The number of hospitalizations linked to covid-19 in Ontario, 2020-21, relative to historical benchmark levels for influenza and pneumonia.
The number of deaths from/with covid-19 in Ontario, 2020-21.
The number of ICU admissions from/with covid-19 in Ontario, 2020-21.
ON cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, indexed to values 1 year earlier. The black line (index = 100) is where we were 365 days ago (all values indexed to values on that date).
(Below black bar = lower than one year ago today; Above black bar = higher than one year ago today)
Weekly all-cause deaths and deaths with/from Covid-19 in Ontario, 2010-2021 (subject to Statistics Canada reporting delay for all-cause deaths.)
Ontario - The proportion of cases (positive test results) resulting in death (yellow line). (Daily reported deaths divided by average daily cases over prior 28 days.)
Ontario – Cumulative case fatality rate (CFR). The proportion of cases (positive test results) resulting in death (yellow line). (Cumulative reported deaths divided by cumulative cases.)
With headlines like this, it's no wonder that a large share of the population isn't interested in the vaccines. I wonder how many people in favour of vaccine passports now would still be in favour if maintaining that passport meant a booster shot every 4-6 months until death.
It's amazing just how much damage public health has done to its own reputation - not to mention the tremendous damage they've inflicted on the health and social well-being of entire communities.
We were told only weeks ago that vaccines were our way out, and now at the same time as we're being told to vaccinate or be ostracized, we're also being told the vaccines have stopped working.
"Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out."
David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech "This is Water" is more relevant now than ever. Here it is, abbreviated, in a short film.
"That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing."