Tar wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 6:38 pmBig Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 4:20 pm hahahaha
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Somebody needs to fix the matrix.
COVID-19: the aftermath
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Personal story time. having to break into 2 post due to internal server error message
I might be getting a deep freezer. As you may know if you aint a soiboy, beef prices are insane! As you may also know, lots of cattle farms in the hills of east TN. One of our new yocol friends parents have a cattle farm. Now get this:
I might be getting a deep freezer. As you may know if you aint a soiboy, beef prices are insane! As you may also know, lots of cattle farms in the hills of east TN. One of our new yocol friends parents have a cattle farm. Now get this:
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they are having to euthanize cattle.
WHY pray tell with beef still nearly 2x from a year ago?
The processors are not or cannot take them. The larger animals eat the most, and with feed going up and space limitations they are in a pickle. So they are trying to sell what they can through word of mouth, but due to feed supply issues and not being able to sell animals they have to kill some. They are trying their best to find homes for the meat and make some ROI too.
This is what "2 weeks to flatten the curve" looks like two years later. the entire supply chain is FUCKED and this is only the beginning, we will see the real pain in about 8 months. I'm strongly considering a large bag of rice from the costco as cheap insurance against food shortages.
We must never allow this to happen again, period. Even the gov admits shutdowns did fuck all to slow the spread even combined with the other NPI's.
WHY pray tell with beef still nearly 2x from a year ago?
The processors are not or cannot take them. The larger animals eat the most, and with feed going up and space limitations they are in a pickle. So they are trying to sell what they can through word of mouth, but due to feed supply issues and not being able to sell animals they have to kill some. They are trying their best to find homes for the meat and make some ROI too.
This is what "2 weeks to flatten the curve" looks like two years later. the entire supply chain is FUCKED and this is only the beginning, we will see the real pain in about 8 months. I'm strongly considering a large bag of rice from the costco as cheap insurance against food shortages.
We must never allow this to happen again, period. Even the gov admits shutdowns did fuck all to slow the spread even combined with the other NPI's.
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Most people are deer in the headlights, or worse yet they don't believe that these actions are being orchestrated on purpose by very bad people. Once they figure it out there's going to be a massive uprising, and a shortage of food is the strongest trigger for such an event.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:06 am they are having to euthanize cattle.
WHY pray tell with beef still nearly 2x from a year ago?
The processors are not or cannot take them. The larger animals eat the most, and with feed going up and space limitations they are in a pickle. So they are trying to sell what they can through word of mouth, but due to feed supply issues and not being able to sell animals they have to kill some. They are trying their best to find homes for the meat and make some ROI too.
This is what "2 weeks to flatten the curve" looks like two years later. the entire supply chain is FUCKED and this is only the beginning, we will see the real pain in about 8 months. I'm strongly considering a large bag of rice from the costco as cheap insurance against food shortages.
We must never allow this to happen again, period. Even the gov admits shutdowns did fuck all to slow the spread even combined with the other NPI's.
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Personal opinion: hang on for a spicy 8 months as all this corona shit, the Hunter Biden shit, and the general fuckery of the US gov Republicunts and democrats alike comes to light.
Good. The last place on earth that is not totalitarian that had a nationwide vax mandate on the table killed it.Vaccine Mandate Decisively Defeated in German Bundestag
The proposal to require injections for everyone 60 and older will go nowhere.
Personal opinion: hang on for a spicy 8 months as all this corona shit, the Hunter Biden shit, and the general fuckery of the US gov Republicunts and democrats alike comes to light.
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the coverup is entering its panic phase
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the ... lly-hiding
Side note; recently rewatched v for vendetta. You forget the details and remember the over reaching anti-gov theme of the film. But an important detail: the totalitarian state alllllll started with a virus...then experimented on deplorables......... and in the end it was confirmed that the state itself released the contagion to cause a panic and get said totalitarian power.
That doesn't sound familiar at all now does it?
Anyway, elder millennial man continues to scream into box.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the ... lly-hiding
Side note; recently rewatched v for vendetta. You forget the details and remember the over reaching anti-gov theme of the film. But an important detail: the totalitarian state alllllll started with a virus...then experimented on deplorables......... and in the end it was confirmed that the state itself released the contagion to cause a panic and get said totalitarian power.
That doesn't sound familiar at all now does it?
Anyway, elder millennial man continues to scream into box.
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Former state is trying to conduct a mass experiment on children:
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-b ... 2X8RKbxpDw
Meanwhile in a free state:
horse cum will be available for the treatment or covid19 without a prescription in Tennessee.
The state’s Senate and House leaders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill the final approval on the bill SB2188/HB2746 (on April 8, 2022).
The bill will allow a pharmacist to provide horse cum to a patient in accordance with a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement containing a non-patient-specific prescriptive order, developed and executed by one or more authorized prescribers.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-b ... 2X8RKbxpDw
Meanwhile in a free state:
horse cum will be available for the treatment or covid19 without a prescription in Tennessee.
The state’s Senate and House leaders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill the final approval on the bill SB2188/HB2746 (on April 8, 2022).
The bill will allow a pharmacist to provide horse cum to a patient in accordance with a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement containing a non-patient-specific prescriptive order, developed and executed by one or more authorized prescribers.
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Good.California gives up on trying to force kids to get Covid shots
More proof that mRNA shots are just as risky politically as they are medically.
.....
So school mRNA shot mandates are effectively dead in California.
Which means they’re dead everywhere.
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Mask mandate dead on travel.
Fucking about time. Its well and truly over now. Now, never again shall this be allowed.
Mask mandate dead on travel.
Fucking about time. Its well and truly over now. Now, never again shall this be allowed.
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Unless you're Canadian and unvaxxed, then don't expect to be allowed on flights as long as the current libs are in power.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:02 pm https://apnews.com/article/biden-health ... ce=Twitter
Mask mandate dead on travel.
Fucking about time. Its well and truly over now. Now, never again shall this be allowed.
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It will happen soon. the shit is about to hit the fan with either war. economy, or the covid fraud. When it does all that shit will drop and be forgotten even by the turdoTar wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 4:10 pmUnless you're Canadian and unvaxxed, then don't expect to be allowed on flights as long as the current libs are in power.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:02 pm https://apnews.com/article/biden-health ... ce=Twitter
Mask mandate dead on travel.
Fucking about time. Its well and truly over now. Now, never again shall this be allowed.
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Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:34 amIt will happen soon. the shit is about to hit the fan with either war. economy, or the covid fraud. When it does all that shit will drop and be forgotten even by the turdo
So all it takes is WW3 to knock Turdo off of his high horse.
This is why y'all should strongly value your rights and freedoms, I know a few here liked to mock it those who pushed back against COVID lockdown policies citing "freedumbs" etc, but from my POV that ain't right.
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Most of us do; the ones that don't mostly left to their chat app echo chamber to do whatever circle jerking they do in there.Tar wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:17 amBig Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:34 am
It will happen soon. the shit is about to hit the fan with either war. economy, or the covid fraud. When it does all that shit will drop and be forgotten even by the turdo
So all it takes is WW3 to knock Turdo off of his high horse.
This is why y'all should strongly value your rights and freedoms, I know a few here liked to mock it those who pushed back against COVID lockdown policies citing "freedumbs" etc, but from my POV that ain't right.
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Once you've been neutered, it's hard to get your back. I feel like that's where we are at on the freedom spectrum.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 11:44 amMost of us do; the ones that don't mostly left to their chat app echo chamber to do whatever circle jerking they do in there.Tar wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:17 am
So all it takes is WW3 to knock Turdo off of his high horse.
This is why y'all should strongly value your rights and freedoms, I know a few here liked to mock it those who pushed back against COVID lockdown policies citing "freedumbs" etc, but from my POV that ain't right.
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Yea, probably.Tar wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 1:41 pmOnce you've been neutered, it's hard to get your back. I feel like that's where we are at on the freedom spectrum.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 11:44 am
Most of us do; the ones that don't mostly left to their chat app echo chamber to do whatever circle jerking they do in there.
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https://gab.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/posts/108160491669296003
Every single person that advocated for raping their fellow man with an unwanted medical treatment deserves to swing toes down from a rope just like any rapist.
Every single one of you that sat back and said nothing to 'play the middle' or 'go with the flow' should be ashamed of yourselves, and I hope you have learned why even what you might think are small forms of evil cannot be allowed to exist in a free society.
Every single person that advocated for raping their fellow man with an unwanted medical treatment deserves to swing toes down from a rope just like any rapist.
Every single one of you that sat back and said nothing to 'play the middle' or 'go with the flow' should be ashamed of yourselves, and I hope you have learned why even what you might think are small forms of evil cannot be allowed to exist in a free society.
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So is this going anywhere? Legal recourse?Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 8:44 am https://gab.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/posts/108160491669296003
Every single person that advocated for raping their fellow man with an unwanted medical treatment deserves to swing toes down from a rope just like any rapist.
Every single one of you that sat back and said nothing to 'play the middle' or 'go with the flow' should be ashamed of yourselves, and I hope you have learned why even what you might think are small forms of evil cannot be allowed to exist in a free society.
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I hope so, but probably not. The dead can't sue, and in the US you can't sue the maker of a vaccine. You can only go before a gov board that has access to monies the vax manufactures pay into as part of the law that says you can't sue them. A vax that is under EUA like the covid ones have even more protection...the burden of proof to get a settlement from the gov insurance system is "beyond a reasonable doubt" , a nearly impossible legal standard.Tar wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:23 amSo is this going anywhere? Legal recourse?Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 8:44 am https://gab.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/posts/108160491669296003
Every single person that advocated for raping their fellow man with an unwanted medical treatment deserves to swing toes down from a rope just like any rapist.
Every single one of you that sat back and said nothing to 'play the middle' or 'go with the flow' should be ashamed of yourselves, and I hope you have learned why even what you might think are small forms of evil cannot be allowed to exist in a free society.
So the legal recourse is tar, feathers, pitchforks, and failing those ar-15's
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I'm sure the head cuck & child king in charge's word filter broke that link, you know what to do should that be the case.
The left bout to learn about real free speech again, they big mad
Best tweet about the Elon twater takeover was
"Democrats haven't been this mad about an African fighting for freedom since they started the KKK"
Anyway, on the covid aftermath front, I can now buy the wonder drug over the counter in the godd free state of TN. I probably will just because.
it would seem day by day, fauchi the fuck-stick is dialing back his claims and expectations.
Or put another way, he's gaslighting the public.
I'm sure the head cuck & child king in charge's word filter broke that link, you know what to do should that be the case.
The left bout to learn about real free speech again, they big mad
Best tweet about the Elon twater takeover was
"Democrats haven't been this mad about an African fighting for freedom since they started the KKK"
Anyway, on the covid aftermath front, I can now buy the wonder drug over the counter in the godd free state of TN. I probably will just because.
it would seem day by day, fauchi the fuck-stick is dialing back his claims and expectations.
Or put another way, he's gaslighting the public.
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This is what our politicians are doing to push the stats up. It's responsible for at least 50% of my misery, and I'm not alone.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 10:30 am https://www.westernjournal.com/zoo-clai ... culations/
Agree, peak clown world is nigh
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Here's one for you to digest with Breaky.. The country that vaccinates their Zoo animals against Covid-19 does it again by extending detrimental restrictions to some unvaccinated folks (19% over 5 yrs old of the country)
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/r ... eab5ee1d51
On May 2, Switzerland and Greece are set to remove all COVID-related travel restrictions. Visitors will no longer be required to show proof of vaccination, proof of recovery or a recent negative test. The Swiss, who are 70 per cent fully vaccinated — a rate much lower than Canada’s approximate 81 per cent — removed virtually all domestic pandemic restrictions a month ago, and friends and family there tell me that life is back to pre-pandemic times. Most European countries have either removed, or are in the final stages of removing, pandemic restrictions. In the United States, most of President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandates have been gutted by the courts and lie in tatters. Most U.S. states have rolled back pandemic restrictions wholly or in large measure. Throughout much of Asia, with the notable exception of China, life has largely returned to normal.
That leaves Canada, which continues to be an outlier in terms of the severity and longevity of COVID-related rules, restrictions and mandates. Federal mandates as they relate to the civil service, and arriving at the Canadian border, remain in place. This effectively means that almost 3.7 million unvaccinated Canadians remain prisoners in their own country unless they are willing to undergo pre-entry tests upon return, while unvaccinated public servants face a bleak and uncertain future. While several provinces, including Ontario, have lifted most restrictions, Quebec has retained its mask mandate, which is slated to be lifted only in the middle of May. Municipalities such as Ottawa, where most people never saw a rule they didn’t like, were threatening to reimpose mask mandates by looking at wastewater signals, which seem to have miraculously come down without anyone doing anything. However, such alarm bells resulted in some institutions, such as Carleton University and the Ottawa Carleton District School Board, deciding to retain the mask mandate even though the province had lifted its restrictions.
At the same time, leading experts continue to sound a pessimistic note. A recent paper co-authored by David Fisman, a former member of the Ontario Science Table and a well-known advocate of vaccine mandates, ran a calibrated mathematical model and concluded that vaccine mandates make sense because they reduce the transmission of the virus under some baseline assumptions. A critical driving assumption of the model is that the vaccinated are significantly less likely than the unvaccinated to transmit the virus. But a host of recent studies cast serious doubt on this assumption. A January study published in the Lancet, a top peer-reviewed medical journal, itself citing previous research, argues that “the impact of vaccination on community transmission of circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2 appeared to be not significantly different from the impact among unvaccinated people.” A more recent study, from this past month, in the pre-print stage, so not yet peer-reviewed, finds that , “Omicron-infected patients who had received a third vaccine dose had viral loads similar to patients with two doses or who were unvaccinated.”
In other words, the key assumption that drives the results of Fisman’s study appears increasingly contradicted by real world empirical studies. Without this assumption, the model’s results and its conclusion in favour of vaccine mandates totally fall apart. Yet the paper excited the commenting class because it appeared to lend scientific support for continuing vaccine mandates. In sensible places, public policy is informed by data-based analysis, which crunches actual real world numbers and runs counterfactual experiments to come up with policy recommendations. Models based on theory alone are useful in fixing our intuitions about causal mechanisms, but by themselves cannot be meaningful guidelines for policy, unless they’re combined with real world data that backs up their theoretical assumptions. This is much like the situation in economics, in which, depending on the assumptions you make, a theoretical model can prove just about anything you want it to. To be a useful guide for policymakers, theory must be backed up with solid, real world empirical evidence.
While the gathering evidence undercuts the case for vaccine mandates, what about mask mandates? Recall that Quebec, while lifting its vaccine mandate like Ontario, chose to retain its mask mandate. If there was any benefit, it doesn’t show up in the data: the hospitalization rate per 100,000 of population is 28 in Quebec and only 12 in Ontario. Of course, there are a lot of other differences between the two provinces, but this staggering difference in the hospitalization rate certainly does not provide compelling evidence in favour of Quebec’s more stringent rules having made a difference.
The truth is that, unlike most places in the world, many Canadians, both policymakers and the public, seem unwilling to move on from the pandemic and return to life as usual. In a country known for a culture of compliance, there’s been a serious lack of leadership, especially at the level of the federal government, in signalling in no uncertain terms that we are now in the last lap of the pandemic. Instead, ambiguous messaging and keeping federal vaccine mandates in force for the indefinite future only serve to keep the populace in a state of fear and anxiety. Beyond providing a rationale for unending government control by rule and mandate, what other purpose is served? Countries spanning the political spectrum from left to right are now firmly in the endgame, while here in Canada, we’re still fussing about the sixth wave, reading the wastewater signals like tea leaves, and wondering whether life will ever return to normal. Our friends around the world are scratching their heads and asking, what is so special about Canada?
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/r ... eab5ee1d51
On May 2, Switzerland and Greece are set to remove all COVID-related travel restrictions. Visitors will no longer be required to show proof of vaccination, proof of recovery or a recent negative test. The Swiss, who are 70 per cent fully vaccinated — a rate much lower than Canada’s approximate 81 per cent — removed virtually all domestic pandemic restrictions a month ago, and friends and family there tell me that life is back to pre-pandemic times. Most European countries have either removed, or are in the final stages of removing, pandemic restrictions. In the United States, most of President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandates have been gutted by the courts and lie in tatters. Most U.S. states have rolled back pandemic restrictions wholly or in large measure. Throughout much of Asia, with the notable exception of China, life has largely returned to normal.
That leaves Canada, which continues to be an outlier in terms of the severity and longevity of COVID-related rules, restrictions and mandates. Federal mandates as they relate to the civil service, and arriving at the Canadian border, remain in place. This effectively means that almost 3.7 million unvaccinated Canadians remain prisoners in their own country unless they are willing to undergo pre-entry tests upon return, while unvaccinated public servants face a bleak and uncertain future. While several provinces, including Ontario, have lifted most restrictions, Quebec has retained its mask mandate, which is slated to be lifted only in the middle of May. Municipalities such as Ottawa, where most people never saw a rule they didn’t like, were threatening to reimpose mask mandates by looking at wastewater signals, which seem to have miraculously come down without anyone doing anything. However, such alarm bells resulted in some institutions, such as Carleton University and the Ottawa Carleton District School Board, deciding to retain the mask mandate even though the province had lifted its restrictions.
At the same time, leading experts continue to sound a pessimistic note. A recent paper co-authored by David Fisman, a former member of the Ontario Science Table and a well-known advocate of vaccine mandates, ran a calibrated mathematical model and concluded that vaccine mandates make sense because they reduce the transmission of the virus under some baseline assumptions. A critical driving assumption of the model is that the vaccinated are significantly less likely than the unvaccinated to transmit the virus. But a host of recent studies cast serious doubt on this assumption. A January study published in the Lancet, a top peer-reviewed medical journal, itself citing previous research, argues that “the impact of vaccination on community transmission of circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2 appeared to be not significantly different from the impact among unvaccinated people.” A more recent study, from this past month, in the pre-print stage, so not yet peer-reviewed, finds that , “Omicron-infected patients who had received a third vaccine dose had viral loads similar to patients with two doses or who were unvaccinated.”
In other words, the key assumption that drives the results of Fisman’s study appears increasingly contradicted by real world empirical studies. Without this assumption, the model’s results and its conclusion in favour of vaccine mandates totally fall apart. Yet the paper excited the commenting class because it appeared to lend scientific support for continuing vaccine mandates. In sensible places, public policy is informed by data-based analysis, which crunches actual real world numbers and runs counterfactual experiments to come up with policy recommendations. Models based on theory alone are useful in fixing our intuitions about causal mechanisms, but by themselves cannot be meaningful guidelines for policy, unless they’re combined with real world data that backs up their theoretical assumptions. This is much like the situation in economics, in which, depending on the assumptions you make, a theoretical model can prove just about anything you want it to. To be a useful guide for policymakers, theory must be backed up with solid, real world empirical evidence.
While the gathering evidence undercuts the case for vaccine mandates, what about mask mandates? Recall that Quebec, while lifting its vaccine mandate like Ontario, chose to retain its mask mandate. If there was any benefit, it doesn’t show up in the data: the hospitalization rate per 100,000 of population is 28 in Quebec and only 12 in Ontario. Of course, there are a lot of other differences between the two provinces, but this staggering difference in the hospitalization rate certainly does not provide compelling evidence in favour of Quebec’s more stringent rules having made a difference.
The truth is that, unlike most places in the world, many Canadians, both policymakers and the public, seem unwilling to move on from the pandemic and return to life as usual. In a country known for a culture of compliance, there’s been a serious lack of leadership, especially at the level of the federal government, in signalling in no uncertain terms that we are now in the last lap of the pandemic. Instead, ambiguous messaging and keeping federal vaccine mandates in force for the indefinite future only serve to keep the populace in a state of fear and anxiety. Beyond providing a rationale for unending government control by rule and mandate, what other purpose is served? Countries spanning the political spectrum from left to right are now firmly in the endgame, while here in Canada, we’re still fussing about the sixth wave, reading the wastewater signals like tea leaves, and wondering whether life will ever return to normal. Our friends around the world are scratching their heads and asking, what is so special about Canada?
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Your leaders are communist, thats why its only you all and China left. I'm convinced China and Russia are independently trying to break the back of the petrodollar with war and covid respectively. China by now knows daym well that covid cant be stopped. Shutting down the biggest port city is a not so subtle play to impose more supply-chain-pain on the west.Tar wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 12:36 am Here's one for you to digest with Breaky.. The country that vaccinates their Zoo animals against Covid-19 does it again by extending detrimental restrictions to some unvaccinated folks (19% over 5 yrs old of the country)
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/r ... eab5ee1d51
On May 2, Switzerland and Greece are set to remove all COVID-related travel restrictions. Visitors will no longer be required to show proof of vaccination, proof of recovery or a recent negative test. The Swiss, who are 70 per cent fully vaccinated — a rate much lower than Canada’s approximate 81 per cent — removed virtually all domestic pandemic restrictions a month ago, and friends and family there tell me that life is back to pre-pandemic times. Most European countries have either removed, or are in the final stages of removing, pandemic restrictions. In the United States, most of President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandates have been gutted by the courts and lie in tatters. Most U.S. states have rolled back pandemic restrictions wholly or in large measure. Throughout much of Asia, with the notable exception of China, life has largely returned to normal.
That leaves Canada, which continues to be an outlier in terms of the severity and longevity of COVID-related rules, restrictions and mandates. Federal mandates as they relate to the civil service, and arriving at the Canadian border, remain in place. This effectively means that almost 3.7 million unvaccinated Canadians remain prisoners in their own country unless they are willing to undergo pre-entry tests upon return, while unvaccinated public servants face a bleak and uncertain future. While several provinces, including Ontario, have lifted most restrictions, Quebec has retained its mask mandate, which is slated to be lifted only in the middle of May. Municipalities such as Ottawa, where most people never saw a rule they didn’t like, were threatening to reimpose mask mandates by looking at wastewater signals, which seem to have miraculously come down without anyone doing anything. However, such alarm bells resulted in some institutions, such as Carleton University and the Ottawa Carleton District School Board, deciding to retain the mask mandate even though the province had lifted its restrictions.
At the same time, leading experts continue to sound a pessimistic note. A recent paper co-authored by David Fisman, a former member of the Ontario Science Table and a well-known advocate of vaccine mandates, ran a calibrated mathematical model and concluded that vaccine mandates make sense because they reduce the transmission of the virus under some baseline assumptions. A critical driving assumption of the model is that the vaccinated are significantly less likely than the unvaccinated to transmit the virus. But a host of recent studies cast serious doubt on this assumption. A January study published in the Lancet, a top peer-reviewed medical journal, itself citing previous research, argues that “the impact of vaccination on community transmission of circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2 appeared to be not significantly different from the impact among unvaccinated people.” A more recent study, from this past month, in the pre-print stage, so not yet peer-reviewed, finds that , “Omicron-infected patients who had received a third vaccine dose had viral loads similar to patients with two doses or who were unvaccinated.”
In other words, the key assumption that drives the results of Fisman’s study appears increasingly contradicted by real world empirical studies. Without this assumption, the model’s results and its conclusion in favour of vaccine mandates totally fall apart. Yet the paper excited the commenting class because it appeared to lend scientific support for continuing vaccine mandates. In sensible places, public policy is informed by data-based analysis, which crunches actual real world numbers and runs counterfactual experiments to come up with policy recommendations. Models based on theory alone are useful in fixing our intuitions about causal mechanisms, but by themselves cannot be meaningful guidelines for policy, unless they’re combined with real world data that backs up their theoretical assumptions. This is much like the situation in economics, in which, depending on the assumptions you make, a theoretical model can prove just about anything you want it to. To be a useful guide for policymakers, theory must be backed up with solid, real world empirical evidence.
While the gathering evidence undercuts the case for vaccine mandates, what about mask mandates? Recall that Quebec, while lifting its vaccine mandate like Ontario, chose to retain its mask mandate. If there was any benefit, it doesn’t show up in the data: the hospitalization rate per 100,000 of population is 28 in Quebec and only 12 in Ontario. Of course, there are a lot of other differences between the two provinces, but this staggering difference in the hospitalization rate certainly does not provide compelling evidence in favour of Quebec’s more stringent rules having made a difference.
The truth is that, unlike most places in the world, many Canadians, both policymakers and the public, seem unwilling to move on from the pandemic and return to life as usual. In a country known for a culture of compliance, there’s been a serious lack of leadership, especially at the level of the federal government, in signalling in no uncertain terms that we are now in the last lap of the pandemic. Instead, ambiguous messaging and keeping federal vaccine mandates in force for the indefinite future only serve to keep the populace in a state of fear and anxiety. Beyond providing a rationale for unending government control by rule and mandate, what other purpose is served? Countries spanning the political spectrum from left to right are now firmly in the endgame, while here in Canada, we’re still fussing about the sixth wave, reading the wastewater signals like tea leaves, and wondering whether life will ever return to normal. Our friends around the world are scratching their heads and asking, what is so special about Canada?
National Post
Also, look at all the corruption. GAO pointing out what over half the country already knows
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"Dr. Fauci clarifies remarks, says ‘pandemic is not over’ yet — the U.S. is merely out of ‘acute’ phase" his pharma handlers said 'not yet budday
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