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Canadian Vaccine Injury Support Program https://vaccineinjurysupport.ca/en "All current and future Health Canada authorized vaccines or immunoglobulins that provide protection from preventable infectious disease, administered in Canada on or after December 8, 2020, will be covered under the...

Just for clarity's sake, the limited legal immunity you mention is provided by a Declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act. The Declaration was made 4 Feb 2020 by HHS Secretary Azar. Despite this immunity, there is relief for those who are severely affected...

Good post. BC Liberals are in fact totally unaffiliated with the federal party. NB, NS, PEI, and NL Liberals are all officially affiliated with the federal party (i.e. the President of the NSLP is also the Provincial Board Director of the LPC, according to the NSLP constitution).

I agree - wearing a mask outdoors has never made any sense to me. I haven't had to wear a mask indoors since July 1, other than to comply with my employer's requirements - that said, I have no problem giving people a slightly wider berth for the next little while. People have been living with...

Serious question: At what point is a vaccine no longer considered experimental? Have processes been skipped or neglected during Health Canada's approval process for AZ, Moderna, and Pfizer?

Fully agree with this post. I think the anger, at least partly, is due to the fact that these questions remain. The state took custody of these children (it's reasonable to assume that a majority of bodies discovered on school grounds are of school age) and with that came a duty to protect...

Respectfully, I'm not sure how a "consensus that most of the children died late 19th / early 20th century" is possible - these unmarked graves have only recently been discovered. The fact remains, that while we don't know details about how / when / under what circumstances these children died...

No idea. But I suppose it could potentially provide closure to families, in some way, if identification was possible.

Ah, I understand your point, and I've had similar thoughts around John A Macdonald. Still, I understand the anger. And, we have yet to determine just how far back these bodies date.

Yes, people die. No, not all graves are marked. We don't know why or how these children died, or where they were buried (until now), and their relatives didn't know either. The horrors of the residential school system are well-known and acknowledged by the government. These children were...

Are you referring to unmarked graves? Or graveyards? Did the Canadian government or Catholic Church bury non-Indigenous bodies in unmarked graves? Should we assume that all schoolyards from, say, before 1950 have bodies buried around them?

Good catch. I was just sneaky I guess...

RMC PT toque...also fairly ridiculous.

RMC called it the "astrakhan" if I recall correctly. I preferred the dark blue toque - it was allowed to cover your ears, and looked less....ridiculous.

I don't consider your concern to be selfish at all - it isn't. My only point is that I think we are rightly concerned with vaccinating the current vulnerable demographic, rather than diverting limited resources to mitigate a hypothetical threat that has yet to materialize.

I would argue that vaccinating kids while hoping isolation measures will protect the older, vulnerable population is just as big of a gamble, if not bigger. Yes, kids are the more effective spreaders, but they are more resilient. Perhaps vaccinating the older crowd while attempting to isolate...

Very good point, but it seems to me that while vaccinating the first (younger) group first will eventually benefit the second (older, vulnerable) group, the second group will still be suffering immediate effects i.e. hospitalization and/or death, until they are vaccinated.

Yes, and we now have more than a year's worth of research and experience to inform decisions and priorities. Is it unreasonable to prioritize vaccinations based on current information (and modelling)? Does prioritizing a group that is not at risk - at the expense of a group that is - make sense?

Bit of a gamble prioritizing kids based on an as-yet hypothetical threat, at the expense of a demographic that we know is more at risk right now.

Correct. MGen St-Louis was COS of 1 CAD years ago, as a Colonel.