Protest is ‘most serious emergency our city has ever faced,’ mayor says Christian Paas-Lang · CBC News · Posted: Feb 06, 2022 12:29 PM ET | Last Updated: February 6 Police line up at the Coventry Road staging area in east Ottawa as they move in to confiscate fuel, vehicles and make arrests Sunday evening. (Joanne Chianello/CBC) The City of Ottawa declared a state of emergency Sunday afternoon in response to ongoing protests in the downtown core, while Mayor Jim Watson described the situation in the nation’s capital as the “the most serious emergency our city has ever faced.”… Read the rest

Ralph Ellis February 03, 2022 Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The U.S. Army announced Wednesday that it has started discharging soldiers who don’t comply with its COVID-19 vaccination policy. “Army readiness depends on soldiers who are prepared to train, deploy, fight and win our nation’s wars,” Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth said in a news release.… Read the rest

February 3, 2022 Update: Big news. Just after finishing this essay, I found this news report today in the Israeli media, where the head of Ichilov Hospital’s coronavirus ward just stated that 70-80% of patients are vaccinated and the vaccine has “no significance regarding severe illness”. Vaccine failure is now becoming officially admitted. I have been reading more lately, to understand what is happening in the current phase of the pandemic.… Read the rest

BY KHALEDA RAHMAN ON 2/4/22 AT 4:00 AM EST When Margaret and David Garza adopted their two boys in 2015, they felt their family was finally complete. But five years later, their lives were rocked when David, 48, died suddenly of COVID-19. He was on his way to the doctor to pick up medication on December 30, 2020, when he called her from his truck because he was struggling to catch his breath.… Read the rest

Fired unvaccinated workers should be rehired because shots don’t stop infection By Art Moore Published February 2, 2022 at 8:03pm President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19 National Month of Action on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz) The prestigious British medical journal The Lancet has published an article by a University of Colorado infectious disease scientist concluding vaccine mandates should be reconsidered in light of studies finding the vaccines are not stopping transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.… Read the rest

‘This is a life-or-death situation, and it requires leadership… ‘ By Contributing Author February 2, 2022 Terri Sewell / PHOTO: Associated Press (Headline USA) Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., is reportedly refusing to meet with unvaccinated constituents and has ordered members of her staff to require proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for all in-person meetings. “Proof of COVID-19 vaccinations are required for every in-person or in-office meeting with the Congresswoman or with staff,” a disclaimer on an email sent out by Sewell’s office reads, according to The Spectator.… Read the rest

Joe Wang February 5, 2022 Updated: February 5, 2022 Commentary The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines science as “knowledge about or study of the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation.” So science is human knowledge of facts, which has nothing to do with human intention or politics. Yet Mao Zedong said in 1940 that “Natural science is one of man’s weapons in his fight for freedom.”… Read the rest