I read the Calgary Herald yesterday.  As per usual the paper was full of misleading and panic inducing stories.  There was this story praising New Zealand’s response to Covid 19.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/dont-like-canadas-new-mandatory-quarantine-its-part-of-why-new-zealand-is-now-back-to-normal/wcm/d6717546-3f2c-44c1-8323-4dc0d2f38047

It is true that New Zealand has had very few problems from Covid 19 but at what cost?  New Zealand has completely closed their borders turning the island in to a concentration camp.  This destroyed their tourism industry that was 8% of their economy.

Small price to pay to have outdoor festivals right?  Maybe until you consider that it is now summer in New Zealand and outdoor festivals in the summer are safe even with Covid.  A better question is what happens when New Zealand opens their borders?  New Zealanders have developed very little in the way of herd immunity and the virus is still out there.  It will always be out there.

Kiwis just have to wait for the vaccine same as us right?  They will only get their borders open and their jobs back if they consent to a medical procedure.  That is hardly consent.  This is like a rapist telling his victim he will release them if they consent to sex.  Thousands of Nazis were sentenced to death for performing medical procedures on people without their consent.  Now, in 2021 we are fine with that.

There was another full page article about 2 women in Canada who are having lingering effects from Covid.  The article was, of course, designed to keep us fearful of covid.  We can’t have people believing you can recover from covid.  People need to be panicked in to hiding forever from covid because you never really recover.  There was only one small problem.  The 2 women with these mysterious symptoms were never diagnosed with Covid.  They must have had covid though because everything bad is caused by covid right?  It would be irresponsible journalism not to link this to covid and use it to spread panic.

There was also coverage of the Prime Moron’s new travel ban.  Even though cases are falling everywhere in Canada and we are exiting the traditional flus season, we still need to panic because of the new strains of covid.  Here we go again, we need to keep the restrictions in place due to some future threat.  How do we know these new strains will be a problem?  The models say they are, that’s how.

Haven’t we been to this movie before?  Our freedoms are being removed based on computer simulation of a virus that we only just discovered.  You cannot simulate anything that you have not studied completely.  Computer models are not evidence of anything.  Haven’t we learned our lesson yet?

The strain that is mentioned most often is the UK variant so let’s take a look at it.  Here is what happened in the UK.

Yes cases and deaths did peak again in the UK.  But it is already over.  This is also confirmed by Euromomo.

The data in these plots is 10 days old.  You can see that excess deaths were already falling 10 days ago.  Of even more interest is that the new variant has not yet affected Scotland or Wales.  Scotland and Wales both border England and are not far.  The capital of Wales is less than 200 Km from London.  So this deadly new variant has not travelled 200 Km, but it is going to decimate Canada soon.  Are we really that stupid?

The real point is not that there was a new strain in England or even that it came and went quickly.  The only point that matters is this.  England was already under lockdown when this strain hit and moved rapidly through the country.  Lockdowns do not work.

Every time we see the light at the end of the tunnel we are told that it is not real.  We are told that there is some new mysterious threat on the horizon.  Then we are told the only thing that will save us is a lockdown.  At no time do we ever discuss whether lockdowns work.  We are told that we are dangerous if we question the restrictions.  If lockdowns worked this would have been over last spring and it is not.  How much more proof do you need?  When will we just say no?

A friend sent me this and asked me if I knew anything about it.

I confessed that I had not heard anything about it so I set about searching the internet for confirmation this had happened.  First I tried google and all I found were stories about Italian restaurants opening with restrictions after the spring lock down.  Then I tried Duckduckgo and I got a bunch of blogsites that all linked the same 2 videos.  I still could not be sure this was real.

I thought this was odd.  If 50,000 restaurant owners were openly defiant of a tyrannical government isn’t that big news?  Then I remembered that it was 2021.  In 2021 the media could not be bothered to cover a coup in the most powerful nation on earth.  50,000 restaurant defiant owners are small potatoes compared to that.

I was lamenting to my wife about how utterly corrupt the media have become when she told me she saw something on Breitbart.  Sure enough here it is.

Delingpole: Italian Restaurants Open in Mass Protest at Lockdown Rules (breitbart.com)

I don’t know how I missed this because James Delingpole is one of only 2 writers I read on Breitbart.  Note the date on the report; Jan 17^th.  Italians started to revolt against Covid tyranny on a grand scale 2 weeks ago and I had trouble finding even one story about it.  Like I said 2021.

So what did the Italian government do about these flagrant covid rule breakers?  Absolutely nothing.  There really is strength in numbers.  If one restaurant opens the police can charge in and throw handcuffs on everyone.  When 50,000 restaurants open the police can do nothing.

This is exactly what we need to happen all over the world.  A small number of brave owners in Alberta are starting the revolution.  Below is a list of business that have opened in defiance of The Evil Troll’s nonsensical rules.

These People are truly brave and they need our support.  They don’t have the numbers so they are at risk.  So far the Police have resorted to quiet intimidation.  They are outside on the street recording the license plates of the customers.  I say it is time we put cancel culture to work for us.  Patronize these businesses.  If you see a police officer trying to intimidate customers take his/her picture.  Go inside get everyone to come out and have everyone take pictures of the police.  Then let the police know that their business is no longer welcome anywhere in town.

No doubt when the officers find out that they will be ostracized for their actions they will fall back on the “I was only following orders defense”.  That does not cut it with me.  The police do not have to enforce rules, they have proven that themselves.  For years before marijuana was legalized police turned a blind eye to it.  They could have made arrests and they chose not to.  When an officer drags someone out of a house or attacks a hockey player they have chosen to do that.  You are not righteous when you enforce tyranny.

This is not moot if Jason Kenney does start to lift restrictions.  There should be no restrictions and anything short of that is still tyranny.  If a restaurant choses to open at full capacity, support them.  No business or individual should be constrained by these ridiculous and arbitrary restrictions.  It is time politicians in the country get reminded who really has the power.

Yesterday the Prime Moron announced that we would soon see new travel restrictions for international and inter provincial travel.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/pm-warns-canadians-to-expect-more-travel-restrictions-soon-1.5282638

Trudeau wants to put restrictions on people who come here legally when he has no problem with people who come here illegally.  This is not surprising since you cannot be a Trudeau without disdain for law abiding citizens.

I am not bothered by restrictions for non-citizens.  Citizens of other countries do not have a right to enter Canada without our permission.  However, the restrictions for interprovincial travel should bother every Canadian.  Even the ones named Trudeau.  Below are my top five reasons to oppose inter provincial travel restrictions.

1. Every province in Canada has declining case counts.

This is not surprising.  Seasonal viruses normally peak somewhere between the 1^st and 3^rd week in January.  We are now in the 4^th week and the peak of the infection is over.  The government and media want you to believe that infections are out of control everywhere but that is just a lie.  First there is no way to control an infection from airborne viruses, by definition, they are always out of control.  More importantly what we are seeing is completely normal.  We should have expected to see infections rise from September to December just as we should now expect infections to continue to fall.  If you do not work for government, none of this is at all confusing or cause for worry.  Below are the plots for every province.

2. There are no hot spots in Canada.

Moving between spots where the infections are similar changes nothing.  Even if you are deluded enough to think that you can” control” a virus, you should still be able to understand that.  The plots below show that except for the Maritimes every province is the same.  How is crossing a provincial border any different from crossing a county line?

3. This will drive the final nail in the coffin of tourism.

Many places in Canada rely completely on out of province tourism.  I was in a neighboring province 2 weeks ago.  The community relies on Alberta tourists.  My wife and I went for dinner.  As we left, we checked license plates in the parking lot.  Every single person dinning that night was from Alberta.  If you prevent cross border travel this restaurant will be forced to close and lay off all their workers.

The reason we are always given for any of these restrictions is that it is to protect others.  How am I protecting anyone by making them unemployed?  Why is someone else’s protection now my responsibility?  Who is responsible for my protection?  If I knew I would tell them to stop.  I do not want or need anyone to protect me.  I certainly do not want anyone to lose their job for my protection.  I cannot think of anything more selfish than demanding someone’s life destroyed for my protection.

4. It violates the equality provisions in the charter of rights.

I have owned a property in British Columbia for 14 years.  Our Prime Moron and John Horgan want to deny me access to my property.  You would think this violates my property rights, but Canadian’s do not have property rights.  That probably surprises most Canadians.  The truth is that property rights are conspicuously absent from the Canadian Charter.  Property rights were purposefully left out.  Our Charter was written by a communist, Pierre Elliot Trudeau.  Communism and property rights can not co-exist.

I do not have property rights to violate but a ban on interprovincial travel does violate my rights to equal treatment under the law.  Some property owners would be denied access to their properties while others would not.  If the government can single out specific groups and deny them access to their property, then they can make their opposition homeless.

5. It violates Charter mobility rights.

This is word for word out of our charter.

(2) Every citizen of Canada and every person who has the status of a permanent resident of Canada has the right

• (a) to move to and take up residence in any province; and
• (b) to pursue the gaining of a livelihood in any province.

I would say that is very self-explanatory.

My brother sent me this interview this morning.  I don’t know the interviewer but I have seen Dr. Madej before.  I do not know much about Dr. Madej except that she is a vaccine critic.  She is among a group of MDs who have been openly critical of the experimental mRNA vaccines.  Dr.  Madej is again critical of mRNA vaccines but the interview covers a lot of non-vaccine ground as well.  The video is below.

The first half of the interview deals with mRNA vaccines and other injectable Nano technology but I want to start with a very important non-vaccine point that she makes. Isolation kills.

It is a well-documented fact that isolation on its own causes mortality.  This is very apparent in dementia patients.  During the Lockdowns there was significant excess deaths for dementia patients that did not have covid.  Denying people human contact is stressful and can be deadly.  Basic science also says that a healthy immune system needs to be constantly challenged by encountering foreign organisms and even pathogens.  This does not happen when you isolate people.

Isolation, panic, and stress are all things that weaken immune systems.  This is well established science.  If you wanted to compromise the immune systems of millions of people you would

• Enforce rules that denied personal conduct.
• Encourage excessive sanitation of hands and objects.
• Create panic by flooding media with reports of illness and death.
• Cause stress using confusing and contradictory rules that change regularly.
• Increase stress levels by denying people employment.

Doesn’t all of this sound ominously familiar?  Lockdowns and restrictions that keep people apart are a self-fulfilling prophesy.  If you keep it up for long enough people will die.  Then the government can say “I told you so” and use those deaths as an excuse to continue with the lockdowns.

Lockdowns kill and so can Vaccines.  Dr. Madej covers some familiar ground about mRNS vaccines.  mRNA vaccines have been under development for more than 2 decades.  They have never been approved because they have never been able to get past the animal testing phase.  It was some small detail about 100% of the subjects dying that proved to be a bit of a sticking point.

mRNA Vaccines have now been approved.  So how did they get past the animal testing phase?  Simple, they just skipped it and went straight to humans.  Even those tests were abbreviated.  AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Moderna all conducted human trials on volunteers that they tracked for 2 months.  2 months is a very short time but they reported no deaths in that 2 month period.  On the strength of those short trials the Vaccines were approved for emergency use.

The vaccines have been rolled out for 4 weeks now and already countries are reporting significant death totals.  Including one of the most famous athletes of all time.

Baseball legend Hank Aaron dies at age 86 (fox8.com)

To be fair many of the people like Mr. Aaron were very old and may have died anyway.  Although preliminary investigations in Norway, where now 36 people have died, attribute half of the deaths to the Vaccine.  How could 3 studies show zero deaths in 2 months when we now have dozens of deaths within 1 month?  Well the devil is in the details and Dr. Madej has some disturbing details

None of the studies included significant numbers of older subjects.  Only Moderna accepted older subject who were not in good health.  But Moderna still reported no deaths right?  They report no deaths but an unusually high percentage of the older subjects “dropped out” of the study.  Translation; we only tracked the patients that did not have a problem.  Some of the elderly subjects dropped from the study may have died; we just don’t know.

Moderna has had a close relationship with the Gates foundation since the company was founded.  It would not be like old Bill to lie to us would it?

The only people who need this vaccine are elderly people in poor health.  People in that category were either absent or mysteriously dropped from the studies.  My parents have already passed.  In a way that is a good thing because I don’t have to help them make a very difficult decision about the Vaccine.

The problems with the Vaccine may not just be limited to those who truly need it.  My understanding is that the animals in the study were fine at first.  The deaths did not happen until much later.  It is not surprising then that a 2 month study did not show any problems.  The $64 question is what will happen next fall when covid returns?

The question about whether or not to take the Vaccine is a difficult one.  Remember by the established standard these Vaccines have not been tested.  They should be considered experimental.  If you decide to take the vaccine you have really decided to be part of the experiment.  I am OK with that.  I am a big believer in personal choice and responsibility, but the choice should be an informed one.

The math shows anyone under 70 in good health really has no compelling reason to take the vaccine.  People over 70 in poor health do have a compelling reason to be vaccinated.  Unfortunately the Vaccines could be more deadly to that group than the virus.  I think if I was in that group I would opt for daily vitamin D and Ivermectin before I took part in an experiment.

One of my friendly helpers sent me this.

"Our public health orders don't apply to any levels of government. So they don't apply to federal provincial, or municipal governments." #mbpoli #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/jxV7HCkO1q

— Pundit Class (@punditclass) January 20, 2021

Did you get that?  It bears repeating.  The rules do not apply to government.  I think we all knew that.  I am just shocked that they now admit it on camera.  These leftist tyrants are so firmly in control that they can throw their hypocrisy in our faces with impunity.

Notice the reason given for why the rules do not apply to government.  Government does not need rules imposed on them because they are able to regulate themselves.  This implies a couple of things.

1. Citizens are unable to regulate or control themselves.
2. That people in government have some sort of innate superiority that makes them capable of regulating themselves.

Seriously have you ever met anyone who works for government?  Did you think they were clearly a superior human being to the rest of us?  I have met people in government who truly believed they were superior to me, but I have never met any that were superior to anyone.

If people in government are so superior how do you explain that

• Deena Hinshaw cannot count.
• Jason Kenney is incapable of telling the Truth.
• Justin Trudeau cannot compose a 12-word sentence without 6 of the words being “UGH”.

Everything that these superior beings touch turns to stone.  Can you name a single thing that government does efficiently other than waste money?  Did shutting down our economy and foisting misery on millions result in a single life being saved?  Remember these superior beings in government are proud of their “effective” pandemic responses.  They are proud of the way they exploded what should have been a small manageable problem.

In my lifetime, every time I have seen the government ride to the rescue it was to solve a problem that they caused themselves.  Every elected official in this country has bragged about their part in getting Covid relief checks quickly into the hands of the unemployed.  These people are not unemployed for some mysterious reason.  They are unemployed because of the incompetent actions of government.

How does showering people with tax dollars help solve the problem when the problem is the government that collected those taxes in the first place?  The Government does not have an income.  All the money that they have handed out will have to be recovered in the future through increased taxation.  The government has not helped anyone.  They have just given people a portion of their future income to cover up government incompetence and malfeasance.

In ancient times there was the divine right of kings.  Royalty was given the authority and ability to govern by god.  They were superior Human beings; some even claimed to be gods.  This lasted for millennia but eventually people realized just how ordinary royalty really was.  Some royals, like the house of Windsor, were smart enough to steal what they could and get out of the way.  Others tried to hold on and lost their lives.  Violence and blood ushered in democracy.

Democracy was a grand experiment.  It never managed to take hold everywhere and lasted for about 300 years.  It is now gone.  We have entered the era of the divine right of government.  Most countries, including Canada, never fully embraced democracy.  I say that because most countries have constitutions that spell out the rules for citizens.  They are rules handed down by government for the citizens to follow.  How is that not feudalism?

One country had a constitution that spelled out the rules for government.  These were the conditions under which the citizens would allow themselves to be governed.  That country was the United States.  It disappeared yesterday.  They coronated a king that was chosen by the other royals and not by the people.

Covid 19 was not much of a health crisis.  So far it has amounted to nothing other than a couple heavy flu seasons.  In one year due to the threat of cold and flu season we have lost rights that it took thousands of years to attain.  We are not in the middle of a health crisis we are in the middle of a civilizational crisis.