Category: There Goes The Narrative

Sand in the gears

Let Them Eat Taser There Goes The Narrative 19 Comments

For the duration of the pandemic, the MSM and it’s Keynesian court economists repeatedly told us that we could safely dismiss the cost of the restrictions and lockdowns since the economy would magically “recover” from whatever shocks it was subjected to, provided governments engaged in astronomical borrowing in order to backstop losses.

Now that additional disruptions are arising from a less politically correct source, the economic impact is suddenly front and center. There’s a way to fix that, of course, but that would injure the narrative.

Murray Mullen, the head of one of Canada’s biggest trucking firms, sees blockades at border crossings this week in terms of productivity and pinch points. He sees trucks unable to move, or forced to take roundabout routes to get where they’re going, adding extra time and distance, eating into an already short supply of drivers and equipment.

The Great Honkening Is Working Its Magic

CBC It's Probably Nothing There Goes The Narrative Uncategorized 180 Comments

The honking will continue until the freedom is improved. 

This is very interesting.

While Justin Trudeau hides in his basement, sucking his thumb in a fetal position, maybe scarfing down some Toblerone bars, he’s decided not to speak to the public, and instead has sent out his idiot representatives to talk to the public.

Meanwhile, Canada’s Chief Medical Kook, Dr. Teresa Tam, is publicly sending out pivoting smoke signals. What do you think? I think this is a sign that the Great Honkening is working its magic.

“Speaking to reporters at the weekly public health briefing, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam said all existing public health policies, including provincial vaccine passports, need to be “re-examined” in the coming weeks — because it’s clear now that Canada and the rest of the world will be grappling with this virus for months or years to come.

“What we need to do going forward, as we emerge out of this Omicron wave, is recognize this virus is not going to disappear. We need to be able to address the ongoing presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a more sustainable way,” Tam said.”

“Tam said the Public Health Agency of Canada is talking to its provincial and territorial counterparts to chart a path forward for a country exhausted after two years of enduring some of the most restrictive measures in the developed world.”

Together, she said, these agencies will review the current “suite of measures,” including severe border restrictions and travel limitations.

“I think the whole concept is, we do need to get back to some normalcy,” Tam said.

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Dr. Matt Strauss volunteers. 

Oh, the Horror

CBC Juxtapose! Media There Goes The Narrative 61 Comments

CBC- Vulnerable downtown residents hit breaking point as convoy enters 5th day

Social worker urges people to be considerate of residents’ mental health

Ottawa resident Jo O’Connor says she’s been living a nightmare in her home just minutes away from Parliament Hill where a convoy of trucks and protesters remain for a fifth day in a row.

Literally a war zone

Here’s a suggestion. 

So Many Fs

Children R Our Future There Goes The Narrative 3 Comments

Or, what happens when the kids don’t like the race-hustling curriculum.

As the classroom in question is in Salinas, California, where the children in question are overwhelmingly Hispanic, and therefore supposedly oppressed, and supposedly hungry for “critical race theory,” you can imagine the complications. It turns out that when Hispanic children turn up to learn English as a second language, they’re not overly thrilled to find their time being spent on “institutional, internalised, ideological, and interpersonal oppression.” Or at being told that, on account of not being white, they may suffer from “intergenerational trauma.” Or spending class time on a “privilege quiz,” in which they must rank their imagined victimhood, while comparing “intersectional rainbows.”

Oh, there’s more.

New High Scores!

Safe and Effective There Goes The Narrative Wuhan Flu 88 Comments

So much for the “less hospitalizations” theory of vaccination.

Global- COVID-19 hospitalizations hit staggering 10,000 patients as provinces set new records

Much of the current hospitalizations are being driven by Ontario and Quebec. Ontario reported 578 COVID-19 patients in intensive care units and 3,887 in hospital overall, up from 3,595 a day before. Quebec, meanwhile, reported a new record of 3,381 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, including 286 in ICUs.

Deaths, meanwhile, have also begun to rise.

Speaking of Quebec 

3300 Hospitalizations

#1: Age 70+ (2181 hospitalized & 110 ICU) – this group is 95% double vaccinated & 75% boosted!

#2: Age 60-69 (516 Hospital & 93 ICU) – 94% double vaccinated & 58% boosted!

#3 Age 50-59 (245 Hosp & 38 ICU) – 90% double Syringe

el gato malo-  has some more numbers out of the UK and some thoughts.

The sunk cost fallacy is in full effect and careers and credibility is on the line, but facts are stubborn things, and the fact is that these vaccines are accelerating spread. They do not protect us as was promised. (and promises were definitely made) At best, these are a personal choice to mitigate risk. Probably, doing so creates a net risk for others because you are more likely to get covid and spread covid. The vaccinated are not a dead end for virus, they are crop-dusters for it and spreading it more widely.

Which brings us to some charts from Alberta’s provincial website that a lot of people were talking about last week and that had mysteriously vanished. But can still be found via the wayback machine. (click on images for full screen)

In related news: Grocery stores could close if labour, product shortages worsen.

Oh yeah, and the masks are working great too. 👌

Jill Biden Doctors Unite

Media There Goes The Narrative 22 Comments

Jordan Schachtel- ‘270 doctors’ called out Joe Rogan, but the authors of the letter and the vast majority of its signatories are not medical doctors

The letter denouncing Joe Rogan and pressuring Spotify to censor his speech has all kinds of random signatories. By my count, the letter is signed by over 50 PhD academics, around 60 college professors, 29 nurses, 10 students, 4 medical residents, and even a handful of… science podcasters.

Tipping point?

Great Reset Let Them Eat Taser There Goes The Narrative 26 Comments

At long last, it seems that the Mainstream Media, or at least some segment of it, may be tiring of fear porn. It remains to be seen whether the tipping point in the MSM can be reached before irreparable economic damage occurs.

We are pushing the complex systems upon which we depend and which are miraculously effective and efficient in their often thankless operation to their breaking point.

These systems are now shaking. We’re compromising them seriously with this unending and unpredictable stream of restrictions, lockdowns, regulations and curfews. We’re also undermining our entire monetary system, with the provision of unending largesse from government coffers, to ease the stress of the COVID response. We’re playing with fire.

Booster Bollocks?

Safe and Effective There Goes The Narrative Wuhan Flu 18 Comments

el gato malo – if boosters stop the spread of covid, why don’t we see it in the data?

I think we can say with fairly high confidence that there is nothing in this data that supports the idea that widespread booster usage is stopping spread or contagion of covid. The issue of whether they are, in fact, making spread worse remains open and the data seems mixed and wants for greater explanation, though several studies seem to show negative vaccine efficacy for boosters on case counts (link below), so I have a hunch there may be something to the notion and will keep scratching at it.

Took a quick look and I’d say things look the same in Gibraltar.

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Good Job Everyone!

Safe and Effective There Goes The Narrative Wuhan Flu 59 Comments

After all the lockdowns, masks, mass vaccinations, mandates, and passport systems you finally flattened the curve (along the wrong axis) and reached all time high case counts. Just in time for Christmas.

We’ve been watching overall case numbers in the fully vaccinated increase for some time now, but in Ontario the rate per 100,000 people (second chart below) just crossed over the parity line. Judging from the trend its probably not going to stay there.

   

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