Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Carbon Emissions? Don't Worry, Be Happy

With yearly carbon dioxide emissions of 14 tons per person, Canadians lead the world in driving climate change. Yearly carbon dioxide emissions attributable to the average Canadian family of four, if frozen solid, would yield a cube of dry ice ten feet on a side, and weighing 56 tons.

But then there are the forest fires, which, to date, have added more than 50 tons of carbon dioxide emissions for every Canadian citizen and are still burning. At a rough estimate, therefore, we can say that Canadian carbon emissions in the current year will total something like 250 tons for a family of four.

How does that translate to national terms? There are 38.25 million Canadians occupying a country of approximately 10 million square kilometers, which means there is approximately one quarter of a square kilometer, or 250 thousand square meters, per person. The atmosphere weighs about 10 tons per square meter, so for for every Canadian resident there are 2.5 million tons of air located over the Canadian land mass. Thus the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere each year as the result of human activity and forest fires raises the carbon dioxide content of the air over the Canadian landmass by one part in fifty thousand, or 20 parts per million. Continued at that rate for twenty years, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide would double in 20 years.

This trend is counteracted in part by natural processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. These include both biotic and abiotic processes that result in the deposition of atmospheric carbon dioxide in both dead plant and animal matter accumulating in swamps and peatlands, in limestone rocks and in some disgusting ooze at the bottom of the oceans. Mostly, however, thanks to the global atmospheric circulation, carbon dioxide generated in Canada simply blows away, to be shared by all humanity.

As a long term solution, sharing our pollution with the world is clearly problematic, which fact drives development of technology for extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and pumping it into exhaused natural gas fields or other suitable repositories. In particular, we have in Canada Carbon Engineering, a government and charity funded company building a plant that will use renewable energy in the direct capture and sequestration of one hundred million tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide per year. 

So once Carbon Engineering's plant is in operation, we'll just need 19 more the same size to handle Canada's total emissions. Which sounds crazy but need not be, depending on where the cost of large scale direct air carbon capture bottoms out. If, as some estimate, the cost could fall to as little as $15 - 20 per ton (15 to 20 cents per kg), then financing recapture of atmospheric carbon emissions becomes entirely bearable. It would mean, for example, a carbon capture charge of around 50 cents a litre for gasoline. So yes, don't don't worry, be happy. 

Rev'd Nov 24, 2023

Related:


American “Scientist” Engaged in Evil Plot to End Life on Earth

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

What Does Zelensky Want?

Russia has made its war objectives in Ukraine clear:

1. Ukraine to acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory.

2. Ukraine to end the sniping and shelling of the breakaway Donbas republics of  Donetsk and Luhansk that is reported to have claimed 14,000 lives over the last seven years.

3. Ukraine to commit to remaining outside the anti-Russian NATO military alliance.

That Ukraine will not accept these terms, reveals what Zelensky wants. Specifically, Zelensky wants:

A. To continue painting the 2014 Russian occupation of Crimea as illegitimate, notwithstanding that:

i. Ukraine, including Crimea, has been Russian territory for much of the last one thousand years.

 ii. The Russian state was founded in Kyiv where, following the baptism, in Crimea, of Vladimir I prince of Kiev, in 988, Orthodox Christianity became the Russian state church headed by the metropolitan of Kiev.

ii. Russia has ruled Crimea continuously from the time of Catherine the Great until the 1950's, when a Ukrainian General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khruschev, gifted Russian Crimea to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine. At the time of the transfer, it made no great difference to anyone since both Russia and Ukraine were subordinate to the Soviet Communist Party. On the breakup of the Soviet Union, however, Kruschev's action resulted in the Russian-populated, former-Russian territory coming under the rule of an, at times, genocidally anti-Russian Ukrainian government.

iii. In the 1850's, Russia defended the Crimean peninsula against an assault by British, French and Turkish forces in a war estimated to have cost 650,000 lives. Leo Tolstoy served in the defense of Sevastapol, winning a medal for bravery and, for his dispatches from the front, his first recognition as a writer.

iv. In early 2014, following a referendum in which over 90% of the mainly Russian-speaking population of Crimea voted for union with Russia, the Crimean Parliament requested to join the Russian Federation, which request was accepted, resulting in an essentially peaceful transfer of sovereignty. Among Ukrainian troops stationed in Crimea, many switched loyalties, becoming members of the Russian armed forces.

v. The validity of the Crimean referendum was confirmed by the US-based Pew Trust, which conducted its own opinion survey in Crimea.

B. To destroy the breakaway Donbas republics and eliminate official use of the Russian language, including in education, throughout Ukraine, notwithstanding that the majority of citizens in Eastern Ukraine are Russian speakers.

C. To join the anti-Russian NATO alliance and thus obtain the military backing of the Western nations, while wiping out Russian culture and Russian language-use across Ukraine. 

As Canada's Prime Minister, dictator-wannabe Justin Trudeau, shuttles around Europe lobbying for NATO membership of Ukraine, Canadians might reflect on the consequences of Zelenskyism were it to be applied in Canada. Specifically, they should think of the consequences of a Ukrainian-style, one-language, one-culture policy as it would affect Canadian unity: except there would be no Canadian unity. Quebec would be gone, and if restrained, Quebec would fight.

Related:

Ukraine news – live: Kyiv rejects proposed neutrality

Zelensky pleads for NATO intervention He might as well be candid and admit he's asking for a nuclear Third World War. But our boy, Justin, is still backing Zel.

Zelensky BEGS Biden to step up and 'be the leader of peace'  By going to war

The Killing in Ukraine Won't End As Long As It Hurts Russia Max Blumenthal with Colonel Doug McGregor:

Sending NATO troops to Ukraine is ‘red line’ – German official If the Germans, who have some experience with World Wars, are against another one, maybe it would be wise to consider their advice.


30% Of "Ukrainian Refugees" Are Actually From Other Countries That's OK. Canada will have them. We need them. As the fertility of the Canadian nation collapses, thanks to Trudeau I's policies on divorce and abortion, we will replace the historic Canadian nation with people from elsewhere. 

More Than One-Third Of Americans Would Risk Nuclear War Over Ukraine Do these damn-fool dupes of the globalist media propaganda not realize that in a nuclear war not only will they most likely be incinerated, but that civilization as they understand it could be entirely destroyed. 

On the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss: Edward Curtin

Poland Tells Zelensky It's Seeking Armed NATO 'Peace Mission' For Ukraine Poles have form when it comes to stupidity in the run up to a World War. 

US Mulls Sending New "Switchblade" Kamikaze Robot Drone To Ukraine Wonder what the process of "mulling" amounts to when you have a demented president and crackpot VP.

NATO Moves Ahead With Military Drills In Europe, Deploys 30,000 Troops Oh not to worry. It's just a drill, they said.

Friday, September 17, 2021

The People's Party Is Here to Stay

Max Bernier's People's Party of Canada (PPC) is here to stay, so reports Jeff Besos's, Washington Post

The PPC was created by Bernier, so WaPo sourly reports, in an act of spite after his failure to win the leadership of the Conservative Party,  a claim as daft as saying that Winston Churchill, before becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, took against Hitler in an act of spite against Conservative Party leader Stanley Baldwin who refused him a place in cabinet.

In fact, Bernier created the People's Party because he could. 

The Conservative Party of Canada is not a conservative party but a bullshit, seize-the-middle-ground, alternative to the tax and spend liberals. Thus the Conservative Party of Canada is wide open to replacement--as was the Progressive Conservative Party it replaced--by a real conservative party. 

Bernier has seized that opportunity to present a  real conservative alternative to the collection of Tax-and-spend-while-we-forcibly-jab-you Liberals, Liberal-look-alike Conservatives, the Government Employees Union New Democratic Party, and the jet-setting-to yet-another-climate-warming-conference Greens for the abolition of Alberta. 

Thus Bernier has achieved standing by providing the only political mechanism that Canadians have to resist the slide to Chinese-Communist-style round the clock surveillance and control by means of vaccine passport being delivered now by the Justin I've-never-seen-a-dictatorship-I-didn't-love Trudeau with the full support not only of the NDP, but the foolish O'Toole-led Conservative Party. 

Now the question of interest concerning the PPC is not whether they are here to stay but whether they boost their 1.6% share of the vote at the last election by a factor of four or five—as the polls currently suggest, or make a last minute surge into double digits. For conservatives that means a vote for the Conservative Party is a wasted vote. 

Postscript:

This was my first post on Gab, for any Gab user who might want to pass it on. 

Related:




Fauci: We're Going to 'Mandate' CV Shots if 'Hardcore Group' of Holdouts Are Not 'Persuaded' to Submit: meaning you'll be jabbed at gun point if necessary, and that goes for your infant in arms too.


Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Who to Vote For in Canada's Federal Election

1. Do you want higher taxes, higher government deficits, and more inflation? 

If so, vote Liberal, Conservative or NDP, all having promised to spend more so you can spend less. 

If not, vote for the People's Party of Canada (PPC)

2. Do you favor Canada's inter-provincial trade barriers?

If so vote Liberal, Conservative, or NDP, all being fundamentally indifferent to the existence of such barriers, which are estimated to reduce Canada's GDP by around 7%.

If not, vote for the PPC.

3. At a time of astronomical housing cost and high unemployment, do you favor the present Liberal/NDP Coalition and Conservative Party's plan to increase the rate of immigration to more than four hundred thousand a year -- more than one percent of Canada's existing population?

If so, vote Liberal, Conservative or NDP.

If not, vote for the PPC

4. Last but not least, do you want a Covid police state with potentially endless compulsory jabs with a so-called vaccine that does not prevent either infection or disease transmission plus, mask mandates, arbitrary lockdowns and endless medical tyranny from the likes of Saint Bonnie Henry?

If so, vote Liberal, Conservative or NDP. 

If not, vote for the PPC.

Notes:

(a) There are many other components to each party's election platform beside those mentioned above. To vote rationally, you should review the alternatives, unless that is, you are content with mainstream media memes, for example that if you vote for the People's Party of Canada you must be a racist, nationalist, white supremacist, male chauvinist pig. 

(b) You may argue that a vote for the PPC is a wasted vote, since the PPC will certainly not form the next government. But so what? The likelihood of your vote affecting the outcome of the election in your own riding, let along determining which party forms the next government, is trivial to the point of non-existence.

(c) The platform of the parties mention above can be found here:

Liberal Party 

Conservative Party

New Democratic Party

People's Party

Related:

CanSpeccy: Voting Strategically? Don't Kid Yourself

Thursday, September 2, 2021

After 20 Months of Covid Misery, Trudeau Promises More of the Same: His Vision For Canada Must Be Orwell's Nightmare of a Boot Stomping on a Human Face Forever

 

And in the "You Couldn't Make This Up" Department:

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole promises to ban puppy mills: Apparently, in ways unexplained, puppy mills are responsible for domestic violence. The logic has something to do with the fact that puppy mills are alleged to involve cruelty to animals, but in that case the existing criminal code, including the 2008 "Cruelty to Animals" amendment, deals with that. 

Maybe O'Toole should be running for council in the municipality of some such place as Likely, BC, or Nipissing, ON, while developing a vision for bigger things.

Meantime:

Florida to Fine Any Individual or Business $5,000 Per Incident for Discriminating on Vaccination Status

Yeah, don't spend the savings from that until they're in your hand

But if you want a leader with an explicit policy:

There's Maxime Bernier who does not hesitate to say that the most important issue in this election is vaccine passports, and  his party is the only one standing against them.

Related:


Israel is now the world's Covid hotspot: Cases soar despite country's trail-blazing vaccine roll-out

The Goal of Covidism is Communism

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Trudeau's Covid Election: Anticipating Vax Failure

A democratic Government's prime function is to protect the people. In response to the supposedly existential threat of Covid, the Government of Canada has staked its reputation on the Vax — masks, lockdowns and vax passports, the Government of Canada has declared, are necessary until we achieve fully vaxed status. 

The problem for the Trudeau Government is that the data from Israel, the first mostly vaxed nation,  are conclusive: The vax has failed. Yesterday's seven-day average daily case count for Israel was 7,947, almost exactly the same as the all-time January 17 peak (8,190), when only 3.7 percent of the population was fully vaxed.

At the same time, the media are now admitting that infection-based immunity is greatly superior to the immunity of the vaxed. And whereas vax-induced immunity fades within months, infection-based immunity likely persists for life. 

So what now? 

To admit that the mask mandates, lockdowns, and vax passports pending full national vaccination were in vain? 

To admit that those damn experts in public health and epidemiology, the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, were right? That we should have concentrated on protecting the vulnerable, and on Covid treatment not prevention?

No way will Trudeau admit to the above without first securing another four-year mandate. 

Time for a change. 

Under Trudeau's leadership Canada bet wrong on Covid. A government so discredited, cannot govern with authority and should be replaced. Same for provincial administrations that bet wrong and pushed vaccination over treatment. Time for Saint Bonnie Henry of British Columbia and the likes elsewhere to make way for those of better judgement

For the future, the emphasis must be on Covid treatment, not prevention. Whether we like it or not, Covid will become endemic. Which means that natural immunity will become widespread, and the case count will fall, but not quite to zero. At that point, Covid will become just one more of the many endemic viral respiratory illnesses that we must live with, including many Corona-virus caused cases of the common cold. 

As for the election, polls suggest that the tide has turned, with the latest showing Trudeau's Liberals at barely 32%, while approval of the Conservative Party's scarcely known leader, Erin O'Toole, has jumped ten points in a month.

Related:

Do National COVID Mandates Fulfill the Public Good?

When politicians waived the legal liability of the vaccine manufacturers, they also demanded the medical community set aside its ethics, first through a sustained “campaign” of pressure to “take the shot” and now through mandates. If the campaign of pressure defied the bedrock ethical principle of informed consent established in the Nuremberg Code, then the mob’s call for mandates on doctors and patients to defend our idol of technocracy is in defiance of our very essence as human beings.



Vaccine Passports in Canada are unconstitutional, contrary to the Charter of Human Rights and, as a means to compelled medical treatment, constitute an assault upon every affected individual (Please note Saint Bonnie Henry and all the rest of Canada's "make-em take the shot" politicians and bureaucrats):

The decision to be vaccinated must be a matter of free choice, otherwise vaccination comes within the legal definition of assault: Vaccine passports render the choice to be vaccinated non-voluntary.

New Israeli Study Finds Fully Vaccinated People are at “Greater Risk of Hospitalization” and 13 TIMES MORE LIKELY to Catch Covid-19 Than Those Who Have Recovered and Have Natural Immunity

Ruling Class Increasingly Calls Upon The Private Sector To Make Lives Of The "Unvaccinated" Difficult

What Can We Learn About COVID Tyranny From Australia And Afghanistan?

The Weaponization Of Medicine







Misinfo, Astro-Turfing, & Media Bias Abound Early In Canada's Election Cycle

UK data destroys entire premise for vaccine push

Have UK Unvaxed Reached Herd Immunity?

US Officials Approve 3rd COVID Shot after 6 Months Instead of 8 Months After “Full Vaccination”

Scientists at war over jabbing children: Experts say youngsters may get 'better and longer immunity' if they catch Covid naturally — but others warn virus could 'tear through' country again without vaccines in schools 

Right on: jab all the little blighters and deny them durable, robust natural covid immunity from almost certainly asymptomatic infection, so that fat grown-up slobs, smokers and incredibly old people (like me) are protected. 

BBC presenter Lisa Shaw, 44, died due to incredibly rare blood clot complications caused by AstraZeneca covid vaccine 

Vaccine induced blood clots may be "incredibly rare", but how many BBC presenters have died of Covid. Just none?

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Lies and Insults Reflect Justin Trudeau's Wiley E. Coyote Election Moment

"Erin O’Toole is so bad he makes Doug Ford look good," said Justin Trudeau yesterday, thus insulting not only his main opponent in the election he called for no stated reason two years earlier than necessary, but also the man the people of Ontario only recently elected as their Premier. 

Insults are a perennial and potentially effective ingredient of political discourse, but they work only when they're either funny or in some way illuminating to those who may be inclined to back your side. For example, Winston Churchill's remark during an election contest that his opponent, Clement Atlee, "is a modest man with much to be modest about." But Trudeau's ill-humored comment is revealing not only of a low IQ, bully boy mentality, but of a man who's lost his cool.

Liberal campaign video featuring O’Toole labeled by Twitter as ‘manipulated media,’ was released on Sunday by Trudeau's deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland. And in Twitter-speak, ‘manipulated media,’  is what ordinary folk understand to be a lie. 

Unlike Trudeau, Freeland is no dope. That she's been caught in a lie confirms that the Liberals are desperate, spooked no doubt by polls showing them now neck and neck with the PC's after starting the race with a ten point lead.

Bravo. The sooner we're shot of these inept and untrustworthy megalomaniacs the better.

Sunday, August 22, 2021

Canadian Election: Justin Trudeau Delivers Creepiest Speech of the Week

 Whoever runs the corporate puppet that lives inside Justin Trudeau’s skin has clearly decided it’s time for him to shake his rather inneffectual image and try and become a forceful public speaker. In a “strongman” speech in the run-up to the Canadian elections, Trudeau worked himself into a frenzy on vaccination:

“If you don’t want to get vaccinated, that’s your choice. But don’t think you can get on a plane or a train beside vaccinated people and put them at risk!”

A tip for the future though – if you’re going to have the blandest man in the world try and excite a crowd, give him more than 80 people to work with. That said, however poorly delivered and however lukewarm the reception, the sentiment itself is very unsettling.* Full on segregation in Canada. As someone remarked to us on Telegram, “instead of the back of the bus, it’s now no bus at all.”

Source: Off Guardian

* Another thing that's unsettling is the idea that the unvaxed are a threat to the vaxed. That hardly inspires confidence in the effectiveness of a so-called vaccine that has killed and injured thousands upon thousands of recipients. 

Also unsettling is the failure to acknowledge that there are millions of Canadians, probably more than ten million, who've had a Covid infection, which will have conferred more robust and durable Covid immunity than any of the untested commercial "vaccines" that Trudeau, in full Mussolini mode, is shilling for.

Fortunately, few Canadians respond to rhetorical bullshit the way pre-WW2 Italians did.

Related:


Fox 29: Study suggests lambda variant could evade COVID-19 vaccine protection (but it won't evade resistance of the Covid recovered -- but Trudeau, our low IQ and poorly informed PM, doesn't know that).

Friday, August 13, 2021

Why Would Trudeau Call An Election?

 Justin Trudeau, it is reported, will tomorrow call a national election. If so, the Liberals will declare their success in fighting the Covid pandemic as proof of their right to a new lease on power. 

But in reality, it is the imminent and obvious failure of the Government's response to Covid that will explain an election call. This feeble-minded Liberal government wants to snatch another term in office before they roof falls in, and the failure of their Covid response becomes clear to all.

Since promising in 2019 to reduce the Federal Government budget deficit to zero, the Liberals will have, by the end of this year, run deficits totaling half a trillion dollars. That's half a trillion in a one point seven trillion dollar economy. All in the name of Covid.

What does a half trillion dollar budget deficit mean? 

It means inflation, not the Bank of Canada's ludicrous 2% target inflation rate, but real inflation you cannot pretend does not exist, like ten, twenty percent, or more. It is a looting of your savings. And for what? To fund the Government's ludicrous conceit that it could, and should, control a virus with zero point zero something mortality rate, and that mostly among the very old who are about to die anyway.

But now the futility of the Government's response to Covid, both Federal and Provincial, is about to be exposed. 

Protect the vulnerable failed big time. More than half the Canadians who have died of Covid died in care homes, many of them horribly badly run.

As for mandatory mask wearing and near mandatory universal vaccination, LOL. 

The chief consequence of mask wearing is that ignorant people gain a false sense of confidence that allows them to crowd others in public spaces and needlessly expose themselves and others to the risk of infection. 

And, as is increasingly obvious, the vaccines are of limited and short-lived effectiveness: effectiveness that with the emergence of new Covid variants will likely soon be indistinguishable from zero. 

There is no way forward except to follow the example of jurisdictions such as Sweden, South Dakota and Florida. Which means, sooner or later most of us will get Covid, and the focus of medical attention will be on effective treatment, particularly early treatment with cheap and effective supplements such as Vitamin D and zinc, and medications such as Ivermectin. 

So if Trudeau goes for a public vote of confidence, thank him for thus demonstrating his confidence in the judgement of the public, and boot him and the rest of the incompetent pack of spendthrift Liberals out.

Related:

Alex Berenson: Gaslighting, a Covid love story

"I’m old enough to remember when vaccines were the miracle that would put Covid behind us. So are you. It's less than six months ago."

Epoch Times: Coercing People to Get COVID-19 Vaccines Is Damaging Trust in Public Health: Harvard Med School Professor

"why do you coerce people who are immune, or people who are young, who have very small risk? ... I think it’s very unethical to do so"

ZH: Vaccine Expert Vanden Bossche Calls For "Immediate Halt" To Vaccinations, Says They Encourage "Escape Mutant" Variants

"Mass vaccination in the middle of a pandemic [promotes] selection and adaptation of immune escape variants [with increased] infectiousness and resistance to spike protein (S)-directed antibodies (Abs), thereby diminishing protection in vaccinees and threatening the unvaccinated."

CBC: Canada's Coming Vax Dictatorship

G-WP: Tyrannical Philly Mayor Orders All Unvaccinated City Employees to Wear Two Masks Starting on Sept. 1 But why no masks for the vaccinated who, according to the Director of the CDC, can spew Covid as well as the unvaccinated? Answer: because its getting to inject some untested stuff with unknown (to you, at least) effects into your bloodstream. 

When Tragedy Become Farce: Doctor says man who died of Covid would have been worse if not fully vaccinated.

Fauci says he can't rule out Americans having to have booster shots forever

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

People's Party Rally: Victoria, British Columbia, June 19, 2021

 Attended a People’s Party rally here in Victoria, British Columbia. The People’s Party is the creation of Maxime Bernier, a charismatic Québec politician and former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The party’s focus has been against mass immigration (currently equal to more than 1% of population per year to a country with a far below replacement fertility rate, thus amounting to population replacement).

The warm-up speakers focused on national pride, “freedom,” evil globalists, and Canada's needlessly repressive response to Covid.

The crowd of several hundred looked like a Trump crowd and was loudly responsive to the theme of the speakers.

Will this movement ultimately amount to anything? 

Not in sleepy government-town, big-university-town Victoria. But in Calgary, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Toronto, maybe.

Still, we're probably a way away from seeing Justin, I-love-China’s-Communist-dictatorship, Trudeau impeached. 

However, when the impact of Canada's 2020-2021 Federal Government Deficit of $468 billion, or $50,000 per family of four, begins to impact tax rates and food prices, the picture could change quickly.

Related: 

Saturday, July 10, 2021

Death of A Nation: Canada, Mass Immigration and a Falling Birth Rate

Maxime Bernier, has served in Canada's government as Minister of state for small business, Minister of Foreign Affairs,  and Chair of the National Defense Select Committee. 

As founder and leader of  The People's Party of Canada, he seeks a reduction in Canada's immigration rate from the current flow of around 400,000 per year, which is equal to more than 1% of the existing population, to around 100,000 to 150,000. 

He argues that such reduction is necessary to safeguard Canada's complex cultural mosaic

To destroy one's own cultural heritage indeed seems monstrous. But there is another consequence of mass immigration that that seems even more monstrous.

With a fertility rate that fell below replacement in 1973, during Pierre Elliott Trudeau's first term as Prime Minister, and which has continued to fall in all but four years since 1973, mass immigration amounts to a program of population replacement.

Furthermore, the influx of migrants is the chief cause of Canada's continued low fertility rate.

Mass immigration drives:

    * competition for, and hence the cost of, housing;

    * demand for, and hence the cost in taxes of, infrastructure such as schools and hospitals;

    * competition for jobs, thus lowering wages.

By lowering incomes and raising the cost of buying a home, mass immigration thus delays family formation, which in turn, suppresses the fertility rate thereby keeping the historic Canadian nation on track for extinction. 

In brief: mass immigration = national genocide, cultural and racial, so vote Liberal if you support this policy. 

Related:

Monday, April 26, 2021

India's Catastrophic (OR NOT?) Covid Death Toll

India is reported to be experiencing a gigantic Covid second wave. Yesterday alone, the virus is said to have killed two thousand eight hundred and twelve Indians. In response to the catastrophe, the international community is organizing relief efforts. As the Spectator reports: 

The UK and the US are leading the delivery of aid to India, as the country battles a fierce second wave. The UK has sent 600 medical devices, including ventilators and oxygen.

But while every death is a tragedy, it should be remembered that, of India's 1.37 billion inhabitants, more than 27,000 usually die each day. So, at the height of the Indian epidemic, Covid is responsible for about 10% of all deaths, or about 2.06 per million of population per day. 

How does that compare with a first world country where the covid epidemic is past its peak and mass vaccination is said to be well on the way to creating herd immunity? 

Well consider Canada: with a current, seven-day, mean daily death toll of 49, Covid is killing 1.33 people per million of population per day, or about two-thirds of India's current rate. 

So, yes, in India, Covid is bringing forward some deaths, mainly among the old and frail. However, the impact of Covid in India, where yearly healthcare expenditures average around US$22 per person, is scarcely more catastrophic at its current peak than in post-peak-Covid Canada, a wealthy Western nation with yearly healthcare expenditures of around six thousand US dollars per person.


Postscript:

After posting the above I tuned into the BBC's World Service from London to hear a most extraordinary report from New Delhi, India, in which a journalist reported smoking funeral pyres to be seen in every direction, of rows of dead bodies awaiting cremation, and in general scenes reminiscent of Hell. 

How to explain the discrepancy between the numbers and the radio report?

Well apparently the national numbers that I cited above are correct, according to the BBC (see figure below), but as the red line below indicates, the number of cases in the capital city of New Delhi is reported currently to be about four times the national average, and a rate that probably matches New York City during the worst days, in early 2020. 

Meantime: 

Here in British Columbia some of the natives are becoming restless over lockdowns, a lack of information and a botched vaccination campaign

Related: 

The Irish Savant: The India Covid crisis. More fake news


Friday, April 23, 2021

Canada's Dopey Carbon Tax

Canada's Liberal Government has imposed a sharply rising tax on atmospheric carbon emissions.

Canada's Conservative Party wants the same thing by another name. 

Both schemes are idiotic. 

Here's why:

(a) With less than half of one percent of the World's population, Canada acting alone, has no significant global impact.

(b) By imposing a carbon tax unilaterally, Canada shoots itself in the foot by putting Canadian industry at a disadvantage in the competition with producers in countries without a carbon tax, e.g., the United States, Canada's largest trade partner, and China, the World's largest industrial economy.

What to do?

Canada should seek agreement with its Free Trade Area (CUSMA) partners for a unified carbon tax with a countervailing duty on imports from countries without a carbon tax.

That way Canada avoids screwing itself, while creating an incentive (avoidance of the countervailing carbon emissions import tax) for all major industrial nations without a carbon tax to impose one.

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Churchill Was a Racist for Good and Obvious Reasons

The man who defeated the Nazis is a Nazi now?
The Western world is tearing itself apart. Hatred for the dominant racial group, the Europeans, is boiling over as settler immigrants, backed by foolish or corrupt white liberal enablers, seize the opportunity created by an anti-racist hysteria, to enhance their own status, wealth and power over that of the indigenous people.

Churchill understood that if allowed to enter Europe in large numbers the alien settler, whether Muslim, Sikh, Hindu or Confucian, would seek to establish their race, their culture, their religion in place of the native peoples of Europe, their culture and their religion.

Hence, naturally, the hatred of Churchill by the immigrants that depraved or insane politicians and their demented white supporters have allowed to enter Europe's narrow borders in numbers that cannot possibly be assimilated to the native nations of Europe.

Systemic racism is the basis of every nation state. Try insisting otherwise to the Chinese, the Indians, the South Africans, or the people of any other country you care to name, and see how quickly they invite in the teaming masses from the slums of London or Glasgow, New York or Chicago.

Anti-racism is the ideology of the globalists: smash the nation state and the money power will exercise control through the corrupt global and multi-national institutions such as the UN, the WHO, NATO, the EU, and dozens of others.

In Canada, systemic racism is the very basis of the state. The stability and unity of the Canadian confederation, a creation of the British-born Sir John A. MacDonald, depends on the acquiescence of the four-hundred-year-old French colony of Quebec. Hence, respect the nation, i.e., the institutions, the language and the traditions of the French nation in North America, was  the mantra of Canada's founding fathers.

Likewise, Canada's relations with the indigenous peoples, Indian and Innuit, depends on respect for these so-called first nations, their racial integrity as reflected in their right to control who may live on native land, and their right to their own institutions of government.

Without systemic racism, no nation can stand. Anti-racists are dupes or agents of a globalist conspiracy to destroy the European nations:  a conspiracy for the genocide of the European peoples as both racial and cultural entities.

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ZH: Anonymous Berkeley Professor Shreds BLM Injustice Narrative
Patrick Buchanan: Will Churchill’s Statue Be Next to Fall?
AmConMag:What Is ‘Systemic Racism,’ Really?

The underlying essence of the narrative is an increasingly brutal and incendiary polemical assault on a demographic segment of the nation–white people. They are guilty, it is said with increasing aggressiveness, for the sins of their forebears, for the racism of the past. And they must confess their guilt and seek absolution through self-abasement.

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Monday, May 25, 2020

Why the Lockdowns?

Why would you shutter much of your economy, create Great Depression unemployment rates, and drive government budget deficits sky high, merely to combat Covid19?

If you've been listening to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation or just about any other major media outlet in the Western world, you must know the reason: Covid19 is an existential threat on the scale of the Black Death that killed something like half the population of Eurasia during the Fourteenth Century. 

Except that it isn't. 

Covid19 kills almost no one. Well, almost no one compared with most other causes of death. In Canada, for example, about six and a half thousand deaths have been attributed, reliably or otherwise, to Covid 19. However, most of those deaths, 82% as of early May, have been of sick and elderly inmates of so-called care homes. So other than knocking over a few people within days, weeks, or at most, months of death due to other causes, Covid19 has thus far killed about 1200 Canadians, most of whom were old, or suffered other predisposing conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, or respiratory disease. 



“It’s All Bullshit”

Three Leaks that Sink the Covid Narrative.

In recent days a series of leaks across the globe have further shown the “official line” on coronavirus does not hold water.


Kit Knightly:

Off Guardian May 31, 2020: The science of the coronavirus is not disputed. It is well documented and openly admitted:
Most people won’t get the virus.
Most of the people who get it won’t display symptoms.
Most of the people who display symptoms will only be mildly sick.
Most of the people with severe symptoms will never be critically ill.
And most of the people who get critically ill will survive.
This is borne out by the numerous serological studies which show, again and again, that the infection fatality ratio is on par with flu.

There is no science – and increasingly little rational discussion – to justify the lockdown measures and overall sense of global panic.

Nevertheless, it’s always good to get official acknowledgement of the truth, even if it has to be leaked.

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We mourn for the 1200, and indeed for all of the six and a half thousand who's death was hastened, whether only slightly or substantially, by Covid19. But we strive also to keep things in perspective. While 1200 non-care home residents in Canada have been felled by Covid19, in 2018, the most recent year for which Stats Canada provides data, almost four times that many people killed themselves. Alzheimer's disease and diabetes each ended the lives of about five times as many, while the big three, cancer, heart disease and stroke between them carried off about 120 times as many. 

If combating the novel corona virus demands such heroic efforts to suppress it, should we not be devoting most of the national GDP to eliminating cancer?

Or are there sinister forces at work that guide the government of our Castro-loving, Communist dictatorship-admiring, black-face wearing, Mr. Dress-up Trudeau?

The question came to mind in response to a reader's comment:
"We still do not have mass testing or any truly statistically valid handle on the virus."
This fact is quite bizarre. 

Why would a government not monitor the spread of a disease by repeated serological surveys or other means, if it were seriously attempting to stop disease spread?

Image source: South China Morning Post
The challenge of such testing is not insuperable. China just completed 1.4 million tests in Wuhan in a single day, with the objective of testing the entire city -- population 11 million -- within ten days. 

Now Americans, Brits, Canadians, etc. are obviously not as smart, diligent or technically competent as the Chinese.

Still we could surely do a random survey -- you know, like an opinion poll. You select a few hundred people at random and, for a fee or some other inducement, you get them to submit to testing.

You do that every couple of days and then you know what you're dealing with.

However, if the goal is not to end the epidemic but to scare people, real information about the prevalence and lethality of the disease, even if it has been obtained, will naturally be withheld.

But why would governments want to scare people (and there is clear evidence of intent, e.g., here)? 

In order to maintain the lockdown.

And why would governments want to maintain the lockdown?

That, surely, is the essential question. 

What is the answer, I am unsure, but here are what seem the most obvious possibilities:

(1) To kill most of the small business sector, to the benefit of the big boys - Starbucks, MacDonald's, Amazon, etc. The objective, in other words, being to complete the transition in government from any semblance of democracy to a purely plutocratic system organized on a global basis. 

(2) To drive up unemployment and thus depress wages, also to the benefit of the big boys.

(3) To drive down GDP and hence consumption spending leading to reductions in all kinds of pollution, carbon dioxide, plebs at the better beaches and tourist spots, traffic congestion, etc.

(4) To drive down fertility rates and hence population worldwide (despite the fact that fertility rates in Europe, North America, Japan, etc. are already well below replacement).

But perhaps others have better suggestions. Comments welcome. 

Meantime, doctors warn that lockdowns cause more deaths than Covid19. 

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