“Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? he takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.” Miss Hardcastle (to Mark Studdock). The Space Trilogy: That Hideous Strength. C.S. Lewis (1944).
Canada is the first country in history to ban tax-paying citizens from boarding planes, trains and ferries. Australia, New Zealand and Israel each had travel bans but they were blanket bans applied to all citizens, Thus, Canada is the first - and only - country to single out the unvaccinated. Not just during Covid but in world history.
Quote an achievement on par with the internment of Japanese and Italian Canadians during WWII. Yes, the analogy is appropriate.
How did we get to such an embarrassing low point?
We can blame Justin Trudeau - and that would be accurate - but he’s low-hanging fruit at this point. In fact, he fell off the branch and is just decomposing on the ground now as a friend put it. Rotten fruit.
We have to look elsewhere. Upon scrutiny and some level of thought, the restriction is nothing but cruel and incoherent gibberish.
If a majority of countries are open for travel to all travellers regardless of medical status and have not restricted their citizens from domestic travel, this leaves Canada as an outlier and unwitting control group revealing its futility.
That is if the banning of the unvaccinated keeps people safe, then wouldn’t we be seeing major outbreaks around the world from airports? The truth is, outbreaks from airports were always statistically small just like they were in schools - which Canada zealously closed and continues to consider as an option if you can believe it. (1)
Does Canada know something other countries don't know? Are we biologically different from other countries? Are our genetics unique? If so, the world needs to set up labs in Canada to examine our DNA.
Let’s play out a couple of scenarios.
Jane is unvaccinated. She boards a plane to visit a country that has no vaccination requirements. She comes back to Canada. The belief is if she’s unvaccinated she will spread the virus. The only problem with this argument is, as we should all know by now, that the vaccines are ‘leaky’ non-sterilizing vaccines that do not halt transmission.
We can blame Justin Trudeau - and that would be accurate - but he’s low-hanging fruit at this point. In fact, he fell off the branch and is just decomposing on the ground now as a friend put it. Rotten fruit.
We have to look elsewhere. Upon scrutiny and some level of thought, the restriction is nothing but cruel and incoherent gibberish.
If a majority of countries are open for travel to all travellers regardless of medical status and have not restricted their citizens from domestic travel, this leaves Canada as an outlier and unwitting control group revealing its futility.
That is if the banning of the unvaccinated keeps people safe, then wouldn’t we be seeing major outbreaks around the world from airports? The truth is, outbreaks from airports were always statistically small just like they were in schools - which Canada zealously closed and continues to consider as an option if you can believe it. (1)
Does Canada know something other countries don't know? Are we biologically different from other countries? Are our genetics unique? If so, the world needs to set up labs in Canada to examine our DNA.
Let’s play out a couple of scenarios.
Jane is unvaccinated. She boards a plane to visit a country that has no vaccination requirements. She comes back to Canada. The belief is if she’s unvaccinated she will spread the virus. The only problem with this argument is, as we should all know by now, that the vaccines are ‘leaky’ non-sterilizing vaccines that do not halt transmission.
This is the key part of the entire equation that every single nation on earth now seems to grasp except for Canada. Worse, Canada insists on wanting to believe it's not the case.
Jane is unvaccinated. She boards a plane with vaccinated people. The theory of vaccination is if you’re vaccinated, you’re supposed to be protected. Except, we now know, the vaccines are mediocre against infection. The argument has been spun as “well, if you were vaccinated, then the issue of the vaccine providing limited protection wouldn’t matter, now would it?’ This is the so-called ‘the unvaccinated are incubators’ theory. But this theory meets a cult-de-sac given everyone transmits regardless of vaccination status or viral load. Moreover, the clinical trials were never set up to verify if it saves lives. (2)
Jane is unvaccinated. She boards a plane with vaccinated people. The theory of vaccination is if you’re vaccinated, you’re supposed to be protected. Except, we now know, the vaccines are mediocre against infection. The argument has been spun as “well, if you were vaccinated, then the issue of the vaccine providing limited protection wouldn’t matter, now would it?’ This is the so-called ‘the unvaccinated are incubators’ theory. But this theory meets a cult-de-sac given everyone transmits regardless of vaccination status or viral load. Moreover, the clinical trials were never set up to verify if it saves lives. (2)
Jane is unvaccinated, recovered from infection and has acquired natural immunity. How does she pose danger to a vaccinated individual? (3)
These are just a couple of examples but I ask you to sit and think about what I just wrote because Canadians have shown themselves to be extremely stubborn in not exercising their noggins where critical thinking is concerned.
At this point, before I move on, be wary of the following misleading claim that the mandates are working because no one is getting sick on planes. This belies the fact that outbreaks, as noted and cited, have always been low on all modes of transportation. The vast majority have always been within government (ie hospital and long-term care facilities and nursing homes) institutions, (4)
In other words, it was a non-starter event from the onset and won't achieve any of the objectives it set. It's a little like saying, 'We have a .03% death rate due to knife violence so we're going to ban knives." Sure, you can ban knives, but the law won't have any significant impact on mortality and the trade-off is people will have less access to a useful tool or item while eroding freedom of choice. I think it's fairly safe to assume the travel ban will have no impact on mortality or transmission just like lockdowns and masks.
Either Canada is right or the rest of the world is wrong.
I think it’s plainly and painfully obvious who is a little off their rocker here.
So what, you say?
No, it matters. It matters a lot.
Canada is conditioning people to embrace bad science. The government is signalling superstitious theatrics like masks and travel bans to protect people when in the end they just provide a dangerously false sense of security. Most obtusely, it normalizes the notion the government can attempt to coerce people into medical procedures they would otherwise decline free of duress. They’ve already admitted the travel ban is to force (sorry, "encourage") people into taking the vaccine. There is no ethical framework to justify this dubious tactic. We have to invent one on the fly. A challenge academics have been quick to attempt without much clarity or substance. Their attempts will be poorly judged by history once the fog of confusion, hysteria and fear is lifted I trust.
It's dangerous because it turns us into an anti-science and anti-human society.
The science part I think is clear that it's on their side. Indeed, it makes a mockery of Canadian science.
The human part points to the ‘social cohesion. Or lack thereof given a travel ban is cruel and lacks empathy.
If I need to explain why it's cruel, then I suggest you have bigger problems beyond the scope of this article.
Bad science and cruelty lead to unethical policies that do nothing but divide humans.
Which in turn, erodes human liberty.
The vaccinated who feel they’re entitled to a perk (isn’t the “life-saving” vaccine a reward in itself? Why do people want a Scooby snack for taking a medical procedure that they were ostensibly free to take?) and if this perk comes in the form of medical segregation so be it.
Canadians take freedom - probably more than any in the West - for granted. It’s likely a function, among many factors, of the fact we were given a nation ‘pret-a-porter’ and never had to fight for it. We were given the keys to a brand new shiny Cadillac. Rather than take care of it. We crashed it into a tree and walked away whistling past the graveyard.
We have no social and cultural bonds united by blood, sweat and tears as we see in several nations of the world. So it’s easy for us to sit back and be apathetic. It leaves us vulnerable to abuse of our rights because our muscles needed to guard against tyranny have atrophied.
A more pensive and mature society would have realized and asked: ‘Hang on. If they can do this to people for this, who’s to say it can’t happen to me about something I disagree with in the future? Or. ‘Are we free having to show papers within Canada but not abroad? How does this make any sense?”
How has it come to the point where we even have to write about this? Perhaps intuitively, Canadians know something is wrong. If you’re paying any amount of attention to world affairs, how could you not? The opening quote from C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy gives one possible reason. Educated people are easy to herd. And not the 'uneducated masses' as we hubristically believe.
The ‘lap-top’ class can be riled up into a state of frenzy more than the dregs of society - the so-called deplorables - could ever be. The claim that the uneducated are fearful and pose a threat is a projection on the part of the educated class. The Covid hysteria is wholly a phenomenon borne within the educated ranks. Up is down. Down is up. Science is emotion. Fear is rationalism.
If we can all just step outside of the Covid bubble and begin to ask simple but logical questions - which we have every absolutist right to do - maybe we’d stop being abused and we’d, well, get on with our lives fearlessly and sans exception.
The choice is yours.
These are just a couple of examples but I ask you to sit and think about what I just wrote because Canadians have shown themselves to be extremely stubborn in not exercising their noggins where critical thinking is concerned.
At this point, before I move on, be wary of the following misleading claim that the mandates are working because no one is getting sick on planes. This belies the fact that outbreaks, as noted and cited, have always been low on all modes of transportation. The vast majority have always been within government (ie hospital and long-term care facilities and nursing homes) institutions, (4)
In other words, it was a non-starter event from the onset and won't achieve any of the objectives it set. It's a little like saying, 'We have a .03% death rate due to knife violence so we're going to ban knives." Sure, you can ban knives, but the law won't have any significant impact on mortality and the trade-off is people will have less access to a useful tool or item while eroding freedom of choice. I think it's fairly safe to assume the travel ban will have no impact on mortality or transmission just like lockdowns and masks.
Either Canada is right or the rest of the world is wrong.
I think it’s plainly and painfully obvious who is a little off their rocker here.
So what, you say?
No, it matters. It matters a lot.
Canada is conditioning people to embrace bad science. The government is signalling superstitious theatrics like masks and travel bans to protect people when in the end they just provide a dangerously false sense of security. Most obtusely, it normalizes the notion the government can attempt to coerce people into medical procedures they would otherwise decline free of duress. They’ve already admitted the travel ban is to force (sorry, "encourage") people into taking the vaccine. There is no ethical framework to justify this dubious tactic. We have to invent one on the fly. A challenge academics have been quick to attempt without much clarity or substance. Their attempts will be poorly judged by history once the fog of confusion, hysteria and fear is lifted I trust.
It's dangerous because it turns us into an anti-science and anti-human society.
The science part I think is clear that it's on their side. Indeed, it makes a mockery of Canadian science.
The human part points to the ‘social cohesion. Or lack thereof given a travel ban is cruel and lacks empathy.
If I need to explain why it's cruel, then I suggest you have bigger problems beyond the scope of this article.
Bad science and cruelty lead to unethical policies that do nothing but divide humans.
Which in turn, erodes human liberty.
The vaccinated who feel they’re entitled to a perk (isn’t the “life-saving” vaccine a reward in itself? Why do people want a Scooby snack for taking a medical procedure that they were ostensibly free to take?) and if this perk comes in the form of medical segregation so be it.
Canadians take freedom - probably more than any in the West - for granted. It’s likely a function, among many factors, of the fact we were given a nation ‘pret-a-porter’ and never had to fight for it. We were given the keys to a brand new shiny Cadillac. Rather than take care of it. We crashed it into a tree and walked away whistling past the graveyard.
We have no social and cultural bonds united by blood, sweat and tears as we see in several nations of the world. So it’s easy for us to sit back and be apathetic. It leaves us vulnerable to abuse of our rights because our muscles needed to guard against tyranny have atrophied.
A more pensive and mature society would have realized and asked: ‘Hang on. If they can do this to people for this, who’s to say it can’t happen to me about something I disagree with in the future? Or. ‘Are we free having to show papers within Canada but not abroad? How does this make any sense?”
How has it come to the point where we even have to write about this? Perhaps intuitively, Canadians know something is wrong. If you’re paying any amount of attention to world affairs, how could you not? The opening quote from C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy gives one possible reason. Educated people are easy to herd. And not the 'uneducated masses' as we hubristically believe.
The ‘lap-top’ class can be riled up into a state of frenzy more than the dregs of society - the so-called deplorables - could ever be. The claim that the uneducated are fearful and pose a threat is a projection on the part of the educated class. The Covid hysteria is wholly a phenomenon borne within the educated ranks. Up is down. Down is up. Science is emotion. Fear is rationalism.
If we can all just step outside of the Covid bubble and begin to ask simple but logical questions - which we have every absolutist right to do - maybe we’d stop being abused and we’d, well, get on with our lives fearlessly and sans exception.
The choice is yours.
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