Here, I explore what I see as a possible correlation between high Delta prevalence, high rates of vaccination, and high 'case' (PCR positive test) counts that don't seem to collapse like normal waves--in the middle of summer, bucking seasonality, no less. Countries that fit this bill are Israel, Iceland, United Kingdom, and Canada. India, although it is where the Delta variant is said to have originated, and although it had a high 'case' count, has seen its wave collapse--which is what one would expect. Is its low vaccination rate in some way related to the wave coming down, which it doesn't seem to be doing in places where vaccination rates are high? I'm not sure, but it's interesting. I also tackle the talking point that the vaccine can be shown to "work" because--despite the high infection rate--the cases-deaths ratio has improved. For example (from Business Insider): "Iceland is proof that COVID-19 vaccines work, a leading US expert said. Infections are at record highs, but the nation hasn't recorded a single virus death since May." That's great and makes the vaccines sound really efficacious if all you read is the headline, but if you look at the data, you'll see that LAST YEAR, when there were NO vaccines, NOBODY died between April 20th and October 16th! Video Links: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ https://www.businessinsider.com/iceland-proves-covid-19-vaccines-work-expert-no-death-may-2021-8 https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccination-coverage/ https://twitter.com/Pete_McArthur/status/1433430753203814419

"I do kind of wish the vigils were moved (by the organizers) away from the hospitals. Even if the demonstration goes nearly well--plenty of space, nothing blocked, etc--it would take one person to mess that up. And the media is hungry for that, and obviously won't be fair. On the other hand, it could be more impactful than a generic Queen's Park vigil or demonstration. I'll likely go down to observe. I want to see it with my own eyes." Video Links: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/09/12/demonstrations-planned-outside-canadian-hospitals-on-monday/ https://twitter.com/Pete_McArthur/status/1437262138096164872 https://twitter.com/NursesCanadian/status/1436091171588263938 https://twitter.com/NursesCanadian/status/1436683211581558786 https://www.canadianfrontlinenurses.ca/events https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/global-frontline-nurses-rally-1.5868794 https://twitter.com/Pete_McArthur/status/1346585843134291971

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Despite covid-19 shrinking away into practical non-existence in Canada and elsewhere last summer (as is consistent with seasonality in regard to respiratory viruses), and despite computer "modelling" being consistently wrong over the last year (including the hypocritical Neil Ferguson's Imperial College model, which got the world into the lockdown he himself violated straight away by having his married mistress drive across London to his house in March/April 2020), the Ontario Covid-19 Science Advisory Table is forecasting that "high case rates will persist through the summer". Hard to see how they are practicing sound epidemiology, or looking out for our health--they've ordered tennis (one of my few hobbies) courts locked, ffs! What, and whose, agenda are they truly serving? #oligarchy #biosecurity Despite and in contrast with Canada's aggressive pushing of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health has suspended the AZ injectable, stating that there is a "Higher risk associated with AstraZeneca vaccine than from COVID-19 disease in Norway" for those under 65. Are we going to call Norway Public Health "fake news"? Incredible though its claim seems, Freedom of Information requests (that we will look at) to the UK's NHS asking how many have died from "covid-19 alone" in 2020 would seem to support it, as district after district returns results showing that it is typically less than 5 in each of them--this in a densely populated country with an official covid death count of 127 000 as of this writing!!! Also, I review more evidence, including an in-depth CBC article written in January 2020 just prior to the covid crisis, demonstrating that Ontario's "hallway medicine"/lack of capacity crisis didn't begin with covid, as "83 hospitals were beyond 100 per cent capacity for more than 30 days, 39 hospitals hit 120 per cent capacity or higher for at least one day, 40 hospitals averaged 100 per cent capacity or higher" for the first half of 2019, "data show[ing] the hallway medicine problem is neither occasional nor restricted to a few hospitals", and "staff who work in this environment, they would describe it as constantly working under crisis". How could such a broken system possibly weather a pandemic of even moderate severity, and why was it allowed to get so bad? Notes: https://twitter.com/CBCOttawa/status/1383155679968571395 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-ontario-april-16-2021-new-restrictions-modelling-1.5990092 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/latest-ontario-modelling-1.5990518 https://twitter.com/bobbyhristova/status/1384260925796978688 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-covid-19-update-april-19-1.5993112 https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/canada/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/belarus/ https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3543 https://twitter.com/GilNimni/status/1384964966944497666 https://www.fhi.no/en/news/2021/astrazeneca-vaccine-removed-from-coronavirus-immunisation-programme-in-norw/ https://www.pei.de/SharedDocs/FAQs/EN/coronavirus/suspension-astrazeneca/1-coronavirus-astrazeneca-why-vaccination-suspended.html https://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/foi-disclosures-2020-21/disclosures-january-2021-4521/ file:///home/chronos/u-efea7a536f0bb83f6b8ed2776cde66e8843ae0e2/MyFiles/Downloads/W20FOI401-Deaths-Due-to-Covid-19-Without-Pre-existing-Conditions-Since-March-2020.pdf https://doclibrary-rcht.cornwall.nhs.uk/RoyalCornwallHospitalsTrust/Internet/DocumentsLibrary/FreedomOfInformation/DisclosureLogs.aspx https://doclibrary-rcht.cornwall.nhs.uk/DocumentsLibrary/RoyalCornwallHospitalsTrust/Websites/Internet/OurOrganisation/FreedomOfInformation/DisclosureLog/2021/202102/FOIRef12389Covid19DeathsDuring2020.pdf https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-hospital-hallway-medicine-healthcare-beyond-capacity-1.5420434 https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/04/16/surge-in-patients-forces-ontario-hospitals-to-put-beds-in-unconventional-spaces.html https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2017/01/27/hamilton-hospitals-running-at-120-per-cent-capacity.html https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/about-1-000-patients-in-hospital-hallways-on-any-given-day-report-1.4276591?cache= https://howsmyflattening.ca/#/home https://twitter.com/globalnewsto/status/1380527167080124416?lang=en https://globalnews.ca/video/7748177/medical-expert-sound-alarm-over-collateral-damage-of-lockdowns https://www.aier.org/article/the-disease-models-were-tested-and-failed-massively/ https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062133v1.full.pdf https://money.yahoo.com/top-u-k-government-scientist-213057129.html Canada Emergency Response expert: https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/corbella-10 Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKGr5Ks-euM&t=1s https://globalnews.ca/news/7728704/canada-extends-iraq-mission/