COVID-19 'Pandemic'

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Yes......for that particular claim.
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Trudeau accusor lands a seven-figure NDA to keep quiet about West Grey departure

Sources are telling The Buffalo Chronicle that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s accuser has been in talks with a private attorney for more than a week, discussing a heated sexual relationship that began and ended more than 18 years ago, when the young woman was a student at Vancouver’s prestigious West Point Grey Academy. The Chronicle is told that the two engaged in a months-long affair beginning in the summer of 2000, both on and off-campus.

That non-disclosure and an accompanying non-disparagement agreement were signed last night, according to the source, for more than $2.25 million CDN.

A friend of the accusor’s family reached out to The Chronicle days ago, prior to the signing of the non-disclosure agreement, when its terms were not in effect and still being negotiated. Those talks took nearly two weeks and took place almost entirely in Vancouver.

By Saturday evening, Trudeau’s negotiator became impatient, giving the young woman a deadline of 10pm on Wednesday evening to either agree to or reject the terms of the NDA. The Chronicle became familiar with the situation shortly after Trudeau’s negotiator made that threat.

The young woman and her attorneys were insisting that the terms be mutually binding on Trudeau (in which case Trudeau would be liable for damages if he were to publicly discuss the circumstances of their relationship himself). Trudeau’s attorneys repeatedly refused that request, which was cause for the delay.

It is unknown whether the terms of the final agreement are mutually binding.

Trudeau taught at the West Point Grey Academy between 1999 and 2001 but departed the school abruptly mid-term, and without substantial explanation. At the time he was 29 years old and retained his father’s law firm, Heenan Blaikie, in the matter. The firm released a bizarre statement at the time, in which Trudeau asked the public “not to make things up” about the departure, and insisted that he did not leave to pursue public speaking engagements.

In recent days, Trudeau has denied that he left the school for nefarious reasons, and denied that he signed an NDA at the time of his departure. The family of his accuser does not share that recollection and was told by officials of the school at the time that Trudeau would be bound by a confidentiality agreement that he signed prior to taking his teaching position.

Trudeau has claimed that he was simply moving on with his career. But shortly after he left that position as a full-time substitute teacher, he took a similar but lower-paying position at a nearby public high school. Within a year’s time, he would move back to Montreal where he would pursue shortlived studies in engineering.

Trudeau’s accusor is the daughter of a wealthy Canadian businessman. He asked that she not be identified in our reporting.
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Feel better now?
 
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Hey OB who handled the COVID-19 the worst?

And this by CBC, say it ain't so, the insanity, blah, blah, blah

Woodward's Trump revelations raise questions about Canada's response to COVID-19

But Canadian officials also were reluctant to pronounce on the threat posed by the virus in the early days of the pandemic. Health Minister Patty Hajdu even suggested at one point that the news media was stoking fears about the novel coronavirus.

Hajdu and senior public health officials were saying publicly that the risk of transmission was low in Canada right up until early March. When the risk level suddenly jumped to "high" on March 15, the government scrambled to impose an economic lockdown to curb the spread of the virus.

A week after Trump's call with Woodward, Hajdu told the Thunder Bay Newswatch on Feb. 14 that Canada had seen "a stabilization of cases."

"I've talked a lot about how we have the outbreak that is obviously related to a physical illness ... but there's also the outbreak of fear and the pandemic of fear is a very common partner to pandemics or outbreaks of other illnesses," she told the local news outlet.

"We need to remind Canadians that the risk factor for contracting this virus in Canada is a close contact with someone who recently travelled to the region," she added, referring to Asia.

Two months later, there'd be tens of thousands of new cases — many of them generated through community spread by returning travellers from Europe and the U.S.
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Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, warned against border closures for weeks. "They are inappropriate and could actually cause more harm than good in terms of our global effort to contain," she said on Feb. 3, before travel was brought to standstill seemingly overnight in mid-March.

Hajdu repeated those lines on Feb. 17, saying border closures were "not effective at all" at controlling the spread of disease.

Tam said at the end of January that she expected Canada would be spared the brunt of the virus.

"Canada's risk is much, much lower than that of many countries. It's going to be rare, but we are expecting cases," she told the Commons health committee.

Asked on Jan. 28 if the federal government was preparing to help provinces and territories deal with a possible surge in cases and strained hospital capacity, Hajdu said that while Canada was ready to assist, she didn't see an imminent risk.

"I think it's very premature to say that there will be additional resources needed at the hospital level," Hajdu told CBC's Power & Politics. "Every indication is that we will not at this point in time."

She said Canada was "phenomenally well-coordinated" and "well-prepared" for a possible onslaught of COVID-19.

As CBC reported last month, the public servants who manage the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile (NESS) warned in early February that there was a shortage of the personal protective equipment (PPE) needed to weather a pandemic. It still took weeks for the federal government to sign contracts for goods like N95 respirators, the masks used by health-care professionals to protect themselves from COVID-19.

Hajdu said in an interview Thursday that she took the virus "deadly seriously" at the outset and that she "absolutely" knew the virus had the potential to "kill many more people than the flu."

"We were doing things very early. All along the way, we were taking appropriate measures based on the risk it was presenting to Canada," she said, adding there was "extensive screening at the airports." But the government didn't begin collecting personal contact information from travellers inbound from Hubei province in China — site of the initial outbreak — until Feb. 19.
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A 'national security threat' unlike any other

He told the president that COVID-19 would be the "biggest national security threat" of his presidency. He urged swift border closures to stop Chinese nationals from transmitting the virus on U.S. soil, according to Woodward's book.

"This is going to be the toughest thing you face," O'Brien told Trump.

Three days later, during a January 31 interview on Power & Politics, Hajdu said Canada would take its cues from Tam — who was also a member of the WHO health emergencies advisory board at the time, where officials were said to have a strong working relationship with China, then the global hotspot.

"You've heard Dr. Tam speak about China's efforts to contain the virus. They indeed have been extraordinary," Hajdu said.

"That is part of what gives the World Health Organization confidence that the risk of further exposure and spread globally is low ... I along with Dr. Tam am very confident that China is working very closely with its partner countries to contain the spread."

The Associated Press would later reveal that the Chinese regime suppressed evidence of the virus's transmissibility for six days in early January before going to the WHO to brief the agency on the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak.

O'Brien's intelligence warnings, along with recommendations from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, would prompt Trump to declare a national health emergency on Jan. 31.

Canada — deferring again to the WHO instead of tracking the path of its closest ally — would not follow suit.

On Jan. 31, Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, publicly warned the American people that new, troubling research about COVID-19 had emerged.

Fauci said there was no longer any doubt that people displaying no symptoms of COVID-19 could still pass the virus along to someone else.

Canada slow to react to asymptomatic transmission
"In the beginning we were not sure if there was asymptomatic infection, which would make it a much broader outbreak than what we're seeing. Now we know for sure that there is," he said.

"It was not clear whether ... [a] person could transmit it to someone while they were asymptomatic. Now we know, from a recent report from Germany, that that is absolutely the case."

Canada ignored Fauci's about-face. Later on Jan. 31, Hajdu downplayed the German report on asymptomatic transmission Fauci cited — which would later prove to be accurate — saying it was out of step with what the WHO had told Canada.
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A gap in intelligence-gathering

It wasn't until April 7 — 66 days after Fauci's initial alert — that Tam would publicly concede that "the virus causing COVID-19 can be spread from an infected person in the period just before their symptoms appear."

"Evidence suggests that this is happening more often than previously thought ... some infected people who never develop symptoms are also able to transmit the virus," Tam said in a tweet.
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Even worse the Lib. Gov. chose not to listen to their own scientists, wow eh OB?

Wark said much of Canada's intelligence-gathering on disease is carried out by the Public Health Agency of Canada. But recent reporting has suggested that the agency's Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) was sidelined in the early days of the pandemic.

The GPHIN raised the alarm about a strange, pneumonia-like virus circulating in China at the end of December.

But GPHIN scientists have since come forward to say they felt muzzled and ignored by Health Canada officials when they tried to warn them about the pandemic threat. Hajdu conceded in an interview with CTV on Thursday that, when she became minister of health in November 2019, she had never heard of the GPHIN......Much More
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Has nothing to do with how I or anyone feels.
You should get as excited about all the smutt regarding Trump...(as you do about Trudeau )...just to balance things out.
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I didn't bring this up, I gave you a link you asked for, do you believe it now? You are the one that brings up smutt regarding Trump I'll leave that to you
 
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I didn't bring this up, I gave you a link you asked for, do you believe it now? You are the one that brings up smutt regarding Trump I'll leave that to you
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Given today's culture...... I hardly "believe" anything. So much noise. , misinformation, and sensationalism.

I do believe Trump's nieces book.........as well as Woodward's ......... but with a degree of skepticism.

anyhow.......this is way off topic........ and I have contributed to the distraction. My bad.
 
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Given today's culture...... I hardly "believe" anything. So much noise. , misinformation, and sensationalism.
I do believe Trump's nieces book.........as well as Woodward's ......... but with a degree of skepticism.
anyhow.......this is way off topic........ and I have contributed to the distraction. My bad.
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OK back on topic how about the CBC article on how Trudie and the Libs. bungled, worse than Trump, the handling of the Corona pandemic outbreak?
 
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OK back on topic how about the CBC article on how Trudie and the Libs. bungled, worse than Trump, the handling of the Corona pandemic outbreak?
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How did Trudeau Bungle mangling the Pandemic??

Did hi cal it a hoax?? Did he minimize it?? Did he ignore the advice from the experts??
His wife had it.......so he had personal family experience in dealing with it. He knew how serous it was. Did he bash the experts and pretend he knew more??

There is no comparison.

CNN today commented on the difference in how both countries handled it....... and made their own comparisons...not that it is a contest or anything like that. The only thing he did is stop the flights from China ......... while refusing to endorse the guidelines from the experts. (probably because they were not his idea )

(which is evidence that he can't delegate effectively)

How about his lack of concern for the public......(his rallies)..... where he is not worried about himself.....(being distanced form the crowd ........while the crowd is packed in )

The two men are so different........ they don't belong on the same planet. ;-)

anyhow....... Tomorrow Anderson Cooper has Bob Woodward on for an hour......so there will be more in Trump's own words . Woodward has CREDIBILITY.

The problem is that Trump believes power BELONGS to him........... and he has abused it in dealing with the pandemic Now he has been recorded as saying.....".there was nothing more that he could do". ......... (which is evidence of his incompetence)

Trump could care less about the people of the USA........including his supporters. Why would he hold rallies where there is no precautions (the more crowded the better)..........but making sure HE is distant enough from anyone . He even told one lady that she was coming too close to him........ but ignored the fact everyone else was shoulder to shoulder.

One could say that he is a homicidal POTUS......... due to how he puts h his followers in danger. (after the last rally......he said" lets' see how many get sick/die )
 
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How did Trudeau Bungle mangling the Pandemic??
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On Jan 23 The Canadian govt borrowed $296B USD.

That's what, 10 or 11 weeks before anything was done? How did they know in early January they'd need $296B USD for the end of March?

Wouldnt you have liked to know shit would hit the fan in March way back in early January?


Why weren't we told the truth?
 
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Who has suggested injecting Clorox?
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Trump suggested injecting a disinfectant.........and it was "understood" to mean Chlorox. and took it seriously enough to check it out....... ie consider it.

This makes Trump a homicidal potus. He actively suggested that people kill themselves.......... when he suggested injecting a disinfectant. ( (which are for external use only)




off topic for a moment: but apparently Trump wanted to know (at one of his meetings)......"do the toilets flush in the opposite direction in Australia " This was just stated from one of the press corps. No...you just can't make this up. No wonder his supporters are so 'loyal".......;-)
 
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