Many wealthy countries are rapidly vaccinating their populations now with some very interesting results.  Qatar had very few problems with Covid until after they started vaccinating people.  Vaccinations began in late December and COVID cases started increasing shortly after.  See below.

Worse for Qatar their highest death rates have happened since vaccination began.

Israel has seen something similar.  I have discussed Israel before.  Israel is vaccinating their population faster than any other country.  They have already completely vaccinated 53% of their population.  COVID cases and deaths are falling but, as I previously discussed, they were falling rapidly in Israel before vaccinations started.  Vaccines did not change the rate of decrease.

It is too early to say if Vaccines are benefitting in Israel.  The same cannot be said about the cost.  Shortly after starting vaccinations Israel saw a rash of deaths.  All the excess deaths were Seniors (see below).

Israel rushed to vaccinate everyone to save seniors.  Unfortunately, is looks like the vaccine may have killed many seniors.  Notice also that there was absolutely no reason to vaccinate anyone under the age of 65.  There are no excess deaths for people under the age of 65.  You can not argue that COVID is a risk to that age group.

Of course, we are told that no one is safe until we are all vaccinated.  That is the single most iodic thing said in the last 13 months when almost everything uttered was idiotic.  If a vaccinated person can still be infected by an un-vaccinated person, the vaccine does not work.  In that case, why does anyone get the vaccine?

The reality is that very few people benefit from being Vaccinated.  For the average person under the age of 65 COVID is not life threatening.  The vaccine carries more risk than the virus for almost everyone.  Why would we even try to Vaccinate everyone?  It is an enormous waste of time and money.

More importantly, the majority of People will never get COVID in the first place.  After 2 seasons and with variants now running amok, only 3.5% of Albertans have tested positive.  Most of those people had mild or no symptoms.  There are still only 3 countries that have exceeded 10%.  No one in government is asking the obvious question.  Why aren’t more people getting sick?

Maybe governments are not asking because they already know the answer.  Contact tracing shows that you can be quarantined with an infectious person and only 18% of the time will they infect you.  This is almost exactly the percentage we saw on the diamond princess cruise ship.  After being quarantined together for weeks only 17% of people got infected.  There seems to be a high level of pre-existing immunity already in the population.  More and more studies like this one are confirming that.

https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(21)00145-2/abstract

42% of people in this study who had no known exposure to the virus already had SARs-CoV-2 antigens in their blood.

There is also this study that showed severe cases occur almost exclusively to people who are vitamin D deficient.

96% of severe and critical COVID infections occur with people who are vitamin D deficient.  If you are under the age of 65 and not vitamin D deficient your COVID risk is near zero.  The risk of the Vaccines may be small, but the risk of the virus is even smaller.  We are increasing the overall level of harm by insisting that everyone be vaccinated.

If you consider pre-existing immunity, vaccinating everyone carries a higher risk than letting the virus run its course.  That is something this author points out in this article with some basic math.

https://thecritic.co.uk/vaccine-certification-when-intolerance-meets-hypochondria/

An unvaccinated person imposes a 1 in 14 million risk of seriously infecting another person.  The Vaccine carries a 1 in 2.5 million risk of serious illness.  For me to protect someone else I must incur a personal risk 6 times higher than the threat I pose to them.  Call me anti-social, but I really do not care that much about strangers.

Vaccinate the people who are truly at risk and any other nervous Nellie who wants it.  Let them isolate or shelter in place while they wait for the vaccine.  In the meantime, let the rest of us get on with our own damn lives.  Why is this so difficult for people to understand?

The last shoe dropped yesterday, and it dropped hard.  2 days ago, the old school communist hag that still runs Alberta by proxy through Deena Hinshaw called for another lockdown.  Jason did not disappoint her.

Alberta went back to step 1.  You remember step one; it was supposed to be in effect until we dropped under 600 hospitalizations.  The last time Alberta had 600 hospitalizations was January 25^th.  Remind me again why we are back at step 1?

The problem with the old plan was that all we needed to achieve it was spring.  That would leave Jason sitting on millions of doses of vaccine that we do not need.  The mask has finally dropped.  Yesterday Jason finally admitted that his goal is to force us to be vaccinated.

You can see the new plan below.

Each phase of the plan now depends on levels of immunity.  Unless you are going to do antibody and T cell testing, vaccination records are the only way to verify levels of immunity.  Conspicuously absent from the new plan is antibody and T cell testing.

Yesterday Jason came as close to honest as he has ever been in his life.  He is going to force you to take the Vaccine.  Although, he is still not honest about why he is forcing you to take the vaccine.  Jason still wants you to think that he cares about your safety.

The game plan has always been about performing medical experiments on us without our consent.  And now Jason is clear about that.  No one gets their rights back until we all comply.  Jason Kenney is pure evil.

The Old School Communist hag who once inexplicitly got elected in Canada’s most capitalist province is at it again.  Here she is again advocating for the public health benefits of economic destruction.

Rachael is well versed in communism.  She knows that communism is the best way to suppress human life so why not try it on a virus?  Rachael is also well versed in lying.  Any communist that can get elected in Alberta is a world class liar.

Rachel tells the most convincing type of lie in this video.  One with a grain of truth.  Cases in Alberta are indeed going up.  Cases have been rising since March 12^th.  They are now 250% higher than March 12^th.

Hospitalizations are also up.

A 250% increase in cases has produced only an 18% increase in hospitalizations.  A shocking 0.007% of Albertans are now in the hospital with COVID.  According to Rachael the other 99.993% of us may as well get in line now.  We are all destined for the hospital if Jason does not increase unemployment.

I might be exaggerating a little on that one but what Rachel did say is that we will have 1000 people in the hospital soon.  Rachel has a funny idea of soon.  With each passing day we have about 2 more people in hospital.  At this rate we will hit 1000 people on January 31^st, 2022.  We obviously need to make people unemployed now.

When you look at COVID related deaths Rachels evil really shines through.  Cases in Alberta started rising March 12^th.  That means we should have seen deaths start to increase 9 days ago.  Here are the deaths.

COVID deaths are continuing to fall.  The last COVID death in Alberta was last Thursday.  Alberta is no different than anywhere else right now.  We are seeing a wave of Variants that are producing nothing more than positive tests.  Even this cannot last.  Cases will peak in the next 1 to 3 weeks and then fall as summer approaches.

The “crisis” is over the virus is mutating to a more infectious, less deadly form.  This is a good thing.  We can now achieve herd immunity without excessive deaths.  The only news that could be better than this is if Jason, Deena, and Rachel decided to leave Alberta.

I have not looked at Canada as a whole for a while so yesterday I checked the Canadian numbers and I noticed something very interesting.  Cases are increasing rapidly in Canada right now.  Presumably due to new variants.  This rapid increase in cases caused several premiers to ramp up lockdowns.  Of course these were premiers with populations that approve of tyranny.

I did not find it interesting that politicians who could use cases as an excuse for tyranny did so.  What I found interesting is that while cases are going up deaths continue to fall.  See below.

Of course Cases and deaths don’t follow each other on the same day.  Deaths always lag behind cases.  So are we on the cusp of increasing deaths?  To figure that out I have time shifted the curves.  When I do that for last season I found that deaths lagged cases by 10 days.

Deaths rose and fell 10 days after the cases counts.  When I do the same thing for the current season I get a 16 day lag.  With increased testing we seem to be identifying cases 6 days earlier.

Cases have been rising since March 7^th (the red line).  With a 16 day lag, deaths should have started rising 2 weeks ago and they did not.  Deaths have continued to fall.

It is hard to tell with any certainty where the 2 curves diverge but it appeared to start in early February (the green line).  That made me wonder when variants were first identified in Canada.  I did not find that date but I did find this from Ontario.

In early February Variants started to increase rapidly in Ontario.   Correlation is not causation but the 2 line up nicely.  Could it be that the variants are more contagious and less lethal?  All Viruses mutate.  That is why the flu shot changes every year.  It is not uncommon for the new variants to become less lethal.  It is just natural selection.  A virus that does not kill as often, spreads more widely.

The interesting thing is that this is not just confined to Canada.  Finland, Norway, France, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands are all seeing increased cases without increasing deaths.  In fact every one of those countries now has average or below average deaths for this time of year.

The case plots come from worldometer and the deaths come from Euromomo. You can see them at the end of the post.

Variants are the new boogieman.  We will never get our rights back because of the threat of variants.  This whole farce started because of a viral threat looming on the horizon.  The original SARS COV 2 was going to infect and kill us all.  That did not happen.  What did happen was a bunch of evil bastards stole our rights and our money.

Now those same evil bastards tell us we need to remain locked down.  The lockdowns need to be ramped up due to how contagious the new variants are.  Of course the focus is now on the cases.  Deaths will surely follow cases; we are told.  The tiny problem with that logic is that deaths should already be increasing and they are not.

Of course logic is not the strong suit of many politicians.  Below is the front page of today’s Calgary Sun.  The preening Purple moron is very worried that people are not dying.

Evil or stupid it does not matter.  Nenshi and every other elected official in this country needs to go.  Then we start with the career Bureaucrats who are really in charge.