This article caught my attention this morning.

https://gript.ie/decision-to-lockdown-caused-282-times-the-loss-of-years-of-life-says-economics-professor/

Lockdowns have been used by most governments around the world.  They are sold as effective and our only option.  We are constantly told the cost of not locking down is unacceptable.  This often repeated statement implies that governments have already done a rigorous cost benefit analysis of lockdowns.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

No Government has ever presented a cost benefit analysis to justify lockdowns.  This means they have either not been done or, they do not support the government position.  Since governments have been unable or unwilling to produce this analysis, Dr.  Allen has done his own.  You can find his paper here.

http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/LockdownReport.pdf

Dr. Allen finds that lockdowns cost 282 times more than the benefit they provide but even this does not tell the whole story.  It is easy to calculate the cost of the lockdowns and Dr. Allen explains his methodology.  Unfortunately for Dr. Allen it is not easy determining lockdown benefits.

Dr. Allen does a literature review of papers examining lockdown effectiveness.  He ignores any paper published soon after the first wave (season) of COVID.  This is done with good reason.  The early papers often showed large lockdown benefits but this is misleading.  These papers found benefits by comparing to simulations that we now know to be faulty.  Or, a benefit was found in countries where the virus simply had not taken hold before spring arrived and reduced infections naturally.  More recent studies simply have more and better data to work with.

The more recent studies all come to the same conclusion.  There is no correlation between lockdown severity and reduced mortality.  Some studies even found that harsh lockdowns increased the number of COVID deaths.  None of these academics were willing to state unequivocally that Lockdowns produced no benefits.  What they did say was this.  If lockdowns have a benefit it is so small that it cannot be seen in the data.

So how did Dr. Allen calculate the economic benefit of lockdowns if you can’t show that lockdowns saved any lives?  If you read to the end of his paper you will find Dr. Allen was forced to assume the benefit.  He assumed that deaths would have been 10% higher without lockdowns.  This is a number that cannot be backed up.  It seems Dr. Allen was not willing to believe the benefit was 0 or even negative.  A zero benefit would have made the cost/benefit ratio infinitely large.

Academics are starting to acknowledge what a horrible mistake lockdowns are.  They are all pain for little to no gain.  This should make lockdowns less attractive yet Canadian politicians continue to increase restrictions.  Lockdowns do not benefit the average Canadian but they must benefit Canadian Politicians.  The implications of that are chilling.

In March of 2020 we were told that COVID was the end of times.  The virus was highly infectious and inordinately deadly.  The media was scaring people by reporting thousands of new cases every day.  Most people were afraid.  So afraid they were willing to surrender their rights to the government for protection from the virus.  Their fear blinded them to the fact that nothing the government did changed the course of the epidemic.

Few questioned why the government chose to “protect” the population by forcing millions of people into unemployment and printing billions of new currencies.  Anyone who did was branded as dangerous and selfish.  These dangerous and selfish people were of course the independent thinkers the government worked diligently to identify and suppress.

Independent thinkers are different from the general population in 2 very important ways.

1. They can maintain rationality in stressful situations.
2. Their ability to do grade school math.

Grade school math was the key to Understanding just how big this farce really was.  A large number divided by a much larger number is a small percentage.  The large number of infections was still a small percentage of the population.  Why were more people not getting sick?

Last April 83% of the people on the diamond princess did not get sick, despite being quarantined in close contact for weeks.  Independent thinkers to postulated that most people are naturally immune to the Sars CoV2 virus.  This completely rational conclusion has since been confirmed by multiple studies including this one.

https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/146316

This is a Canadian study published 2 months ago.  They tested only a limited number of people but were surprised to find natural immunity in up to 90% of the adults.  Below is an excerpt from their conclusions.

In conclusion, this study reveals common preexisting, broadly reactive SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in uninfected adults.

2 months ago, it was confirmed again that most people do not need to be vaccinated.  The Canadian Government has ignored this Canadian produced science.  They have ignored all science in the last 14 months.  Canadians remain locked down because of the government’s steadfast refusal to “follow the science”.  At this point I almost feel silly repeating this but, it is not about the virus.  Canadians better soon wake up.

Every time a true believer wants to convince me how wrong I am about COVID they tell me a story about a young healthy person dying.  Of course they do not know the “healthy” young person they are describing.  The information is coming from the news.  The media desperately searches for stories of young people dying of COVID.  The task the government has given them is to convince the public everyone is equally at risk from COVID.  The Media has taken that assignment very seriously.

The fact is that young healthy people dying from COVID is exceptionally rare.  The Stories the media trumpets invariable involve someone in another country who turns out to be in very poor health.  Unfortunately something that is becoming far less rare is young healthy people dying from the vaccine treatments.

People still do not understand that the COVID vaccine treatments are a medical procedure.  Any medical procedure caries a risk.  The question is the risk/reward of subjecting yourself to the treatment.  If you have a 10% chance of dying from a disease but a 1% chance of dying from the treatment the risk reward is quite good even though the treatment could kill you.  Currently Governments are coercing people in to getting the Vaccine treatment without explaining the risk/reward trade off.

I know right now the true believers are dismissing me as a crank.  They will be quick to point out that the news constantly quotes experts who tell you your chance of dying from the virus is higher than your chance of dying from the vaccine treatment.  If these “experts are telling the truth then this is very hard to explain.

https://nationalfile.com/video-fauci-fda-director-admit-40-50-of-nih-and-fda-employees-are-refusing-covid-vaccine/

Why are the people who know the most about the vaccines treatments the least likely to take it?  They obviously know something that you do not.  The “Experts” are being very deceptive.  It is not what they are telling you it is what they are not telling you.

Here is what they are not telling you.  Your chance of dying from the virus is extremely low in the first place.  The Younger you are the more remote your chance of death.  When they quote the risk of the virus they talk about the overall risk even though almost all the deaths are people over 70 in poor health.  The Vaccine treatment poses a low risk to everyone.  The virus only poses a high risk to ill elderly.

The risk/reward for ill elderly people is far different than risk/reward for young healthy people yet the government wants everyone to be vaccinated treated.  This is insane.  In my opinion anyone under 60 in good health has no compelling reason to take the vaccine treatment.  75% of the country does not need this.  But, you might ask what the harm in vaccinating treating everyone is?

For starters most people I know are not taking the vaccine treatment willingly.  They are taking in the belief that the government will not give them back their rights if they don’t.  This is not consent.  If you kidnap someone and promise to let them go in return for sex it is still rape.  The Government is raping everyone right now.  Hyperbole I know, but the analogy fits.

Coercion is bad enough but the larger problem is that we are wasting a scarce resource.  Canada does not have enough supply.  Right now 38.9% of Canadians have received one dose but only 3.3% of people are fully vaccinated treated.  The Prime Moron has bungled vaccine treatment procurement.  We do not have enough to vaccinate treat everyone.  We do have enough to vaccinate treat everyone who really needs it.  Unfortunately, that is not what we are doing.

The premiers and the Prime Moron put all their eggs in the vaccination basket.  Instead of exploring all options they jailed us in our homes.  We were promised pardons after enough people are vaccinated treated.  Their plans depend on experimental chemicals that they do not possess.  To cover their incompetence they are giving everyone one dose of a two dose system to make the numbers look better.  All of the manufacturers have issued statements condemning this practice.

We are misapplying an experimental procedure.  That should send chills down everyone’s spine.  Worse we are doing this to cover incompetence and lying.  That is the problem with lying.  Lies tend to compound themselves.  COVID is only a high risk for ill elderly.  The government lied about this, they told us everyone was at risk.  They lied to us to facilitate removing our rights.  Now the government is lying, again, to cover the original lie.

38.9% of Canadians have not been vaccinated.  3.3% of Canadians have been treated as per the manufacturer’s recommendation.  35.6% of Canadians have had an experimental treatment misapplied.  They are guinea pigs in a horrible, unethical, experiment.

Geert Vanden Bossche is a European virologist.  He believes that the Vaccination programs are enabling the formation of variants.  Here is an excerpt from his open letter to the WHO.

As mass vaccination campaigns have started in the vulnerable population, not only vaccinated subjects but also not yet vaccinated younger age groups will become a breeding ground for new infectious variants. There can be no doubt that continued mass vaccination campaigns will enable new, more infectious viral variants to become increasingly dominant and ultimately result in a dramatic incline in new cases despite enhanced vaccine coverage rates. There can be no doubt either that this situation will soon lead to complete resistance of circulating variants to the current vaccines. This is certainly not what would be expected by those who claim that enhanced and accelerated mass vaccination is going to diminish circulation of new dominant variants and will, therefore, further reduce viral infection rates and flatten morbidity and mortality curves. 

You can see the whole letter here.

DVM, PhD | Geert Vanden Bossche

Dr. Vanden Bossshe is not the only virologist that thinks this way.  I have read similar opinions from others, but I confess I still do not follow the logic.  Whether I follow the logic or not what they are saying is this.  Vaccinating while the virus is actively spreading is not a good idea.

Many will find this opinion controversial, but it does fit the data.  I have posted about how infections surge after vaccinations start.  Disagreements are the norm not the exception in science.  This will be quite surprising for anyone who listens to popular media, but science is never settled.  The minute the science is settled it becomes Engineering.

Alberta is one of the places where infections and variants exploded with the advent of vaccinations.  Thankfully, these variants are not particularly deadly.  It seems the more variants we have the fewer people that die.

Notice that until May 1^st the prevalence of variants followed closely with Vaccinations.  For almost 2 weeks now they are no longer tracking.  I do not know if that is real or if someone at AHS finally noticed how embarrassing this is becoming.  Fortunately for AHS, figure 22 does not track all variants just variants of Concern.  After May 1^st it appears that our government cannot find many variants to be concerned about.

Since deaths quickly dropped to zero (effectively) soon after the variants appeared, I have never been concerned about variants.  I find it very unsettling to agree with the government on anything but here we are.  If the Government now finally agrees with my assessment that variants are not a problem, why are we still in lockdown?  Can we finally admit this is not about the virus?

This woman poetically agrees that this is not about a virus.  Enjoy.

I don't know who she is or who wrote it but its Genius work and delivered seamlessly. pic.twitter.com/hPfvDouigD

— conspiracyguy (@conspiracyguy8) May 11, 2021

This letter lifts my spirits, but will it result in anything different?  He speaks about rebuilding the economy, but does he understand that means lifting the lockdowns and pledging never again starting the downward spiral of restrictions?  Does he realize the new person must fire Deena Hinshaw?

Jason Kenney has been operating outside the law for 14 months now.  It is way past time for MLAs to stop cheering and start standing up for our rights.

Below are the first 2 clauses of the Alberta Charter of rights.  Read them and ask yourself if anything the UCP has done during this “pandemic” did not violate the bill of rights.

1. It is hereby recognized and declared that in Alberta there exist without discrimination by reason of race, national origin, colour, religion, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity or gender expression, the following human rights and fundamental freedoms, namely:
   1. the right of the individual to liberty, security of the person and enjoyment of property, and the right not to be deprived thereof except by due process of law.
   2. the right of the individual to equality before the law and the protection of the law
   3. freedom of religion
   4. freedom of speech
   5. freedom of assembly and association
   6. freedom of the press
   7. the right of parents to make informed decisions respecting the education of their children.
2. Every law of Alberta shall, unless it is expressly declared by an Act of the Legislature that it operates notwithstanding the Alberta Bill of Rights, be so construed and applied as not to abrogate, abridge or infringe or to authorize the abrogation, abridgment or infringement of any of the rights or freedoms herein recognized and declared.

If we get rid of Jason Kenney and the new leadership does not immediately remove all restrictions, then we have accomplished nothing.  We have just traded one unlawful administration for another.  Everyone needs to write their MLA and inform them that it is time to stand up and be counted.  They have been silent as Jason Kenney went on a 14-month crime spree.  Their refusal to stand up for the law makes them equally liable.   There will be trials when this is over.  Do they want to be witnesses or defendants?

They can not keep us on our knees forever.