Arthur Grabowski

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Martin, with precisely zero provocation, Trump said a year ago that he intended to “annex Canada” and make it the 51st state by applying “economic pressure;” - He imposed lifted, increased, decreased, re-imposed and repeatedly threatened tariffs on everything imported from Canada, in gross violation of the CUSMA agreement that he signed, calling it “the greatest trade agreement in history;” - He initially did so on the entirely specious grounds that Canada was a major source of fentanyl imports and illegal migration to the US, both claims completely contradicted by data, and US law enforcement agencies. The claims were so ridiculous - even for Trump - that he has not repeated them for the past ten months; - He has repeatedly said the US needs “nothing” from Canada, specifically mentioning our energy - He continues to maintain crippling sectoral tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and certain auto components in violation of CUSMA, tariffs that are costing the Canadian economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs; - Senior Administration officials (Greer, Lutnick et al) have been intimating for months that CUSMA will not be renewed; - Trump has repeatedly referred to the Canada-US border as “imaginary” and “fake.” - His insults and provocations are too many to list, but just in the last week he has said that Canada has been “completely taken over by China” because of a discrete tariff agreement requested by western provinces and initially *endorsed by Trump*; and insulted the honour and memory of our troops, claiming that they “stayed a little back from the front lines” in Afghanistan. Given all of that and more, you blame the Prime Minister of Canada for CUSMA being in jeopardy? WTH? After a year of this, how can we still have some Canadians blaming Canada for Trump taking a wrecking ball to the relationship? Under these circumstances, Prime Minister Carney has exercised remarkable restraint. What would satisfy you? Grovelling subservience? Giving the US total control over our trade relations with the rest of the world? We Canadians can and should debate the most prudent way to deal with the completely unpredictable and destabilizing threat from Trump. (I, for one, don’t support the recent deal with China.) But surely no reasonable person can conclude that Canada provoked or is any meaningful way to blame for this crisis.

@DogSmokingPipes @AvivaKlompas Looks like Toronto to me.

@Feher_Junior P N j ou

The work of the 38th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​Urozhaynoye, Donetsk region 💪🇺🇦

@drandrewb Current program pays for health care for uninsured poor people as well as millionaire visitors. Basically anyone walking into the ER. The Ontario taxpayers are on the hook. Even those who can afford to pay don’t have to. It’s wrong and needs to be addressed.

Persons who had received two doses of the #COVID19 vaccine had serum that poorly neutralized omicron. Those who had recovered from infection and then vaccinated, or who had been vaccinated and had breakthrough, had high levels of neutralizing activity. nej.md/3G2pxBs

@sj_ca1867 @JasonRodgers_13 @regina_bateson @fordnation Risk of ICU admission from COVID was 1:50,000 for a healthy 5-11yo. There were NO COVID deaths in this age group.

@JasonRodgers_13 @regina_bateson @fordnation More infectious variant, less testing, no contact tracing, no communicating to contacts of cases, no isolating classes?

Many people feared @fordnation wouldn't do much to improve school safety. But actually--it's worse! After 2 wks at home, kids are going back to schools that are LESS SAFE than ever, w/little access to testing & no contact tracing or exposure info. ☹️ cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…

@CertainlySondra @regina_bateson @ccleighton @fordnation

@regina_bateson @ccleighton @fordnation 💯 and I’m shocked at how many parents are resigned to send their kids back to school knowing the risks associated with that decision! As parents, our job is to protect our children. Isn’t it?? WHY THEN AREN’T PARENTS DEMANDING THAT TESTING, TRACING AND REPORTING BE REINSTATED??

@CertainlySondra @regina_bateson @ccleighton @fordnation Look at the studies of COVID in kids. The only hospitalizations are in kids with significant comorbidites. Healthy kids are not at risk, even if not vaccinated. If you have a slick child, I encourage you to stay home or get them vaccinated.

@regina_bateson @fordnation Science does not support the closing of schools. Let’s leave politics out of the classroom. COVID is not a threat to our kids. Teachers should by now be vaccinated, if not, they only have themselves to blame.

The effectiveness of the BNT162B2 vaccine in adolescents was assessed. Among 445 case patients and 777 controls, of the 180 patients admitted to an ICU, only 2 had been fully vaccinated; all 7 deaths occurred in unvaccinated patients. #COVID19Vaccines nej.md/3t7rGID

We support the decision to return Ontario children to in-person learning. The best place for kids remains the classroom, and we all have a role to play to manage risk while maintaining focus on their mental, physical and developmental wellbeing.

Remarkably low rate of myocarditis among children mRNA (Pfizer) vaccinated age 5-11 Total of 12 cases among 8.7 million doses given cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/… Rate of 4/million in boys is <1/10th the rate in teens

A good omen for Omicron from its 1st epicenter in Gauteng, South Africa papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… The reduced clinical severity compared with the 1st 3 waves, and vs Beta and Delta variants

@imgrund Wow. You seem COVID obsessed, but reading through your posts it is pretty clear you don’t understand the disease. Focusing on number of cases which is currently irrelevant. Please get educated.

🦠⚠️ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30th - Ontario Risk Analysis ⚠️🦠 In a every single school of 1,000 - throughout Ontario - there is at LEAST one transmissible case of COVID. SMALL GROUP Risk Analysis Here: imgrund.ca/ontario-risk-a…

@JeanmarcBenoit healthfeedback.org/claim-reviews/

Regarding FDA withdrawal of approval for PCR test kit: implication appears to be that the test cannot distinguish between influenza and covid. Is this correct?

@JohnTory Consider Re-dedicating to another Dundas instead. I suggest one of the Dundas fighter pilots who fought in WWII to commemorate the sacrifices of our Veterans.

I support the City Manager's recommendation released today to begin the process of carefully renaming Dundas Street. My statement below.

@Preyratology Duh! Don’t know any adults that actually play on a kids playgrounds and trust me, I’ve been to quite a few.

I have yet to intubate a COVID patient who had become infected from being in a playground

And this one @PNASNews today on countering indoor airborne transmission pnas.org/content/118/17… ventilation masks nose-breathing whispering and quiet speech "inadequacy of the Six-Foot Rule"

Airborne it is. 🦠 The 10 streams of overwhelming evidence thelancet.com/journals/lance… @TheLancet by @trishgreenhalgh @kprather88 @Rschooley @zeynep @jljcolorado @dfisman a 5-★ succinct summary