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Telling us what we already knew…

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Since the Daily Mail is hardly a publication known for conspiracy theories, it may be harder for the rest of the mainstream media to dismiss these findings regarding common surgical masks.

The blue, cloth surgical masks that have become popular during the pandemic were found be only 10 percent effective as it does not cover the face properly.

As the ineffectiveness of the mask mandates becomes more obvious over time, it would be premature to expect medical authorities to stop pushing for them. Judging by past experience, the use of N95 masks will likely be legally mandated with stiff fines for those using any other.

The band played while the ship sank.

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On a topic that is seldom discussed thus far in the election, it appears that zero percent interest rates are still working their “magic”.

The spike in mortgages is evidence of Canadians’ demand for more living space during the Covid-19 pandemic, which sent sales and prices to record highs. Driven by lower interest rates, the total amount of real estate-related debt outstanding in the country has risen 9.2% in the past year, the largest increase since 2008.

No chicken fingers? Call the cops!

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If an economy was recovering from pandemic restrictions and actually growing, these kinds of supply chain management issues would not be happening. Are attempts to involve the police a result of the encouragement of neighborhood snitching during the pandemic?

According to The Independent, the shortage of menu items caused a large enough uproar that London’s Metropolitan Police was forced to publish a tweet about the “KFC Crisis.”

Please do not contact us about the #KFCCrisis – it is not a police matter if your favourite eatery is not serving the menu that you desire.

The end of an industry

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With more lockdowns looming in the not too distant future, the inability to find staff may wind up being the least of a dining establishment’s worries. In the meantime, the struggle continues with governments doing their best to make a bad situation worse.

The pinch is felt by restaurant owners across the country, particularly as many servers or cooks remain hesitant to return to work amid COVID-19. Many business owners say the issue is due to a decision by employees to try new lines of work, while by far the next-highest concern is the federal government’s continued support programs for the unemployed.

Maybe the children will pay for themselves

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When you see this kind of unabashed cheerleading for the newest entitlement fad in the Financial Post, it may be a sign that total societal collapse is not far off.

As any parent can attest, it costs an enormous sum to raise a child. When that cost can be forced onto the hapless group known as “others”, it would be insane to argue that this unfettered parasitism constitutes an economic boost.

Trudeau on Aug. 5 joined Quebec Premier François Legault and a carefully selected group of children and guardians in a Montreal park to announce that Quebec would be getting $6 billion over five years, the province’s share of the $30 billion that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland pledged in her latest budget for a program that would give parents access to $10-per-day child care within five years. She said it had the potential to provide an economic boost on par with the North American Free Trade Agreement. There’s little reason to doubt the claim.

Micromanagement fever

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You can sing the praises of medical experts all you want, but when they offer advice in areas in which they clearly have no expertise, such as engineering and economics, its time to rein them in before its too late.

This is just a little too Orwelllian:

Canada needs a comprehensive solution that incorporates population immunity and transmission reduction, coupled with continued cluster control through test-trace-isolate-support systems (including a strong paid sick-leave program), border control and surveillance.

The op-ed includes a tacit admission that common surgical masks are useless in preventing viral spread. The solution? Force office workers to wear respirators normally used by welders and painters:

When indoor close contact is occurring, cloth or medical masks should be replaced with respirator masks, which provide superior protection through a combination of exhalation source control and inhalational filtration.

Your creditors can go pound sand

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Given this precedent, will student loans effectively be “forgiven” by the simple expedient of endlessly rolling the payment pause? Perpetually denying investors access to their capital will pause any economic recovery as well.

The Biden administration will relieve Americans from paying their federal student loans through the end of January, extending the pause for what it says is the last time as the government seeks to keep the economic recovery rolling.

The move continues the suspension of payments for all loans owned by the Education Department, maintaining a 0% interest rate and keeping in place a freeze on the collection of defaulted debt.

Scarce capital

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What prolongs the life of a terminally ill fiat currency? The struggles of the debtors. And that struggle is getting a lot harder, especially if you live in a large metropolitan area.

The housing affordability chasm in Metro Vancouver is measured in a new report by the National Bank of Canada, which found that an annual household income of $253,000 is now needed to afford an average house in the region worth $1.47 million.

It would also take 411 months (34.3 years) of savings to cover the down payment for this home type, with a saving rate of 10%.

Subtly moving the goalposts

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For months we’ve been told that getting vaccinated is the key to protecting yourself from Covid. This fully vaccinated South Dakota nursing home has been having a rough experience as of late, however. Is this a case of the mainstream media hitting the panic button (as we know they like to do), or an indication of a changing trend in infections and/or vaccine effectiveness?

Vaccinated seniors regularly deal with unvaccinated staff, visitors and community residents, face the rise of the more dangerous delta variant, and are less protected by vaccines that previously thought.

Rule by algorithms

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As the number of people getting spanked by Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for posting items that liberals don’t like continues to grow, its unlikely that the motivation has to do with striving for commercial success.  What successful business plan aims to drive away customers?

In the name of combating hate speech, violence, conspiracy theory, etc., Internet platforms are removing not just advocacy, but knowledge, in a wide-ranging effort that may help the companies create a more frictionless, commercially successful product, but will impede the past from chastening the present. If the aim is preventing the spread of hateful ideas, nothing could be more counter-productive that cleaning away the record of their real-world impact.

Maybe the back rent will just pay for itself

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One of the reasons why the public outcry over the pandemic restrictions has been so muted is that the full costs of the lockdowns are often obscured by government edicts that prevent markets from making those costs known. This weekend, one of those edicts finally expired.

As many as 1.95 million households across America owed a collective $15 billion in back rent when a nationwide eviction moratorium expired this weekend, according to Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia estimates.

That number will reach 2 million by December, according to the report released Friday. In Pennsylvania, about 60,000 renter households will owe $412 million come August.

The anatomy of compromise

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Another hard lesson learned when you think you can successfully compromise with people whose ultimate goal is to destroy you.

But last week more than 500 organizations across Canada and the U.S., from Environmental Defence to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, signed a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, contending that ‘carbon capture’ would actually delay the transition away from fossil fuels and ultimately increase CO2 emissions.

“Carbon capture is a dangerous distraction,” the letter states. “We don’t need to fix fossil fuels, we need to ditch them.”

Shifting the burden of debt

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In preparation for a fall election, Shiny Pony has announced a bribe for Newfoundland voters.

Premier Andrew Furey said that without the C$2 billion aid package, electricity rates could have doubled.

“(This) is a big day for Newfoundland and Labrador and will finally get the Muskrat off our back,” he told the event.

What a deal. Get the “muskrat” off your back by hanging a debt gorilla on the back of every other Canadian. Thanks a bunch.

No laughing matter

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Comedy clubs not already ruined by the pandemic won’t last long if Robin DiAngelo gets her way.

“Comedy is, I think, an excuse to get to be racist, right?” the “White Fragility” author said. “I think TV shows like ‘Family Guy’ and ‘South Park’ and maybe a little bit ‘The Simpsons’ allowed White people to be racist self-consciously. Like, ‘I know I’m being racist and therefore it doesn’t count and it’s OK.’

Medical jihad

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According to this roundup of current CNN stories on the topic, there’s no Covid problem that can’t be solved with the firm application of Vaccine Apartheid, coupled with loading the unvaccinated with financial costs that they cannot afford.

Wen previously suggested that life should be made as difficult as possible for those who are still opting not to take the shots, and that Americans should be banned from engaging in social events and forced to undergo PCR tests twice a week if they want to stay unvaccinated. She also previously advocated directly linking the amount of freedom Americans should be allowed to their vaccination status.

The narrative takes a hit

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A bit of concerning news out of Scotland.

The latest data from Public Health Scotland also indicates that there were nearly as many admissions in fully vaccinated patients as unvaccinated patients last week, reflecting the high prevalence of the virus in the community and the Delta variant’s ability to cause breakthrough infections.

Note the sudden emphasis on underlying health conditions, something that was deemed irrelevant prior to mass vaccinations.

Fully vaccinated patients are disproportionately older and more likely to have underlying health conditions which mean that, if they do become infected, they are much more likely to require hospital care.

Rubber rooms for all

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If this bunch has their way, we can look forward to permanent worldwide lockdowns. Why is zero Covid even a goal?

It comes as more than 1,200 ‘Zero Covid’ scientists – who believe that coronavirus should be completely eradicated with global lockdowns and social distancing – accused the UK of ‘endangering the world’ and creating conditions for the emergence of a new variant by pressing on with ‘Freedom Day’ on July 19.

‘We started easing restrictions before everybody was vaccinated.

What’s the plan for vaccinating everybody ? Jail for the refuseniks?

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