I'm starting this thread as a side discussion of all things Corona Virus related. I understand that this is going to be discussed in almost all other topic threads but we could collect news and other items here. 

 

At work, many conferences have been cancelled.

NBA - Suspended.

NHL - About to be suspended. 

NCAA March Madness - Playing - no crowd. 

 

Political Rallies have been cancelled. 

Travel bans. 

 

Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks tested positive. They're in Australia where testing is available. If they were in the US, they wouldn't have been tested. 

7 minutes ago, JCon said:

Peguis isn't in the North and, as of earlier this week, there were no cases linked to gatherings during the holidays on the reserve at Peguis. 

Not to mention that Peguis got s**t on by other FN's for their decision.

Peguis isn’t in the North but their have been cases due to gathering over the holidays. A friend of my wife visited over Christmas, when they came back to Winnipeg, the sister he was staying with in Peguis tested positive for COVID, it was pretty bad but she is recovering.  He and his family didn’t have any symptoms but were tested. Out of the 5 of them that went he and his 2 children tested positive. 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/peguis-first-nation-zero-active-cases-covid-19-1.5869568

'A great achievement': Peguis First Nation marks 25 days without new case of COVID-19

From the article: 

Holiday visits

During the relaxed lockdown days, visitors had to register first and were screened with questions prior to entering the community. If eligible, they had to stick to one designated household during the visit. After they left, members of that household had to isolate for four days. 

In mid-December, Premier Brian Pallister condemned the plan, calling it a "massive mistake" and urged Hudson not to allow it to happen. Pallister also called on federal Minister of Indigenous Services Marc Miller to condemn the plan. 

But Hudson said the nation is equipped to handle visitors and can make its own decision. 

"We implemented a four-day isolation for those homes to make sure that there were no COVID cases in the community. So when you look at it from that standpoint, our protocols were more rigorous than what the province or the country has in place," he said.

Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin said Monday there are currently 538 cases of COVID-19 linked to in-person holiday gatherings in Manitoba, and these cases had 2,879 close contacts.

Hudson said since the successful visitation period, he's had a handful of First Nations reach out to him and ask how the plan was implemented.  

"We made that information available and made recommendations to them," Hudson said. 

 

 

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/i-don-t-understand-why-they-need-to-come-back-again-steinbach-mayor-asking-anti-restriction-rally-organizers-to-reconsider-1.5268581

 

 

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/manitobans-to-have-their-say-on-the-possibility-of-easing-code-red-restrictions-1.5268630

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has kicked an MPP out of the Progressive Conservative caucus for sending an open letter that calls for the province's lockdown and COVID-19 restrictions to end.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pfizer-temporarily-reducing-vaccine-deliveries-1.5874645

 

I find it ironic that two of the premiers that I would have thought would have fumbled the COVID crisis have been two of the most adept. I have personal issues with the way Pallister has managed the province, but for the most part, I have to applaud his actions in the pandemic. 

51 minutes ago, Tracker said:

I find it ironic that two of the premiers that I would have thought would have fumbled the COVID crisis have been two of the most adept. I have personal issues with the way Pallister has managed the province, but for the most part, I have to applaud his actions in the pandemic. 

Only thing that #restartmb helped was the mortuary business.

 

If this is true then SOMEONE needs to pay for this

https://www.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology/

20 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Only thing that #restartmb helped was the mortuary business.

 

 

That was a major mistake for Pallister, and people died because of it. 

 

Down a bit and HOLY CRAP ONLY ONE DEATH! no wait two, apparently I was unaware that ChrisD removed a death

 

 

Edited January 16, 20215 yr by iHeart

10 minutes ago, iHeart said:

Down a bit and HOLY CRAP ONLY ONE DEATH! no wait two, ChrisD screwed up again

 

 

Still, its  good news and we are moving in the right direction once again.

The hospital numbers are the important one. Restrictions can't or won't and certainly shouldn't be lifted until hospital numbers are lower and we are in single digit numbers. 

 

CORONAVIRUS:  ‘The Idiocy Continues’: Nurses Refuse to Give COVID Shots

Kansas is in the middle of a coronavirus emergency, but some health-care workers are spreading misinformation instead of healing.
In a country where up to a third of health-care workers decline the COVID vaccine, all four nurses at a rural Kansas county health department have taken the unreasoning distrust of science a step further by refusing even to give the shots to those who want them.

“My staff is not comfortable with that,” Health Department administrator Lindsay Payer told the Coffey County Board of Commissioners at a meeting earlier this month.

A video of the meeting in the county courthouse shows that all five commissioners were wearing masks, but Payer was not. A majority of the board had deemed that to be her right when they voted to opt out of a statewide mask mandate in late November.

Coffey County, Kansas, Nurses Refuse to Give COVID-19 Vaccines (thedailybeast.com)

 

1 hour ago, iHeart said:

 

Damn. This ought to be the last of the echoes of the holiday gatherings soon.

It’s the North that is out of control. Rest of province seems to have things under control.

So do they open things up a little in Winnipeg?

14 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

So do they open things up a little in Winnipeg?

I would bet  so, if the Winnipeg numbers continue to fall and stay down.

I'd like to see non essentials be sold (with store capacity limits) and like a family bubble (your can hang with one other household, no groups of households +5).

2 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

I'd like to see non essentials be sold (with store capacity limits) and like a family bubble (your can hang with one other household, no groups of households +5).

Sounds reasonable.

 

 

 

Edited January 18, 20215 yr by iHeart

sounds like we're getting some good news this week