Move those goalposts!

Let Them Eat Taser nannystate Wuhan Flu 51 Comments

Many of us have seen this coming for quite some time. It’s par for the course when computer models substitute for rational judgement.

Should we aim for higher,” [Tam] asked. “Yes, I think we should. As I said, shoot for higher, shoot for gold, shoot for the stars. That gives us a better buffer for managing the COVID-19 situation.”

Shooting the economy in the head should not be confused with shooting for the stars.

51 Replies to “Move those goalposts!”

  1. And we have not one single greasy assed spineless politician that will say no. The biggest disappointments are all the SHITCON Premiers. All the US states that went wide open full throttle are doing fine. What are her links to the CCP? Has anyone checked.
    They should all be rounded up and held for trial, as in Nuremburg Trials like the Nazi’s they are.

    2. Not exactly a good example considering the USA has 3x the deaths per capita. Dont overlook the warmer climate and higher UV exposure, both which are covid killers.

      1. If you confuse death with covid and death from covid, then yes. Grownups don’t. Only pathetic coward Canadian sheep like you who need mommy government to hold your pathetic little hand when you leave your house.

      2. In addition to COVID with and COVID from, have you also looked at other factors? What percentage of small businesses in the USA are bankrupt now versus Canada. How many teenagers committed suicide from lockdown enhanced depression per capita between the two nations? What percentage of infants in Canada compared to the USA have had severe social development impairment due to living in a masked social distanced world? How many Canadians have died as a result of delayed surgery and cancer screening compared to Americans on a per capita basis? How have marriages held in the USA versus Canada under the stress of lockdowns. And overdoses and relapses in drug treatment? What about those costs? There is more that just COVID deaths to be considered in the entire picture.

  2. This is the epitome of what one of my senior undergraduate year professors often said when it came to approximating answers: “Close enough for government work.”

  4. [deleted. Make threats on your own dime and under your own name, asshole. — Kate]

  5. there will be legislation in many parts of the world (including canada) limiting legitimately elected representatives in the use of “emergency” powers – specifically by fobbing off responsibility for decisions onto the shoulders of “experts.”

    the idea that unelected individuals can decide the course of the future is already a dead horse. there are real consequences for elected officials participating in flagrantly cruel and stupid actions. this has always been true.

    1. FYI, rules and regulations and constitutions and legislation and norms, only work when you start with honest people.

  6. IMRHO, Tam has been auditioning for the top spot at the WHO. I wish her luck, as long as we ignore her from then on.

  7. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

    H. L. Mencken

    1. There’s another Mencken quote I’m fond of but it was deleted from the comments here once.

      Probably for the best.

      For now.

        1. A more apropos Mencken quote for this sort of situation might be the one from that time Mencken got kicked square in the cobblers by a horse. Well, it wasn’t so much a quote as a lengthy string of expletives, but it got the point across. I might be misremembering who said it.

        2. Personally, as a bit of a germphobe (Is it still okay in 2021 to be germophobic? I think so, Germans are still feeling too much guilt to complain.) I have a bit of a problem with the spitting on hands.

    1. Searching for and finding actual numbers and projections for miscarriages, sterilizations (if there will be any) and permanent heart or brain defects as a result of the vaccines is turning out to be more difficult than I thought. There is a lot of arm waving about ho incredibly safe we are because Science!, but the actual data is difficult to find.

      I wonder how close to a Children of Thalidomide situation we’ll be in after a decade.

      1. The vaccines are safe and effective therefore there aren’t any adverse affects. It’s just Science.

        1. I like the capitalization on Science. It really lets one know you’re speaking of the religion.

  10. I think the shit hits the fan when the PTB start to compel children to be vaccinated with an experimental vaccine based on inserting genetic material. It’s one thing to cheerlead for vaccinations, and another when it’s your kid.

    1. Totally unacceptable. I think they have already done considerable damage to children. Cancelling school, forcing them to wear masks. It is creating a lot of trauma. None of these measures have been justified. The grown ups — if there are any in Canada — need to put a stop to this.

      1. Let’s fast-forward say 10-15 years.

        Are the children programed to the point that they will just do as they are told when a very serious “crisis” comes upon a nation or continent or the world. Will they submit without questions or critical thinking through the problem, taking into consideration multiple points of view which have varying outcomes and scenarios?

        I believe we shamefully already know the answer to this.

  11. delta variants
    epsilon variants
    gamma variants

    Yes, there always will be another variant. Oceania has always been at war with the epsilon variant. Thanks for asking.

  12. By September it’ll be just stupid to keep this garbage going. At this rate within two weeks Canada will be in the 100 case a day range. They can talk about scary variants and other bs but this thing’s just about over.

  13. Tam has a single- minded focus on stopping Covid at all costs. The politicians need to be cognizant and responsive to much more. We need a robust economy, education, responsive social services, and a social environment that supports the aspirations of the people living here. The politicians need to strike a balance. Our tolerance for pandemic inspired totalitarianism is at an end. Society must move on. If it does not, the country is not a place worth living in any more.

    1. Coivd as constituted will never be stopped because that is all there now is. It will only stop when we all say enough, get up, get out, get over it, it is not killing everyone on the planet and will not. This whole farce has got to stop, there is no rationale for the continued insanity.

    2. Tam has a single minded focus on achieving and maintaining the control sought by her masters. Covid? Hardly.

  14. Just sent to Trudeau, O’Toole, Singh and my own MP, the anti-Israel Paul Manley, Dr. Bonnie Henry, Premier Horgan and Health Minister Adrian Dix: (plus everyone on my contacts list). They all need to hear from us!

    Dr. Theresa Tam is attempting to move the goal posts yet again, extending Covid fear further into our future. Now she wants 75% of Canadians fully vaccinated before easing restrictions on distancing and masking. Because Delta variant. That will take many months.

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    “Should we aim for higher,” she asked. “Yes, I think we should. As I said, shoot for higher, shoot for gold, shoot for the stars. That gives us a better buffer for managing the COVID-19 situation.” https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-vaccine-targets-based-on-models-before-troublesome-delta-variant-well-known
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    Does she think we don’t see what is occurring in the USA? How people have been attending large, crowded events and opening theatres and casinos, apparently without any spike in contagion or deaths? Meanwhile, in her landscape of popsicles, stars and gold, people continue to suffer due to untreated illness, disease or injury, businesses close and die and children whither.

    Are we all insane? Don’t you believe in vaccine immunity? If you’re vaccinated, what purpose is there in continuing wearing a mask? Why are we putting up with this?

    Respectfully
    **** *******

    1. Are we all insane?

      Most Canadians evidently are.

      If you’re vaccinated, what purpose is there in continuing wearing a mask?

      To show one’s undying loyalty to the Party.

      Why are we putting up with this?

      Because most Canadians are spineless with absolutely no imagination.

  17. L – As for the Public Health Officers using computer models to determine the variety and degree of Lockdowns, otherwise known as violations of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

    The axiom of computer models is : garbage in, garbage out. We’ve seen that play out in spades. Updating models with the latest data sets not only did not happen. Additionally, the computer modeling violated scientific knowledge about the human immune system’s evolutionary adaptation to a virus filled world. Instead of science, our entire representative democracy
    has been hi-jacked by shaman’s seeking an oracle, not from Delphi, but Dell/IBM/Apple.
    Not from clinicians running Intensive Care Units, but from Computer Processing Units.

    The Scientific Method is a process, testing hypotheses, following data, in open source dialogue with the best in Canada and the world. For the Wuhan virus(Sars Cov. 2.0) that started with clinicians/researchers (G.P.s, E.R.s, I.C.U.) searching for potential therapeutic protocols/cocktails of anti-virals present in invitro/invivo research literature.

    However, clinicians/researchers results have been so suppressed as to constitute a Crime Against Humanity and Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals. Thus millions have suffered and many died needlessly. Qui Bono ?

    Trillions of dollars of lost economic activity, impoverishing and sacrificing the health and well being of the most vulnerable happened in order to produce 9 new Big Pharma billionaires de
    Vaccine.

    But, I digress. As for Dr. Tam and P.M. Justin Trudeau, I suggest trading them for the two Michaels, both unjustly arrested/imprisoned/show trialed. In Red China, would both T&T be
    feted or punished, a most intriguing question ?

  21. She loves being so important! Saving the World!
    Don’t leave her behind and get on with your lives.
    Being Important is so much fun, because, you know, she has not missed a paycheck, and (as far as I know) has no kids to worry about.

  24. Firing the “Dr Tams” and the politicians who released them is no longer enough.
    They have crossed the line to blatant abuse of the citizenry,months ago trying to protect the illusion of government run healthcare.
    Just like when dealing with persistent predators,Oh right Parasites..you sometimes have to leave one hanging to warn off the rest of its flock.
    Retribution is called for and fits the passive aggressive nature of Canadians.
    Those still suffering delusions of their own adequacy,to hold positions of public trust and authority,will be shocked to discover just how ungrateful we are for their fine help.
    But that delusion goes deep,participation award babies are insular to the point of oblivion.

    1. It’s all BS and bafflegab. Real numbers don’t need to be hyped up, they simply are. How many really died from covid, not with covid? How many were actually sick with covid? That’s it, all that is needed. No computer models, just reality.

  27. Economically she sounds like the Werner Von Braun (fake) tombstone… “I aim for the stars, but sometimes hit London.”

  28. In 1965 William F. Buckley Jr. (1925 – 2008) made what seemed an outrageous statement on Meet the Press:

    “I have often been quoted as saying I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.”

    The truth of that statement is all too apparent today.

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