Trudeau proves mandates useless "Idiot with power"

Vincent J. Curtis

31 Jan 22

RE: Trudeau tests positive for COVID-19.  CBC news item 31 Jan 22.

After isolating himself for four days with his infected kid, Trudeau finally managed to test positive for COVID despite being double vaxxed and boosted.  That means he gets to stay in hiding.

By getting infected, Trudeau just proved that vaxxing and boosting don’t prevent getting infected (the previous point of vaccinations), and by isolating Trudeau shows in practice that he believes that being vaxxed and boosted doesn’t prevent him from infecting others.  In short, Trudeau is proving that vaccines are useless to prevent the spread, and it is these useless vaccines that he is mandating on truckers - to prevent the spread!

This is irrational.  Intelligent people resent being mandated by irrational idiots with power.  This master of the science is proving he is master of nothing.

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Trudeau, truckers, and science

Vincent J. Curtis

28 Jan 22 

Just before he began isolating himself, Prime Minister Trudeau declared that the truckers held ‘unacceptable views” and that he understood the science.  Trudeau is the guy who, despite being vaxxed, boosted, wearing a mask and testing negative, is isolating himself after exposure to his asymptomatic kid.  As science, that’s irrational; as politics it’s yellow.

It is now widely acknowledge that the vaccination does not prevent infection and does not prevent a vaccinated and infected person from spreading the virus.  Even boosted people famously suffer breakthrough infections, like Trudeau is hoping he has.  The only benefit now alleged for getting vaccinated and boosted is that infections are mild, and hospitalization less likely.  This vaccine in which Trudeau himself shows no faith is what he mandates on truckers.

Unvaxxed truckers entering Canada are expected to quarantine for fourteen days, while vaxxed and boosted truckers can sail on through.  But why?  The vaccines only limit the severity of the illness, they don’t prevent infection or spread.  So, to protect the Canadian public from truckers bring in and spreading the virus in Canada, both vaxxed and unvaxxed should be isolated because being vaxxed and boosted says nothing about one’s infection status and ability to pass on the infection.  Mandating a rapid test for all might make sense, but not mandating vaccination.  This is basic, rational reasoning.  And if a trucker entering Canada tests negative for the virus, regardless of whether he is vaxxed or unvaxxed – he’s not infected and therefore can’t transmit the infection.  An uninfected trucker has no virus to spread.  That too is basic rational reasoning.

If you want to argue about reduced likelihood of hospitalization, that has nothing to do with mandating vaccination of truckers because the mandate is about preventing importation, not hospitalization.  Besides, most truckers are under 60 years old, don’t suffer from multiple co-morbidities, and hence are unlikely to require hospitalization even if infected.

And let’s look at a trucker’s working conditions.  He’s alone in his cab for up to twelve hours a day, and will sleep in the bunk behind his cab.  When he drops off his trailer and picks up another, he interacts with few people, usually in wide open spaces.  The only places he might contact people in close quarters are in the customs offices – with other truckers – and in truck stop restaurants – with other truckers.  The opportunity for catching and transmitting the virus are limited.  It would be hard to come up with data that shows that truckers are a significant cause of importation and spread.  Truckers didn’t import and spread the Omicron variant.

The mandate, therefore, is irrational and cannot possibly be based on science.  There’s no data to support mandating that truckers be vaxxed or face quarantine.  There’s no rationality to support vaccination to prevent the spread, because, as we’ve observed and as Trudeau himself professes by his actions, the vaccines do not induce herd immunity and they lack endurance.  There being no rational or scientific basis for mandating vaccination of truckers, the only reason for mandates is the irrational demand that they conform to an ideological opinion as others have conformed.  Trudeau’s fear is that if they aren’t mandated his political weapon and control will be lost.

Prime Minister Trudeau found work in politics because he wasn’t good at teaching drama.  His claim of understanding the science better than others is sheer, self-flattering hooey.

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Colour Trudeau Yellow

Vincent J. Curtis

28 Jan 22

Thursday last, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showed his true colours to the world: yellow.  Faced with tens of thousands of muscular truckers petitioning for redress of grievance, the slender Mr. Trudeau came down with a case of the vapours and will be indisposed for as long as the truckers are around.

Doubled vaxxed, boosted, and wearing a mask, Mr. Trudeau alleges he encountered a COVID positive person and, despite testing negative himself, is doing the responsible thing by entering quarantine.  No word on who the COVID positive person was, but they must have been asymptomatic because a sneezing, coughing sniffling person gets nowhere near the PM.

Meanwhile, the Dauphin’s picadors, the media, are all agog about ‘extremists’ in the truckers’ midst.  No word on what that extremism amount to, but one is left with the impression that the extremist views in question form the heart of the protest: that vaccines shouldn’t be mandated.  There’s no proof of efficacy, that mandates stop the spread.  Truckers weren’t responsible for the spread of Omicron, and we have a year’s worth of experience to show that vaccination status of truckers, as they carry goods to market, matters nothing in the spread.  Mandating vaccines now, as Omicron begins to wane, seems more like enforcing social conformity based on ideology, not science.

The effete drama teacher in his breathiest voice claims that the truckers have ‘unacceptable views’ in the Canadian democracy and don’t represent the views of Canadians.  Meanwhile, he, the Dauphin, understands true science.  Hence, the truckers must be cancelled.

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole does plan to meet the truckers to hear their grievances and speak to them, and the media picadors are seeing to it that he’s cancelled too.  Cancel, cancel, cancel!  It used to be that the evil attached to the views, not the person, but no longer in Canadian democracy.  Only acceptable views can be accommodated.  No grievances from those with unacceptable views will be heard, never mind redressed on the merits.

In mandating vaccines, the governing powers became possessed of a madness.  If vaccines are good, enough people will get them.  But vaccination became political, and so now political means will be employed to enforce taking them, regardless of facts, data, and science.  Actual immune status from recovery is of absolutely no account, and Omicron is wildly contagious and extremely mild.

Colour Trudeau yellow.  Let his media picadors discredit the truckers’ rally.  But Trudeau’s real colour won’t be forgotten.

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Trudeau shows no faith in vaccines, masks

Vincent J. Curtis

27 Jan 22

Just the other day, Dr. Anthony Fauci announced the withdrawal of the first generation of monoclonal antibodies as a therapeutic against the Omicron variant.  Fauci said that these first generation products were developed against the alpha variant and were not effective against Omicron.  However, the mRNA vaccines were also developed against the alpha variant and, by the same reasoning, ought to have been withdrawn as well.  They weren’t, and Fauci didn’t say why.  Too embarrassing, I guess, to leave the Biden Administration without approved vaccines as Biden seeks to mandate vaccination.  Hence the madcap vaxxing and boosting campaign continues - in spite of rising evidence of a boomerang effect of using them.

The mRNA vaccines of Pfizer and Moderna wouldn’t be approved if brought to the market today against the Omicron variant for lack of efficacy.  They’ve already been proven to lack endurance, with Israel already giving a second booster shot, i.e. a fourth dose, against unprecedented hospitalization of Omicron cases there.  The vaccines don’t prevent infection, don’t prevent the spread of the infection, and didn’t induce herd immunity. Against Omicron, booster shots seem to produce barely thirty days of addition protection.

A boomerang effect occurs when an immune system, boosted against alpha, responds to an Omicron infection with anti-bodies against alpha.  You get all the complications of heightened immune response without the benefit of destroying the infection.  This could explain why boosters are proving ineffective, and may be producing more severe hospitalizations despite the fact that Omicron is less severe to the unvaxxed than alpha and delta are.

Today, Prime Minister Trudeau demonstrated complete lack of faith in his own policies of vaxxing, boosting, mask wearing, and testing.  He encountered an asymptomatic COVID carrier and is now isolating, despite testing negative.  We don’t know for certain how long he’s self-quarantining, it's allegedly for five days (it may depend on the truckers!).  But if vaxxing, boosting, and mask wearing were worth anything, what’s to fear an exposure to the least dangerous of COVId carriers – an asymptomatic one?

Maybe it’s the encounter with the truckers that gives rise to this example of yellow-bellied cowardice, or of responsible citizenship, as you prefer.

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Spec blows major scoop

Vincent J. Curtis

26 Jan 22

RE: Province failing its duty to protect.  Op-ed by Patty Coates, President of the Ontario Federation of Labour

I posted an article on this blog on 2 Aug 2020, entitled “The futility of masking.”  It reported the same thing that the column of today (at reference) reports.  In particular, that the virus is transported as like an airborne dust, and that N95 masks are the minimum protection against that size of airborne pathogen.  Cloth and surgical masks will only give a false sense of security.  The Spectator was sent a copy of that blog entry.  But in the interests of the narrative of the day and preventing the dissemination of “misinformation” the Spec suppressed the piece.  The Spectator could have had the truth out there in black and white 18 months ago.  Something Ontario’s benighted “experts” might have had to confront.  But no.

You know why Labour people know about N95s, ventilation, and other measures of protection?  Because protection against dust is a big problem in Industrial Hygiene – keeping workers safe in the workplace while exposed to high levels of dust.  Just like the virus is transported – as a fine particle in air.  That’s how I knew about them!

That the virus was transmitted as a dust was so obvious that only a medical expert couldn’t see it.  The pandemic wasn’t persisting and spreading because people were sneezing on each other!  So, what else could it be but that expelled viruses persisted in the air for long periods of time?  As a 2^nd year chemistry student can tell you, the vapour pressure over a sharply curved surface is very high, meaning the force for liquid in the tiny droplet to pass into the vapour phase is very strong.  Any liquid surrounding the virus would quickly evaporate.  You can observe this phenomenon in cold air when the moisture in your breath condenses into fog.  That fog just as quickly disappears because the water droplets evaporate nearly instantly once they move into dry enough air. Sharply curved water droplets in air don’t persist as flat surfaced water puddles or patches of ice persist.

This is basic, 2^nd year thermodynamics, and if the quote of him in the article is accurate, Dr. Moore never took thermodynamics in school, and neither did any of his colleagues.  So, what are their credentials really worth when they missed the course that would have given them the answer right away?  By August, 2020, the persistence of the pandemic in the face of all the measures to prevent its spread pointed to something important: that they had got wrong how it was spreading and at what the actual mechanism must be, i.e. as if it were a dry dust.

But the credentialed experts were too proud to admit they were completely at sea, and didn’t call in experts who might have been able to help: industrial hygienists and people generally who dealt with issues similar to this in the workplace.  They had to pretend to know, when they didn’t know and ought to have known that they didn’t.

It was known in April 2020 that lockdowns were more harmful than COVID itself on public health generally- as well as useless in the face of something so contagious, but the benighted experts continued to advise lockdowns anyway.   Even after the data from wave 2 showed that lockdowns promoted the spread for the first 3 weeks!  They locked down outdoors activities and parks in wave 1!  Have you heard any mea culpas yet from any of the experts who first ordered it?  No!  Because it might undermine their aura of expertise!

A long time ago the Spectator could have had the story, but they didn’t listen.  The Spec had a major scoop on its hands, and the editors let it slip through their fingers.

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The government needs more power to fight hate!

Vincent J. Curtis

25 Jan 22 

RE: More tools needed to fight hate.  Editorial The Hamilton Spectator 25 Jan 22.

As the Spectator continues to promote the global warming hypothesis with pictures of enormous piles of unshovelled snow and reports of -21℃ temperatures, it turns to another favorite topic: hate.  Hate is bad.  Hate is to be condemned.  Government needs more powers to combat hate.

Even as the Spectator promotes a hate the unvaxxed campaign!  The unaxxed are racists and misogynists, says the Prime Minister.  The unvaxxed should be denied health care, even for appendicitis or a broken wrist.  The unvaxxed should be confined to the homes and denied opportunity to shop for food.  In fact, the unvaxxed should be taken to special camps.  It doesn’t matter if the unvaxxed are recovered from a COVID infection, or not, or how young and healthy they are.  Forget about our prior beliefs of medical ethics concerning forced medical procedures.  This emergency is just too damned important to follow the rule of law, or even laws of basic decency!

Hate is further promoted in the panic-porn campaign over COVID.  The average age of death is 80, and generally is of frail people with 4, 6 or more co-morbidities, but the age risk of COVID usually goes ignored.  Everyone isn’t at risk.  Seasonal influenza is more dangerous to those under 40 than COVID is, but these facts don’t matter.  Gotta keep the scare in people.  And keeping up a hate campaign against the unvaxxed and anti-mandate types is one way of doing it.

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Analysis of a Land Acknowledgement

Vincent J. Curtis

24 Jan 22

The text of the land acknowledgement runs as follows;

“As members and guests of [name of parish], we acknowledge that the lands we live, work and meet on are the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron, Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississauga. This land is covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, which was an agreement between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek to share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. We further acknowledge that this land is covered by the Between the Lakes Purchase, 1792, between the Crown and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. As settlers it is our responsibility to learn about and acknowledge our colonial history and the ways in which we continue to perpetuate it. As people of faith working for justice, we are called to discern how we are to respond to the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission”

This land acknowledgement is intended to be recited in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, before an exclusively non-aboriginal audience, of members of a club to each other.

Analysis:  Hamilton was never Haudenosaunee (i.e Mohawk, Iroquois) territory.  The Iroquois lived in New York State and only passed through Hamilton to slaughter the Erie, Neutral, Wendat, and Huron.  The last slaughter, as Hamilton’s Roman Catholics know, occurred in 1648, that wiped out the Hurons and produced the Canadian Martyrs, such as Fr. Jean de Brebeuf.  Afterwards, the Iroquois withdrew back to New York.

The Mississaugas, a few thousand strong, moved into the area of Ontario south and west of a line from the eastern end of Lake Ontario to the southern part of Georgian Bay - after the area had been conveniently cleared of Hurons by the Iroquois!  There never have been Indian settlements excavated in the lower city of Hamilton.

It is noteworthy that, in terms of land possession, the period between 1650 and 1792 is but 142 years.  Between 1792 and 2022 lie 230 years.  Hamilton has been in the possession of the Crown for almost a century longer than the Mississaugas possessed it.

The Dish with One Spoon treaty is an oral tradition binding on its signatories (so to speak), and we aren’t one of them.  The Peace of Paris of 1763 also covers this area, and is the treaty (in black and white) relevant to us because it put the Hamilton area under the British Crown and took it away from the French monarchy.  We don’t expect the Peace of Paris to concern the Indians, so why should we be concerned about an oral tradition among Indians?  (It is noteworthy that the Dish with One Spoon treaty is between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek, because they had annihilated all the others.)

The Between the Lakes Purchase, as the name says, indicates that the British Crown bought the land in question.  That means the Mississaugas ceded it.  That’s what a purchase agreement means, the transfer of real property in exchange for money.  It became ours.  And 230 years on it’s still ours.

It simply makes no sense to say that because we bought parcels of land from Indians, that “it is our responsibility to learn about and acknowledge our colonial history and the ways in which we continue to perpetuate it.”  ‘We’ didn’t colonize.  The Crown bought the land.  In what way are we today perpetuating colonization, notwithstanding that the Crown legally purchased the land we’re on and never colonized in the first place?  We’re not squatting on Indian land!  Depending on how you count, I’m the sixth generation to have lived in Hamilton.  I’m six generations removed from being a ‘settler.’  I’m not perpetuating colonization.  How long does it take to be a native of Hamilton?

‘We’ aren’t squatting on Indian land.  We bought this legally from the Mississaugas, the Indians in actual possession of the land when British authorities arrived here.  Settling on your own land isn’t colonizing.  We can’t be perpetuating an injustice when no injustice was ever committed in the first place!

As people of faith, it is our moral responsibility not to tell lies, to bear false witness against our neighbours, and it is false witness against our neighbours to accuse them of committing an injustice by living their lives in Hamilton, and to accuse them of ‘perpetuating’ the injustice of colonization.

 I’m sorry, United Empire Loyalists were pouring into British North America after the American Revolution, and British authorities bought land from the Indians so the UEs could have a legitimate place to settle.  Immigrants to Hamilton from the 1830s arrived at a place already well settled by people of British or American extraction, and those of us who are their descendants didn’t have a say in where we were born.  I simply can’t see how my mere existence here constitutes an injustice against people who don’t live here, and never have.

Conclusion:  There is no factual or rational basis to conclude that white people need to feel guilty about squatting on unceded, Indian land.  The land was ceded.  It’s been in possession of the Crown for longer than it was in possession of the Indians it was bought from.  Since this recitation of sackcloth and ashes isn’t expected to be made before an audience of aboriginals, what is the point of it except to lay a guilt-trip on people who never committed an injustice and aren’t the descendants of people who committed an injustice?

This is nothing but a weird guilt-trip that’s expected to soften up the reciters psychologically for conclusions altogether too obvious, such as, why aren’t you giving it back?  (But you can ease your conscience with a few million dollars!)

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Shameless promotion of global warming

Vincent J. Curtis

24 Jan 22. 

RE: It’s time to embrace equitable, low-carbon lifestyles.  Op-ed by Stephen Huddart, who is a founding member of the transition innovation group hosted by community foundations of Canada.  The Hamilton Spectator, 24, Jan 22.

The Spectator has been absolutely shameless of late in its promotion of the hypothesis of global warming.  It’s been running pictures of enormous piles of snow, of people with masks caked with ice, and reports of wind chill hitting -35℃.  No doubt about it, this planet’s going be cooked in eight years!

The latest piece of silliness is the article encouraging us that, in spite of the failure that is COP26, we Canadians need to embrace “equitable and low-carbon lifestyles.”  We need heed this urgent call to action!!  The writer never says what makes his recommendations “equitable,” however.

The author is like a radio: all transmission, no reception, and the programming never changes.  Ignore the failure of COP26, we have to do this anyway!  Out comes the parade of horribles: three degrees! Future generations!  Planetary limits!  It’s all because of you and your fat lifestyles!  Eat less meat! Eat more locally grown (and preferably organic) vegetables! Consume less dairy!  Don’t travel! Shop less!  You’ve got to send these important signals to policy makers!

The writer goes totally fact-free when he says that “a surprising and unexpected result of COVID-19 lockdowns was a steep, temporary decline in carbon emissions.”  Experts say that CO2 emissions didn’t drop, surprisingly despite the lockdowns; and if the lockdowns persisted, why was the decline only temporary?

The climate crazies are certifiably loonie-tunes.  They don’t adapt their opinions in response to new facts.  And there’s nothing equitable about remaining ignorant.

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Ford lied through his teeth

Vincent J. Curtis

21 Jan 22.

RE: Ontario easing restrictions.  By Nathan Denette of the Canadian Press.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 21 Jan 22.

Premier Doug Ford put on his gravest face, looked into the camera, and lied through his teeth.  He lied to protect his political skin and the reputations of the medical professionals who have badly advised him.

Ford said, “The data was clear, we needed to act.  Today, we know it was the right decision…Additional measures were one more tool to blunt the spread of Omicron and protect our hospitals.  The evidence tells us that these measures are working.”

One problem, the measures were imposed on January 3^rd, the daily cases had already peaked at 18,500 and dropped to 11,400 on January 4^th.  Daily cases were already in steep decline, but actually rose slightly through January 9^th - after ‘additional measures’ were imposed!

The science is that lockdowns don’t prevent the spread.  That’s been known since April, 2020, and verified in a landmark study from Stanford University Medical Center published in January, 2021.  Ontario’s own data supports this conclusion.

Omicron is wildly more contagious than delta, so what made them think that ‘measures’ that failed before were going to work with Omicron?  The lockdown measures of January 3^rd were an exercise in mass psychology and expectation management, not preventive medicine.

Two years into a pandemic “emergency,” Ontario hospitals still get surprised and overwhelmed by a fifth wave.  That speaks more to healthcare management than to the emergency.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!

What you also aren’t hearing is the sheer folly of the get ‘em boosted campaign.  Doctors in South Africa report that boosters don’t work against Omicron, and Israeli doctors report that a fourth booster doesn’t produce enough antibodies to fight off Omicron.  We can see this already in all the famous people vaxxed and boosted who come down with a breakthrough Omicron infection.

There’s no use arguing that getting vaxxed and boosted reduces the severity of the infection.  Vaccination was supposed to induce herd immunity to prevent the spread, and it hasn’t.  If the aim is to protect the hospitals, then a much smaller and less intrusive approach was to follow a therapeutic strategy, wherein those in imminent need of hospitalization could get monoclonal antibodies and an anti-viral drug like Remdesivir to deal with an actual case.  (At its current rate of spread, COVID-19 will require nearly 30 years to infect everyone alive today in Ontario.)

The 'vax at all costs' strategy was irrational and misconceived from the start, and continuing it, now that we know vaccines aren’t working, is insanity – or worse, a complete failure of imagination.

Ford lied multiple times.  First, to say that “actions were required,” “The evidence is clear that they worked,” “that is was the right decision”, and “were a tool to blunt the spread of Omicron.”  All in pursuit of a ridiculous program to get people boosted against Omicron.  A lie by omission was that time was needed to get "needles into arms," well that sure didn't cause the wave to peak!

Luckily, Omicron is milder in its effects than previous strains, meaning this could signal the end of the pandemic.  Vaxxed, boosted, or not, Omicron is going to induce natural immunity into the community, and that’s what’s going to reduce the spread.

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Therapeutic shortage? How can this be?

Vincent J. Curtis

20 Jan 22

RE: Hamilton hospitals out of key COVID drug.  The Hamilton Spectator 20 Jan 22.

How could it be that Hamilton hospitals are out of drugs to treat COVID-19?  Hasn’t enough pressure been brought to bear through the media to prioritize everything COVID?

Apparently not.  The media focussed on test kits and vaccines.  Joe Biden just announced that he ordered 1 billion more rapid test kits.  Do you realized how much cardboard and plastic it takes to make a billion?  A billion cardboard boxes and a billion plastic vials?  And you wonder why there are supply chain disruptions!  The test kits will be wasted testing perfectly healthy kids for the most part.  Meanwhile, the vials and shipping boxes for therapeutics aren’t available!

Then there’s the ‘boost everybody’ campaign, when it isn’t eclipsed by the ‘ship the unvaccinated to the ovens’ campaign.  You’ll never see in Canadian media that South African and Israeli doctors report that boosters are ineffective against Omicron.

What the brain-dead MSM hasn’t covered, until now, are therapeutics.  Why?  First, because Trump advocated for them beginning in the spring of 2020, and if Trump is pushing it, there must be something wrong with it.  Vaccines didn’t become okay until after Biden was inaugurated.

Remdesivir was approved in July, 2020, but you never hear about it.  Trump was treated with it and monoclonal antibodies when he caught COVID.  Ivermectin continues to show some efficacy, but it got condemned and never got serious clinical trials because it was advocated when Trump was still president.  Hydroxychloroquine?  Forget about it! Aren’t these “off-label?”  They all are!  That’s why they’re approved and available in abundance now.  Their therapeutic use on COVID is all serendipity, but that’s how it often works in medicine.  Look at the new value being discovered for aspirin more than a hundred years after its invention.  Condemning a drug out of hand for COVID because it’s off-label is possibly politically motivated if it isn’t profit motivated.  (See Merck and Ivermectin versus molnupiravir!)

Monoclonal antibodies became available in September, 2020, but only now do you hear about them.  Trump talked of the incessantly on the campaign after his bout with and rapid recovery from COVID.  But if Trump advocated it, then there must be something wrong.  And that was that.

Because the MSM suppressed alternative voices on the claim of “misinformation!” and “if we’re going to panic people, we can’t confuse them with dissenting voices!”  Quite aside from sheer incompetence and laziness of the MSM editors.  Look at the case of Dr. Scott Atlas, MD, after he began advising Trump and started embarrassing Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx.  Atlas was relentlessly vilified in the media, because he worked for Trump’s best interests, which turned out to be in the interests of the American people.

Because the MSM didn’t hold politicians feet to the fire on therapeutics, they went with what was popular, not with what worked.  Politicians are no smarter than the reporters who cover them.  Look and Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau for heaven’s sakes!  Do they look like genius material?  How is the incompetent Theresa Tam still employed, unless it’s as a diversity hire?

Take a bow, Spec!  You suppressed alternative voices with the best of them!

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Hamilton’s precarious hospitals

Vincent J. Curtis

19 Jan 22

RE: Hospitals in ‘precarious’ state as COVID surges.  The Hamilton Spectator 19 Jan 22.

The evidence for global warming lies everywhere in abundance in Hamilton.  It’s as plain as the COVID-19 panic porn on the front page of the Spectator.  Hospitals in ‘precarious’ state!  COVID surges!  Be afraid!  Be very afraid!

Actually, COVID-19 isn’t surging, it’s declining fast.  The Ontario daily case rate has plunged to a third of what it was at peak insanity at Christmas.  Total active cases are likewise plunging, to less than half of what they were at the peak.  Hospitalizations lag cases by a little over a week, and while at a high today, hospitalizations will begin plunging within the next few days.

The details of the precarious state of Hamilton’s hospitals are helpfully given – on page 2.  There are 308 patients with hospitalized with COVID, including 42 in ICU.  This is out of a city of 538,000 people.  But it is because of this tiny alleged choke point of 42 people occupying all the available ICU beds that businesses have to be shut down to ‘prevent the spread’ and boosters administered at a furious pace because the original two-dose vaccination proved worthless.  The situation is made worse because over 1,000 hospital staff are off self-isolating due to COVID.

308 patients, and 1032 hospital staff.  How many staff does it take to treat a COVID patient?  Or screw in a lightbulb?

A crisis in hospital management –which is what this is- should not result in the destruction of other people’s lives, businesses, and schooling.  (Isn’t there a saying, “failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part?”  When did the public health professionals get this power?)

This is going to be over by the end of January.  But when will the panic porn cease?

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Firing the unvaxxed nurses

Vincent J. Curtis

18 Jan 22

RE: 1,000 hospital staff isolating: patient transfers double.  The Hamilton Spectator 18 Jan 22.

As Hamilton digs out from an avalanche of evidence for global warming, amused minds turn to other matters of cosmic justice.

The Spectator reports 1.032 vaxxed and boosted hospital staff are isolating from having caught COVID-19, while perfectly healthy unvaxxed nurses and other staff are being fired – for being unvaxxed.

Back in October, the belief was that the fully vaxxed couldn’t transmit the infection to other people, and now we know that’s wrong.  Nevertheless, the justification for firing unvaxxed people having been exploded, the sacred policy of vax or die remains in force.

A tiny bit of sanity from the Ontario Nurses Association that “we don’t support the terminating of nurses when we need them most” flies over the heads of those running the health care system, who can’t think critically.  Meanwhile, Quebec is sending infected workers to treat COVID patients, so desperate are they for staff.

We get a song and dance from the farcically named “science table” about so many hospitalization per million vaxxed versus unvaxxed.  The table is talking about categories, not flesh and blood people.  If an unvaxxed nurse is fit for duty, why can’t she work?  Because of some theoretical possibility?  Are we that short of rapid test kits?  Her supervisors show less intelligence than a computer algorithm.

People who let their health care system be run by brain-dead ideologues who couldn’t reason their way out of a paper bag deserve to suffer neglected on a gurney in a hospital corridor.

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Tax the unvaxxed?

Vincent J. Curtis

17 Jan 22

As southern Ontario deals with accumulating evidence of the global warming hypothesis, an amused mind turns to other matters of cosmic justice.

Punishing the unpopular is always popular – totalitarians do it all the time.  The unpopular always get what they deserve, regardless of the justice of it, because they’re unpopular, right?  Unpopular opinions are why countries like Canada have free speech rights (as popular speech needs no legal protection), but since the coronavirus panic, Charters of Rights have gone by the boards, even in Canadian courtrooms.  Under totalitarians, law is meant to oppress, not protect anyone but the totalitarian.

The latest proposed punishment for the unpopular unvaxxed class is to levy a special tax on them for the alleged extra burden they place upon the provincial health care system.  Ontario has excellent tracking data, and so it is useful to use Ontario as the testbed for the justice of such a punitive measure.

Since the beginning of the pandemic two years ago, Ontario has recorded almost 960,000 cases.  With a population of 14.8 million, that means it will take thirty years to infect everyone alive in Ontario today.  COVID-19 is not the Black Death.  Of those in hospital but not in ICU, 2245 are vaccinated, and 739 are unvaxxed; while in ICU, 213 are fully or partially vaccinated, and 195 are unvaxxed.  Since, 85 percent of Ontarians are fully vaxxed and another 5 are partially vaxxed, these numbers mean that the unvaxxed are over-represented relatively to the vaxxed, though fewer absolutely.  As of Jan 17, 2022, Ontario has 2343 ICU beds in total, of which 1279 are used by non-COVID cases, 569 by COVID cases, and 555 remain available.  Ontario data does not make clear whether a person is hospitalized with COVID or because of COVID.  If you’re in hospital for appendicitis and catch COVID while in hospital, you could be recorded as a ‘COVID hospitalization.’

The vaccination rate also means that 1.5 million Ontarians are unvaxxed and available to be taxed for their alleged overuse of the health care system.  Out of 1.5 million, 0.05 percent are presently in hospital, and 0.013 percent are in ICU.  This is “overuse.”  A special tax is to be levied on people for their alleged overuse of the hospital system – 99.9+ percent of whom didn’t use the hospital at all.  Now that’s justice, isn’t it?

Breaking down the numbers further, the unvaxxed are largely those who, by youth and good health, aren’t going to need hospitalization even if they become infected.

Quebec does not appear to report officially the numbers of vaxxed and unvaxxed in hospital and ICU due to COVID-19.  This means that the Quebec government has drunk deeply of the Anthony Fauci Kool-Aid, and is going strictly on feelings without hard data to back these feelings.  But punishing the unpopular feels right, so regardless of the justice, Quebec Premier François Legault wants to tax the unvaxxed anyway!  It’s a great way to distract attention from the many failures of governments like his, that failed to plan for pandemic waves, that seems to say that vaccines don’t work while pushing booster shots, that won’t admit lockdowns and curfews didn’t work, and neither did mask mandates and vaccine passports, and can’t bring themselves to admit that a recovery from COVID is better than a vaccination.  This speaks to the quality of the medical advice politicians have been following slavishly.

A lot of Quebeckers vacation in Florida.  If Quebeckers figure this out, and compare Quebec’s response to Florida’s, there’ll be political hell to pay.

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Therapeutics: Can Ivermectin be far behind?

Vincent J. Curtis

16 Jan 22

The Spectator had a few horse laughs at the expense of Albertans for some of them taking Ivermectin against COVID-19.  “It’s a horse dewormer!” they cried.  “Cowboys are taking horse dewormer to ward off COVID!  How stupid is that?”

Ivermectin fell under the “not invented here” ban.  Because U.S. officialdom didn’t think of using Ivermectin as a therapeutic against COVID-19, its use had to be condemned.  The fact the Ivermectin costs pennies to make, and its maker, Merck, had a $720 per treatment anti-viral pill in the offing (Mulnupiravir) had nothing to do with the condemnation of Ivermectin by U.S. officials, we’re told and expected to believe.

Well, Ivermectin is also used on humans, which is why human sized doses of the drug were available at the local pharmacy.  Ivermectin was the subject of a slew of patents in 2015 for its property of reducing swelling and inflammation, conditions that exacerbate the COVID-19 infection, and occur when the auto-immune systems is driven into hyperdrive.

Now the WHO is “strongly recommending” a drug called Baricitinib for people with severe or critical COVID-19 for use with cortico-steroids.  Baricitinib suppresses the overstimulation of the immune system, with consequences similar to the anti-swelling effect of Ivermectin.

There may be enough institutional bias (and personal reputations at stake) against Ivermectin that new and expensive drugs will be recommended over older, proven inexpensive drugs.  But the latest announcement from the WHO proves the cowboys were on to something.  If you keep the swelling under control, a COVID infection may not turn into a crisis.

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Peak insanity?

Vincent J. Curtis

14 Jan 22

Hatred for the unvaxxed may have hit peak insanity with the announcement by Quebec Premier François Legault of a “significant” tax on the unvaccinated.  Never mind that this tax won’t be collected until 2023, the laws that have to be broken to collect it are numerous.  Privacy Acts must be violated to transfer private health information to the tax department.  Then there are all the human rights codes puffing about equal treatment.  And then there’s the problem of taxing someone who was never hospitalized.

Underlying this is that the vaccines aren’t working.  Saying they reduce severity is a dodge.  They were supposed to induce herd immunity, but haven’t.  Even boosted people are getting infected and are passing on the infection.  The majority of people hospitalized and in ICU are vaccinated.  The unvaxxed are disproportionately represented, but why are the vaxxed represented at all?  Despite an 85 percent vaccination rate, the latest wave is the worst.  Vaxxing the last 15 percent of people who aren’t vulnerable to hospitalization anyway because of youth and underlying good health won’t answer the latest wave.

Yelling at the unvaccinated is a way of deflecting attention from the fact that nothing the authorities have done to control the waves of the pandemic have worked.  Lockdowns only created massive problems; they solved none.  They mandated masks that didn’t work, and they knew it!  The vaccines aren’t really working out.

The medical and political authorities failed, and are yelling and gesticulating to hide their failures.

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An answer ro Raza Khan

Vincent J. Curtis

11 Jan 22

RE: Muslim women deserve admiration.  Op-ed by Raza Khan.  The Hamilton Spectator 7 Jan 22.  Dr. Khan was formerly head of the Muslim Association of Hamilton, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhoos.

It’s people like Raza Khan that goes far to explain why something he calls “Islamophobia” exists.  The question I’m going to put to him is “compared to what?”

He says that Muslim women “have been facing the brunt of the ugliness and oppression of Islamophobia across Canada.”  Ugliness and oppression as compared to what?  Let’s compare Canada with some decidedly Muslim countries: Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.  These countries are famous for their oppression of women – all in accordance with the sacred literature of Islam, you understand.  FGM is practiced in Muslim countries.  Would Muslim women allegedly oppressed in Canada prefer to live in a thoroughly Muslim country?  I bet not.  That’s why they stay here.

In his list of religious symbols prohibited to be worn by Quebec’s public servants, he lists hijabs, kippas (a kind of knife) and turbans.  He neglected to mention crosses and scapula of Catholics and Stars of David by Jews.  I wonder why that is?  Could it be that’s he’s not making common cause of religious rights with Catholics and Jews and is only concerned about Muslims?  That’s kind of bigoted in its own right to me.

What Khan neglected to mention was what the wearing of a hijab means.  It means that the woman wearing it is not to be looked upon by men other than her close relatives. (Notice that Khan often refers to Muslim women as Muslim ‘sisters’) How oppressive is it to us infidels to have Muslim women interacting with the public with a big sign on her that says, “You’re not supposed to look upon me?”  And he wonders why infidel men are uncomfortable interacting with such women, calling such discomfort “Islamophobia?”  If Muslim women want to celebrate their modesty, their Muslim identity, and their love, respect, and obedience to Allah, why are they parading themselves in from of us infidel men?  Can’t they do so in private, as is insisted upon in Muslim countries?

I get that in Muslim tradition and in Islamic sacred literature, Muslim must only concern themselves with the fate of other Muslims, and all others can shift for themselves.  That means that Khan’s call for religious freedom isn’t about all religions, only his.  That outlook doesn’t go far in the western way of thought.  And Canada is a western country, like it or not.

Khan is trapped by his religion’s outlook: Muslims only.  This prevents him from making common cause with others, and makes him and his fellow Muslims, in the midst of a western society, look selfish and supremacist.  And he takes any normal western reaction to his peculiarities as “Islamophobia.”

The fact that Muslims are fleeing Muslim countries by the millions for western civilization ought to give Khan pause for introspection.

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Modellers wrong again: prediction

Vincent J. Curtis

11 Jan 22

RE: COVID hospitalizations forecasted to rise rapidly. Story by Joanna Frketich.  Tha Hamilton Spectator 11 Jan 22.

I’ve made a small living calling b.s. on Ontario’s COVID forecasters, starting with the 20,000 per day by Christmas, 2020, made on November 12 by Dr. A. Brown.  They were off by a factor of three, peaking at 6500 per day.  The latest forecast is that Hamilton’s hospitalizations will “rise rapidly.”

Sorry, Ontario is now well past the peak.  The peak occurred at Christmas with over 18,000 cases in one day, but daily case numbers dropped rapidly afterwards, and the January 11^th case numbers are below 10,000.  Granted, hospitalizations lag cases by about a week, but we’re past that time and hospitalizations have leveled off at the 2400 range.  Couple this with the fact that the Omicron variant is less severe than delta or alpha, and it means that Ontario has seen the worst of this wave already.

Contrary to forecasters, Hamilton’s hospitalizations are not going to get worse over the next two weeks, and if they did, you’d have to wonder at hospital management, now two years into the pandemic.

Enough with the panic-porn.  People don’t need to be scared any more with the COVID menace.  Want to see the consequence of locking down to protect the health care system?  See the other story on page 1, “Dying young.”  The average age of people dying on the street is 36.  The average age of death from COVID is around 80.

To hell with frightening people.

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Mayor Fred gets knifed

Vincent J. Curtis

10 Jan 22

RE:  Mayor is failing racialized citizens.  Op-ed piece by Kojo Damptey, Executive Director of the Hamilton Center for Civic Inclusion.

Whenever I see the term ‘racialized’ I wonder how they got that way.

Anyhow, it must gall Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger to be leading the charge against Quebec’s Bill 21 for its alleged oppression of Muslim women only to be stabbed in the back by a mendicant organization like the Hamilton Center for Civil Inclusion, of which Kojo Damptey is the Executive Director.

Racialized economist Thomas Sowell warned minorities to beware of leaders like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and dare I say Kojo Damptey, race hustlers all.  The leaders of the communities do well for themselves, and keep the community they lead from advancing.  If they advance, the leaders are out of a job.

Damptey complains that Mayor Fred promised to educate and screen to eliminate alleged racism in the Hamilton Police Department, not being able to mandate anti-racism.  If Damptey knows how to eliminate racism, he should tell us so that we can eliminate crime.  If racialized Hamiltonians didn’t commit crime, they would have no reason for encounters with Hamilton’s alleged racists, which, thanks to Kojo, will also be purified of the wrong thoughts.

Damptey also takes exception to Mayor Fred voting against defunding the police.  Surveys in the Black ghettos of U.S. cities show people don’t want police defunded.  They want more policing because it only takes a few bad apples to turn a neighbourhood into a high crime area.  See the difference between the leadership and the actual folks?

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The wave of the unvaxxed lie

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Jan 22

RE: Mandates for shots may be needed, Duclos says. By Laura Osman.  The Canadian Press.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 8 Jan 22.

RE: Lift Restrictions.  Letter to the editor by Ted Lister. 

There’s nothing like facts and data to spoil a good theory.  Take the theory that the current pandemic wave is a “wave of the unvaccinated.”  Here is Ontario’s hospitalization data of January 8, 2022.  Non-ICU hospitalized: 1353 fully vaxxed, 115 partially vaxxed, and 457 unvaxxed.  In ICU: 137 fully vaxxed, 18 partially vaxxed, and 123 unvaxxed.  The vaccinated outnumber the unvaccinated in hospital and in ICU by quite a bit, enough to explode the theory that this is a ‘wave of the unvaccinated.’

As Mr. Ted Lister reports, even the boosted get COVID.  His case is common, and a fourth dose is now available in several countries that are experiencing another pandemic wave and have already vaxxed and boosted once their populations.  The vaccines are not inducing herd immunity as they were expected to.  It’s time to smell the coffee and stop beating a dead horse!  Vaccinating and boosting the entire population is a waste of effort, meaning that mandating vaccination won’t solve the problem.

Ontario needs to reopen so that natural immunity can be acquired.  In particular, schools, universities, and colleges need to reopen immediately, for their closure isn’t protecting the health care system.  You protect the health care system by focussing on the vulnerable; trying to protect everyone is not just impossible, it’s irrational.

Where are the therapeutics?  These protect the health care system directly.

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Irrational school closings

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Jan 22

RE: Assume flu symptoms are COVID.  By Joanna Frketich.  The Hamilton Spectator 7 Jan 22.

By asking how a policy action is supposed to reach a policy goal, you quickly realize that the lockdown and vaccination policies of Ontario are irrational.

For example, how does keeping kids out of school and universities closed protect the health care system?  Those under 29 are at greater risk of death from the seasonal flu than they are from COVID.  That’s the data, but that fact hasn’t penetrated the skulls of the heads running Ontario.  Unless the individual has complex medical problems, a COVID infection is either asymptomatic or produces mild symptoms in those under 29.  They simply aren’t going to be hospitalized.  Instead of keeping the young and healthy together, closing schools keeps the young mixed up with those at greater risk of hospitalization.

The mass vaccination program was supposed to induce herd immunity by last September.  Achieving herd immunity by vaccination is supposed to be preferable to achieving it by mass infection of the virus.  Vaccination failed to produce herd immunity, even at 90 percent vaccination rate.  What is the response to the latest wave?  A third dose of vaccine!  If vaccination to a 90 percent rate failed to induce herd immunity, why does Dr. Moore think boosting to 90 percent will achieve it?  The only way, apparently, to achieve herd immunity is to develop it naturally, and locking down Ontario is meant to delay acquiring natural immunity!

(BTW, Alberta achieved 90 percent vaccination less than four months ago, and cases are exploding there.  They’re higher now that at the peak of the fourth wave in the last days of September.  Boosting after four months – what’s the point?  If vaccination merely reduces symptoms, then the only end of this happens after you’ve had the real thing.)

How does shuttering businesses to the 90 percent who are vaccinated, and to those under 65, who are at little risk of hospitalization even if infected, going to protect the health care system?  What are the health consequences of the policy?

If this is a wave of the unvaccinated, then why is Ontario dispensing with its vaccine passport system and closing businesses anyhow?

The alleged experts running Ontario are incapable of critical thinking.  They’ve told so many stories intended to keep the public in fear, that they can’t keep them straight any more.

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Stalinists create new kulak class – the Unvaxxed

Vincent J. Curtis

6 Jan 22

In the irrational attempt to protect the health care system by vaccinating literally everybody, politicians everywhere, including Canada, resorted to creating a new class of kulaks.  The original kulaks were peasant farmers in the Ukraine who were destroyed in the 1930s by Stalin because their success disproved communist theory.  Kulaks were supposed to be hated and despised by all, and nothing done to them was morally wrong.

Today’s kulaks are the unvaccinated.  The object of the vaccination program, often forgotten, is to protect the health care system from being overwhelmed.  But we know the people who are likely to need hospitalization if they become sick with COVID: in declining order those over 80, followed by those 70-79, followed by those with certain health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and lung disorders.  Protect these people, and the health care system won’t be overwhelmed.  Healthy people under 65 are unlikely to require hospitalization if they catch COVID, and over half of these cases are asymptomatic.

If vaccines worked, it would only be necessary to vaccinate the vulnerable to protect the health care system.  (If vaccines don’t work, then why the obsession with getting everyone vaxxed?) Others could get vaccinated if they want to, but vaccinating them is unnecessary because they won’t require hospitalization if they catch COVID.

What is the logic in trying to vaccinate everyone when only the vulnerable need it?  There isn’t any, it is an irrational goal, and immoral means are being employed in pursuit of it, namely the hating of the unvaccinated.

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Irrational policies to protect health care system

Vincent J. Curtis

6 Jan 22

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the goal of the Ontario government has been to protect the health care system from being overwhelmed.  However, the government has followed utterly irrational policies to achieve this goal, with lockdowns and closing schools being outstanding examples of that irrationality.

Monoclonal antibody treatment reduces hospitalization by 80 percent.  If, in the fall, the government had purchased 20,000 doses of monoclonals, it could potentially reduce 20,000 COVID hospitalizations to 4,000.  Since, previously, only about two percent of COVID cases produced a hospitalization, potentially a million cases would generate only 4,000 hospitalizations with 20,000 monoclonal antibody treatments available.  (Ontario has had 828,000 total cases since January, 2020) The new anti-virals from Merck (molnuvirapir) and Pfizer (paxlovid) reduce hospitalization time.  Provincial hospitals can handle 4,000 COVID hospitalizations over the course of several weeks without being overwhelmed.

Instead, the government irrationally pursued mass vaccination, administering 27 million vaccine doses, mixing promiscuously the few at risk with the majority who had none.  To protect the health care system, only the vulnerable needed to be vaccinated since they are the ones who might need hospitalization.  Withal, the vaccination campaign proved a waste of time, as COVID is breaking through.

Closing schools and universities is an irrational answer to the latest wave.  Healthy people under 25 should be congregated together away from the vulnerable.  Keeping kids and university students out of school simply mixes them up with the vulnerable.  Being at school keeps them away from the vulnerable.

Now, consider locking down restaurants, salons, and the like.  What’s wrong with putting up a sign at the door warning vulnerable people, those over 65 and people with morbidities such as diabetes, obesity, and lung disorders, that spaces inside are confined, social distancing may be difficult, and letting the vulnerable decide whether or not they wish to enter?  That’s different from closing the business to those not at risk, or imposing six foot limits so that the business is uneconomic to run, or mandating useless masks.  If the vulnerable don’t want to take the risk, they are under no obligation to enter.

The rational way to protect the health care system from getting overwhelmed is to focus protection on the vulnerable, and we know who they are: the old, the obese, the diabetic, and those with lung disorders.  Trying to protect those who are at next to no risk of hospitalization is an irrational waste of resources, to say nothing of the bad effects on public health such irrational measures have.  To deny students schooling to allegedly protect the vulnerable is vicious, wrong, and irrational as policy on its own terms.

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No one is to blame

Vincent J. Curtis

5 Jan 22

RE:  Local hospitals full ahead of COVID surge.  By Joanna Frketich.  The Hamilton Spectator 5 Jan 22.

Incompetence is everywhere on display in the condition of Hamilton’s hospitals to meet the latest surge.  After two years of pandemic, hospitals are full – before the surge hits.  Hospital staff are supposed to be 100 percent fully vaccinated, and how’s that working out?  Hundreds of staff are calling in sick, and this is after the kulaks who refused vaccination were released.

There is no focus on the vulnerable.  We’re still getting lockdowns of the young and healthy.  If instead of 25 million injections of vaccine (or whatever it is) Ford had acquired 30,000 doses of monoclonal antibodies in the fall, he would be able to reduce hospitalizations by 80 percent in this wave, which would mean a hospitalization rate for Omicron of around 0.2 percent, easily handled by hospitals even as they are.

But the alleged experts advising Ford missed that bus.  Of course, it’s not their fault they’re too busy to keep up with the literature.  Monoclonals have been available since September, 2020.  Trying to protect everyone, Ford’s experts didn’t focus protection on the vulnerable, and wasted time and resources on an irrational goal.  The goal of protecting those who don’t need it.  Vaccinating children isn’t to protect children from death by COVID; it’s to possibly protect vulnerable adults who might live with them at home.

Children should be in school.  Universities should be fully open.  Healthy people under 25 are at essentially zero risk of death from COVID.  They should be congregated together away from the vulnerable.  By closing schools, they’re mixed in with the vulnerable.  How stupid is that?

No one is to blame, of course.  Not is a socialist health care system in a province run under the rules of the Chinese Communist Party and with social pressure techniques used by Joseph Stalin.

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Whom to hate?

 

Vincent J. Curtis

4 Jan 22

RE: Vaxxed by Robert Panchyson of Burlington.  Letter to the editor.  The Hamilton Spectator 4 Jan 22.

We’re all being invited to hate the new Kulaks with gusto.  The new Kulaks are the unvaccinated and the unmasked, who are allegedly responsible for all the suffering and misery that are inflected upon us - by the political class!, upon the stern advice of medical “experts!”  That’s a pretty cool dodge: “don’t blame me, blame those kulaks because they forced me to mess with you!”

In Premier Ford’s January 3^rd announcement of a return to lockdown and a closure of schools, he said things that contradicted each other.  He said that Omicron is so contagious, that everybody is going to get it.  The lockdown is to buy time to get enough vaccination boosters distributed.  He just admitted that the vaxxing campaign was a failure, and so he’s going to extend it!  If everybody is going to get Omicron, then getting vaxxed or getting boosted is pointless - you’re going to get it anyway!  He justified lockdown measures that are proven not to even slow the spread – which, in Omicron’s case is impossible, by admission, anyway – as buying time, in the face of the empirical evidence to the contrary.  It’s like Pavlov’s dog, rising cases means lockdown!

As with previous lockdowns, Ford failed to take account of the wide disparity in risk based on age.  People over 70 years old need to be protected, but locking low-risk kids (who are more at risk from the seasonal flu) out of school and low-risk people under 60 out of work and out of the enjoyment of ordinary life - doesn’t protect the vulnerable.  The faster herd immunity develops – and it won’t, by admission, be by vaccination! – the sooner the crisis will pass.  And here is Ford trying to delay the onset of herd immunity by locking down again!

Don’t blame the unvaccinated.  Blame the fools and idiots running the province who are completely out of their depth, are drunk on power, and have completely lost their skills at critical thinking, if they ever had them.

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They ought to be horsewhipped

Vincent J. Curtis

3 Jan 22

The medical experts that run Ontario and their docile servant, Premier Doug Ford, are so anti-empirical, so ignorant of the science and data,  and so incapable of critical thinking that they ought to be horsewhipped.  Keeping kids out of school and instituting another lockdown is anti-empirical madness.

They said that if everybody got vaccinated, it would induce herd immunity and Ontario would be free of COVID.  They introduced vaccine passports to coerce the reluctant, but the passport mandate did nothing to stop the new wave.  They falsely accused the unvaccinated of being ipso facto contagious with COVID, and because of that, dangerous to people who were allegedly protected against COVID by vaccination!  They created a kulak class for other people to hate with gusto.  How long will it be before the unboosted are deemed to be kulaks?

After achieving 90 percent vaccination rate, it was observed that vaccinated people were suffering breakthrough infections.  There were more vaccinated people in hospital than unvaccinated.  We were mollified that vaccination reduced the severity of the infection.  Then, booster shots needed to be taken because vaccine protection was utterly failing.

Now we find that even boosted people get infected.

Lockdown-lite was introduced in mid-December to stem the rising tide.  Now they’re reverting to a fuller lockdown after three previous pandemic waves proved that lockdowns didn’t change the course of the pandemic at all.  That’s the science, and Ontario’s own data verifies it.  You can’t tell from the cases curve when or what measures were taken to ostensibly “flatten the curve.”  Yet these pathetic failures are held up as successes on the strength of the authority of the experts who called for them in the first place.

Too many people now know about N95 masks that mask mandates raise embarrassing questions about the efficacy of previously mandated masks.

Kids are safer at school because the home is where most transmission takes place, and transmission occurs from adult to child, not child to adult or child to child.  Children are at less risk from COVID than they are from seasonal influenza.  That’s the science.

Now, in anticipation of hospitals getting crowded, lockdowns which seem to promote transmission and certain don’t prevent the spread, are being re-instituted!  And Ford’s experts are worsening health care generally by postposing other procedures, again!  It’s to protect the healthcare system, not you, peasant!

Meanwhile, therapeutics have been completely neglected by Ford’s experts.  Monoclonal antibodies?  Experimental.  Merck’s Molnupiravir? Too expensive.  Pfizer’s Paxlovid?  Experimental.  Ivermectin?  That’s a horse de-wormer, isn’t it?  Early treatment saving lives?  Sick people should stay home and not go to the hospital unless they’re really far advanced!  Early treatment be damned! We don’t have them anyway!  All we can do is hold your hand and give you oxygen if you need it!

In an announcement today. Premier Ford said that everyone is going to get the Omicron variant.  Well, if everyone’s going to get it, then why lockdown?  It’s the healthcare system that needs to be protected, not you, peasant!  “We must do everything in our power to protect our hospitals!” exclaims a grave Premier Ford.  The forecast of hundreds of thousands of cases every single day sounds just like the scaremongering of the first wave in March, 2020, aka “Fifteen days to flatten the curve.”  We have to reduce contacts and mobility, never mind that that strategy has failed the three previous occasions!  We’re going to blunt the wave so that we can ease the pressure on our hospitals, and never mind that it hasn’t worked before!”

There is a complete collapse of critical thinking in Queen’s Park.  They’re too stupid to look at success stories like Florida.  The math modellers don’t know the difference between exponential and geometric rates of increase.  And there seems to be no one to replace these idiots.  They’re making Ontario not worth living in, after two years.  You can’t live like normal people in Ontario.

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Berton believes in miracles

Vincent J. Curtis

3 Jan 22

Spec editor Paul Berton wants us to believe in miracles.  He will attack you if you don’t believe in his.  The thing about miracles is that, being unnatural, they invite skepticism.

For example, Berton wants us to believe that Joe Biden got 16 million more votes in 2020 than Hilary Clinton did in 2016 and Barack Obama did in 2012.  He wants us to believe that Joe Biden got 2.3 million more votes in California in 2020 than Hilary Clinton did in 2016 and 3.2 million more than Barack Obama did in 2012, a state that has been bleeding population for three decades.  At the same time Donald Trump got 11.2 million more votes in 2020 than he got in 2016, and got 1.7 million more votes in California in 2020 than in 2016.  Joe Biden inspired 16 million more progressives and Democrats to vote for him than for the first Black and first Woman for president, and no one is allowed to wonder if chicanery weren’t at play here?  This is the same Joe Biden that couldn’t attract campaign workers to his rallies, often held in car lots, and spent most of the campaign hiding, masked, in his basement.  Meanwhile. Trump rallies ran 30,000+, topping out at 57,000 in Pennsylvania near the end.

Berton wants us to believe that stratospheric turnout for Biden in the Black ghettos of Philadelphia, Detroit, and Atlanta, counted after 3:00 a.m. election night in the absence of poll watchers, turned the tide in three battleground states, and no one is allowed to wonder what the hell happened?  Never mind the illegal and unconstitutional mail-in balloting in many states, the vote harvesting practices, nor the $300 million spent by Mark Zuckerberg on election workers to win Wisconsin for Biden.

Berton calls this believing “without evidence” a threat to democracy.  And he wonders at eroding trust in the media!

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