STM workers got “toxic” masks
Last week it seemed school kids around Quebec were given masks that were potentially toxic, and now it seems STM workers have also received these masks, which contain “nanoform graphene materials” which present an “‘unacceptable’ risk of toxicity to the lungs” according to Health Canada.
Quebec is also backing off administering the AstraZeneca vaccine to people under 55.
I have a feeling that this pandemic is going to spawn a hell of a lot of class action suits, which will go on for years.
Nick 17:47 on 2021-03-29 Permalink
COVID-19 vaccine makers are not legally liable. I think the government has to pay out whenever there are serious side effects or worse.
walkerp 17:59 on 2021-03-29 Permalink
This is what happens when policy is dictated by companies wanting to get the pork bids. The new mask policy for elementary schools was good, but super suspect when it also mandated that the kids could not bring their own home made masks and that the ones provided by the school would be thrown away at the end of the day. For sure somebody got a huge contract and you have to ask which came first, the contract or the health concerns.
qatzelok 09:19 on 2021-03-30 Permalink
So the Astra-Zeneca vaccine is *fine* for people over 55 because…. these people are disposable anyways?
Blood clotting is something that affects seniors more than anyone, so I don’t get why this is *fine*.
And I also find it very creepy that Ottawa has signed onto “no liability” contracts for these faceless multinationals.
Pfizer Infra.
jeather 10:33 on 2021-03-30 Permalink
It appears that the blood clotting issue is mostly related to women of child-bearing years, not anyone under 55. So it probably should be allowed for men under 55, as well as adults over 55. But this is based on skimming some of the stuff, I’m not sure there’s really enough data to know. It does also appear to be a different clotting issue than the age related clotting issues seniors have. And of course, it’s very, very rare, certainly more rare than deaths from Covid.
No home-made masks is one thing, but “two masks per kid per day, including before/after school programs and gym class, if you break it we will tape it up because the government doesn’t provide spares” is not good.
Tee Owe 14:11 on 2021-03-30 Permalink
Jeather – I was with you yesterday, today I learned new facts – hard to share because I can’t post a link and the link anyway is to a rolling blog on the Guardian website – here’s what I read –
Germany’s vaccine regulator has said it has recorded 31 cases of a rare blood clot in the brain, nine of which resulted in deaths, after people received a Covid vaccine from AstraZeneca.
The Paul Ehrlich Institute said it has now registered 31 cases of clots in the cerebral veins – known as sinus vein thrombosis, or CSVT – and that in 19 of these there was a deficiency of blood platelets or thrombocytepenia, Reuters reports. In nine cases, the affected people died. With the exception of two cases, all reports concerned women between the ages of 20 and 63. The two men were 36 and 57 years old.
The point is, this is no longer the handful of cases it used to be, and if you can dig into the numbers (I don’t know how) then these incidences are a percentage of an age group, mostly women, and only those getting that vaccine so maybe not so rare as I used to think. Maybe it’s OK to be careful