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Listening to the CBC news and it sounds like things are serious in Ontario with bed shortages. They must be triaging if there are no more beds, and more people are sick every day - a sickness that can require 3+ weeks in hospital. Oxygen shortages are a concern that Alberta recognized a few weeks ago.

Sounds like people in Ontario are being advised that it is going to get worse right now.
 
Another head rolls

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/st-joes-niagara-health-ceo-vacation-covid-19-1.5862449

After readings news about politicians who travelled when federal and provincial government rules are "essential travel only during pandemic closed borders," I have to agree with earlier comments about Canadians expecting elected spokespersons to be shooting from the hip, down to earth people, not losers who think the rules are for the little people.

I think they should all lose their committees and appointments, and should be named and shamed during the next election.
 
rbbm.
Extended pandemic could inflame domestic extremists, embolden Canada's enemies abroad
January 6, 2021
''OTTAWA -- A new research report by the Department of National Defence suggests the longer the COVID-19 pandemic rages, the stronger right-wing extremism and other threats in Canada and around the world are likely to become.''

''The best-case scenario would see effective vaccines rolled out quickly, which would not only kickstart a strong economic recovery but also boost trust in the governments, international institutions and science that ended the pandemic.


Yet even if that happens, reads the Defence Research and Development Canada report, “we can expect that the adversarial states will remain those already identified as such prior to the pandemic, including China, Iran, North Korea and Russia.”

The same is true for right-wing extremism, which the report prepared in October for NATO military alliance planners says is already on the rise around the world - and is likely to continue to rise, particularly the longer COVID-19 remains out of control.''
 
Warning about vaccine queue jumping sent to University Health Network staff | Toronto Sun
''Individuals associated with University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto attempted to jump the COVID-19 vaccine queue by inappropriately accessing an online scheduling tool, a notice to staff says.''

“The result is that individuals prioritized in at-risk areas in the hospital who were offered vaccination spots have had those spots taken by an unauthorized member of our own community.”
 
dotr said:
Warning about vaccine queue jumping sent to University Health Network staff | Toronto Sun
''Individuals associated with University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto attempted to jump the COVID-19 vaccine queue by inappropriately accessing an online scheduling tool, a notice to staff says.''

“The result is that individuals prioritized in at-risk areas in the hospital who were offered vaccination spots have had those spots taken by an unauthorized member of our own community.”
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Not surprising. I read about issues in BC a couple of weeks ago, where health care administrators put themselves at the top of the list simply because they had the power to do so.
 
Top athletes deserve priority for the vaccine? I think there will be a public outcry if athletes are given the vaccine ahead of people at risk. Sports entertainment is not more important than life and health for Canadians.

"In order to safeguard the Tokyo Olympics, athletes must be given priority access to the coronavirus vaccine, says prominent International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound.

The longtime IOC official, who is Canadian, expressed confidence in the ability of the Olympics to proceed in July — when the delayed Summer Games are scheduled to begin — so long as athletes can jump to the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line.
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"In Canada where we might have 300 or 400 hundred athletes — to take 300 or 400 vaccines out of several million in order to have Canada represented at an international event of this stature, character and level — I don't think there would be any kind of a public outcry about that."​

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/dick-pound-ioc-athltes-vaccine-tokyo-olympics-1.5863205
 
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Top athletes deserve priority for the vaccine? I think there will be a public outcry if athletes are given the vaccine ahead of people at risk. Sports entertainment is not more important than life and health for Canadians.

"In order to safeguard the Tokyo Olympics, athletes must be given priority access to the coronavirus vaccine, says prominent International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound.

The longtime IOC official, who is Canadian, expressed confidence in the ability of the Olympics to proceed in July — when the delayed Summer Games are scheduled to begin — so long as athletes can jump to the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line.
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"In Canada where we might have 300 or 400 hundred athletes — to take 300 or 400 vaccines out of several million in order to have Canada represented at an international event of this stature, character and level — I don't think there would be any kind of a public outcry about that."​

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/dick-pound-ioc-athltes-vaccine-tokyo-olympics-1.5863205
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oh there will be public outcry alright and I'll be leading the charge
 
LadyL said:
oh there will be public outcry alright and I'll be leading the charge
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The arrogance is astounding - suggesting that Canadians should prioritize sports and top athletes over health for those at risk.
 
MANDEL: Federal inmates should be at back of vaccination line, says LTC nurse | Toronto Sun
''Freeman agrees prisons are crowded settings that pose a risk of COVID spread and offenders need to be vaccinated — but not when supply is still low, distribution is so slow and there are so many others who should get it first, she says.

“Not one inmate should receive the vaccine before the vulnerable residents who live in the hardest-hit sector during this pandemic — long-term-care facilities where infections are rampant and death tolls are highest,” she posted on Facebook.

“Not one inmate should be inoculated before all health-care and front-line workers who want to be vaccinated are — these people put themselves at risk every single day.”

''Understandably, she hasn’t much sympathy for those doing hard time in a federal prison.
In 1991, she was 21 when John Terrance Porter used an axe to bludgeon her father Roland Slingerland to death because the mild-mannered caretaker didn’t know where his former girlfriend could be found.''
''When Porter’s bid for day parole was set for last April, she was determined to fly to Vancouver Island to deliver her victim impact statement. When the pandemic hit, she assumed the hearing would be postponed.
Instead, Freeman was told the parole board couldn’t violate the killer’s rights by rescheduling his case. But they could violate hers — she was told she couldn’t attend due to COVID and she wasn’t even allowed to listen in on the phone.''
 
dotr said:
MANDEL: Federal inmates should be at back of vaccination line, says LTC nurse | Toronto Sun
''Freeman agrees prisons are crowded settings that pose a risk of COVID spread and offenders need to be vaccinated — but not when supply is still low, distribution is so slow and there are so many others who should get it first, she says.

“Not one inmate should receive the vaccine before the vulnerable residents who live in the hardest-hit sector during this pandemic — long-term-care facilities where infections are rampant and death tolls are highest,” she posted on Facebook.

“Not one inmate should be inoculated before all health-care and front-line workers who want to be vaccinated are — these people put themselves at risk every single day.”

''Understandably, she hasn’t much sympathy for those doing hard time in a federal prison.
In 1991, she was 21 when John Terrance Porter used an axe to bludgeon her father Roland Slingerland to death because the mild-mannered caretaker didn’t know where his former girlfriend could be found.''
''When Porter’s bid for day parole was set for last April, she was determined to fly to Vancouver Island to deliver her victim impact statement. When the pandemic hit, she assumed the hearing would be postponed.
Instead, Freeman was told the parole board couldn’t violate the killer’s rights by rescheduling his case. But they could violate hers — she was told she couldn’t attend due to COVID and she wasn’t even allowed to listen in on the phone.''
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I read about prisoners who want the vaccine in the first round because they are older or have health issues, but I completely disagree. Criminals should lose all their societal rights - they should go to the back of the line.
 
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