Alberta’s chief public health officer, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, along with Premier Jason Kenney provided an update on COVID-19 in the province on Tuesday.
With cases surging in the province, Hinshaw said Alberta has never seen a higher positivity rate. “Omicron is different,” Hinshaw said, with about one in three people testing positive. While she didn’t have the latest data on the Omicron variant, she stated that it wouldn’t be until about the end of January that they would know the impact it’s having on hospitalizations and deaths.
Premier Jason Kenney said Tuesday that his government is assessing the situation and a decision whether or not to pause in-classroom learning could come later this week. Kenney said given the surge in cases with Omicron, “the outbreak protocols that we’ve had to date will likely become very obsolete very quickly and that many teachers and staff may be in isolation.”
The Omicron variant is spreading much faster than Delta in Alberta, with doubling times of just two to three days. Because of that, contact tracing case investigations for people working in continuing care and health care will be prioritized and PCR testing capacity will be reserved for high-risk groups. Anyone with symptoms is asked to isolate and take a rapid test.
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Here's the problem, we are testing people for any strain of a Coronavirus. Not specifically for COVID-19. There are no reliable tests for a specific COVID-19 virus. There are no reliable agencies or media outlets for reporting numbers of actual COVID-19 virus cases. This needs to be addressed first and foremost. Every action and reaction to COVID-19 is based on totally flawed data and we simply can not make accurate assessments. This is why you're hearing that most people with COVID-19 are showing nothing more than cold/flu like symptoms. That's because most Coronavirus strains are nothing more than cold/flu like symptoms. The few actual novel Coronavirus cases do have some worse respiratory responses, but still have a very promising recovery rate, especially for those without prior issues. The ‘gold standard’ in testing for COVID-19 is laboratory isolated/purified coronavirus particles free from any contaminants and particles that look like viruses but are not, that have been proven to be the cause of the syndrome known as COVID-19 and obtained by using proper viral isolation methods and controls (not the PCR that is currently being used or Serology /antibody tests which do not detect virus as such). PCR basically takes a sample of your cells and amplifies any DNA to look for ‘viral sequences’, i.e. bits of non-human DNA that seem to match parts of a known viral genome. The problem is the test is known not to work. It uses ‘amplification’ which means taking a very very tiny amount of DNA and growing it exponentially until it can be analyzed. Obviously any minute contaminations in the sample will also be amplified leading to potentially gross errors of discovery. Additionally, it’s only looking for partial viral sequences, not whole genomes, so identifying a single pathogen is next to impossible even if you ignore the other issues. The Mickey Mouse test kits being sent out to hospitals, at best, tell analysts you have some viral DNA in your cells. Which most of us do, most of the time. It may tell you the viral sequence is related to a specific type of virus – say the huge family of coronavirus. But that’s all. The idea these kits can isolate a specific virus like COVID-19 is nonsense. And that’s not even getting into the other issue – viral load. If you remember the PCR works by amplifying minute amounts of DNA. It therefore is useless at telling you how much virus you may have. And that’s the only question that really matters when it comes to diagnosing illness. Everyone will have a few virus kicking round in their system at any time, and most will not cause illness because their quantities are too small. For a virus to sicken you you need a lot of it, a massive amount of it. But PCR does not test viral load and therefore can’t determine if a osteogenesis is present in sufficient quantities to sicken you. If you feel sick and get a PCR test any random virus DNA might be identified even if they aren’t at all involved in your sickness which leads to false diagnosis. And coronavirus are incredibly common. A large percentage of the world human population will have covi DNA in them in small quantities even if they are perfectly well or sick with some other pathogen. Do you see where this is going yet? If you want to create a totally false panic about a totally false pandemic – pick a coronavirus. They are incredibly common and there’s tons of them. A very high percentage of people who have become sick by other means (flu, bacterial pneumonia, anything) will have a positive PCR test for covi even if you’re doing them properly and ruling out contamination, simply because covis are so common. There are hundreds of thousands of flu and pneumonia victims in hospitals throughout the world at any one time. All you need to do is select the sickest of these in a single location – say Wuhan – administer PCR tests to them and claim anyone showing viral sequences similar to a coronavirus (which will inevitably be quite a few) is suffering from a ‘new’ disease. Since you already selected the sickest flu cases a fairly high proportion of your sample will go on to die. You can then say this ‘new’ virus has a CFR higher than the flu and use this to infuse more concern and do more tests which will of course produce more ‘cases’, which expands the testing, which produces yet more ‘cases’ and so on and so on. Before long you have your ‘pandemic’, and all you have done is use a simple test kit trick to convert the worst flu and pneumonia cases into something new that doesn’t actually exist. Now just run the same scam in other countries. Making sure to keep the fear message running high so that people will feel panicky and less able to think critically."
Alberta's top doctor?? do you mean kenney ?
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and opening statement…. wow Eff you buddy.
Enough is enough.
Refuse all covid-19 measures. Do not obey.
Live your life.
Canadians are looking forward to you all seeing justice.
Canada's premiers are all douchebags. Why can't we have one person who is different, like Ron DeSantis?
Oh so it's true vaccinated people are getting infected. Then why are there passports if the vaccinated can get infected as if they were unvaccinated? If you are suffering a head cold stay away from people and stay home. Remember when we got this before and everyone went to work or school. Because that was what was expected. The world don't stop because you have a sore throat and a stuffy, runny nose. You didn't want to lose pay so you went into work. I remember being in school and most of the kids were sick during Cold Season.
Okay people, be sure to come in and get your False Positive test as soon as possible. TOP DOCTOR that probably hasn't practiced medicine in decades if at all. Nor been active in a lab, involved in research of viruses, etc. And was probably at the bottom of the class in Med. School. So the best choice for a career, work on the backs of the taxpayers doing a desk job. Armchair Medicine, never a good thing.
It's a f*cking cold. Calm down Karens.
Deena needs a make over!
never had such low death rate. cases mean nothing if people are recovering. so over this!!!!!!
How many of these people testing positive who are vaccinated? The majority.
I also think it’s even funnier that YouTube thinks they can change my mind by shadow banning me. Guess what YouTube? I say what I want, when I want and shadow banning just goes to show how absolutely pathetic and corrupt you truly are. Enjoy the wrong side of history and I particularly mean the ones who created the fabled “algorithm “. There’s a warm place in hell reserved for All of you.
It’s not even that bad enough with the lockdowns
Idiots continue their theater.
Why boosters regular vaccines not working?
This is just sickening
If the whole world is ahead of us why don't we know anything?
I dont get it….all over the globe, omicron is reported as basically a mild …cold! So why all the panic? As just a lowly, dumb citizen, it seems like a govt grabbing what crumbs they can and make a 4 course 5 star meal out of it.
Thumbs down.
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