Canada MUST Stand By The United States

Great speech from Trump. It really is a tale of two Trumps this Presidency. He's one way with the media and pressers but is much  more composed and deliberate in official speeches. Where it counts.

He spoke with great authority in calling out China and directly challenging them while unequivocally defending Hong Kong. The United States wasn't getting involved in Chinese affairs until it unleashed a virus on the world and then it was all bets are off.

He also pulled the USA out of the WHO. Why should American taxpayers pay into an organization that basically let China dictate how it informed the world about the coronavirus? Canadians should be thinking the same exact way. Except we have a PM enamoured with a broken institution like the UN.

Once again, it's left to the United States to do the heavy lifting while Europe (and Canada) pick their noses playing dumbass anti-Trump games.

Canada has to drop its act and MUST support the United States here.

China overplayed its hand and they must account for it. They're warning of a 'new cold war'.

Good. I've asserted here China must be treated like the Soviet Union because that's how they deserve to be treated.

Forget the differences with Trump or petty politics. China is a far greater threat at the moment.

Would be great to have a true leader for this country. Unfortunately, we're stuck with this sad bunch.

Trump has balls. Trudeau has none.

This Is Serious Now

It's one thing to read the obnoxious stupidity of white liberal guilt from a Facebook page but quite another when a professor spreads hate. Still far more troubling is when people in positions of power start to engage in overt reverse racism.

Enter one Carl J. Florea Mayor of Leavenworth, Was.

If there's one thing I've learned with the pandemic it's how poorly served we are in North America.

It's like, well, an intellectual pandemic.

I won't break down Florea's call to essentially 'erase' white people because, well, it's retarded and so spectacularly degenerate in its position I can't even.

I should since the point of this post is to no longer accept this vile rhetoric when it comes from people who actually can make it happen in some form.

I'll post it here and you decide if it's just another low IQ loser sprouting off drivel and should be ignored or if it's in fact something that garners our attention.

In my view, it's the latter.

I'm in the middle of reading Mein Kempf.

I last read it in the early 90s and figured I needed a refresher.

What people don't realize is Trump isn't 'literally Hitler'.

It's people like Florea. Just replace 'Jews' with 'White Christian'. All this always ends in bullets in the back of the neck for the most part.

This buffoon was actually using words like 'cleansing'. Is he this ignorant and illiterate? Do the good people of Leavenworth actually accept this kind of unacceptable idiocy?

His little letter of racial lunacy is a form of call to racial purity. Only difference here is he's looking to eradicate the white virus to which he's a member of.

Not sure if he's willing to off himself to show how serious he is.

Doubt it.

In any event, as I read it, it was easy to basically juxtapose Mein Kempf with this.

It's a delusional and psychosis that demands we purge from our midst because if the Florea's of this world get their way, it will get worse.

In case you haven't noticed, things are a tad askew at the moment and his ramblings aren't going to help.

Oh.

One other thing.

Go fuck yourself Florea.

And Van Jones you degenerate racist piece of shit.

Sweden's Long Game; Quebec And Sweden Comparison; Quebec MUST Open Schools At Full Capacity In September

The interesting thing about Canada is the country, as a whole, hasn't been hit hard with the coronavirus yet the leaders acted as if it was.

Which is bizarre and falls into an over reaction.

Some facts:

-Remove Quebec (50 651)and there are 39 539 cases. Remove Ontario (27 533) and now it's down to 12 006 for all of Canada! That's 318 cases per million. So remind me why they're engaging in 'phasing' they're economies back into business? If anything, a case can be made that provinces could have opted for a much more enlightened and less draconian approach. Reacting what happened to Quebec is not a reason to install the same policies as they did.

-Ontario has 190 cases per million (QC has 603). Yet, Doug Ford looks like he's about to have a nervous breakdown.

-Like in Quebec, Ontario's numbers are largely thanks to the disaster in the nursing homes. Interestingly, this reality somehow gets conflated with the general population. It has distorted our perception of how to deal with the virus.

-As for the deaths, Quebec has 528 per million. Ontario 155. The national average is 188. It puts us in ok territory overall. Certainly not strong enough to brag about being better than most countries including the USA. But still, not bad.

-How about by age group in Quebec? 90% of deaths are in the 70+ demographic with 73% in the 80+ group.

This is where people need to start paying closer attention to for when September comes around.

I'm hearing a bit too much talk about not returning to school under normal circumstances.

This is a terrible idea; a travesty for a number of obvious reasons.

First, statically and medically, the kids are largely spared of this virus nor does it seem their major transmitters of it but this is evolving as we continue to learn about it. But it certainly looks like the virus isn't lethal for the majority of the population.

Second, we're sending a bad message to them. We're teaching them to not follow reason or science. We're teaching them to cower under a cloud of fear and uncertainty. There's no reason to not open schools in September.

Third, the unintended consequences of potentially damaging kids. Is this virus a reason to deprive high school kids of their high school experience? Learning twice a week at home on Zoom is not learning. It's a waste of time and resources. Again, it sends a bad message of not learning to live and cope in difficult times. What happens to gym and extra-curricular activities? What happens to science classes with access to labs and other stuff people don't have at home? Is it wise to leave kids at home? We have all sorts of laws preventing them from all sorts of things - including no adult supervisions - but will now leave kids across the province home while parents work? What kind of madness is this? For the coronavirus?  We all know teenagers always act responsibly right? I find it hard to believe and fathom educators, politicians and parents alike think this is wise. Never mind the idea that criminals up to no good now know a bunch of kids are home alone.

The way I see it, Legault has to start hammering home the message school has to get back to normal in September. If (and it's a big if) there's a second wave, we'll deal with it then. The U.S. and Europe aren't even talking schemes like this. In Europe back to school it was.

It would be devastating if we do this on multiple levels because it in effect erases 2021. This should not be a plausible scenario.

The other part of the equation leaders must quell and manage is the idea 'we'll do this until a vaccine is found'. We don't know when - and if -  it's coming. It shouldn't be the sole driver of how we deal with the virus. Even if it arrives, will there be enough? Will it be safe? What happens if it comes from China and people reject it? Whatever quantities we have will likely go to the demographic most affected and that's not the kids.

Living for a vaccine is absurd and not living. Time for us to show our kids how to be men and women  and not frightened cowards.

Being concerned is perfectly normal and acceptable but when it traverses into a fear that leads us to all sorts of over thinking how we live, it becomes a classic case of letting a disease control us.

I hope parents think long and hard before making children pay the price for this virus.

But let's get back to Quebec and also introduce Sweden.

Sweden at the moment is taking a lot of jabs and body blows at the moment. I have no idea if they will succeed but it's interesting to me.

Media right now likes to pump it's rising death tolls and cherry pick one data point - Norway - to prove its point.

Sweden always acknowledged cases and deaths were going to be high in the short-term by not locking down. They may even waver.

And while the theory of herd immunity seems a long way off, they're still ahead of the rest of the West. Sweden is simply a long-game here and so the jury is naturally out. I don't know why media has chosen to make them public enemy #1.

The rest of the world went with the faulty models predicting catastrophe by Neil Fegurson of Imperial College.  Now he has resigned in disgrace not only for his bad predictions that led to a worldwide lockdown with no actually science to back it up, but for breaking his own quarantine protocols to go bang his mistress.

Sweden is staying the course.

So just how bad is it? They say 'OMG 10 times worse than Norway!' but not much else.

Yes. Next to their Scandinavian neighbours Denmark and Norway, Sweden doesn't look too good.

But it's still doing better than Belgium, Spain, the UK and Italy. It's more or less on par with France and higher than Holland but not in any great way. Canada and Germany remain better.

So, when all is said and done, they may be middle of the pack. It's not about who has better death rate figures which everyone is fixated on. It's about who comes out in most in tact avoiding negative unintended consequences. Sweden is betting they'll at worse be in line with other countries and if a second wave hits, they'll be in a better place to deal with than we are.

Are we going to shut down again? That would be foolish.

Which is why we should be pulling for Sweden.

Sweden's numbers are 435 per million dead. Quebec is 528. Sweden has 3677 per million cases. Quebec has a whopping 6062 per million cases. So far, we know Quebec media shouldn't be talking smack about Sweden. Canada in total has 2377 cases per million and 188 deaths per million as noted.

Now let's delve into  Sweden's breakdown of who is dying. 

25% are 90+. 41% are 80+. 22% are 70+. That is, 88% come from the 70+ age bracket similar to Quebec.

So remind me why exactly the kids are being thrown under the bus again and how Sweden is so much worse than anyone else?

Sweden is achieving this figures without a lockdown and Quebec (not to mention European countries and U.S. states) is surpassing it with a lockdown.

Now it remains to be seen what the trade-offs will be. Recent reports show Sweden's economy is struggling.

I still say the jury is out.

The Big Picture Beyond Twitter

That I think Jack Dorsey is a coward and a punk is not news around here.

I consider the whole gang of bums at Youtube and Twitter to be little illiberal and illiterate shits who have way too much power for their own good. Tiny brains with no intellectual depth and power are a toxic mix.

How many times over the years have we seen true and objectionable content on their platforms be left alone? But conservatives who disagreeing progressive dogma are under constant attack from these bicycle peddling, mask wearing, sandal bearing buffoons.

They're cowards of the highest order because they don't have the guts and balls to admit what they're doing.

They hide behind all kinds of double-speak, policies and 'fact checkers' to give the impression of being responsible and honest.

They're not.

They're unprincipled partisan idiots. No other way to describe it.

When Obama was saying all kinds of stupid, ignorant and illiberal nonsense, they left him alone because 'brah' he's so cool and oratorical.

They're sufficiently stupid in the brain to not even drop their tribal instincts and actually look for truth.

Now Trump comes along and it's 'bruh we gotta fact check him'.

Think about how dim witted Dorsey is. I saw all I needed to see the character of this guy on Rogan. He couldn't even lie right. Hence, he came off no better than a cheap salesman pimping a shit product.

He picked a fight with the President of the United States of America.

The profound arrogance of this clown.  The government can shut you down.  Period.

All Trump did here is force their hand.

For years now they've been coyly and cleverly playing both sides of the platform/publisher divide.

Now Trump, once you cut through the bull shit (because it takes a bull shitter to call out a bull shitter; it takes a bully to take out a bully), essentially is saying stop being little shits and cucks and pick a side.

I'm pulling for Trump because it's not free speech at play here. He's not hurting it. Twitter and Youtube are when they act as publishers demonetizing and removing content without any consistency. Which makes me wonder, who is pulling their strings because I find it incredible that they would stray from the wise position of remaining a platform.

They're not set up to be publishers. Not intellectually, professionally not anything.

They're set up to be platforms.

They can believe in whatever idealistic goal of wanting to save the world but the reality is they're damaging it.

Daily (Da Rona) Derp: The Magnificent Derpersons

Keeping it real.

Here's the bottom line.

There's little to no evidence that masks, shields, gloves and hand washing prevent or slow this virus.

Yup.

You heard it here.

That a doctor says he's going to wear one ergo you should is not science.

It's just one person saying they're going to wear one.

Doctors aren't infallible. Nor are they always right.

Just look at how wrong they've been so far!

The fact is we don't know much about the virus and we've taken age old good hygiene advice and turned them into public virtue not based on sound science or empirical evidence but scientism and politics.

That you believe you doing a public good doesn't give you the right to shout or even accost people for not agreeing on this matter.

You want to wear a mask? Go ahead. Don't pretend somehow science backs you up or you're somehow a better human.

You are not.

Let me repeat this for all you clowns on social media shrieking about people who don't wear masks: YOU ARE NOT VIRTUOUS.

You're just faux-righteous nags.

Not only that. You don't seem bright enough to understand it's about five months too late to wear masks. 

What officials are saying is do all these things because they probably do slow the spread and what not.

Probably is not science last I checked. 

People of course take this to whole new levels. I visited a bank today and the poor teller was in a medical mask (not designed for use for long hours), and gloves (bacteria traps) behind a plexiglass while practicing social distancing.

This is the very definition of excessive superstition.

I feel for people who let themselves be led into fear in this manner or people who know this is a little ridiculous but have too because of their company protocols. This is not a life.

Employ some common sense for the love of God.

And doing some research won't kill you either.

Just like Covid-19 is statistically not going to kill you.

Plus, I'm a simple man. If Justin does something, I do the opposite.

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I'll just leave this hear with no comment:

Quebec Premier Legault: 74 deaths today. 70 in nursing homes. That leaves four for the general population. In a province with eight million people.

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Apparently, PEI is opening their economy in phases. What economy? The McCain and Cavendish farms and the Anne of Green Gables Museum?

Of all the bizarre theatre through this over-hyped pandemic, PEI phasing its economy despite TWO KNOWN CASES is one of the more surreal ones.

Not even Kafka could come up with that.


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600 doctors correctly point out the lockdowns are a 'mass casualty' event but somehow the media thinks they're shills for the government.

The media wants this scare to continue. It brings mayhem. It brings friction. They thrive on this sort of social angst. The media is the devil that's why.

Corona freaks are control freaks who are also climate change will kill us all freaks.

There's literally NO evidence to back up continuing the lockdowns. Even the 'phasing' stages of opening is all theatre. PEI is phasing opening up the economy. They have a devastating 2 known cases. What economy? What the fuck do they have to phase into? 

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Our failed head Health doctor Dr. Tam says Canadians should stay in as much as possible.

Why exactly again?

Maybe you should stay indoors. And take that clown posing as a PM with you.

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My bet is deaths due to Covid-19 will be adjusted downwards.

Maybe discreetly.

Like they do deaths from wars.

They like to over shoot death to rile people up and then quietly say 'saw-wee' it's less than that!

In any event, we should always keep in mind the vast majority of those deaths were mostly from one demographic and even within it we could have avoided some of those had politicians not sent them to their certain death in nursing homes.

Seems to me that's where the real scandal is. That and the fact North American officials chose to not close air space for identity politics considerations.

From what I know the principal players in that game were: Trudeau, Tam, and Hajdu here in the real Frozen Tundra - sorry Green Bay.

And Cuomo, Barbot, Schumer, and Pelosi in the U.S..


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Speaking of Cuomo, wow. This guy is some piece of work.

Incompetent and a fake tough guy. My God NY has terrible leaders. Schumer, Cuomo, Barbot and De Blasio. Ick and yuk.

Dude. Give it up. You fucked up in spectacular fashion. Your decisions led to deaths.

What are you doing? Can't you see doubling down like this is worse and only hurts people more?

Man up and own the fact you sent patients into nursing homes leading to a crisis.

And what is it with all these pleas to emotions? Doug Ford always looks like he's on the brink of crying. Be men for the love of God already.

The politics of emotions is the last refuge of a weak mind.

Then come the use of celebrities pleading people to wear masks. Of course they would. They say things like 'wearing one says I love you and you love me'. And then they say, 'we follow science!'

It's beyond the pale in its incomprehension.

Meanwhile, Dr. Fauci (who seems to getting the hang of things finally) announced that masks are largely symbolic (duh) and that he doesn't believe a second wave is coming.

I tend to agree.

Why?

Because the media is screaming about it. Like how the seas were supposed to sink us all and the polar  bears were all gonna die.

Look. Sure, there may be another wave but I don't it will have this kind of an impact for the simple reason we're better prepared now and will naturally go into 'social distance' mode. People will stay home by choice. Things will slow down and people will take precautions.

Like we do for the flu season but with a more sense of urgency.

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Not a fan of Maher.

At all. He's a loaded question fiend.

But every once in a while he hits one out. He's like a .217 hitter with 16 homers.



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So. I'm watching Pix 11 NY and the amount of commercials thanking first responders and health care workers. After a couple of days of this hero-propaganda wondering who was pushing it, it got me thinking.

Just how bad is it anyway?

How many have died? Are they any more in danger than other workers?

I found this from the BBC. Interestingly, my suspicion was somewhat satisfied with a Scooby-snack, social workers are in fact more in danger.

Granted, this is in the UK but I wonder if this wouldn't be the case here in North America. 

Then I found this study from Alberta.

And Business Insider says dozens have died.

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Over/unders. Under meaning not likely. Keep it simple.

-Vaccines will be mandatory - Under.

-Restaurants will be able to keep up whatever new normal schemes they under take (mostly through government measures): Under.

-Government measures imposed on various industries collapse under sheer weight: Over.

-Digital Id of some kind is introduced - Even.

-Micro-chipping introduced - Under.

-Bill Gates is mauled by a starving Tasmanian Devil on live TV: OVER.

-We open just in time to recover at least half of the self-induced destruction: Even.

-Coronavirus reaction becomes a cautionary tale for posterity: Over.

-Vaccines will be required for international travel: Over.

-Required between USA/Canada: Under.

-New Pandemic Deal works: Under.

-Vaccine comes from China: Even.

-Trudeau sucks a donkey dick on live TV while taking the Chinese vaccine to show it's awesome and lapses into a coma: Over.

- Lockdowns become normal: Under.

-Coronavirus is a bio-weapon: Under.

-China is asshole: Over.

-The unintended consequences of the fall out are massive: Over. Way over.

-Low IQ politicians take responsibility for their actions: Under.

-Deaths due to Covid-19 get adjusted downwards: Over.

- We learn from our mistakes and draw lessons from them: Ha,ha.

-There are positives from the pandemic: Over. Heck, this can be a post onto itself.

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And last but not least.

This gem catching the media (this time MSNBC doing their 'why come no people care for life? comedy act) in their lies.

This guy is awesome.

Let's Play Pin-Spin The Tail On The Narrative Donkey

Of all the mendacious and arrogant leaders on the continent, it can be argued Whitmore, Cuomo and Murphy top the list.

These 'leaders' not only sent sick patients back to nursing homes sealing their fates, they're cynically keeping their states in lockdown largely thanks to their spectacular arrogance.

And Whitmore should take a bow for her incredible hypocrisy. 

They say those of us who worried about the trade-offs wanted 'granny to die'.

Yet, the actions of these leaders actually did lead to deaths.

Cards on the table.

You would think these spectacular failures would do what any normal and sane person would and cut their losses.

Nope.

They choose to cause more misery. They care soooo much it's now malice.

Projecting Our Fears And Cowardice Onto Children

Now we enter Phase 2 of the Great Cowering.

Projecting all fears onto kids.

Despite evidence mounting the virus isn't as lethal as first thought, we now have decided to undertaking preventative measures strapping and crippling all sorts of enterprises and organizations with protocols.

Many will prove costly - both psychologically and financially - while others merely a nuisance with a mix back of results.

That's if we're lucky. To say I'm not impressed with any of this is the understatement of the year.

But what really rattles my bones is we're now piling onto the kids.

The demographic least impacted by the virus. The statistics and pathology are fairly consistent at this point.

So why are we embarking on such a road?

Well, it's hard to say. Part of it is out of concern.

Most of it, though, is out of fear. It's worth noting the vast majority of people taking these decisions are boomers and in the age category in the cross hairs of the virus.

I wouldn't discount this being part of the equation. Boomers are dragging us down one last time.

We really need to take a step back and actually consider the UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES of what we're doing.

We didn't with the lockdowns - despite obvious foreseeable consequences - and we're not doing it here again. It's like a truck careening out of control off the cliff.

I've had to talk to my daughter and explain to her she's being taught a terrible lesson by society.

She's not a hero for hiding in her room and applauding health care workers. The penchant for 'hero worshipping' is evidence of a small mind.

She's not being brave for not getting her hair cut nor is she anything like Anne Frank.

The war analogy is just about the dumbest new trend pimped by illiterate pea brains.

She's not selfish for considering trade-offs when it comes to decision making because humans process this simple calculus every single day of their lives. Life IS a trade-off.

I have to remind her to go out there. Play 'the game' and wear the mask where she's asked to but take it right off as soon as she's out of the storm of ignorance.

There will be a time to actually engage in such things and now is not the time anymore. We missed that damn boat months ago when China lied and our leaders compounded the comedy of errors by playing identity politics.

I'll be damned if I let Tam and Trudeau screw around with my daughter's mind with their incompetence.

I explain to my daughter what's being said by ALL immunologists and doctors and not just the medical bureaucrats.

I explain there is a need to excise caution but what they're asking for is not a way to live and worse they're turning cowardice into a virtue. Learning from home is a discussion worth undertaking but not for these reasons.

As this blog has catalogued and discussed over the years, we were on a suspect intellectual trajectory and the pandemic seems to put a spotlight on how deep this rot runs.

The lack of leadership and contradictory decisions (and downright poor ones) has been appalling and because of the weakness in leadership our kids are in the line of fire.

Reject it.

I implore you to get your senses back. Don't scar your children.

This is not a life.

Go live.

Covid Files: You're Being Manipulated

I remember 9/11 and its aftermath fairly well.

One of the fall outs of it was the Patriot Act. Many thinkers and pundits warned against the dangers of trading liberty for security then and now Americans must deal with all sorts of government abuse against their freedoms (think innocent people going on 'no-fly' lists. Good luck ever getting off such a list).

In doing so, it was said and believed, the terrorists win.

Fast forward almost 20 years and a new 'terror' has come in the form of a serious and mysterious virus. A non-lethal one that preys on old and weak, but a virus we should treat with utmost caution  nonetheless.

By now, if you have been paying close attention and one of the lucky ones to not listen to health officials, you will have noticed a lot of people have bought the 'public health' bit and scare. You will have noticed the goal posts have been moved from a firm and tangible promise of 'not over whelming the system' to 'flattening the curve' to far more vague and intangible ones like 'second waves' and 'reoccurring waves in the fall' and 'saving all lives' to justify not only dragging out reopening places but to possibly soften people up further for things like contact tracing.

Contact tracing is a very concerning and frightening proposition. It's Minority Report for health. It basically will created a massive health bureaucracy with Johns Hopkins at the central and a potential army of 300 000 'tracers' going around harassing people for the 'greater good'. 'Where have you been? Who did you meet? Where are you going? Remember, we know everything and your data is safe with us. Trust us. We're here to help'.

Where the post 9/11 world gave military bureaucrats power, (the FISA courts is another example. How bad are those? Well, through it, bad faith political operatives and corrupt law enforcement almost took down a fairly elected President while ruining lives to get to him. They will abuse their power) post-Covid could hand more power, or all east influence, to medical bureaucrats.

If you go read how CT works, it should or will leave you unnerved. Here, Doug Ford has made noises about this. Alas, there's a petition in B.C. demanding a coronavirus vaccine, once introduced, be made mandatory so I don''t expect much push back there. Do Canadians ever think without the government stuck up their asses?

Will people actually give up their personal rights for safety again?

Judging by what I see and read in the public sphere, it sounds like an unfortunate and utterly deflating yes.

Luckily, the odds of this plan surviving court challenges are remote and would like to think this would be the case in Canada. Imagine selling CT to Manitoba? 'Hey, we know we only have 290 cases total but mind giving us your private medical history to protect your neighbour? You don't want granny to die right?'

I've tried in this blog, and will continue, to bring some round of context and perspective to the threat of Covid.

I implore people to go look at the beginning of what was said and follow the lineage. In that timelines you will see how you're being manipulated at every turn.

Harder to detect is how subtle it is. For example, aside from the changing of the goal post mentioned above (we're still learning about the virus hence give us more time as you sit in fear!), they'll pump up the numbers to frightening levels. In Canada, we were supposed to have seen between 11 000 and 22 000 dead by April (which in of itself is tragic but an existential threat given we know 80% of those figures hit the elderly). We're at 6000 as the numbers drop. The same scenarios we see in all states and provinces. Just to pluck one out, Minnesota was supposed to have seen up to 55 000 deaths by now. Their count stands at 818 as of writing this.

What's going on? How can you not be asking this question by now?

And one could reasonably conclude now that we're familiar with it and know not to, for instance, throw people into nursing homes, the death rate won't be high next time if we just quality and voluntarily exude caution like we do every flu season thought with a little more gusto.

The trick here is to fill you with a scary number because it keeps you in a perpetual 'what if?' scenario (and thus captured by health officials hands) while ensuring politicians come out looking good because the models are that faulty.

Notice how they report on Sweden as though they want it to fail. Why? If anything, you want Sweden to succeed. Either they're that stupid (the media that is) or there's something more nefarious at play.

And heaven forbid we question our 'heroes'. My father in law used to tell me 'always question the doctor. Always. They're not God. There's ONE God." And so we constantly did.

In the process, I learned doctors are not only not infallible but can be a prickly bunch not above breaking critical thinking rules. They can get pretty emotional when challenged. We live in a time the credentialed classes have been given a disproportionate level of respect.

I've been saying for a while now. Stop listening to the medical bureaucrats in order to form policy. They're liking their power too much at the moment. It takes a courageous politician to not let them take control and dictate policy from behind. The politician is elected. Not Fauci or Tam.

Nor are medical bureaucrats, to boot, not without their own agendas as we see with Tam, Fauci and people like Rick Bright or Ezekiel Emmanuel. Just like doomsday climate change fraudsters should be ignored full stop, so should these people.

Do we really know the bios of many of these health ministers and commissioners? NY's health commissioner Oxiris Barbot is cut from the identity politics cloth and got into some hot water with NYPD when she said she didn't give a 'rat's ass' about them (though she has since apologized). Then comes the whacko job fired in Florida by Gov. De Santis.

Dr. Fauci has flipped so many times it's hard to keep track. His most recent flip was what I've been saying all along: His realization the lockdown can't go on forever. I wish he'd be more honest with himself and just say 'I don't know'. It's ok to not know and courageous to admit it.

By not doing so, you unwittingly spread a panic worse than the disease.

There are many world renowned doctors and immunologists who disagree with what's going on only to be silenced by platforms like YouTube or ignored by the legacy press as if they're quacks.

In fact, the quacks are the ones governing us. The mirror is inverted.

If you think people like Cuomo (who recently was interviewed by his brother Chris in a display of idiocy. The man who says he wants to save lives was basically joking about the virus as they tried to pin the mess on Trump like a couple of moronic frat house boys. Even though state governors have most control. This is what's leading people?), Ford, and all these doctors care about YOU, you're not paying close enough attention. I recognize this may be one assertion too far, but I'm teetering on cynicism here.

I've had a few interactions with doctors and know people in the field. I've anecdotally noted (also culling the stories of friends who speak with health practitioners they know) and I must say, we've noticed the doctors have been less than impressive in the way they've reacted to this virus.

All they obsess over is the medical equivalent of how bad it can get. They're cancelling trips. They're pulling out of their stocks. They're panicking in their own peculiar ways. One doctor I know has made sure he reminds us all we're stupid for reopening and that our lack of pant shitting will doom us all. And he's pretty arrogant about it too. Not all are this way. Another doctor friend basically agrees with what's being said in this post. Same with a couple of micro-biologists I know. They're not sure why the political reactions has been what it was.

Seems like everyone went 'OMFG CORONAZILLA ATE ITALY!' and proceeded from there. 'We don't have enough data so we're just going to act like we do and shut it all down and when we do get more reliable data we're still going to pretend it's a threat' seems to be the calculus they can't extricate themselves from.

I'm also conflating two nations here. What may happen in the USA may not necessarily happen here. But 9/11 is a little different than the Wuhan virus as it touched both countries and so it's not a stretch to think it can happen.

A lot of things are happening and none of it good from the perspective of our collective liberties.

We run to protect our collective health bur not our freedom?

What good is this life if you run and cower like this?

Where 9/11 did indeed let the 'terrorists win' we're letting a 'virus win'.

What can you do?

For starters.

Drop the mask. Something as simple as that can liberate you. It sounds a little crazy but if you've been frighted enough to think wearing one in open spaces (I'm doing it to save others because I'm responsible is precisely an example you've been manipulated. Think of it, you're buying the load of irrational crap that healthy asymptomatic - another word I've come to hold in suspicion - people are a danger. If you think this to its logical end, then I guess we need to always wear a mask because aren't we generally asymptomatic of something? Think of the common cold. What will happen then? ) or in you car while wearing bacterial traps like gloves (even though studies are coming out the virus doesn't spread so easily on surfaces as first thought - it lives for up 72 hours!) you need to take a step back and think.

They're arresting hair stylists and gym owners but realizing criminals? We close our borders but allow flights in from China? We allow big corporations to run but shut down small businesses? Stuff like that.

Get back to the basics. Go look at the raw data. See how likely you're to get it and then consider what the odds are you get the worst variant of it. The odds and probabilities are low.

Exercise caution, sure, but don't let it rule you.

The other day we were watching a report on one of those multicultural channels from China and Asia.

Seeing all those people interact on the streets and public spaces in masks was sad to watch.

That's not a life. Imagine living that way never seeing someone's full face?

Who needs burka bans when you have medical masks?

Ask yourself, do you really want to live that way?

I know I don't.

Stop being manipulated.

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The Cuomo brothers. A conversation.

Fredo: 'Yo bro. Why did you send Nonna to the old folks home to get La Rona?'

Sonny: 'Frateh, we all know Trump made the Corona and distributed it so that he could people to drink disinfectant to drive the stock price up!'

'That's why I love you bello. Always keeping it real bro. And I meant that!'

'Well, we're serious people and serious leaders here in Albunny.' 

'Ha! And funny too! No wonder you got this virus on the run!'

"All those shadow boxing games we played when we were kids came in handy!'

'I gotta tell the audience. He always won! And he's winning here. You're a hero. Like all those health care workers.'

'And don't forget Dr. Fauci!'

'Of course, it goes without saying! Our entire house a shrine dedicated to this wonderful, humble, competent non-swamp creature! We gotta run. Thanks for coming on and talking science with us bro!'

'Follow my nose! It always knows!'

"Ha, ha! Love that cereal. We'll be right back with Julia Roberts to discuss the evolutionary dynamics between SARS and Covid-19! You don't want to miss it."

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Maybe we should begin to shame people who act like sheep?

If you wear a mask, you should be laughed at.

Dr. Tam: Do The Right Thing And Resign

You just admitted the borders should have been closed earlier. You didn't because you and the government chose to play politically correct identity politics saying it would be racist to do so.

In fact, this infantile and irresponsible government continued to play this tiresome canard for some time.

Your credibility was compromised the second you went political.

The best thing to do is to resign.

I understand you have a boss that doesn't lead by example as he should do the same along with Hajdu.

Nonetheless, this would be best for the country.

Personally, I don't listen to a second of anything medical bureaucrats have to say to be perfectly honest.

In fact, as soon as this is over, the United States should fire Dr. Fauci.

Someone who goes on the celebrity talk circuit - as he did with Julia Roberts - is passively-aggressively undermining a government and enjoying their 14 minutes of fame a little to much.

Imagine how much of an ill-informed, low IQ, intellectually regressive individual you have to be to call a bureaucrat a hero.

Come to think of it, they should all be fired or resign.

Canada: Stats Eat The Sheep

Cases Today (May 21)

British Columbia (12) – The province added 12 new cases on Thursday, three additional deaths and 19 recoveries.

Alberta (33) -- Alberta adds 33 new active cases of COVID-19, and 4 deaths. 

Saskatchewan (2) -- The province announces two new cases of COVID-19, and 15 recoveries. 

New Brunswick (1) -- Health officials in New Brunswick announce one new case of COVID-19 in the province, after a 14 day streak with no new cases. 

Quebec (720) -- The province announced 720 new active cases of COVID-19, as well as 82 deaths. 

Nova Scotia (1) -- Nova Scotia adds one new active case of COVID-19, along with one death.  

Ontario (413) -- Health officials in Ontario report 413 new cases of COVID-19. The province also adds 31 deaths.

Remind me why we're still acting like there's a threat again? These numbers aren't just low, they're statistically insignificant. 

WHY IS THIS COUNTRY NOT OPEN YET?

The Americans are moving forward. We're still cowering. Come on Canada! Let's show some balls! 

CFL V. NFL: How Two Countries Think

This pandemic is confirming to me just how lame Canada is.

Here's the difference between Canada and the United States in a nutshell:

NFL: We will play.
CFL: We won't play.

As far as I know, the CFL is the only league in the world looking to cancel their season.

And if that's not enough, they also are looking to the government for support!

How much more Canadian can you get?

Here's the skinny.

Canada now has more recovered cases than active cases. If you remove Quebec, Canada's cases amounts to .01% (roughly 40 000 into 38.5 million). Commissioner Ambrose then says even if there's a season, the Grey Cup may not be held in Regina.

The ONE province that supports the CFL unconditionally will lose the chance to host the Cup.

In a province that had, get this, 622 total cases and 109 active cases.

Saskatchewan is actually a province that's opening in phases.

What in the world am I missing here?

Here's what I think.

The CFL is a microcosm of how this country thinks. That is, small and parochial.

It's incapable of taking courageous stances.

The only way the CFL has a future - and I mean one in which it's taken seriously and not have teams play on university fields - is if it hires Americans to take over the operation.

Yup.

Just like Gary Bettman took a rink dink operation like the NHL unable to extricate itself from Canadian lenses and turned it into a viable international enterprise based in New York (along with Toronto. Point is, the big boys came to play), the CFL needs good old fashioned American know-how.

If the CFL is too stupid to play, then let it sink. They chose to make that bed.

I was a big supporter of the CFL over the years but that's waned. Why should I support a league that doesn't take itself seriously. Why do I want to support a league that has the gall to ask for a handout?

The NFL is a league of men.

The CFL of boys.

Either shape up or shut her down already.

You dishonour its legacy.

A while back, promotion for the CFL came with a witty, double-entendre 'We have bigger balls' slogan.

Not anymore you do.

We're Governed By Clowns.

C.L.O.W.N.S.

Clowns.

Bozos.

Our low IQ politicians take to the podium to tell us the border between the USA/Canada are closed but still allow international flights into the country including from China!?

Open the fricken border and shut the frick up you clowns.

Covid-19: The Great Scandal Of Our Times

Coronazilla statistic that should make everyone realize they should RELAX:

World:

Cases per million: 649.
Deaths per million: 42.

Reaction: Lockdown.

Result:

270 million facing starvation according to the UN.
80% of deaths in one demographic and nursing homes.
Job hours lost equals to 300 million jobs.
Last quarter, U.S. GDP contracted 5%.

We spent trillions and ruined millions for...649.

See that 42 deaths per million figure? Ok. 80% of 42 is 33. Therefore, 33 of those 42 are people over 70. That leaves 9 people. Of the 9, we can assume roughly based on reports, another 80% of those had co-morbidities. That means 2 people per million were tragically taken on the planet due to this virus.

Do Canada!

Ok!

Cases per million: 2126
Deaths per million: 160
Population: 37.5 million.

Using the same variable we get 32 people. Let's be kind and go with 50% co-morbidity. That's 16.

But wait! There's more! Read on and get this free Sham-Wow Made in Germany!

Roughly half of all cases come from Quebec! So the rest of Canada it's more like 8 people.

Eight deaths.

Long story shorts, yada, yada, yada, you're non-essential and can't get a haircut.

Now let's look at the trade-offs again. You may not want to but you have to.

All these tie into other problems harder to peg down statistically including rises in suicides and challenges for those afflicted with mental illness, mental health damage to students and children through school closures (and the shut down of camps, parks and sports), domestic violence, alcoholism, bankruptcies and child abuse. Never mind the silent killer of stress. And the trauma inflicted on people's psyche to the point they believe a virus will grab and punch them in the face.

Above all, to me, what we did to the kids is simply outrageous. We've shut down schools, wreaked havoc on their social life, taken the joy out of sports (those that have remained open), and gave them poor lessons on how to confront a social problem. We taught them to over react, hide and pretend they were being heroes for 'saving lives'. We taught them how cures surpass the disease. That a disproportionate response to a problem despite facts is appropriate.

Ironically, we made a demographic least impacted by the virus pay the price for our fears.

It's ultimate act of projection FEARS onto others.

The deliberate ignoring of considering trade-offs meant we undertook decisions that burned the house down to kill a mouse.

Makes you wonder about the quality of people running our governments, no?

Any fucking questions?

We were put under house arrest for 75 days for this. 75 days! I was ok with 30 to some degree; even 45. But the extra 30 was excessive. We have a lot of soul searching to do.

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And don't you dare say, 'we had no choice'. We absolutely did. We bungled so much of this on so many levels our responses only gave the impression we had none but we did. We panicked and over reacted. Simple as that.

If you're still listening to medical bureaucrats and politicians, you really need to sharpen your sense of personal sovereignty and critical thinking.

As I noted from the beginning, as data comes in, governments should be able to adjust their precautionary measures in real time. And yet they're doubling down on not doing this.

Instead, what we're seeing is a collision between the precautionary principle and 'do no harm'.

How medical bureaucrats are so blind to the harm they're causing is actually incomprehensible. 

None of this - none - was rooted in empirical evidence. It was based on faulty models. Furthermore, in a totally arbitrary manner (ie non-essential versus essential; number of people per gatherings). You didn't 'follow science'. You followed orders.

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How close to becoming Venezuela did we come?

Well, maybe that's not the right question but consider this.

We shut down our economies. What that meant, practically (not theoretically), is people were deprived of earning a living. In addition, it hurt tax collecting needed to sustain government.

People who can't work can't earn income in order to live. The government then, perversely, chooses not to pivot quickly recognizing this is wrong instead decides to force productive workers on a welfare scheme created out of thin air.

The government artificially creates dependency and debt while printing money not backed up by the natural creation of wealth through productivity. If you just print for its own sake while reducing value that gives perceived trust into a dollar you're essentially just printing paper - or ghost money.

It looks like it has the usual power of the dollar but in reality it's strength is great reduced. Too many dollars chasing too few goods lead to inflation.

No productivity and people in trouble financially.

Now the government steps in with socialist solutions. What was once a free and productive citizen becomes a slave to the state.

Just like that.

Now you understand why what we did was blindingly stupid? Not convinced? Go look at the numbers up top and then go read carefully how the Soviet Union came into being and the darkness that is Venezuela and Cuba.

People who don't want the CERB (in Canada) are forced into it. This is a good thing that we have citizens who don't want to be a drain on the system choosing instead to work. And what do they get for wanting to do this? Grief from Karens in their Range Rovers who yell about how selfish and irresponsible people who want to earn a living are but themselves face little or no financial pain as they drive to Wal-Mart.

How's that for perverse reality?

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And there are two parties in North American that pimp this: Liberals in Canada and Democrats in the United States.

Notice how all of Canada decided to lockdown. Notice in the USA red states chose to stay open and blue states decided to lockdown. Now notice that already two of those states - Ohio and Wisconsin - their Supreme Courts struck down their lockdowns are being unconstitutional citing they're excessive and unreasonable. That medical bureaucrats overstepped their powers.

It got so bad in some states that in Oregon - Kate Brown I believe is her name- the Governor their bullied a salon owner by not only threatening her with massive fines for defying orders but also - allegedly - sent Child Protective Services to terrorize her. So much for countries or states run by women are more compassionate eh Steven Pinker? In fact, it looks like the most draconian states are run by....women.

I digress.

I don't care what you think or believe in this Covid madness but this is completely out of line and way out of bounds of basic decency. This is an example of government acting with deliberate malicious intent.

In Washington, the governor there is mauling asymptomatic people with mandatory contact tracing. When you think of it, this is Minority Report but for health. If there's one bad outcome, and there are many, of this artificially driven fear, it's the idea that we need to test people even if they're healthy or are asymptomatic of a condition. Are we not all then open for such an assault on privacy rights then?

In Pennsylvania the Governor worries about hair cuts. The Governor of New Jersey says no normalcy until a vaccine is found echoing the PM up here. Maine and New Hampshire shut down despite tiny numbers. California is a mess and New York sent old people to nursing homes to die and everyone proceeded to act like NY was a bellwether for the rest of the country.

All blue.

Those states are basically Canada. Where not a single province (Saskatchewan has under 700 cases and Manitoba under 300; combined under 1000 and yet are timidly reopening. In fact, if you remove Quebec from the equation, one can argue Canada basically over reacted)  had the courage to open despite the data, Florida, Arkansas, South Dakota, Tennessee,Texas, Oklahoma and the most vilified of them all Georgia opened up. They were all expected to become like NY according to the press.

I would have been proud if Canada had ONE province buck the trend and show guts like these states or even Sweden.

Didn't happen. I know. Shocking.

Yes, let's wait and see but no one should be surprised.

They have framed the narrative as if we all live for the health system which is preposterous on its own. We went from not enough test kits to not enough people testing.

Never mind the fines levied and aggression on people for not complying in both Canada and the USA.

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves."
- William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of Great Britain

In the end in the USA, the people have final say. In Canada, it's a little more difficult to launch lawsuits. But it would be interesting if a) Canadians would show more of back bone and protest and launch suits and b) whether the courts would side with the people.

The government here has a long leash under the Quarantine Act. And that's not a good thing. I'd even request we revisit that.

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Quick word on Justin wearing a black mask. No, it was not lost on me he chose black. Black Face, Black Mask. Talk about being tone deaf. But I'm a simple man. I just do the opposite of what this clown does.

But what did you expect of a man I wouldn't even let spark my Weber grill. I'd just tell him to wear his mask - and a helmet so he doesn't injure himself - take a straw and drink his juice.

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I truly hope this doesn't sent a precedence. If we have a tough flu season and if added to this difficulty there's a coronavirus second wave, I would hope governments learned their lessons and avoid a lockdown and choose a much more prudent and surgical approach.

WHO? WHO DOESN'T WANT TO WEAR THE MASK?

Mask bullies.

Idiots. 

Sigh, Some, Sigh, Derp 19

Ouch.

Canada comes up empty handed.

But China was nice enough to remind us to wash our hands.

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Gee, when you annoy the Aussie's that's one thing. But the Japanese?

When do we ever hear a peep from them?

He's all yours Toronto.

The rest of the country made their displeasure clear back in October of 2019. You chose to give this pathetic excuse of a PM another shot.

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Poland and Russia fight over the past.

Yeh. Sorry Roosha, Poland is right.

Stalin's serial killing machine and all that propaganda make it so.

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Quietly, the truth ekes out about the FBI's renegade behaviour during the Russia investigation.


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Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor

Canada's naivete runs so deep it's a marvel it's even a country and not just a hypotethecal.

If Canada behaved this way in another part of the world, it would have been swallowed whole by an enemy. But as luck would have it, we share a border with the most powerful nation in world history and so even just sharing the border with them is enough to keep potential threats at bay. As it turns out, we actually have lots in common and have basically fused out two econonies to the point we're actually just an extended state. But shhhh. NEVER say that.

So the USA let's us go off to play in the yard with the dog.

What this has done has left Canada in perpetually maturity stunted mode.

Canada is the naif wet behind the ears who goes onto the international stage as if it's going to a picnic assuming everyone wants to share a piece of Havarti with them.

It's nice to not position yourself a 'peace keeper' while not isolationist. But the problem with the way Canada does it is that when things go wrong, we have little to no leverage to force our message.

Think of it this way. We tip toe around China because we can't afford a trade war with them. The USA can plus it has a galaxy of military toys to back it up. Canada relies on this defunct and preposterous notion of 'the world needs more of Canada' diplomacy because we have no muscle whatsoever. Our toughness has to ride the coat tails of American might.

Throughout history nations protected their trade routes and merchants. It's nice Canada is part of all these international rgnaziations to help protect it but no one respects a country that can't defend itself.

And this is Canada.

So now that we're at a cross roads with dealing with China, it becomes all too apparent China doesn't care much for Canada and we're pretty much powerless to exert any kind of pressure on them.

Those two guys stuck in China....

Canadians should think twice about

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Always remember, if you're gonna do bad things in the media like fabricate stories or plagiarize, make sure you do it as a progressive that way Hollywood will make a movie out of you given they love to pump out immoral assholes sometimes.

Revisiting the Paula Jones saga.

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This is a major big deal and something tells Canada (represented by Dr. Tam) likely voted with China based on Trudeau's history of being cordial with them.

And for that they should be held accountable but good luck evert getting an answer from this secretive and arrogant bunch.

"China argued against declaring an emergency on 22 January, but could not have carried the argument alone. The other emergency members and advisers were experts from the US, Thailand, Russia, France, South Korea, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Australia, Senegal, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, and New Zealand.

Their advice is confidential, but for the vote to have been split, several western, or western-aligned, representatives must have voted with Beijing."

The article goes easy on Tedros.

I'm not buying.

But it's The Guardian so it's only normal they're gonna cover for a Marxist terrorist. 

Trump is the bad guy here.

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Losing the plot.

Like I said, if guys like the ones mentioned in this article have influence over politicians, we need to realize medical bureaucrats and experts are subjected to the laws of human nature just like the rest of us.

Just because they're doctors doesn't mean they're not infallible. 

These two nitwits show precisely how not to win over skeptical people. I certainly don't like it, as the article notes, they engage in facile logical fallacies to get their points across. 

They're hardly inspiring confidence. They just expect us to bow before them.

This is why we shouldn't be fawning or putting anyone on a pedestal or else you will only fuel already inflated egos.

But this line caught my eye:

"...He is somebody with a messianic complex."

For me, this was an interesting comment coming from a doctor who are known to have in their ranks a few who may possess a 'God-complex. 

The comment comes with a whiff of, dare I say, projection. 

There's a reason why comic books had 'mad scientists' and 'mad doctors' as villains. The line between genius and quack; hero and villain is very fine. It also warned against the 'God-complex' of heroes and villains. This is the whole plot of Scarecrow. Bat-Man's greatest foe. Laugh but it's accurate. 

You'd better pray this isn't another 'temporary income tax' scenario. After 9/11 the U.S. got the Patriot Act which is one civil liberties abuse bureaucracy. We may see an equivalent to this on the medical side.

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Is the EU done and they just don't know it?

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Let me see if I can follow progressive logic.

The (illegal) lockdowns of healthy people are necessary in order to prevent the spread of a virus that isn't as lethal as first thought (surprise) and to which no consensus about its nature exists. In addition, if anything, it was to save lives even though it wasn't the original intent of the lockdown (not over whelming the system and flattening the curve were).

Now that the discovery that antibodies suggest the virus has been around giving some positive hope that maybe we'll come to our senses and actually open up full stop we find that experts and progressives are actually not pleased that the virus isn't an existential threat. Judging from the many tweets I've read, it seems they want Covid to ravage us to....in part, save the environment. 

Turns out climate change scammers are cheering Covid on for lifting smog and cleaning the earth. This was achieved by destroying the economy and putting 44 million North Americans out of work.

So much for the their claim of 'saving lives'. 

The naked inconsistency of their positions not only predictably points to what we've known all along about their lack of principles, but that in fact they're anti-humanist.

In short, they're a death cult. They want Covid to succeed to save earth and in order for this to work people need to be sacrificed.

I could be wrong. I don't speak gibberish.

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DeBlasio is simply a terrible human being.

A man of exceptional low character.

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Same can be said of this Governor Inslee.

Contact tracing?

Yeh. No good.

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Back to De Blasio.

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Yes, that was Rob 'Mr. Emergency' baking a cake on YouTube wearing latex gloves.

Fat, drunk and stupid is not a way to go through life.

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That didn't age well.

Remember when Dr. Tam and Federal models - who is so compromised at this point she's a contaminated. Get it? Virus. Contamination? Whatever - warned that:

"The coronavirus could cost 11,000 to 22,000 Canadian lives over the course of the pandemic — and that’s the best case scenario with the strongest control measures.

If those controls are weak, those deaths could spike to more than 100,000."

So-called responsible leaders shouldn't be doing this. It messes with people's minds. Pushing worst case scenarios to push an agenda is not only unproductive but actually a dereliction of duty. I understand the initial government response was a spectacular failure and they want to make it look like they're now in control and saving lives (they pump up the numbers knowing, to me anyway, it won't go that high in order to tell people their draconian measures worked), but this cynical play will come at a steep cost.

“It is a matter of life and death,” said Tam.

Science for the win! As we know now, no it's not a matter of life and death and 300 000 deaths world wide as we approach June (they made this silly projections in early April) is hardly a statistic we should be destroying our economies for.

But they will run with it. I highly doubt Justin - who is staking his claim to become a hero in finding a vaccine even if it comes from China - will adjust his thinking to a narrative even if the things take a turn for the better. Look for continued 'we must be complacent' language so he can keep people in check until a vaccine comes. He means this quote:

“Normality as it was before will not come back until we get a vaccine for this and as you say, that will be a very long way off,” he said. “For a year, 18 months there will be things we just aren’t able to do.”

I'd be wary of this. When he says 'we' he means YOU.

Wait. Wait until the dust settles on the madness and watch what kind of a mess it will leave in its wake our response. 

Know what's weak? Federal models and officials shamelessly scaring people with fake science. But if the goal was to indeed frighten, congrats jerks, mission accomplished.

Just pay attention now. If there's a second wave (and that assholes in the media are pumping this makes me somewhat optimistic it won't) and we do have a hard fall and winter, don't be surprised if a vaccine comes out. The government will have softened people so much, they're going to see the state as a saviour as they dangle a Made in China medicine.

I understand this is part conjecture and conspiracy but is it that out of the realm of possibility?

Fine. I'll stop.

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Another over-praised creature from the deep bureaucratic lagoon who should be tossed: