already infected. It is intended to be taken within five days of symptoms developing.
The aim of the drug Evusheld is to protect against infection. The monoclonal antibody treatment is given via two injections.

Evusheld is a medication that is available for prevention of COVID-19 infection for people that are at risk for severe infection. These are people that, even though they've had the vaccine, they may not have responded because their immune system was too low to respond. It doesn't mean they won't get infection, but the hope is that they will have less severe infection, hospitalization and death.

Paxlovid? Evusheld? Discussing COVID therapeutics

Dr. Shireesha Dhanireddy, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, says emerging prescription therapeutics are available for high-risk people to treat or prevent COVID-19.

newsroom.uw.edu

 

[gaby]

DUBÉ--BOILEAU ce jour.....c'était bien de voir le Ministre de retour en conf.de presse.....j"ai l'impression que nous allons le voir souvent dans les semaines/mois à venir.

C'était prévisible avec la rentrée/l'automne et l'hiver qui se pointe qu"il y aurait une résurgence des cas......rien d'inquiétant encore mais quand même 16 décès annoncés today.......39% des 60-79 ans sont à jour dans leur vaccination---52% pour les 80 et plus....

un effort à faire surtout pour les vulnérables......faut maintenant y penser.....c'est mon cas ....et c'est la seule solution.

 

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Here is some proof as to how covid is a scam and nothing but a money making scheme. Trudeau's ArriveCan app (a useless app that does nothing to protect but only to make peoples lives more complicated just to put more rules just like most Liberals like to do) costed taxpayers $54 million. Such an app should never costed this much, a programmer was able to duplicate this app in two days and it would cost a fraction of what the government spent. See how corrupted the Liberals are. Nothing but a money laundering operation to make money for the Liberals cronies. Why did some company headquartered in someone's house got $9 million? Who really got rich? Private tech companies can build the same app for $250,000. When government does not earn their profits, they steal from the citizens they got no incentive to be efficient only to launder money to sleazeball politicians and their crony lobbyists.

A programmer duplicated ArriveCan in two days, an app that cost Ottawa $54 million

To critique ArriveCan’s eye-watering price tag, over the Thanksgiving weekend a single techie managed to duplicate the app. Read more

nationalpost.com

 

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^^^^^ Duplicating an app is just copying it. Writing a book and publishing it takes around 2 years and a lot of research and work. Photocopying it, once it is released takes a few hours. A smart guy like you should know the difference. Publishing any garbage that could support an agenda does nothing to improve credibility.

 

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^^^^^ Duplicating an app is just copying it. Writing a book and publishing it takes around 2 years and a lot of research and work. Photocopying it, once it is released takes a few hours. A smart guy like you should know the difference. Publishing any garbage that could support an agenda does nothing to improve credibility.

You missed the point. It should not cost $54 million. The issue is more with the excessive cost and that it did absolutely nothing to reduce covid cases. It is easy to spend other peoples money especially when you got zero accountability for it.

 

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I warned everyone and many laughed reacted at me on this board. Well here it is, the covid theatre is back, the weekly clown show is back all winter starring Bozo and Bat face the clowns. They will have weekly meetings now. I am beginning to think they will count covid cases forever, keeps the fear alive. Direct quote from article:

"These are worrying figures, but the situation does not require the reinstatement of sanitary measures," he said.

In other words, expect in a few weeks the return of covid mandates. Their goal is this: one it is to keep people out of the hospitals because they do not want to spend more money to increase its capacity (they indent on keeping it bare bones), they want to force the new Pfizer vaccines, and it is human nature to crave power. These men belong in jail. All of you voted for the CAQ and forgot about how Legault was during the past two years. Now elections is over he unmasked himself and is showing his true colors. I knew it, but now the rest of your will see it. All this inflation that we have, will get much more worse and there will be a recession guaranteed.

Health minister calls on Quebecers to stay up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccinations

Quebec public health officials held a COVID-19 news conference Wednesday, urging people to stay up-to-date on their vaccines. Only 22 per cent of the eligible population are considered up to date with their vaccines, meaning they've received the jab within the last five months.

montreal.ctvnews.ca

 

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More evidence of how covid is a scam. If you look at it, I am sure most smart people realize this is that covid mandates and lockdowns affected the general public and government employees differently. Government employees profited off covid while the general public lost paychecks and are paying more for everything all due to government covid mandates. Now they are starting the covid theatre again and they will never stop it because government benefits a lot from this. Government does not earn its profits, they steal hard working peoples paychecks to fund their activities. Government jobs accounted for 87% of jobs created since the pandemic while in the private sector there has been very little net job growth. This article is no eye opener to me but for Liberal voters, time to wake up!

TERRAZZANO: Recession not hurting government employees

Different people experience things differently. The pandemic exposed a specific divide.

torontosun.com

Direct quote from article:

“(The Public Service Alliance of Canada) has asked for average increases, including pay and other provisions, of up to 14% annually over three years across their bargaining groups,” according to the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.

PSAC says the union may “have no other choice but to withdraw our services and take our members out on strike.” And PSAC isn’t alone. Almost 97% of Canadian Union of Public Employees’ Ontario education members voted in favour of a strike.

Those demands mean higher taxes.

The federal government spends about $60 billion on labour annually, according to public accounts. Giving the bureaucracy another 14% would cost taxpayers $8 billion a year. How would the federal government pay for that? It could hike the GST by nearly a full percentage point. Or hike its lowest income tax rate by 1.75 points.

Bureaucrats didn’t financially suffer during the pandemic. They benefited. Now they want more. And if taxpayers don’t pony up, bureaucrats won’t show up for work.

Here’s a reminder of how bureaucrats got through lockdowns.

In 2020, PSAC negotiated pay raises “as private sector layoffs reach all-time highs,” according to the National Post. In fact, the feds gave 312,825 employees a pay raise during the pandemic. The number of bureaucrats with six-figure salaries went up by 45,000. No federal bureaucrat took a pay cut, according to research from Secondstreet.org.

The federal government also dished out $360 million in bonuses in 2020 and 2021. Almost 90% of government executives received a bonus last year. All while departments failed to meet half of their own objectives.

The Bank of Canada failed to keep inflation low and still handed out $45 million in bonuses and pay raises.

 

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The return of masks?

Ontario’s top doctor urges mask wearing, warns mandate could return | Globalnews.ca

Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario's medical officer of health, urged people to get vaccines, boosters and wear a mask to avoid an unmanageable surge in hospital admissions.

globalnews.ca

 

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The return of masks?

Ontario’s top doctor urges mask wearing, warns mandate could return | Globalnews.ca

Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario's medical officer of health, urged people to get vaccines, boosters and wear a mask to avoid an unmanageable surge in hospital admissions.

globalnews.ca

Not yet but they are prepping us for the return of masks and then vaccine passports. They just cannot let it go. Too much paternalism.

 

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Et trop de stupidité et d'inconscience. Sans compter ceux qui vivent dans un monde alternatif et qui clament bien haut que la COVID n'existe pas et que ce n'est qu'un gros complot pour les contrôler...

 

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Update on BA.4.6 La situation aux USA.
La bonne nouvelle, les nouveaux vaccins ciblant Omicron devraient nous donner une bonne protection générale.
Promouvoir la vaccination est la seule façon responsable d'agir. Certains s'époumonent à clamer que cette menace est une fiction ou pire un complot.
Ils ne font que tenter de mettre du sable dans l'engrenage des bonnes choses à faire. Vaccination et gestes de préventions.

Meet ‘Aeterna’ BA.4.6, the COVID variant making steady progress toward potential domination this fall

The Omicron spawn is slowly pushing back against a receding wave of BA.5—but it may not achieve dominance alone.

fortune.com

 

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Nouvelles données de séroprévalence
Les trois quarts des Québécois ont contracté le virus entre décembre 2021 et août 2022.
C’est énorme. C’est à peu près 80 000 infections par jour. Avant Omicron, il y avait moins de 10 % des Canadiens qui avaient été infectés au pays.
Imaginez si les gouvernements n'avaient pas réagi à temps, entre autres en rendant disponible la vaccination. Une autre preuve de l"importance et de la menace du COVID. Merci à ceux qui ont mis l'épaule à la roue pour développer des vaccins très efficaces et merde aux adeptes de théories du complot qui ont refusé de voir la réalité en face.

« On fait deux tests : un pour l’Antispike, un anticorps généré à la suite de la vaccination, et un autre avec l’Anti-nucléocapside, qui n’est augmenté que s’il y a eu infection. C’est avec ce deuxième anticorps seulement qu’on mesure le niveau de transmission »,

Toutes les données et l'article ici: https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/20...arts-des-quebecois-ont-contracte-le-virus.php

 

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Wtf is this gonna be for Halloween or Christmas?

Boston University researchers claim to have developed new ...https://www.foxnews.com › boston-university-lethal-covi...

University creates new strain that has 80% kill rate...

This blows my mind.
This is a psychiatric troll against the world?
I am going for that vodka at Crazy Moon tonight.

 

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Ahh! The nightmare variant is here just in time for Halloween. Vaccines cannot stop this one so we will need MORE VACCINES and MORE LOCKDOWNS!!! Anything to keep the fear going. With each new variant, they use more dramatic words and presentation to keep people scared. Notice how they use the word "nightmare". Fear is an effective control tactic, nice to see that not as many are falling for the covid hoax compared to last year.

The Nightmare COVID Variant That Beats Our Immunity Is Finally Here

Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/GettyA new subvariant of the novel-coronavirus called XBB dramatically announced itself earlier this week, in Singapore. New COVID-19 cases more than doubled in a day, from 4,700 on Monday to 11,700 on Tuesday—and XBB is almost certainly why...

ca.news.yahoo.com

 

[gaby]

STATISTIQUES CANADA......15% des CANADIENS ont eu la COVID LONGUE.....c'est énorme et pas drôle.....alors si l'on ne veut pas faire partie de ces tristes stats......on sait quoi faire... ....et au Québec encore today 16 nouveaux décès.....non cette bataille
n'est pas gagnée.

 

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In response to nothinghere's post. Take a deep breath and relax. This is just another example of inaccurate, sensationalized reporting by an untrustworthy tabloid and repeated by Faux News because it fits their political agenda. The experiment, by a Level 4 $200 million dollar research facility at BU, involved creating a hybrid virus in which the spike protein of the Omicron variant was fused to the virus of the original Wuhan strain. The goal was to determine if mutations in the Omicron spike protein made the illness caused by the variant less severe than the Wuhan strain. The conclusion was that yes it did. Although mice mortality rate was 80%, it was 100% with the original strain. Seems like mice are not particularly reliable animals to use in lab studies of the coronavirus.

 

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ArriveCAN app is a fascinating exploration into organizational management - especially concerning the public sector vs. the private sector.
The app cost the Federal government $54 million, when private sector app developers could do the job for under $250,000.
Elon Musk famously managed to cut the cost of orbital space launches down from $150 million, to $2 million.

Where does this efficiency arise? I fear too often people are overly contented with one sentence answers when very little is monocausal. There are profit incentives within the private sector, there is less patronage and conflicts of interest whereas in the public sector they do not earn profits, they simply steal peoples hard earned money by jacking up taxes or adding new ones to fund their expenses. Controlling cost means nothing to the public sector nor does success. But I think there is something else at play - credentials.
Canada has a minister of health with no background in health and a minister of finance with no background in finance. People get hired and promoted in the public sector based on their ability to articulate a paradigm rather than independent metrics of success. It is optics over substance.
The private sector operates according to independent metrics, and the public sector operates according to optics that gets votes. One of these typically leads to better results.

One last thing is about accountability. Like Thomas Sowell said -- It is hard to imagine a more stupid and more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. Hence why it costed the Federal government $54 million to develop the ArriveCan app with absolutely no benefit in reducing covid but to control the public.

 

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It is fact that the freedom trucker convoy was the reason the government removed covid mandates. Even now with all the attempt the government is doing to scare people with covid alarmist news multiple times a day, the return of mandates is not being received well by many people. The government is now kind of quiet about mandates. Now that we know the effectiveness of a convoy style protest, can the goal of the next one be ending the income tax act? Biggest scam in history is the income tax act.

Like Tucker Carlson said "The Canadian trucker convoy is the single most successful human rights protest in a generation."

 

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Seems like mice are not particularly reliable animals to use in lab studies of the coronavirus.

Interestingly a great halloween topic.
Be sure they have mice with humanized immune system to conduct research.
These mice are ready for shipping!

Custom Humanized Mice - Develop your Research ModelAd·https://www.genoway.com/

Whatever this global mainstream faux tabloid news is up to I don't know.
To make announcements of this deadly covid "Gain of function" research after 2 years of lockdown,
getting the vax then most getting covid after that vax is particularly disturbing.

Yea I do understand manipulating viruses to "predict" future viruses to prepare future vaccines.
That concept of having nuclear weapons to prevent a nuclear war.