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).

Saturday, August 21, 2021

Why Trudeau Called an Election Now

Whether anyone reads this blog I sometimes doubt. Google supplied stats indicate an all time hit count of just over one million. But daily totals fluctuate in what seems a meaningless fashion, from practically zero to a thousand or more. But even when the daily count is high (relatively speaking, that is), reader comments, if there are readers, are few and far between. Not that I care greatly. I write to find out what I should think.

However, reader's comments, other than the spam variety, are certainly welcome, and today Unknown's comment provides a hook to hang some thoughts. 

The comment:

"I don't get the election call"

Which prompts this response:

To call a premature election without declaring a rational justification means either:

1. That Trudeau believes his chances are better now than they will be at any time in the next two years,

 or 

2. That Trudeau wants a full four-year mandate for whatever undeclared plan he has for Canadians. 

or 

3. Both of the above.

Under the first heading, which is to say the assumption that things are about to get a lot worse, we can anticipate:

 (a) full Covid immune escape, followed by forcible injection of everyone with top-ups, back-ups, long-stops or whatever the Hell they call the next few rounds of futile, potentially toxic, and quite possibly sterilizing jabs. 

(b) In addition, we're gonna see raging inflation, rising from the current maybe 10 to 20 percent (bought potatoes the other day for $1.99 a pound -- and I remember the days of childhood when spuds were but a penny a pound); to a low accelerating hyper-inflation rate of say 50 to 100%.

(c) Plus, an imploding housing market as interest rates start following the inflation rate and all those families that leveraged to the max to get a home, a place to raise a family, go bankrupt as their mortgage payments rise ten, twenty, fifty and more than 100 percent. 

Under the second heading, there's the coming "Great Reset (to use the terminology of the perps.), meaning death to tens and hundreds of thousands of small Canadian businesses, while the globalist corporations pick up assets for pennies on the dollar and take over the business that occupied the small business space.  

If that is what we are about to see, it will take time for the bastards to grind the little guys down and force them onto the dole, but four years of it should insure an irreversible transformation of the economy. 

Related: 

BiorXiv: SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant exhibits higher infectivity and immune2 resistance

Friday, August 20, 2021

Dictator Wannabe Justin Trudeau: "Get Vaxed or be Treated Like a Leper"

Western Governments headed by wannabe tyrants such as Justin Trudeau, are determined to vax everyone under their control, whether they need it or not.

"The science" that allegedly dictates this action is bullshit for the simple reason that science never dictates, it only records what can be observed and leaves it open to potentially endless debate what the implications of those observations may be. 

And when it comes to Covid, what can be observed is not only that the vax can have adverse effects including death, but that it is rather ineffective in preventing Covid infection and transmission.

And the vax is truly feeble compared with immunity from prior infection. 

Conclusive evidence that the hundreds of millions if not several billion worldwide who have already had Covid have vastly superior immunity against future infection than the merely vaxed is now available from Israel, the most highly vaxed country in the world. 

Thus, according to Israel's Ministry of health:
More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have been infected previously – that is, less than 1% of the new cases. Source
Furthermore:
With a total of 835,792 Israelis known to have recovered from the virus, the 72 instances of reinfection amount to 0.0086% of people who were already infected with COVID.

By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave.
Canada, with a population more than six times Israel's is reported to have had 1.46 million Covid cass. With 26,787 reported Covid deaths in Canada, that implies a Covid infection fatality rate of 1.8%. But that is almost certainly at least ten times the actual fatality rate, and in which case, Canada most likely has at least 15 million Covid recovereds — most of them asymptomatic while infected and unaware that they have not only successfully fought off the virus, but gained robust and durable immunity against future infection. 

But to Canada's dictator-loving Trudeau, damn natural immunity, everyone gotta be vaxed or we'll treat 'em like lepers

This is insane. The Government of Canada should be working to provide every Canadian the opportunity to be tested for Covid immunity, for example by means of a T-Cell antibody test) before deciding whether they agree to be vaccinated. 

But don't hold your breath waiting for relief from the relentless bullying to achieve universal vaccination. Opposition parties in Parliament have neither the brains nor the balls to resist Trudeau's imbecilic drive to stick a needle in everyone. 

Still we will soon have a chance to vote, so you could make a protest by voting for the People's Party.  

Related:




NYT: Israel, Once the Model for Beating Covid, Faces New Surge of Infections

Countries with the highest COVID injection rates are also experiencing the greatest upsurges in cases

Former Pfizer VP: COVID vaccines pose ‘severe risk’ of infertility for women

Get vaxxed or get sacked: Washington and Oregon governors force ALL school workers to get jab to keep their jobs

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Here's a Peer-Reviewed Journal Article About the Vax to Worry An Intelligent Person

Journal of Infection

Infection-enhancing Anti-SARS-COV-2 Antibodies Recognize Both the Original Wuhan/D61G4 Strain and Delta Variants. A Potential Risk for Mass Vaccination

Published:August 09, 2021
Full Text: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2021.08.010

Highlights:

Infection-enhancing antibodies have been detected in symptomatic Covid-19

Enhancing antibodies recognize both the Wuhan strain and delta variants

ADE of delta variants is a potential risk for current vaccines*
____________________________

* To be precise, ADE (Antibody-Dependent Enhancement of the severity of an infectious disease) is not a risk for the vaccines, it is a risk for the several billion people who've had a shot of one of the vaccines.

That vaccines pose the risk of ADE is one of the reasons for extensive testing of new vaccines in both animals and humans. However, in the current government-induced panic about Covid (a virus closely related to the widespread common cold viruses, which causes a respiratory disease with about the same mortality rate as the flu), the entire human population is to be injected with an untested and potentially lethal vaccine. 

Makes sense, right. 

And just in case you don't get it, Justin Trudeau, BoJo and all the other morons who are running the world right now will make your life Hell if you refuse the vax. They'll make you life Hell for refusing the vax even if you are one of the billion or so people who have already had the damn virus thereby acquiring immunity vastly superior to that  provided by any of the current crop of highly profitable  vaccines of unknown safety. 

Related:

Vaccination provides 'far less' protection than previous Covid infection


Top doctor: Mass vaccination program for COVID will be ‘one of the most deadly’ in history

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Covid: Quotes of the Day -- Harvard Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff

... "we know that if you’ve had COVID, you have very good immunity, not only for the same variant, but also for other variants, and even for other types of coronaviruses.

We know for example, that if you had a COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2, you have also have immunity to SARS-CoV-1 which we had earlier, a few years ago. It also provides protective immunity to the other four common coronaviruses that are endemic that we’ve all been exposed to, and that we will continue to be exposed to.

So I don’t see any problem with [the] Delta variant. It’s not a game changer.

The best approach is to make sure that our old people get vaccinated to protect them. And then we should not have lockdowns. We should let people live their normal lives.
The key thing is if you had had COVID already ... that protects you against severe disease ...
For example, in the UK, there was a wave of cases that peaked in the mid-July. It was a very sharp increase [but] for mortality it is just a tiny blip. So this is a contrast to before the vaccines and before focused protection, when cases rose and mortality rose in parallel. But the vaccines and the immunity from people who’ve had COVID is decoupling that ...

We can see it (the same pattern) in Sweden ...

We see the same thing here in the U.S. ... in the summer wave ... in the southern states: There have been [more] cases, [but only a blip in deaths].
COVID-19 will always be with us. It’s not going away. We can’t eradicate a virus like this. When people get exposed to it for a second time, a third time, a fourth time, the immune system helps, making sure that it’s not a serious illness ...

Of course, people are born every year and they are susceptible. They haven’t had it. So when children are born, they don’t have the immunity to this particular virus, but we know that the infection is very mild for children.

So as long as children are exposed and their immune system built up, then the next time they are exposed to the virus, their immune system will protected them."

Read the full interview: 

Related: 

CanSpeccy: Why Do Covid Vaccine Despots in Government, Education, and the Media and Corporate Worlds Ignore the Fact that Millions Upon Millions of People Have Covid Immunity Acquired By Infection

Sunday, August 15, 2021

Maxime Bernier: Trudeau's Election Call

The past year and a half has been one of the most disastrous periods in recent Canadian history.

From the very beginning of the pandemic, the Trudeau government has been erratic, inconsistent, and irresponsible. We all remember when one week, masks were useless, then the next they should be mandated everywhere. One week it was racist to suggest that we stop flights from China, and the next week we cancelled flights from all countries.

It quickly became apparent in the spring of 2020 that older people with comorbidities were the ones most at risk from the virus, especially those living in nursing homes. As I kept saying at the time, we should have targeted all our efforts at protecting them.

The federal government, which coordinates the pandemic for the whole country, should have led this effort.

Instead, incompetent provincial governments, especially Quebec and Ontario, let them die by the thousands. With support from Ottawa, they decided to impose destructive lockdown measures that many scientific studies have shown to be totally ineffective at preventing the spread of the virus.

Everything else that has happened since is the consequence of these early decisions.

These lockdowns will have killed a lot more people than they presumably saved. Because of job and business losses, anxiety and depression, postponed surgeries, domestic violence, drug overdoses.

These lockdowns have destroyed large parts of our economy, especially small businesses.

Trudeau used these lockdowns as a justification to launch a whole series of spending programs that we cannot afford, pushing our national debt to unprecedented levels.

The Liberals sent cheques to senior citizens that they will receive tomorrow. They extended the wage subsidy program another month until right after election day. It has nothing to do with supporting the economy, and everything to do with buying votes. It will take years to bring back sound public finances.


Related: 
'I won't change': Maxime Bernier confident about PPC's chances with same platform

Saturday, August 14, 2021

Why Vaccine Mandates and Passports Are Expressions of Tyrannical Bullshit

By Lionel Shriver

The Spectator, August 14, 2021: Despite having mocked app-happy Albion in my last column, I finally downloaded the NHS app. (Lest I seem a raging hypocrite, the institutional app is quite distinct from the Track-and-Trace Covid one, possession of which marks you as insane.) I found the app’s elaborate security features for registration bitterly comical. I had to photograph my passport, then record a video of myself speaking four prescribed numbers to affirm that my face matches my ID. These uploads provide the dirt-birds who’ve hacked the NHS before still more means of stealing my identity and medical records.

But never mind, because I’d no choice. I’ve an author’s tour of France in September. To get my mitts on even a lowly Croque Monsieur in Macron’s bastille, I’ll need to prove my Covid bona fides. Even here in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wormy Big Apple, by next week I’ll also have to furnish proof of vaccination to grab an even lowlier grilled cheese sandwich — though it remains to be seen whether AstraZeneca’s elixir, still not approved in the US, will suffice to make me customer-worthy in New York diners. I guess it’s fortunate I’m a dab hand at grilling my own cheese sandwich.

Now that vaccine passports are already coming to a theatre near you, it’s ironic that Public Health England (PHE) has just released figures that cast this whole wheat-from-chaff project as scientifically daft. Extrapolating from data, vaccines appear to protect the over-fifties from Delta infection by a paltry 17 per cent. As for transmissibility? Once infected, both the vaccinated and unvaccinated carry almost identical viral loads. PHE notes that ‘this suggests limited difference in infectiousness’. If both classes of citizen can still get and spread the virus, vaccination is not an act of noble altruism

Our political high priests don’t seem to have taken this bad news on board. I’ve observed before that vaccine passports are pointless if the vaccines work; unvaccinated people pose no threat to the medically impervious. But vaccine passports are also pointless if vaccines don’t work. Should the vaccinated and unvaccinated both be roughly as vulnerable to infection and as capable of transmitting the virus, they pose a nearly equal danger to others. If on average the vaccinated are only 17 per cent safer company, that’s a pretty dismal stat on which to base a vast new social apartheid.


Related: 
In Southeast Asia, robust immunity found up to 9 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection

“The forced vaccination of all military personnel with the present COVID-19 vaccines may compromise U.S. national security due to the unknown extent of serious vaccine complications,”writes Furman. “Further study is needed before committing the Total Force to one irreversible experimental group. Initial reports leave more concern for the COVID-19 vaccinations than the virus itself for the (at present) exceptionally healthy military population.”
The main points in the paper by CDR Furman:
The average member of the U.S. military is young and in excellent physical fitness, two categories that are nearly immune to the dangers of COVID. So far, only 24 people out of 2.2 million military personnel have died of COVID-19, a rate of less than one per 91,000.

There is reason to believe severe or even fatal side-effects from existing COVID-19 vaccines are more common than reported, and could even prove deadlier to otherwise-healthy servicemen than COVID-19.

There is also the outlier possibility that mRNA vaccines (the kind used by the Moderna and Pfizer shots) may have unanticipated negative effects on the immune systems of recipients.
Currently, the U.S. military has proven completely capable of weathering COVID-19 without any loss of effectiveness, so forcibly making the entire service a test case for a novel type of vaccine is a pointless risk.

The same points apply to the majority of the civilian population. 

But who cares? 

Certainly not geniuses like Biden, Bojo or Justin Trudeau, who are clearly intent on gaining favor with the very rich corporations that are massively profiting from everyone being injected with an experimental, and all to often lethal, vaccine of slight to zero efficacy.

Yikes! Covid-233 Is Raging Worldwide

233 NEW COVID CASES EVERYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD

And for confirmation, check the Internets

Related:
Exactly 233 COVID cases? Proof of international collusion in the news media

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

Thursday, August 12, 2021

Why Do Covid Vaccine Despots in Government, Education, and the Media and Corporate Worlds Ignore the Fact that Millions Upon Millions of People Have Covid Immunity Acquired By Infection

 By Rachel Laglie

The College Fix, August 12, 2021: I had COVID already, but my university wants to treat me like a leper

My school, the University of Florida, keeps pushing students, faculty and staff to get vaccinated and has even shamed people who may choose not to get vaccinated.

But it continues to ignore the natural immunity that people like me almost definitely have after recovering from coronavirus.


Related: 


The Epidemiologists were right, the geniuses of SAGE, the Government's "scientific" advisory group wrong: Covid is here to stay and locking people up to control the virus is an idiotic and ruinous policy: endemic equilibrium with increasingly widespread natural immunity acquired through infection is what we'll get.


Which means we'll get endemic equilibrium, which is achieved when the proportion of the population with full-spectrum natural immunity acquired through viral infection reduces the proportion of the population susceptible to infection to the point that the number of new infections is just balanced by the number of new susceptible individuals added to the population, i.e., when the reproduction number has been reduced to 1.


Nature: SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls
Memory T cells induced by previous pathogens can shape susceptibility to, and the clinical severity of, subsequent infections1. Little is known about the presence in humans of pre-existing memory T cells that have the potential to recognize severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Here we studied T cell responses against the structural (nucleocapsid (N) protein) and non-structural (NSP7 and NSP13 of ORF1) regions of SARS-CoV-2 in individuals convalescing from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (n = 36). In all of these individuals, we found CD4 and CD8 T cells that recognized multiple regions of the N protein. Next we showed that patients (n = 23) who recovered from SARS (the disease associated with SARS-CoV infection) possess long-lasting memory T cells that are reactive to the N protein of SARS-CoV 17 years after the outbreak of SARS in 2003; these T cells displayed robust cross-reactivity to the N protein of SARS-CoV-2. 

Law professor with naturally acquired COVID immunity battles GMU’s strict vaccine mandate

COVID-19 Testing Should Be Clinically-Driven, UK lawmakers Told, and Account Taken of Immunity Due to Past Infection 

The Real-World Data Show the Covid Vaccines Are [Laregely] Ineffective

Tucker Carlson: Questioning the Vaccine (May 5, 2021):

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Quote of the Day, No. 79: Covid Will Not Destroy Free Society, It is the Response to Covid That Will

It is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes (read: Covid), not cancer, but Man himself who is the greatest danger to Man, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics (read: such as the fear and panic induced by ruling elite responses to Covid) which are infinitely more devastating that the worst of natural catastrophe. 

 

Carl Jung 

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Great Ad. for a New Wine

Sunetra Gupta (an actual expert in infectious diseases) Reviews Her Past Assessment of the Covid Pandemic

Unherd, August 9, 2021: It’s fair to say that my contact with the world of public media over the past eighteen months hasn’t been without incident. When I look back at the first interviews I gave on Covid-19, including to UnHerd in May 2020, it is plainly evident that I still had no idea how politicised and nasty this controversy would become — I was still happy to share early hypotheses, not realising that they would be systematically collected and deployed to try to destroy my professional credibility, including by people I had previously respected and admired.


Related:

Why Covid Cases Come in Waves: A Theory

By Anthony Brookes

Lockdown Skeptics, August 10, 2021: For the past one and a half years, experts and amateurs alike have been trying to understand the Covid pandemic, hoping to be able to defend against it and predict how it will develop and end. A multitude of uncertainties has led to an environment of fear, and regrettably, that fear has been exaggerated and employed to justify policies that may or may not have been effective but were uncomfortably authoritarian. Perhaps it had to be this way, given that no one had a working crystal ball (not least the computer modellers) and yet people at all levels needed to feel they had some degree of control over the situation. The sad truth, however, is that our leaders, scientists and the public have basically been stumbling through the Covid quagmire, challenged by complexities of subjective data interpretation, imperfect modelling, political machinations, hidden agendas and unhelpful human egos.

Here, I attempt to pull together an empirical and rational summary of the underlying driving forces behind the whole pandemic. This is aided by the fact that modern genetic technologies have enabled extensive virus testing and variant detection, while vaccines and lockdowns have been applied to very different degrees in different countries thereby giving us many alternatives scenarios and empirical observations for direct comparison. From this, it becomes increasingly clear which factors did and did not truly drive the dynamics of the pandemic.

A central conclusion has to be that despite all our efforts, this SARS-Cov-2 virus has done what it was always determined to do. It spread across populations via waves of infection, and like ripples of water from a dropped stone these waves have been remarkably evenly spaced (by three-to-four months). This repeating pattern of rises and falls in virus prevalence has remained sufficiently synchronised across the planet to be apparent in the global death chart.

Friday, August 6, 2021

The Covid Narrative, Properly Understood

Related:

Eradication of Covid Is a Dangerous and Expensive Fantasy


By Jay Bhattacharya and Donald J. Boudreaux

Wall St. Journal, August 4, 2021: Much of the pathology underlying Covid policy arises from the fantasy that it is possible to eradicate the virus. Capitalizing on pandemic panic, governments and compliant media have used the lure of zero-Covid to induce obedience to harsh and arbitrary lockdown policies and associated violations of civil liberties.

Among all countries, New Zealand, Australia and especially China have most zealously embraced zero-Covid. China’s initial lockdown in Wuhan was the most tyrannical. It infamously locked people into their homes, forced patients to take untested medications, and imposed 40-day quarantines at gunpoint.

On March 24, 2020, New Zealand imposed one of the most onerous lockdowns in the free world, with sharp restrictions on international travel, business closures, a prohibition on going outside, and official encouragement of citizens to snitch on neighbors. In May 2020, having hit zero-Covid, New Zealand lifted lockdown restrictions, except quarantines for international travelers and warrantless house searches to enforce lockdown.

Australia also took the zero-Covid route. While the initial steps focused on banning international travel, the lockdowns there also involved closed schools, occasional separation of mothers from premature newborns, brutal suppression of protests, and arrests for wandering more than 3 miles from home.

New Zealand’s and Australia’s temporary achievement of zero-Covid and China’s claimed success were greeted with fanfare by the media and scientific journals. China’s authoritarian response seemed so successful—despite the country’s record of lying about the virus—that panicked democratic governments around the world copied it. The three countries lifted their lockdowns and celebrated.

Humanity’s unimpressive track record of deliberately eradicating contagious diseases warns us that lockdown measures, however draconian, can’t work. Thus far, the number of such diseases so eliminated stands at two—and one of these, rinderpest, affected only even-toed ungulates. The lone human infectious disease we’ve deliberately eradicated is smallpox. The bacterium responsible for the Black Death, the 14th-century outbreak of bubonic plague, is still with us, causing infections even in the U.S.

While the eradication of smallpox—a virus 100 times as deadly as Covid—was an impressive feat, it shouldn’t be used as a precedent for Covid. For one thing, unlike smallpox, which was carried only by humans, SARS-CoV-2 is also carried by animals, which some hypothesize can spread the disease to humans. We will need to rid ourselves of dogs, cats, mink, bats and more to get to zero. For another, the smallpox vaccine is incredibly effective at preventing infection and severe disease, even after exposure to disease, with protection lasting five to 10 years. The Covid vaccines are far less effective at preventing spread. And smallpox eradication required a concerted global effort lasting decades and unprecedented cooperation among nations. Nothing like this is possible today, especially if it requires a perpetual lockdown in every country on earth. That’s simply too much to ask, especially of poor countries, where lockdowns have proved devastatingly harmful to public health. If even one nonhuman reservoir or a single country or region that fails to adopt the program, zero-Covid would fail.

The costs of any eradication program are immense and must be justified before the government pursues such a goal. These costs include a sacrifice of non-health-related goods and services and other health priorities—forgone prevention and treatment of other diseases. The consistent failure of government officials to recognize the harms of lockdowns—often citing the precautionary principle—disqualifies Covid as a candidate for eradication.

The only practical course is to live with the virus in the same way that we have learned to live over millennia with countless other pathogens. A focused protection policy can help us cope with the risk. There is a thousand-fold difference in the mortality and hospitalization risk posed by virus to the old relative to the young. We now have good vaccines that have helped protect vulnerable people from the ravages of Covid wherever they have been deployed. Offering the vaccine to the vulnerable everywhere, not the failed lockdowns, should be the priority to save lives.

We live with countless hazards, each of which we could but sensibly choose not to eradicate. Automobile fatalities could be eradicated by outlawing motor vehicles. Drowning could be eradicatedby outlawing swimming and bathing. Electrocution could be eradicated by outlawing electricity. We live with these risks not because we’re indifferent to suffering but because we understand that the costs of zero-drowning or zero-electrocution would be far too great. The same is true of zero-Covid.

Dr. Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Mr. Boudreaux is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

Note: The above article is published here in breach of copyright in the public interest. We trust that the proprietors of the Wall Street Journal will accept this action as the compliment it is intended to their excellent coverage of the Covid pandemic. 

Plus:

The Vax Won't End Covid Because 50% of Cases are Among People Already Vaccinated

Vaccines Make "Limited Difference In Infectiousness" Of Delta Variant

Data from PHE Shows the Fatality Rate in the Vaccinated Under-50s is 57% Greater Than in the Unvaccinated



Eminent US Doctor: ‘Under no circumstances’ should a recovered patient get a COVID jab
"Dr. McCullough cited studies showing that people who have recovered from COVID-19 have a high chance of side-effects if they are vaccinated against it. He believes that naturally immune people should under no circumstances accept a COVID-19 vaccine. The doctor also stated that authorities should exempt naturally immune people from vaccination demands. ..."

Almost 80% of 16 to 24 year olds in England have Covid antibodies 
But we're gonna vax them all, anyhow.

What would be the point. Most young people already have antibodies, indicating they've already been infected -- asymptomatically in most cases -- and most likely, therefore, have far superior immunity to that provided by the vax.

Wuhan's 'Bat Lady' Warns Of Coming Covid-19 Mutants
Gotta keep up the panic: this is bio-psychological warfare, and Bat Woman presumably has more virulent strains of Covid ready to go.

Delta variant throws the world back into Orwellian autocracy

Swedish Professor Says 5 Shots Of COVID Vaccine May Be Necessary
Only five?

The Astonishing Hubris Of A Global Experimental Vaccine

It is an objective, indisputable fact: never in the history of the world has there been a global push to administer an experimental medicine to all of humanity, billions of us, at the same time.

I want you to stop and reflect on that.

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Masking Kids Is Child Abuse

Richard Hanania on Twitter

To children under 14, COVID is less dangerous than drowning, car accidents, the flu, homicide, suffocation, almost anything. Yet we’re taking more precautions against COVID for children than any of these things, putting them in masks 8 hours a day. A generational crime.

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Thursday, August 5, 2021

Time To Acknowledge Covid Vaccine Failure and Recognize That Infection-Acquired Herd Immunity Is What We'll Get

 The new-technology, Covid so-called vaccines are "leaky."

Probably few readers understand what it means for a vaccine to be "leaky." Allow me, therefore, to explain: 

A leaky vaccine is one that protects the vaccinated while allowing them to spread the pathogenic agent to the unvaccinated. Cool, hey: it's a vax that kills all those stupid anti-vaxxers. 

A further feature of the leaky Covid vax, is that the vaccine induced antibodies facilitate the reproduction and transmission of viral mutants beyond the control of the vaccine. This this is occurring is evident from Covid outbreaks among the vaccinated now being observed both in Israel and Australia

But no prob, Big Pharma has the answer: vaccine boosters, top-ups, extenders or whatever they call what are in effect new vaccines against new viral strains arising through vaccine-induced immune escape. 

Immune escape is when vaccine-induced antibodies eliminate the original viral strain (the Wuhan strain in this case) from the cells of a vaccinated individual, thereby clearing the path for multiplication of any antibody resistant mutants that may have emerged and which will readily infect the vaxxed as readily as the unvaxxed.

Then there's the risk (never evaluated in the case of Covid vaccines) of vaccine-induced antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). That is, enhancement of viral infectivity and virulence, as explained here

Now, we are thus faced with the prospect of an unending stream of potentially more dangerous covid variants each having escaped control by the latest iteration of the vaccine. 

It is now apparent, therefore, that the professional epidemiologists were correct: covid should have been allowed to spread without restriction except among the most vulnerable, those being chiefly the old and the obese. In that way, we would by now have acquired durable, robust, population-wide, immunity: that is robust, durable, full-spectrum herd immunity against all Covid variants. 

While it is late, it is not too late to go for natural immunity. This, however, cannot be achieved with the original Wuhan strain of the virus in countries where most of the population has already been vaccinated against the Wuhan strain. 

Instead, it will be necessary to isolate a variant that is no more virulent than the Wuhan strain (and preferably much less so), but which is unconstrained by the so-called vaccines that have been distributed.

The side effects of this live-virus vaccine should be no worse than the common cold, but its immunological effect will be to induce full-spectrum resistance, including long-lived T-cell immunity to all Covid variants.

But it is a near certainty that no such plan will be adopted. Instead, we appear headed for global depopulation as Covid evolves under the driving influence of so-called vaccines, into an ever more efficient vaccine-resistant killer. 

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So that ends the moral argument for vaccination: The unvaccinated are no more a danger to others than the vaccinated, and probably they are less of a danger since they don't have the sense of security that vaccination provides and which promotes behaviour that heightens the risk of infection.

Monday, August 2, 2021

Forests and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Today is BC Day, a statutory holiday in the Province of British Columbia. And here on the Pacific coast, in British Columbia's capital city of Victoria, as we celebrate the existence of this colonial settlement, smoke from forest fires burning hundreds of kilometers away in the interior of the Province has turned the sun red and the air toxic.

Such fires are not unusual. Since 2008, fires have consumed 44,000 square kilometres of forest in British Columbia, equal to about one tenth the area of the Province's commercial forest. And there is nothing special about the forests of British Columbia. Wildfires consume millions of hectares of forest across Canada almost every year.

Coldstream, BC, July 9, 2021: Source: Williams Lake Tribune
And fires are not the only cause of forest destruction. Each year, Canadians log around a million hectares of forest, of which a significant proportion may be converted to ranch land or remaindered as NSR (not sufficiently restocked) forest land in the continuation of a process of deforestation begun in 1608 when Samuel Champlain, with the blessing of King Henri Quatre of France, arrived on the shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to implant a branch of the French nation in North America.

The process of forest destruction is not uniquely Canadian: it occurs worldwide, across Eurasia, in Amazonia, and throughout Africa, with losses totaling around 100,000 square kilometres each year.

Does that matter?

Certainly it has huge consequences. Forests account for around 80% of the world's biomass, most of the world's photosynthetic capacity, and provide home to the great majority of the World's plant and animal species.

But here I want to consider just one consequence. How does deforestation affect atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, with whatever consequences that may have for climate.

The atmosphere weights about 10 tons per square meter. Of that mass, carbon dioxide accounts for 596 parts per million (or 416 parts per million by volume). Therefore, over each square meter of Earth's surface, the atmosphere contains approximately six kilograms of carbon dioxide.

The carbon content of mature forests range between one hundred and one thousand tons per hectare, which is equivalent to between 160 to 1,600 kilograms of carbon dioxide per square meter.

From that, it follows that the destruction of one unit area of forest and the complete transformation of the carbon that it contains into atmospheric carbon dioxide, has an effect equal to that of doubling the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration over an area between 26 and 266 times greater than the area deforested.

Given the current rate of global deforestation, which is around 100,000 square kilometers a year, or an  area 8% larger than the nation of Hungary, and assuming an average forest carbon content of 100 tons, it follows that the yearly effect of deforestation on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration corresponds to the effect of  doubling the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration over an area of 6.6 million square kilometres, an area more than 70 times the size of Hungary, and equal to 1.2% of the Earth's total land and marine surface.

Thus, if the process of global deforestation were to continue at the present rate for the next 100 years, the world would still retain three quarters of its present forest area, but all other things being equal, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration would have doubled.

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