Yesterday I wrote about the scientific method.  After that, a friend sent me the following video.  The Video is of a famous Physicist Dr. Richard Feynman discussing science and the scientific method.  The Video is very Good.  Dr. Feynman discusses science in a simple and humorous way.  This is something I have noticed before.  People who really understand a subject can explain it to anyone in very simple language.  It is the people who do not really understand what they are talking about that use all the jargon.  They use the Jargon to intimidate you from asking any questions.  Please take the time to watch.

Dr. Feynman makes several very good points.

• It does not matter how much you like your theory if the data does not match it is wrong.

We discussed this yesterday.  The Theory that masks and lockdowns work does not match the data, therefore it is wrong.  It does not matter how many times that Deena Hinshaw, Theresa Tam, or Anthony Fauci tells you that we must wear masks.  Their position of authority does not make them right.

• If your theory cannot be proven false it is not science.

This does not really apply to Covid but think about climate change.  Hot weather proves that CO2 is dangerously warming the plant, somehow, so does cold weather.  More storms, less storms, more rain, less rain, all of this is proof we need to live in mud huts and grow our own vegetables.  The people who support the anthropogenic greenhouse gas theory (and yes, it is a theory) want you to believe that everything proves their theory, and nothing disproves it.  Climate change is not science it is religion.

• Science is knowing what you do not know.

Think about the “experts” and officials who have told you with great certainty if we do not follow their rules the virus will spread uncontrollably.  These people are too stupid to understand that they can not control the spread of a virus.  They do not know what they do not know which makes them the most dangerous type of idiot.  One who thinks he is smart.  A real scientist never speaks in such absolutes because he/she is very aware of what they do not know.

Last night Jason Kenney held a press conference to tell Albertans we have run out of vaccines.  We have been Vaccinating people for only 2 weeks and the program is already off the rails.  I guess they do not make keystone cop movies anymore because they cannot compete with the evening news.

But It is not the evil troll’s fault that the vaccines did not get delivered is it?  Yes, but that is not what I am talking about.  Once again, the devil is in the details.  Jason was proud to say that Alberta was set up to do 50,000 vaccinations/week.  This capacity seems to be built around the delivery schedule of the vaccine.  This is good planning, right?  No not really.

The Kenney Government like governments everywhere are talking about making vaccines mandatory.  They are all careful to say that the vaccine will not be mandatory but people who are not vaccinated will have their rights suspended indefinitely.  Just one more way the government lets us know that we do not have rights we have privileges.  Privileges that are extended to us only after we demonstrate complete submission to government.

You will not get your rights privileges back until you get vaccinated.  There are 4,500,000 people in Alberta and the province can vaccinate 50,000 people per week.  So how long to vaccinate everyone?  50,000 vaccines/week is only 25,000 people per week because it is a 2-dose vaccine.  The population of Alberta is increasing by 1570 people per weeks so if you do the math the entire province will be vaccinated in 192 weeks: 3.7 years.

Our politicians want the vaccination to be mandatory, but it will take almost 4 years to vaccinate everyone.  I wish I could tell you that this is as bad as it gets but it is not.  We have been repeatedly told that immunity from the vaccine is not permanent.  You will need booster shots on a regular basis.  Some reports have suggested that the immunity might last only months.  If I assume you need a booster shot every 12 months, then once Alberta Vaccinates 2,600,000 people, we will have to stop vaccinating new people.  We would only have enough vaccine to give boosters to those who have already been vaccinated.  Unless there is a dramatic increase in Vaccine availability 42% of Albertans will never be Vaccinated.

We have been told for a year now that vaccinations are the end game.  They are the only way out.  We need to hide in our basement wearing masks until everyone is vaccinated.  Now we know that unless there is a dramatic increase in supply that will never happen.

I have said from the beginning building your plan around a vaccine is a bad idea.  There has never been a successful corona virus vaccine.  An experimental technology (mRNA Vaccines), that has never been used before, was rushed through approvals with only 2 months of testing.  The tests were promising but we still do not know if it works and we cannot get enough anyway.

By focusing on vaccines, we have chosen to treat 4.5 million people.  The overwhelming majority were not sick and did not require any attention.  Only 5,005 Albertans have been hospitalized.  801 required critical care.  If we had focused on treatment options and research this would have been a very manageable problem.  Instead, we chose lockdowns and vaccines impacting the lives of millions of people who were at very little risk.  If you are under 70 this virus is less risk than normal influenza.  The government once again took a small problem, made it big, and bungled it horribly.

It is now the 3^rd week in January.  Normally seasonal viruses start to wane in January and guess what?

The virus is going away just as I predicted 7 weeks ago.  We peaked out at 153 people in the ICU.  If a wealthy first world country can not handle 153 people in the ICU during cold and flus season the problem is not the virus.  Unless that virus is named the United Conservative Party.

The only thing they seem intent on conserving is the level of incompetence our government has displayed since Ed Stelmach.

I linked this article yesterday while discussing the absolute incompetence of one of the highest government bureaucrats in Alberta.

Alberta’s COVID-19 cases dropping, but restrictions could stay longer if rules ignored | Edmonton Journal

I want to go back to this article because there is more to discuss than Deena’s inability to count and the media’s willingness to accept false information.

To me the headline explains why we are in such a mess.  A Government bureaucrat who cannot count is threatening more punishment if we don’t behave.  On its own that is bad enough but the real problem is our acceptance.  The public school system, media, and government have conditioned us to believe that everything the government says is true.

I am not talking about the threats because we have seen more than once how willing the government is to follow through on threats to destroy our lives.  The threats are most definitely true.  I am talking about our willingness to believe the rules made any difference.  Despite the contradictions and illogic of the rules the vast majority of the population believes the rules are keeping them safe.  If you don’t believe me pick up any newspaper and check the letters to the editor.  The section is full of angry letters imploring the government to punish anyone questioning the rules.

These useful idiots are the product of a system that specializes in producing useful idiots.  This army of useful idiots emboldens governments to change rules on a whim and punish those who question.  A member of the Edmonton Police Service just lost her job for thought crimes.  She was deemed a dangerous right wing conspiracy theorist.  One of her crimes was questioning the covid rules.

In March a group of “experts” came forward with 2 incredible claims.  Covid-19 was a great plague that would decimate the planet and the only way to stop it was to destroy the world’s economy.  In a sane world anyone making incredible claims would have to come forward with incredible evidence.  In our society that does not happen anymore.  We could not wait to shut down our economies and destroy lives to show how caring we were.

It is really unfortunate that we did not ask a few simple questions of the Charlatans making these incredible claims.  The following simple question and answer session would have saved us a lot of misery.

• Viral events are common. Viral events on the scale that you are alleging are quite rare.  How do we know that this is one of those rare events rather than just a common one?
• Our computer models tell us it is.
• How did you model the behavior of a virus that we have only just discovered?
• We didn’t really, we modified a model that we used for hoof and Mouth disease.
• How well did the model work for hoof and mouth?
• Not well it way over predicted the number of cases and deaths.
• Lockdowns have never been used before to stem a viral outbreak. Where did you get the idea for lockdowns from?
• A high School science project.
• Seriously?
• She was a very bright student.
• Does anyone other than this very bright high school student like the idea of lockdowns?
• It is very popular with the communist party of China.

Why was there not a single person working in government, elected or otherwise, that was willing to ask these questions?  Could it be they had other reasons for implementing the rules?

The default position since March has been that the rules work.  Not once has anyone demanded that the government show evidence that they worked.  Now in Alberta we are told the restrictions can be eased because infections are falling.  Is it impolite to point out that infections were already falling 10 days before the rules came in to affect?

Worse yet is the carrot and stick approach governments have been using.  Government is quick to point out we can only get our rights back if we display strict adherence to the rules.  When they say rules they really mean government.  So we can have our rights back except the right to disagree with government.

Nowhere in the world have lockdowns or restriction had any measurable effect.  Even the media is starting to notice.

https://www.newsweek.com/covid-lockdowns-have-no-clear-benefit-vs-other-voluntary-measures-international-study-shows-1561656

That is the most important point of this whole mess.  Let’s pretend for a minute that covid 19 is the great plague the government says it is.  I know the number don’t support that but indulge me for a minute.  The evidence says that you cannot stem the tide of this great plague by hiding in your basement.  That might be an effective strategy to become the president of the United States but it is completely ineffectual against an airborne virus.  We are not saving anyone from the virus but we are destroying lives in other ways, so why do we persist?

The point is not how virulent or deadly the virus might be.  The point is we cannot do anything about it.  I know this will be difficult for all of the snow flakes and virtue signalers, but we need to grow up.  Our Covid response is making this worse not better.  We need to start behaving like rational adults and just get on with life.

My wife brought my attention to this article

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-media-coverage-of-covid-is-failing-albertans-and-its-not-the-medias-fault

I don’t have to even read the article to get triggered.  The headline does that on its own.  If the media coverage is failing how can that not be the fault of the media?  That’s like saying the firemen who stood around smoking are not at fault for the fire spreading.  Seriously what kind of editor would even print this headline?

Reading the article does not improve my impression either.  Just when you thought journalists could not be any more useless along comes Vitor Marciano.  The entire article is Vitor complaining that the government does not give him enough information.  He openly admits that the information he does get is useless but he hungers for more.

Not once does Vitor talk about finding other sources of information.  He is OK with the Government as the sole arbiter of truth.  Vitor is not upset that he is being fed government propaganda; he is upset he does not have enough to fill his paper.  Vitor is lazy and stupid.  That combination makes him the gold standard of useless.

This will come as quite a surprise to Vitor and most other journalists in the world but there is a lot of information available about Covid.  The government does not provide it because it does not support their policy decisions.  Vitor could find it himself but that would mean actively seeking the truth.  Obviously Vitor spent enough years in government to know how dangerous it is to give people the truth.

The Truth really is out there and it is not that hard to find.  With the help of a few like-minded friends I have been able to find a lot of information about Covid.  For Vitor’s benefit here are the 4 most important things I have learned about Covid.

1. The government is lying when they say this is a close contact virus.

This is an airborne virus.  There is no way for millions of people to get infected otherwise.  Close contact viruses like the first SARs virus infect thousands and don’t spread quickly from one country to the next.  Airborne viruses like influenza infect millions and rapidly spread from country to country.  There is simply no way 90 million people can get infected by a close contact virus.

This is the single largest lie told by government during this farce.   The implications of this simple fact are enormous.  Indoors the virus remains active and airborne indefinitely.  The safest place to be is outdoors yet the government locked us indoors.  Once the virus is in a building staying 6 feet apart does nothing.  You do not have to go to the virus.  The building HVAC system will bring the virus to you.  Shopping at Walmart is no safer than wrestling with someone.

2. Surgical and cloth masks do not work

Masks have not made a difference anywhere they have been tried.  This is not surprising since all of the available science shows that masks cannot curb viral transmission.  Viruses are too small to be caught by the weave of a surgical mask.  Surgical masks are designed to catch Bacteria which are 10 times larger.  Cloth masks are not designed to catch anything.

3. Lockdowns do not work.

As with Masks, lockdowns have not made a difference anywhere.  If I gave you an unmarked plot of daily infections you would not be able to tell me when, or if, any restrictions had been applied.  The restrictions made no difference to the spread of the virus.  Places that did not lock down are completely indistinguishable from places that did.  There are now 23 scientific papers published that confirm this.

Unemployment is not an antiviral.  The idea of lockdowns came from a high school science project.  The Chinese communist party successfully promoted lockdowns as a way to curb the spread of a virus.  Their motivation was not about curbing the virus.  I have discussed their motivation in other posts and won’t do it again here.  It is enough to say they did not do this for our benefit.

Lockdowns do not work for 2 reasons.  First it is impossible to completely lockdown a modern society.  People still need groceries and many live in apartments where the air circulates freely between units.  The second reason is that Lockdowns curtail the movement of healthy people.  You cannot spread what you do not have.  Contrary to what the government tells us, healthy people don’t really spread the virus.  It is possible for a healthy person to inadvertently spread the virus on their clothing, but this is not a major source of infection.  If there is not enough on their clothing to make them sick it won’t make you sick either.

Asymptomatic viral spread has never been a major factor in any previous viral outbreak.  This is something that even the duplicitous weasel Fauci admitted on camera.  Rigorous contact tracing in the spring also confirmed this.  The risk of Asymptomatic spread is the second largest lie that the government has promoted during this “pandemic”

4. There is no second wave

Viruses simply do not do that.  After the epidemic phase viruses become endemic.  They never go away and sadly do continue to cause deaths for centuries.  The only thing that makes Covid different is that it hit in the spring.  Some countries were hit late.  The arrival of summer curbed the spread before many people were exposed.  Any country that was hit hard in the spring is now seeing normal seasonal death totals.  Countries that got off lightly in the spring are still in the epidemic phase and are now seeing excess deaths.

The Sars Cov2 virus like all other corona viruses is seasonal, it will return each winter.  We are now in the second season of Covid and it is ridiculous that we are keeping running totals that encompass more than one season.  If we did that for influenza the total death count would likely be approaching a billion by now.

If Vitor wasn’t so damn lazy maybe he could have done what Joe Rogan did.  Seek out people with knowledge and ask them real questions.

What does it tell you when Joe Rogan is one of the few real journalists in the world right now?  I don’t think he even sees himself as a journalist.

In previous posts I have presented data to support all of my arguments.  I have not reproduced that data in this post.  If you are new to my blog sorry but you will have to read the old posts to find the data.  I dealt with each issue more than once in separate posts.  Whether you are a new or old friend thanks for reading.  Please spread this information.  Knowledge really is our only defense.