CanSpeccy: fertility reduction

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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