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5 Recommendations to encourage us in the time of COVID from Dr. Abdu Sharkawy

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Ok, let’s all take a deep breath now …preferably a fair distance from anyone who’s coughing 😉
Some basic recommendations to keep yourself safe AND sane:

1. Distancing. The idea that staying home means never breathing oxygen outside 4 walls and a ceiling is neither sensible nor tenable. Walks are both acceptable and necessary to maintain our health and well being! BUT… this means only with whomever lives in your household and NOBODY ELSE, NO EXCEPTIONS! (Cousins and neighbors count).
Keep a distance from others at all times. And no parks, playgrounds or anywhere others will inevitably join you.

2. Masks. You don’t need one in your home unless you are sick personally and want to protect others or you are providing care for an elderly or immune compromised person.

You also don’t NEED one to go out to the store for groceries or at work IF you can maintain strict distancing and hand hygiene. However, this is challenging if you can’t completely avoid separation from others eg. At the cash register. For this reason I would recommend wearing a mask for these situations. A surgical mask is not needed for this. Save these for health care workers please.
You can make your own from cotton, antimicrobial pillow cases, vacuum bags, and pretty much anything that can cover your face and withstand humidity. I personally recommend cotton or pillowcase material since this is easy to wash and reuse.

3. Food. Coronavirus doesn’t thrive in food or packaging. You won’t die from your takeout pizza or drive thru coffee, I promise you!
It does not aerosolize from these surfaces or materials. When you retrieve your food or groceries, do so with clean HANDS and avoid touching your face. Doing this is more than adequate for protection.
Want to put the takeout box and grocery bags in a dedicated garbage? Fine, but not necessary by any means. And save your wipes for places hands go all the time: table tops, counters, light switches, PHONES, tablets, remotes, game controllers, door knobs, faucets and taps. This is the viral hood!

4. Mental Health. Everyone is anxious, uneasy, worried. Some are depressed, overwhelmed, even panicked. It’s ok to admit this. It’s important. Try not to judge but instead to help and support whomever you can. Talk to each other! Listen to someone. Donate something to a homeless shelter or a community mental health organization. Giving will give you back so much more than you could imagine.

5. Breathe. As daunting as this is, it will end at some point when our containment strategies pay dividends, the virus runs out of susceptible people to infect and enough exposed and recovered people become immune. Take this time to reframe life habits and a perspective towards minimizing waste, maximizing time for those you love and need you, and learning that humility and patience are our greatest teachers and guides.

I wish you all health, safety, and sanity. These are dark times, but there is light in our eyes and hope in our hearts. Never forget.

#cleanhands #openhearts #openminds #caremongering #breatheHOPE

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After 15 years as a TV reporter with Global and CBC and as news director of RDTV in Red Deer, Duane set out on his own 2008 as a visual storyteller. During this period, he became fascinated with a burgeoning online world and how it could better serve local communities. This fascination led to Todayville, launched in 2016.

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Inquiry shows Canadian gov’t agencies have spent $10 million on social media ads for COVID jabs

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By Anthony Murdoch

One campaign cost $1.5 million alone to encourage children to receive the COVID-19 shots.

A recent Inquiry of Ministry request revealed that Canada’s Public Health Agency (PHAC) along with Health Canada have combined to spend approximately $9.9 million on social media advertising to promote the experimental COVID injections since 2020.

The Inquiry of Ministry information showing the large advertising spending on the COVID shots became known as the result of a request from Conservative Party of Canada MP Ted Falk, who demanded answers about what was being spent by officials to promote the shots.

The information published on April 8 shows that PHAC and Health Canada spent approximately $4.6 million on production costs of ads, with $5.3 million on actual advertising of the COVID shots on social media platforms Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, Snapchat, and Pinterest from 2020 to 2024.

One mass COVID vaccination advertising campaign titled the “Ripple Effect” cost about $1.8 million alone. PHAC claimed the campaign served to “remind Canadians about the collective vaccination effort required to see a reduction in restrictions and public health measures.”

Other campaigns ranged in spending from $75,000 to $564,000 to promote the shots to young adults.

PHAC also spent $1.5 million on a campaign to promote the COVID shots to parents with kids to try and encourage them to get their kids injected.

It should be noted that PHAC, as per a 2021-22 Departmental Results Report, had tried “diligently to counter false statements and misinformation” to prop up the COVID shots. In 2023, PHAC was looking to hire social media influencers to promote the jab to Canadians who were opposed to taking the shots.

Health Canada previously was found to have spent some $132,000 on social media influencers to promote the COVID shots.

As reported by LifeSiteNews recently, the Trudeau government is still under contract to purchase multiple shipments of COVID shots while at the same time throwing away $1.5 billion worth of expired shots.

Canadians’ decision to refuse the shots also comes as a Statistic Canada report revealed that deaths from COVID-19 and “unspecified causes” rose after the release of the so-called “safe and effective” jabs.

LifeSiteNews has published an extensive amount of research on the dangers of receiving the experimental COVID mRNA jabs, which include heart damage and blood clots.

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WHO Official Admits the Truth About Passports

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From the Brownstone Institute

BY Paul ThackerPAUL THACKER

The World Health Organization’s Dr. Hanna Nohynek testified in court that she advised her government that vaccine passports were not needed but was ignored, despite explaining that the Covid vaccines did not stop virus transmission and the passports gave a false sense of security. The stunning revelations came to light in a Helsinki courtroom where Finnish citizen Mika Vauhkala is suing after he was denied entry to a café for not having a vaccine passport.

Dr. Nohynek is chief physician at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare and serves as the WHO’s chair of Strategic Group of Experts on immunization. Testifying yesterday, she stated that the Finnish Institute for Health knew by the summer of 2021 that the Covid-19 vaccines did not stop virus transmission

During that same 2021 time period, the WHO said it was working to “create an international trusted framework” for safe travel while EU members states began rolling out Covid passports. The EU Digital COVID Certificate Regulation passed in July 2021 and more than 2.3 billion certificates were later issued. Visitors to France were banned if they did not have a valid vaccine passport which citizens had to carry to buy food at stores or to use public transport.

But Dr. Nohynek testified yesterday that her institute advised the Finnish government in late 2021 that Covid passports no longer made sense, yet certificates continued to be required. Finnish journalist Ike Novikoff reported the news yesterday after leaving the Helsinki courtroom where Dr. Nohynek spoke.

Dr. Nohynek’s admission that the government ignored scientific advice to terminate vaccine passports proved shocking as she is widely embraced in global medical circles. Besides chairing the WHO’s strategic advisory group on immunizations, Dr. Nohynek is one of Finland’s top vaccine advisors and serves on the boards of Vaccines Together and the International Vaccine Institute.

The EU’s digital Covid-19 certification helped establish the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network in July 2023. “By using European best practices we contribute to digital health standards and interoperability globally—to the benefit of those most in need,” stated one EU official.

Finnish citizen Mika Vauhkala created a website discussing his case against Finland’s government where he writes that he launched his lawsuit “to defend basic rights” after he was denied breakfast in December 2021 at a Helsinki café because he did not have a Covid passport even though he was healthy. “The constitution of Finland guarantees that any citizen should not be discriminated against based on health conditions among other things,” Vauhkala states on his website.

Vauhkala’s lawsuit continued today in Helsinki district court where British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra will testify that, during the Covid pandemic, some authorities and medical professionals supported unethical, coercive, and misinformed policies such as vaccine mandates and vaccine passports, which undermined informed patient consent and evidence-based medical practice.

You can read Dr. Malhotra’s testimony here.

Republished from the author’s Substack

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    Paul D. Thacker is an Investigative Reporter; Former Investigator United States Senate; Former Fellow Safra Ethics Center, Harvard University

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