My neighbor, like many others here in Oak Bay, is flying the Ukrainian blue and yellow stripe flag. At least they have a paper facsimile of the Ukrainian flag taped to their front room window, the yellow stripe now faded to an ugly beige. My own inclination is to fly a Russian flag, less as a political gesture than because of my neighbor's annoying habit of allowing a mass of dandelions in their front lawn to go to seed, spreading the infestation far and wide.
But the pro-Ukrainian tilt in Canada is not difficult to understand. As the poorest country in Europe, Ukraine is the only significant source of European people in search of a better life to satisfy the relentless appetite for immigrants of our Canadian Fuhrer, Justin Trudeau.
But our preference for Ukies instead of, say, Africans or Muslims from the Middle East is not that we're raciss or anything. It's just that, if you're gonna suppress the fertility of the historic Canadian nation by facilitating abortion, bringing in cheap labor and driving house prices sky high, why not at least bring in people who look like members of the historic Canadian nation.
In fact, many members of the historic Canadian nation are of Ukrainian extraction, like our Deputy Fuhrerin, Christia Freeland, grand-daughter of Nazi collaborator and anti-Semite Michael Chomiak. Indeed, one might best describe Ukrainians as Canadians who haven't yet emigrated.
And the Nazi thing is another factor that links Ukrainian and Canadian feelings. The Ukies have nurtured a Nazi-like nationalist movement since it was kick-started by the Germans in the Nineteenth Century. It was that manipulative genius Bismarck who stoked Ukrainian nationalism to undermine the Russian empire of which Ukraine was then a part. Then Germans of the Hitler era gave Ukrainian nationalism another boost by, for example, engaging Ukrainians in the massacre of Jews at Babi Ya and elsewhere.
So Canada's Nazification, under our own proto-dictator, Lustin-for-absolute-power, Trudeau, surely adds to the appeal of Canada to Ukrainians in search of a better life. Indeed, our Lustin seems to have only just failed to repeat Adolf's Reichstag fire trick en route to dictatorship by, like Hitler, invoking the Emergency Act, our own equivalent to Hitler's Enabling Act. True, this action by the Trudeau Government was justified by the Trucker's Convoy and other peaceful protests of the Government's preposterous vax mandate for truckers.
But was peaceful protest the intended justification, or simply a fallback position adopted only because Ottawa's police were smart enough to prevent an apartment building being torched during the Truckers' Protests? Not quite the same as burning down the Parliament Buildings, but as the apartment building's occupants had been deliberately trapped inside, the attempted act of arson would certainly have set the media ablaze not only in condemnation of the Truckers' Vax Mandate Protest, but in patriotic enthusiasm for ruthless strongman leadership from Trudeau.
And yes, Tamara Lich and the other Convoy organizers have reason to be truly thankful to Ottawa's police for their intervention preventing a criminally instigated tragedy.
Related:
Canada Spends Almost a Billion Dollars Training Ukie Nazis Do Canadians want war with Russia?
CIA Admits Feeding Americans False Info About Ukraine Don't waste our time stating the obvious. Give us a heads up if they ever say anything that's true
Is the Biden Administration Trying to Prolong the Ukraine War? Spare yourself the trouble of reading the article. Just ask yourself, is that a dumb question, or what?
Scott Ritter and the Battle of the Donbas:
he Folly of World-Wide Covid Vaccination
ReplyDeleteBy Allysia Finley
April 11, 2022 6:22 pm ET
President Biden is asking Congress for $5 billion to pay for a global Covid vaccination campaign. The goal, set by the World Health Organization, is to vaccinate 70% of the population in every country. But other infectious diseases that are much deadlier than Covid in low-income countries have taken a back seat during the pandemic. It’s time to reset public-health priorities.
Vaccinating the world against Covid won’t prevent new variants from emerging, because vaccines don’t prevent the virus from spreading. Vaccines can slow transmission for a short period at best. The most effective vaccines provide only short-term protection against infection and even less against the Omicron variant. Large shares of lower-income countries already have natural immunity from infection, which is as protective as vaccines. A recent study estimated that some 65% of Africans had Covid antibodies as of last fall. The share is probably much higher now.
Covid ranks low on the list of public-health threats in Africa. A little more than 250,000 Africans have died from Covid. That’s not even close to the number of Africans who died in 2019 from non-Covid lower respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases such as cholera, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Africa has been spared high death rates because the population is so young. Covid preys mainly on the old, those with weakened immune systems and, to a lesser extent, people with such chronic conditions as diabetes and heart disease.
Not only do the Covid-19 vaccines fail to stop the spread, the actually accelerate it massively, according to the UK Health Security Agency data, e.g.,
Deletehttps://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1060787/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_10.pdf. (See: Covid-19 case rates per 100,000 of population by age class and vaccination status as given in Table 13 on Page 45).
And see the six-fold increase in infection rate among the vaxxed versus the unvaxed in New Zealand:
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/04/09/vaccinated-have-up-to-six-times-the-infection-rate-of-unvaccinated-new-zealand-government-data-show/
“Many countries have lost substantial ground in providing routine immunizations, preventive services, and chronic disease management,” notes a recent report by Duke University and the Covid Collaborative. Clinics that normally provide childhood immunizations and treatments for other infectious diseases have been administering Covid vaccines instead. The logistics of vaccine distribution have also diverted critical resources from things like HIV prevention, testing and treatment. While the U.S. has donated hundreds of millions of mRNA vaccines to low-income countries, these must be stored at frigid temperatures and usually administered within hours once vials are opened. Many doses have been thrown out or simply can’t be distributed.
ReplyDeleteYet the WHO continues to push its 70% vaccination goal in the name of equity. Only last fall the WHO was berating wealthy countries for boosting their own populations while most low-income countries remained unvaccinated. The Biden administration sought to deflect this criticism by lambasting Moderna for not donating more vaccines. But even then African countries were struggling to distribute their donated vaccines. Now the world is awash in vaccines, and demand has petered out in low-income countries.
“I’m surprised that there are some in the global health community who see the 70% target as no longer relevant,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently said. “If the world’s rich are enjoying the benefits of high vaccine coverage, why shouldn’t the world’s poor?” The Biden administration agrees. It’s in the “national interest to vaccinate the world and protect against any possible future variant,” White House Covid czar Jeff Zients said last week.
Increasing access to HIV treatments could actually do more than a global vaccination campaign to halt the spread of Covid in low-income countries. It’s thought that the novel coronavirus uses immuno-compromised patients suffering with prolonged infections to help incubate new variants. If the Biden administration really wants to advance the cause of global public health, it should support U.S. drug makers that are developing vaccines for other, more deadly infectious diseases.
Ms. Finley is a member of the Journal’s editorial board.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/world-wide-covid-vaccination-africa-cholera-hiv-aids-diseases-global-world-health-organization-covax-mrna-distribution-variant-mutation-funding-biden-11649707620?mod=trending_now_opn_5
That's a WSJ editorial from April 11th. I copied and pasted it in full because I fear it is behind a paywall.
ReplyDeleteHighlights:
(1) Other infectious diseases that are much deadlier than Covid in low-income countries have taken a back seat during the pandemic. Covid ranks low on the list of public-health threats in Africa. A little more than 250,000 Africans have died from Covid. That’s not even close to the number of Africans who died in 2019 from non-Covid lower respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases such as cholera, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Africa has been spared high death rates because the population is so young.
(2) Vaccinating the world against Covid won’t prevent new variants from emerging, because vaccines don’t prevent the virus from spreading. Vaccines can slow transmission for a short period at best. The most effective vaccines provide only short-term protection against infection and even less against the Omicron variant.
(3) Large shares of lower-income countries already have natural immunity from infection, which is as protective as vaccines. A recent study estimated that some 65% of Africans had Covid antibodies as of last fall. The share is probably much higher now.
(4)Increasing access to HIV treatments could actually do more than a global vaccination campaign to halt the spread of Covid in low-income countries. It’s thought that the novel coronavirus uses immuno-compromised patients suffering with prolonged infections to help incubate new variants.!!!
Covid is now endemic worldwide. Vax campaigns surely serve no purpose other than to boost the bottom line of Gates and the vax makers.
DeleteAs for Africans incubating new variants, we can probably thank them for Omicron which now serves as a zero-cost live vaccine against more severe variants.
"Yet the WHO continues to push its 70% vaccination goal in the name of equity."
ReplyDeleteIt is probably good and proper the WSJ doesn't stoop to cynicism regarding WHO and its ownership and control by Bill Gates. Even before the pandemic the WHO deserved criticism for becoming a vaccination-focused organization, abandoning public health programs previously emphasized (and rightly so.)
One of my vivid memories of early in the pandemic was Bill Gates and Melinda Gates sharing their impressions there would be no way African nations could cope with the pandemic successfully. "Successfully" to the Gates family was, of course, in the manner of China. 250,000 deaths in all of Africa. But, according to recent, and apparently acceptable data, there were 985K deaths in the USA. The highest number of deaths by nation in Africa, was South Africa: 100K. Ranked by nation with the most deaths on down, South Africa came in 30th.
But is this right? The US leads the world in Covid deaths? This says so. It also says China has had only 4500 or so.
https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+deaths+worldwide&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS947US947&oq=covid+deaths+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0i433i512l2j0i67j0i433i512j0i433i457i512j0i402l2j0i67i433j0i512.8617j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
"But is this right? The US leads the world in Covid deaths?"
DeleteWell they were paying hospitals a premium for Covid deaths weren't they?
Plus obesity is a predisposing factor for Covid death, andAmerica is the fattest country in the world is it not, with the unhealthiest diet -- processed food adulterated with the cheapest ingredients: corn starch, sugar and fat, plus the most fast food restaurants selling greasy hamburgers and sugar-coated donuts.
And the American population must be the world's oldest, or it would be if so many didn't die young from a toxic diet, plus lethal drugs both legal and illegal.
PS, I'm not anti-American. I'm just sorry for them suffering like the Brits and we Canadians under a ruling elite with a seeming utter contempt for the welfare of the common people. Trudeau, for example, who described those protesting his innane truckers' vax mandate as "racist," "misogynists," "anti-science," and "extremist," then musing whether "do we tolerate these people?"
DeleteAnd what exactly did Justin Cludeau mean by "do we tolerate these people?" was that, as in, "should we send them to the gas chambers or what?
It time for Canadians to consider seriously whether or not their Prime Minister is sane.
The US is reported to have nearly one million Covid deaths. China is reported to have less than five thousand. Anyone "following the data", as reported, is forced to conclude the Chinese response to Covid was objectively superior to the US's. Period.
DeleteIf this is what American freedom brings-- it is deplorable. American freedom is mainly a bunch of yahoos behaving deplorably, caring about nothing but themselves, feeling they have some God-given right to do whatever they please, to hell with anyone or anything else.
On these terms, Justin Cludeau might Justin-afiably ask if there is any reasonable choice but to deplore selfish, careless people who will not submit to (Chinese-style?)precautionary measures demonstrated to protect the health and well-being of not only themselves, but fellow citizens and community.
Trudeau might be heard as saying, "We can't tolerate these people here in Canada because people just like them in the US are responsible for their being 200 times more deaths in the US than in China. In absolute numbers, these types have killed nearly a million people. This must not be tolerated. Mass murder must not be tolerated."
Canada has 38,000 or so Covid deaths.
It can be made to appear this way: you cross that 49th parallel from the US into Canada, and you go from a southern charnel house of death where people did what they pleased, to good old Canada where the sanity of respect for law, order, caring for others, and governmental authority have kept death to a minimum. Wanting to maintain that sharp, bright border to keep death at bay is good governance, even if requiring extreme measures.
This is the grand narrative, so to speak.
You could even go so far as to say, The heroic Justin Trudeau perceiving the lives of hundreds of thousands of Canadians at stake, perceives Canada is at war. Being at war, war measures are appropriate. I bet you, push come to shove, that's what he'll do. He'll marshal statistics considered official-- scientific. People will see his point enough to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Please keep in mind: I agree entirely with nearly everything you've said all along.
I fear the USA is slated for destruction. Probably what Trudeau is doing is making sure Canada is spared the same fate, at least to the same degree. The transition to the "new normal" will be more smooth for Canada than the USA. By the way, have you noticed the mass media now refers to adjustment to the new normal as if the existence of a new normal is now simply given?
I don't disagree with what you say, but nevertheless I believe Canada's Covid response has been so idiotic as to be inexplicable except on some agenda other than dealing with Covid.
DeleteIt's true that according to published data Canada has had a lower Covid mortality than the US but there are many factors that could account for that other than the policy response to Covid, which seems to have been inane in both countries.
The US Center for Disease Control published evidence early in the pandemic to show that Covid was dangerous to few other than the old, the obese and the diabetic.
Almost certainly, therefore, the policy response in both Canada and most US states, especially lockdowns, killed more people than it saved.
-- The elderly were for the most part not protected but effectively murdered by forcing Covid patients from hospitals into care homes.
-- Young people, those most likely to abuse drugs, were locked up and denied a normal social life. So naturally many died from a drug overdose.
Insofar as Canada's death toll was lower than that in the US, it can largely be attributed to a lower obesity rate, a lower diabetes rate, and a lower population density.
Concerning population density, low density slowed the spread, thus a larger proportion of cases in Canada than in the US have been due to Omicron, a relatively benign virus that can be considered less a disease than a living vaccine that provides long-term, probably life-long protection against severe Covid illness (unlike the vax that is essentially worthless after a few months).
Trudeau is too stupid to have any general plan to create a better future for Canadians. He's a low IQ fantasist, liar and bully who wants to be the Great Dictator. If Trudeau has a plan at all, it's to follow the dictates of the Great Reset crowd, by whom he is much admired.
As for the ongoing consequences of his corrupt government's actions, Canada has massive house price inflation (up 20% in 2021) the price of the average shack now approaching a million dollars. This price Canadians can afford to pay, now, because mortgage rates, around 3%, are less than half the inflation rate, i.e., home buyers are being conned into devoting a massive proportion of family income to a huge mortgage at an interest rate that could easily double, and still be less than the inflation rate.
In addition, the movement of Canadians, including travel by boat, train or plane, is subject to Soviet- and Nazi-style control by vaccine passports.
I don't dispute you expectation that the US is finished. It's surely intended. And the plan for Canada is the same. The goal is a post-national future where Canada will be open to the seething masses of Asian and African slums, and we will all own nothing and not be in the least happy about it, especially when the plutocrats drive by in the electric limos on their way to take a trip by private jet on some exclusive island resort.
It occurs to me: only 5000 Covid deaths in China? (Or maybe 15,000, no big diff.) China, with a population of 1.5 billion. Approximately 20% of the world's total population. 5K deaths? If so, what was the hulabaloo in the first place? Am I missing something?
ReplyDeleteI still can't get myself to forget the original number of anticipated deaths prompting Trump to acquiesce to lockdowns and so forth, was 2.2 million. As I understood it, that was quoted as being by year end 2020. Now in April of 2022, we still have less than a million.(Forget about this number being inflated.) I assume this receives no comment because if someone pointed it out they'd be portrayed as insensitive. A million deaths undoubtedly causes sorrow and suffering.
Do you believe the numbers reported by China? This is the country that put out those scare videos of people collapsing on the street and going into convulsions due to Covid.
DeleteI don't believe it for one second. I don't believe any of it. I never have, from the very beginning.
DeleteThese things remind me of Trump: (1) he didn't want the cure to be worse than the disease; (2) he tried to caution people to not believe what the Chinese were telling them. That was the duly elected President of the United States-- a very large number of Americans treated these reasonable points as if they were pure idiocy unworthy of consideration. (In the debates, Biden was able to fend off such points merely by smirking at their "stupidity".)
What I am trying to point out is that other people do believe this. These are, after all, "official numbers". If you ask them why they think the way they do, they may well point to these numbers showing 200 times more death in the US. And then they can say China's system has objectively been shown to be superior.
They can also say what's a little oppression compared to being dead? (Just as was said after 911 when some women were subjected to airport "pat downs" which in any other time or context would have been spotted as perverted and sexually abusive. "It is better than being highjacked and killed in a plane crash.")
Say the real cause of the elevated deaths in the USA are the comorbidity factors you mention, such as diabetes and obesity. A society where so many more people are either obese or diabetic or in other ways more vulnerable to a flu is a society out of order. In terms of propaganda value, it works the same way: China is superior.
I also think every time Covid19 dissenters are characterized as anti-scientific, racist, misogynist, irresponsible and uncaring, it becomes more true in the minds of most people.
Trudeau and the media he controls by dispersing the public's wealth to it, will control the narrative from now on. The mass media will repeat these slurs over and over and over.
I'm not playing devil's advocate. I'm racking my brain to figure out if there is any possible way to counteract and resist.
I was genuinely relieved to see a WSJ editorial relying on what is known to be true. Things we've known all along: young people are not affected; people who have contracted Covid have immunity superior to the immunity conferred by the vaccine. (Of course the vaccine doesn't confer immunity at all.) It makes me feel less insane. The truth will come out? In a way, it is out already, but when will it become effective? Not soon enough, I'm afraid. Well, there's my rant.
Yes. A depressing but compelling assessment.
DeleteWonder what would happen if there were a really deadly virus on the loose.
After the authorities cried wolf on Covid, only for it to become evident to most people that they, the authorities, had vastly overreacted and reacted mostly inappropriately, will people accept extreme measures on a future occasion even if such measures provide the only possible means of saving a substantial part of the population?
"After the authorities cried wolf on Covid, only for it to become evident to most people that they, the authorities, had vastly overreacted and reacted mostly inappropriately, will people accept extreme measures on a future occasion even if such measures provide the only possible means of saving a substantial part of the population?"
ReplyDeleteMy impression is there are two groups of people:
(1) Those who see the authorities cried wolf and vastly overreacted and mostly inappropriately;
(2)Those who believe the authorities and their drastic measures saved the society--the world!-- from a pandemic every bit as deadly as the bubonic plague. Wearing masks, being in lock down, practicing social distancing, dispersing protestors and invoking the emergency act, and so on and so forth, while inconvenient and sometimes distressing, was but a small price to pay for staying alive and well--for "staying safe"!
I hear it all the time: your desire to not wear a mask does not override my desire to remain healthy and un-hospitalized (or worse). These people are not slackening, either. I see people on the streets --out in the fresh air and bright sunshine, alone, and they are wearing masks. Purely voluntarily, too. They're convinced!
The two groups break down along lines I associate with these political orientations: liberal and conservative. Why "liberal" would mean supporting Covid measures, while "conservative" would mean a much more critical attitude-- is beyond me. It used to be if anything the liberals were more critical of the government; conservatives were more risk averse.
Do you notice this? In effect, because the "vaccine" mRNA is reverse-transcripted into DNA, people injected with the mRNA vaccines have become genetically-modified organisms, GMO. Was it so long ago the "liberals" were the more finnicky and strident against FRANKENFOOD?!!
But anyway, I am afraid around fifty percent of the population is fooled. Fooled and not going to become un-fooled. They are going to comply, comply, be docile and subservient no matter how dangerous and misguided. They're going to keep shooting themselves up with boosters-- probably from now on.
Sounds reasonable. So if someone lets loose a virus that's a real killer, we can expect the rationals to accept the draconian lockdowns, etc. that would be imposed, while the Covid terrorized will fall in line without a murmur.
ReplyDeleteBut in the event of a modern era plague, more sensible control measures will be needed.
For example, what's the point of locking people down, but then letting them out to buy food and medicine?
What would be needed is a government organized food and medicine delivery service, with zero contact between recipients and delivery workers.
There would need to be a major effort to achieve segregation even within the home, since that is where a virus will spread readily.
But let us hope that a losing Ukraine doesn't resort to bioweapons, of which it seems they are well supplied.