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The New York Times has an interesting story up by Mike Baker (who is a great follow on the Twittmachine by the way) about Seattle's response to the pandemic.
The whole thing is worth reading but here is the kicker:
...One year later, the Seattle area has the lowest death rate of the 20 largest metropolitan regions in the country. If the rest of the United States had kept pace with Seattle, the nation could have avoided more than 300,000 coronavirus deaths.
During a year in which the White House downplayed the virus and other political leaders clashed over how to contain it, Seattle’s success illustrates the value of unified and timely strategies: Although the region’s public health experts and politicians grappled behind the scenes about how to best manage the virus, they came together to present a united front to the public. And the public largely complied...
It's quite an amazing story, especially given how hard the city and region were hit in the early stages of the pandemic.
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In other pandemic news....
In a follow-up to yesterday's post, there is a new peer reviewed report out in Nature that shows that the Pfizer vaccine is working well against the UK variant, although things get a little dicey when an additional critical mutation added to the mix....
Delivery of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been halted for the moment in Denmark because blood clot formation has been temporally associated with vaccine administration in a small number of cases. The European Medicine Agency is investigating but it has issued a statement that, at this point, no causal link has been identified:
...There is currently no indication that (AstraZeneca) vaccination has caused these (thromboembolic) conditions, which are not listed as side effects with this vaccine...
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...The number of thromboembolic events in vaccinated people is no higher than the number seen in the general population. As of 10 March 2021, 30 cases1 of thromboembolic events had been reported among close to 5 million people vaccinated with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca in the European Economic Area...
...There is currently no indication that (AstraZeneca) vaccination has caused these (thromboembolic) conditions, which are not listed as side effects with this vaccine...
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...The number of thromboembolic events in vaccinated people is no higher than the number seen in the general population. As of 10 March 2021, 30 cases1 of thromboembolic events had been reported among close to 5 million people vaccinated with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca in the European Economic Area...
Additionally, according to the NY Times, approximately 10 million doses of the vaccine have been administered in Britain without any indication of this problem from health authorities.
I'm noting this issue here not to be alarmist, but instead to alert you all to the possibility that it could become a talking point locally in British Columbia as we make plans to administer the newly arrived AZ vaccine to front line workers.
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In other local non-pandemic news...
As we kinda/sorta discussed already, it really does appear that Ian Mulgrew of the VSun has a hate-on, which now seems to be bordering on the ideological, for any and all efforts to seriously deal with the money laundering matter in Lotusland...
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Let's revisit another slow-walk to nowhere.
Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun columnist (Feb 16, 2012, p. A5) told us:
“The former justice (WallY Oppal) wants to write a report that addresses the problems created by B.C.’s patchwork policing structure, the structural cracks that hampered homicide and missing-women cases and the need to build better relationships between the police and the community, especially with the minority aboriginal population.”
The former justice, in effect, wants to write a report that will cost millions of dollars and that will (we may predict) be put aside and have absolutely no effect on policing in the province. But it will have served to get those who want justice done off the backs of the government and its friends.
Mulgrew (as if taking dictation from some of the people who appointed Wally Oppal) goes on to tell his readers that ~ “Granted, it [will not be] the kind of self-righteous report denouncing the cops and prosecutors so many, many critics would like….”
Stop.
Why ~ suddenly ~ is a strong desire for justice and fairness on the part of British Columbians “self-righteous”?
I believe it is called self-righteous by Ian Mulgrew because I believe his aim in the column is to get people in the Inquiry away from asking really pertinent questions and on to asking, instead, empty, vapid, useless questions that can be answered in an empty, vapid, useless Report written by the Commissioner ~ who never should have been appointed in the first place.
Ian Mulgrew has never, to my knowledge, questioned (as he should have) the appointment of Wally Oppal as Commissioner. When he refers to legitimate demands participants are making to know about culpability, to hear important witnesses, to get full police disclosure, to see the apparently, suddenly non-existent police notes of meetings and activities, to hold real individuals to account for failures of professionalism, he brushes them aside as irrelevant to the Inquiry as it has been set up.
Ian Mulgrew is hack cover-up artist for Canada’s controlled msm
Ian Mulgrew should be asking why the Inquiry wasn’t set up to do a real job. He should be asking what is going on with a multi-million dollar Inquiry that is bent on avoiding the most important questions and (apparently) covering up for police forces and others connected to police who failed dramatically, demonstrably, and shamefully to do their fundamental duty to society.
He is showing himself a perfect member of the Mainstream Press and Media in British Columbia, in my judgment ~ failing monumentally in the task a law reporter should undertake. That task is to see through all the smoke and mirrors, all the fake and frivolous appointments, all the prepared cover-ups – and to report the facts to the readers without fear or favour.
But that kind of work is rarely done by any Mainstream journalist in British Columbia.
By some kind of journalistic accident (for B.C.) Sam Cooper revealed in the Feb 10 Victoria Times Colonist how a major question in the Inquiry was squashed and pushed aside by Commissioner Wally Oppal.
It had to do with an RCMP corporal admitting he was tipped off that a Hells Angels associate “was chopped up in a meat grinder on the [Pickton] farm and fed to the pigs.”(Page A9). That tip was not investigated.
Equally as strangely, Sam Cooper writes in his story, “lawyer Jason Gratl was shut down by Commissioner Wally Oppal”, and “Oppal cut in, telling Gratl he did not see the relevance of the Hell’s Angels questioning, and asked the government lawyer if she would like to rise to object”.
When the presiding officer asks someone if he or she wants to rise to protest … you know what’s happening. The presiding officer is determined to stop the questioning one way or another.
Why would Inquiry Commissioner Wally Oppal want to cut off very serious questions about the relation of Organized Crime to the Pickton Farm murders? Why?
Bill Hiscox, who tipped police off early in the troubles said ~ as Sam Cooper reports it in the Times Colonist
“investigating officers like Conner ‘had their hands tied’ by ‘higher ups’”.
It is worth noting in the Mulgrew piece that, "Law enforcement agencies such as the RCMP and the Vancouver Police Department have started to use, procure, develop and test a variety of these tools, the commission has been told."
And furthermore, "Under the banners of 'transparency' and 'eliminating information silos,' the B.C. government also is "considering" an intelligence hub capable of collating and analyzing its databases of PST data, health information, tax filings, regulatory documents and more to identify scofflaws and feed police, regulators, tax officials, the civil forfeiture office, etc."
And then there's Kingston:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/02/21/what-can-cities-learn-from-kingstons-covid-19-response-a-lot-it-turns-out.html
A man who realizes a chap named Cooper has eaten several of his lunches might write like Mulgrew.
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