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Woman fashions face mask from thong to avoid being kicked out of store
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A South African woman avoided getting kicked out of a supermarket by taking off her own thong and fashioning it as a face mask.
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It’s a move that would make R&B singer Sisqo proud.

A South African woman shopping at a supermarket avoided getting kicked out because of a mandatory face mask mandate by improvising while in the check-out line.


In a video that has gone viral, the unnamed woman — a shopper at a Pick n Pay in South Africa — was confronted by a security guard for not wearing a mask while waiting in line. He asked the woman to put on a mask or leave the store immediately, the Daily Mail reported.

With no mask handy, the woman can then be seen bending down and reaching underneath her ankle-length skirt.

“What’s going on?” onlookers can be heard saying in the video.

She then pulls out a black thong she was wearing and places it over her head, with the portion with the most fabric covering her face.

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“Happy?” the thong-wearing woman while thumbs up to the security guard, who appeared to be talking to a colleague on a radio.

The customer behind the woman applauded, stating she found the thong acceptable as a mask.

“And quite frankly I think the bacteria on your knickers is less than on the mask,” said the customer. “Well done you. Brilliant.”

The video went viral on Facebook, with many criticizing the woman for her cheeky actions, the U.K. Sun reported.


“Stay at home and do online shopping if you don’t like the idea of wearing a mask,” chimed one person.

“This makes me sick. She is aware of the law worldwide. We have a serious virus and (she thinks) a G-string will save her,” wrote another.

Not wearing a face mask in public is a criminal offence in South Africa, with people facing fines or prison time for non-compliance.
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Why don't those morons that want everybody to be forced to wear a face diaper mask stay the hell at home themselves and leave the rest of us to do our shopping without having to wear a mask? Those maskholes who want to wear masks can do their buying online also. Whatever happened to freedom of choice anymore?

The only world wide pandemic that we have still going on here is the one that is still being played by the maskholes out there that keep going along with this mask wearing bull shit. Real men and women do not wear masks. Only wimpy maskholes who are in constant fear and panic of catching a non threatning virus wear them. Grow up you wimps. Take those face diaper masks off and start acting like grown ups for a change. Show your dear comrade puppet on a string politicians that you do not want to play their childish plandemic game anymore. Only you can end this bull chit once and for all. But will you? :cool:
 

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Feel better now?
If you are referring to me about feeling better now, well, ya man. At least I am willing to ask questions and will challenge the bull chit that has been going on for almost a year now. And I do believe it will never end until comrade Turdeau gets everybody vaccinated in this country. I have even heard that even if we all do get vaccinated we may not be going back to the good old normal days of not having to still wear a mask and keep our distance or quarantining.

If you think that getting vaccinated will end all of this bull chit then you are one dumb fool. Come back in a year and prove me wrong. The globalists are not finished with us all yet and they have bigger and better plans for you and me and thee. This is not about a virus anymore. This is all about globalist communism or as the globalists like to call it the "Great Reset" an agenda for world control and tyranny and slavery without you being allowed in their globalist great reset bubble. Believe it or not. ;)
 

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HaHa, as we have been saying for a year now, the vaccine will neither stop you from getting covid nor spreading covid...GREAT!!!!!
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I'll TAKE THREE!!!


They're small!!!
 
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If you are referring to me about feeling better now, well, ya man. At least I am willing to ask questions and will challenge the bull chit that has been going on for almost a year now. And I do believe it will never end until comrade Turdeau gets everybody vaccinated in this country. I have even heard that even if we all do get vaccinated we may not be going back to the good old normal days of not having to still wear a mask and keep our distance or quarantining.

If you think that getting vaccinated will end all of this bull chit then you are one dumb fool. Come back in a year and prove me wrong. The globalists are not finished with us all yet and they have bigger and better plans for you and me and thee. This is not about a virus anymore. This is all about globalist communism or as the globalists like to call it the "Great Reset" an agenda for world control and tyranny and slavery without you being allowed in their globalist great reset bubble. Believe it or not. ;)
Good. Glad you got it off your chest.
 
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The dis-united kingdom of lockdown

The pandemic has shown how little Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales serve the people.

The dis-united kingdom of lockdown


JEFFREY PEEL​

1st March 2021

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Michael Deane is to Belfast what Rick Stein is to Padstow. But Padstow always had Cornwall on its side. Deane had to build his restaurant business against all the odds, in a place that was hardly associated with gastronomy. But his success and tenacity were astonishing.

Deane’s eponymous city-centre restaurant was one of the first in Northern Ireland to win a Michelin star. Restaurants bearing the Deane name sprung up across the city, from his brasserie just round the corner from his flagship eatery, to Deane’s at Queen’s, near the university in South Belfast. Deane, along with other pioneers of the Belfast food scene in Northern Ireland’s darker times, took huge risks. These entrepreneurs did so much more to restore civic pride and Belfast’s reputation as a place to visit than anything promised by a hapless Northern Ireland Executive and loudmouth politicians.

When the English lockdown was announced in March last year, it was left to the devolved administrations to implement Covid-response policies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Some of us clung on to the hope that lockdown might not be an obvious choice for the devolved regions. But the lure of furlough payments and other Treasury inducements (like Covid business loans) was too much. These Covid emergency provisions were top-ups to Whitehall’s already generous Barnett Formula grants to the devolved regions.

Criticisms from the Labour Party that lockdown was too late in being implemented were echoed by the devolved health ministers. Covid, it seemed, was providing an opportunity for virtue-signalling on speed. Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon used the opportunity to be seen to take charge with daily, rambling media briefings, where she outlined Scotland’s uniquely Scottish response to Covid. Robin Swann, the health minister in Northern Ireland, suggested that people breaking Covid rules were metaphorically walking into ICUs and ‘slapping a nurse in the face’. In Wales, on the closure of non-essential stores, supermarkets were forced to cordon off non-essential items like books and sanitary towels.

Indeed, while the substance of Covid-response policy was pretty similar across the devolved regions (to an extent because London controls the purse-strings), the nuances and timing of local regulations made the situation in the three Celtic nations feel more ridiculous.

Let’s return to Michael Deane, for example. He quickly made provision for a covered outdoor area that would allow him to accommodate more diners outside his South Belfast restaurant – completed just in time for the second-wave lockdown in Northern Ireland that arrived in October. The outdoor area has never been used despite the tens of thousands of sunk costs.
And now, after Boris Johnson announced a bizarre four month-long phased programme of opening up for England (when most of the vulnerable across the UK have already been vaccinated) we now have to wait for the devolved regions to cause even more local confusion and potential delay to our return to normal life.

Sturgeon complained that Boris Johnson’s briefing of the devolved nations clashed with her own daily briefing. Meanwhile, Northern Ireland announced – a week before Johnson’s much anticipated speech on 22 February – that schools wouldn’t reopen until April, and even then not all. This was in contrast to the decision in England to reopen schools to all on 8 March. Meanwhile, Wales’ chief medical officer announced that it was highly unlikely that freely mixing in nightclubs in Wales will be possible after 21 June, despite the English government saying it would be in England.

The result of all of this is a supremely complex web of Covid-nonsense regulation across the UK. More worryingly, it has resulted in policies that will damage business and the prospects for economic recovery. Many in the business community are exasperated, in particular, at the apparent randomness of the policies implemented by ministers and superannuated bureaucrats, who have never experienced the stress of making payroll every month. Never before have public servants across the UK acted so much against the small business employers in their local communities.

All three devolved regions are excessively dependent on public-sector employment. Private-sector employment in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is heavily skewed towards retail, travel and tourism – the sectors most severely impacted by lockdown. Westminster, under both Labour and Conservative governments, has tried to reduce public-sector dependency in the regions. But the response to Covid, nationally and regionally, has punished the very people who have contributed most to the building of greater self-reliance and community pride in those regions – single-minded and hard-working businesspeople.

The enthusiasm with which devolved ministers and their apparatchiks have robbed local populations of their liberty is really quite remarkable. The damage being done to education, business and people’s futures is unforgivable. UK devolution was a badly constructed project. But with Covid, it has become a grotesque parody of what government for the people should be about.

 
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Vaccine tourism is both unethical and bad for business, experts say
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Executives who engage in so-called “vaccine tourism” show both an ethical disregard for those less fortunate and a surprising lack of business acumen, experts argue.

Their comments came after the head of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Mark Machin, stepped down after admitting to travelling to Dubai to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.


“The reputational damage — the lasting scar of you being caught, outed and tarred and feathered in the public square over your decision to engage in vaccine tourism — will linger,” said Wojtek Dabrowski, managing partner of Provident Communications.

He said it will likely be some time until Machin, once a highly respected money manager, lands a new gig, as most companies will be loath to have their names associated with his.

“You have to think about what kind of organization would take on a leader with this in their background,” Dabrowski said.

Decisions to travel abroad for COVID-19 vaccines also raise questions about the culture a person expects to cultivate in their company, he added.

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“As the CEO, the buck stops with you every time,” Dabrowski said. “Whether that’s on business performance, whether that’s on culture, or whether that’s on modelling the behaviour that you want to see elsewhere in the organization.”

In this case, he said, the Canada Pension Plan itself is likely to come out unscathed, in part because Machin left his post so quickly.

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But if the company is not so well-known or highly regarded to begin with, and doesn’t act swiftly to rectify the situation, the executive’s actions could have broader implications, he said.

Some regions have also clamped down on vaccine tourism, not wanting to be associated with the practice.

In January, the Florida government changed its vaccination rules to prevent non-residents from flying in, getting jabbed and flying back out. The state now requires would-be vaccine recipients to provide proof of at least part-time residency.

And while Dabrowski noted that executives may find it desirable — though unadvisable — to combine vaccination with a vacation, that’s not always how things play out.

In late January, the head of the Great Canadian Gaming Corp. and his wife were ticketed after allegedly flying to a remote Yukon community to get vaccinated.


Dabrowski said the consequences of travelling to hop the vaccine line are perhaps even greater now, in a time when many people believe corporations should consider more than just profits.

“This whole idea that a corporation has this broader social imperative that’s not just focused around making money, but rather, improving and bettering and serving the communities in which these companies operate, is emerging as a very pressing imperative for a lot of organizations,” he said.

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And there’s little question about whether vaccine tourism betters the community, he added.

Bioethicist Kerry Bowman said he was shocked to learn that a prominent figure would travel abroad to get a COVID-19 vaccine, especially after the furor that erupted in late December and early January over jet-setting politicians defying public health advice to avoid international travel.

“You’re really jumping the vaccine queue,” he said. “We’ve got elderly people in this country, and particularly the province of Ontario, that have still not even received a preliminary dose.”

Vaccine tourism also erodes trust in a health-care system that should ideally, treat everybody equally, Bowman said.

“It feeds into what a lot of people already know: That people with privileges and connections are going to find a way through the system.”

The phenomenon differs, Bowman said, from other forms of medical tourism in which people cross the border to pay for quicker access to treatment.

“If you’re going abroad for surgery, the secondary effect on other people from a point of view of justice is very different,” he said, noting that the pandemic makes everything more complicated.

“If a person is coming back from overseas, even if they’ve been vaccinated, the vaccine is really not coming up to strength for a few weeks,” he said. “So you’ve also got a potential health risk that’s being introduced.”

Bowman said the costs of vaccine tourism far outweigh any benefits.

“Critics will say vaccine tourism is just taking pressure off the system, and it’s no big deal,” Bowman said. “But, you know, fairness is very, very important.”
 

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We can't take this lockdown anymore. End it now, Worzel...


Have you had enough yet? So, the question here is how long will most of those brain dead Canadians out there going to start to wake the hell up and start asking questions of their dear comrade leaders? How much longer are they going to put up with this farce and lie? While Canadians lose their jobs our dear comrade leaders continue to act tyrannical and get to stay employed along with the government employees who still are getting paid their salaries. I wonder as to how many Canadian border guards have lost their jobs or have been laid off?


I would sure like to know because it would appear to me that there seems to be no need for the thousands of border guards being still employed when there is pretty much nothing to do at the border anymore. The land crossing borders appeasr to be down approx. 99.9%. Only a few so called essential people get to cross a land border. And I am pretty sure that it is not all that busy at airports these days with all of the communist restrictions that have been implemented these days at airports.

We the people are getting shafted by our dear comrade tyrannical leaders and they need to be told to quit it or they need to be arrested and charged with crimes against the Canadian people and crimes against humanity. This bull chit needs to end now. Although with the buffoons that we have running this country now they are not quite ready and willing yet to give up their power over we the submissive people. They are even now trying to prolong all this nonsense. It seems like Canadians appear to be quite satisfied with all of these stupid Convid restrictions. Amazing indeed.
 
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Sweden bans face masks. Turkey never forced anyone to wear masks. Florida and South Dakota do not force their citizen's to wear masks. If this virus is so dangerous there should be hundreds of people dying in the streets of those places mentioned. It's all horse chit, man. :cool:
 
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Canadians should be able vote by phone during pandemic: Committee
Author of the article:Kevin Connor
Publishing date:Mar 01, 2021 • 16 hours ago • 2 minute read • comment bubble5 Comments
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Canadians should have the option to vote by phone if an election is called during the pandemic, says a Liberal majority on the House affairs committee.

But the recommendation could be open to fraud, the opposition countered.

Telephone voting has never been allowed in a federal election.

“Phone voting poses considerable challenges for properly verifying the identity of voters who vote this way,” Bloc Québécois MPs wrote in a minority report, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

“It also opens the door to fraud, something important to consider especially in light of the theft of data and personal information over the internet in recent years.”

The report — Protecting Public Health and Democracy During a Possible Pandemic Election — also recommended mail-in ballots “to ensure voters are aware of how they can vote should they miss the mail-in deadline.”


Conservative MPs protested the proposal would see mailed ballots counted after election day, said Blacklock’s Reporter.

“The election should end on election day and Canadians deserve to know the results without delay,” say the Conservatives. “Regardless of when the deadline to submit ballots occurs, there will be some votes that arrive too late. The anxiety and uncertainty that would be caused by a delay of election results is unacceptable.”

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More than 49,000 Canadians voted by mail in the last campaign in 2019 and the majority of those were members of the armed forces posted overseas.

Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault said his office has already budgeted $10 million to process 5 million mail-in ballots from Canadians at home who don’t want to vote in person.


“For the first time we will have prepaid postage for the mail-in ballots,” Perreault told a Nov. 19 hearing of the House affairs committee. “It’s critical for us to be able to manage what we think will be up to 5 million mail-in ballots.”

If there were 5 million votes cast by mail, it would be the largest of its kind in Canadian history.
 

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White House on whether U.S. will share vaccines with Canada: 'No'
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WASHINGTON — The White House is making it abundantly clear it has no plans to share America’s COVID-19 vaccines with Canada or Mexico.

Press secretary Jen Psaki has been indicating for weeks that the Biden administration would not allow the export of doses manufactured in the U.S. any time soon.


Today, with Mexico planning to explicitly ask for help, Psaki ruled the possibility out entirely.

She says President Joe Biden is focused first on making sure the vaccine is available to every American.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was expected to ask Biden directly for doses when the two meet virtually later today.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly stopped short of making a similar request in his virtual meetings with Biden last week.

“No,” Psaki said today when asked whether the U.S. would be willing to share its supply of vaccine doses.


“The president has made clear that he is focused on ensuring that vaccines are available to every American. That is our focus.”

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Psaki hinted last week that the White House position could change later this year once more Americans are vaccinated and the doses are no longer in such short supply.

Johnson and Johnson’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine began shipping out today after it received emergency authorization over the weekend from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

That now makes three vaccines that are available in the U.S., along with the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

Health Canada has yet to approve the Johnson and Johnson shot, but gave the green light last week to a vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.
 

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SNC Lavalin scores $150M contract for field hospitals: Report
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SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. has been given a $150-million contract from Ottawa for pandemic field hospitals, according to a Blacklock’s Reporter.

The Department of Public Works signed the sole-sourced contract five months ago but hasn’t given a completion date for the mobile health units.

“There is no fixed delivery date at the moment,” staff wrote in a memo dated Sept. 9.

But no province or territory had asked to have these field hospitals as of mid-October, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

“No formal request has been made by a province or territory to date as these units have been ordered in anticipation of a potential need by the Government of Canada for a broad range of situations,” said an Oct. 13 memo.

At that time, the department paid SNC-Lavalin more than $26 million of the $150-million contract for a total of five field hospitals.

It was awarded April 9 without public notice to other bidders.


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The department cited “urgency” in justifying the deal.

“A public call for tenders was not issued due to the urgency of the need as a result of the pandemic,” wrote staff.

“The federal government was required to act with urgency to address a possible surge in demand on our health-care system and in order to protect the health and safety of Canadians.”

Since 2019, the company was fined $280 million for fraud over bribes paid to win construction contracts in Libya.


SNC-Lavalin was also fined $1.9 million under the Competition Act for bid-rigging in Québec.

In 2018, a company executive was convicted in Québec Superior Court of bribery, fraud, and laundering of the proceeds of crime. In 2014, another executive pleaded guilty to bribery in a court in Switzerland.

Three other former SNC-Lavalin executives also pleaded guilty to breach of trust, use of a forged document, and breach of the Elections Act. That case involved more than $109,000 worth of illegal campaign contributions to Liberal Party organizers.
 
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Canadian economy contracted 5.4% in 2020, worst year on record
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OTTAWA — The Canadian economy posted its worst showing on record in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the country, shutting down businesses and putting millions out of work.

Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product shrank 5.4% in 2020, the steepest annual decline since comparable data was first recorded in 1961.


The drop for the year was due to the shutdown of large swaths of the economy in March and April during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that crushed the economy.

Since then, economic activity has slowly and steadily grown.

Statistics Canada says the economy grew at an annualized rate of 9.6% in the fourth quarter of last year, down from an annualized growth rate of 40.6% in the third quarter.

That was higher than expected, with the average economist estimate at 7.5%, according to financial data firm Refinitiv.


However, despite the better-than-expected result for the quarter as a whole, December eked out a 0.1% increase, which followed a 0.8% increase in November.

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Statistics Canada noted that total economic activity in December was about 3% below the pre-pandemic level in February 2020.

Looking ahead to January, Statistics Canada said its early estimate was for growth in the economy of 0.5%.

CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld wrote in a note that the early January figure should set aside fears of an outright downturn in the first quarter.

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Statistics Canada said wholesale trade, manufacturing and construction sectors led the increase, while retail trade fell to start the year.

BMO chief economist Douglas Porter said the economy soldiered through second-wave restrictions better than anticipated, and may signal a better-than-anticipated quarter, and potentially year overall.

“Look for new growth drivers to kick into gear as the economy re-opens in stages through this year, leading to roughly (six-per-cent) growth — a nice mirror image to last year’s deep dive,” he wrote in a note.

“It’s not precisely a V-shaped recovery, but it’s very close.”
 

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Woman dies from brain hemorrhage in Japan days after vaccine, but link uncertain
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TOKYO — A Japanese a woman in her 60s died from a brain hemorrhage three days after receiving a Pfizer coronavirus vaccination, the health ministry said on Tuesday, adding that there may not be a link between the two.

The woman was vaccinated on Friday and is suspected to have suffered a brain hemorrhage three days later, on Monday, it said. It was Japan’s first reported death following a vaccination.


“The brain hemorrhage that is suspected as a cause is relatively common among people from their 40s to their 60s, and at this time, based on examples overseas, there does not seem to be a link between brain hemorrhages and the coronavirus vaccine,” the ministry quoted Tomohiro Morio, a doctor advising the government, as saying.

“It may be a coincidental case, but there is a need to gather more information and make an assessment in upcoming working groups.”


Pfizer officials in Japan were not immediately available for comment. Pfizer said in November the efficacy of its vaccine was consistent across age and ethnic groups, and that there were no major side effects, a sign that the immunization could be employed broadly around the world.

Global health authorities have praised the fast development of safe and effective COVID vaccines, but have warned people with serious underlying health conditions to take medical advice first.

Japan became the last member of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations to begin its vaccination drive, on Feb. 17.

It has so far received three shipments of vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.

Japan officially approved Pfizer’s vaccine last month, the first such approval in the country as it steps up efforts to tame infections in the run-up to the Summer Olympics.
 

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"Covid" stands for "certification of vaccination identification" and the 19 is "AI" in numerology. The vaccine is an operating system that can alter your DNA.
 
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