Another day in Coronada. Google project abandoned in Toronto. "Smart City Project" to be renamed "Dumphuk City Project." GOOGLE SHUTS DOWN TORONTO SMART CITY PROJECT DUE TO CORONAVIRUS https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...idewalk-labs-coronavirus-canada-a9508216.html Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario police authorized to question, issue tickets for people outside the home; Tighter provincial borders enacted, stay-at-home order extended two weeks
I don't think Canada's Covid response has been poor although Quebec ( and more recently Alberta ) have lagged the rest of the country for most of the experience. Canada has much the same risk factors as the US yet is running a little more then a third the Covid counts. Canada has one of the largest inbound immigration rates on the planet, a ton of travel in and out of the country, and some geographical challenges concerning health care. Not to mention we have the Americans and their huge outbreaks right next door. Could it have been better ? Sure. But I look at our vaccine issues and note that Florida still had triple the Covid death rate of Canada on Friday. Some posters claim Covid is not a meaningful problem in Florida, but they reported 74 deaths in a state with only 21.5 million people. The world really needs to put the dummies ( eg TreeFrogTrader, Trump ) in their place because these uneducated loons are dragging down their countries.
The most absurd topic on this site is Americans who live in Covid hot spots criticizing Canada's Covid response. I guess keeping people alive and controlling the spread just isn't a priority for some of you. More important to "win" the internet with illogical points based on extremely poor data analysis. Basically let the echo chamber of other similar minded idiots make you feel whole in some way. Second most "Election Fraud". Third is all the excuses guys like you make when a cop kills another young black man/kid on flimsy pretenses. Congrats on hitting at least two of those.
says who? What a simple minded way to do your analysis. 1. The first few months of deaths in Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Sweden and a few other countries... happened before countries new to protect the old with co morbidities particularly those in old folks homes. Mistakes were made in Sweden and other places. So morons even put infected people back into old folks homes and killed thousands... like NY and NJ and some other democrat states in the US. But.. all that should be viewed as a prologue. 2. An analysis should begin by looking at how well a country did with respect to deaths after their response to Covid began. 7 Day rolling averages... particularly put in the context of per 100,000 or 1,000,000 million people is really one the best way to begin an analysis. 3, After that its gets more complicated... How open was the country. How many people live in tight quarters or multi generational homes How many had pre existing conditions What had been the trending in excess deaths of old people in prior years.
Swedish regions discard Astra Zeneca vaccines after patients refuse it https://www.thelocal.se/20210419/refusal-astra-zeneca-vaccine-in-sweden/
Leading medical journal, The Lancet, doubles down on telling the Swedish government they are idiots. The Swedish COVID-19 strategy revisited https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00885-0/fulltext In December, 2020, we wrote about the Swedish response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our hope was that our Comment, together with hundreds of other fact-based articles, would gain the attention of the Swedish Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten [FHM]), that they would revisit and change the national strategy that they had designed so that it would be more aligned with global best practice, and that the political decision makers would act on it. They did not. Since then, the FHM has recorded more than 5600 deaths from COVID-19 in Sweden, and cases and deaths continue to rise as we face the third wave without any widespread sense of gravity or urgency. The debate among critics of the Swedish national approach to the pandemic has been consistent since March, 2020: be strategic, test and trace more, follow the growing evidence base and recommend the use of face masks, and enforce regulations about physical distancing and ventilation, especially in schools if they are open. Some critics have advocated for more government-led legal interventions such as reinforcing quarantine or lockdown. It has been a call for timely implementation of basic principles of pandemic prevention and control to contain the spread and flatten the curves of hospitalisations, deaths, and chronic illness. • View related content for this article Instead of following evolving evidence, the FHM has doubled down and defended its approach without reconsidering the assumptions on which the failed national approach is based. It has downplayed the roles of asymptomatic spread, aerosol transmission, children as potential source of infection, and the use of face masks. It has maintained an approach that mainly builds on recommendations to take voluntary actions, guided (in our view) more by public opinion than by sound public health policy. The media has played a crucial role in this pandemic response, mostly lacking in investigative journalism and failing to question or hold the public health agency accountable, with some exceptions. Dagens Nyheter, a major newspaper, recently exposed Sweden's large inequities in COVID-19 deaths across income, education, and origin of birth—data that should have informed the national strategy from its inception. As of April 16, 2021, more than 13 700 people have died from COVID-19 in Sweden. The country has one of the highest infection rates in western Europe according to Our World in Data COVID-19 statistics, with 606 new infections per million per day, while its neighbours Denmark, Finland, and Norway reported 115, 62, and 112 new infections per million per day, respectively (April 15, 2021). New and more infective and deadly variants have taken over, and by April 15, 2021, the UK SARS-Cov-2 variant was supected to have caused 75–100% of all new cases in all regions. This indicates more rapid spread, more deaths, and that more young people will be affected, with intensive care units already at full capacity in some regions. While other countries are closing down in response to this new surge in cases, Sweden is opening up—high schools were opened on April 1, 2021. To continue on the same trajectory in the face of current trends, without timely action by agency and government leadership, raises concerns about governance and accountability, and ultimately about fundamental ethics and values.
Showing a direct comparison of COVID-19 response in two neighboring similar regions across a national border. Northern Sweden reports high spike in COVID-19 182 new cases reported on Tuesday in Norrbotten county where 54 patients are currently getting treatment for the virus in hospitals. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/covid-19/2021/04/northern-sweden-sees-high-spike-covid-19 Sweden imposed less restrictions at the start of the pandemic than neighboring Nordic countries and consequently saw a much higher spread of the virus. The pandemic is still hitting hard, despite the Government in January this year passed legislation imposing restrictive measures more in line with Norway, Finland and Denmark. The contrast between the two northernmost regions in Norway and Sweden is grim and brutal. While Troms & Finnmark County in Norway today reported 4 new cases and one patient in hospital, Norrbotten County in Sweden had 182 new cases and 54 coronavirus patients in hospitals. The two regions have nearly the same population, Norrbotten with 251,080 and Troms & Finnmark with 243,311 inhabitants. Since the start of the pandemic last winter, Norrbotten has registered 19,521 cases according to the county authorities coronavirus portal. The cumulative number of cases in Troms and Finnmark is 1,534, according to the online tracking made by newspaper VG. Northernmost Norway has reported 6 deaths, while the number for northernmost Sweden is 246. Nearly half of the new cases in Norrbotten on Tuesday are reported from the mining town of Gällivare with 88 cases.
Your lancet article is not a science and data based article.. its propaganda... how do we know.. "It has downplayed the roles of asymptomatic spread, aerosol transmission, children as potential source of infection, and the use of face masks. It has maintained an approach that mainly builds on recommendations to take voluntary actions, guided (in our view) more by public opinion than by sound public health policy. " a. there is no significant evidence of asymptomatic spread. We just proved on the other thread you could not document significant spread save for 2 cases in China. All you had was bullshit headlines about models.. b. Sweden kept they schools open... (their elementary and middle school) to save hard to kids and it was brilliant. c. face masks have been shown to not protect the wearer. And as Tsing has demonstrated the data is mixed at best regarding whether they have stopped the spread. After the initial close to 3000 deaths in old folks homes...Sweden is doing fine... relative to many other countries. https://ourworldindata.org/explorer...L~CAN~FRA~GRC~GBR~USA&Metric=Confirmed+deaths
So now you are doubting the word of one of the most prestigious medical science publications on the face of the earth. OK - whatever.