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Protecting The Vunerable

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Get your ass over here Grandpa so we can help you.

A two-hour drive stands between John Suderman and his vaccine.

The 91-year-old Dauphin resident is currently eligible to be immunized against COVID-19 but he needs to get to a vaccination clinic because he lives on his own.

With the nearest immunization site in Brandon, Suderman plans to do the drive himself, but says it doesn’t make sense that he can’t show up at a local seniors’ residence to be vaccinated along with residents.

The inability of those in charge to in anyway improvise or colour outside a very narrow set of lines is breathtaking to behold.

As is the cognitive ability and common sense of a 91 year old in comparison to a small army of highly paid, highly credentialed, highly educated midwits.

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Stories behind a paywall but you get the idea.

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Right On Time

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Okay, a day late and a ventilator short but still.

A Québec company received a quarter-billion dollar pandemic contract to supply ventilators that repeatedly failed testing, internal records show. Cabinet justified the sole-sourced contract on a claim of “extreme urgency.” First deliveries of rebuilt devices are scheduled this week, eleven months after the contract was approved: “It was an emergency situation.”

At least the cheques cleared right away.

For The Shopping List

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Time to buy some pineapples.

China on Friday announced the indefinite ban on importing Taiwanese pineapples would begin Monday.

While Taiwan is best known internationally for its thriving tech companies, the sub-tropical island has a flourishing fruit industry. Last year, more than 90 per cent of its exported pineapples went to China.

The latest move by China follows a string of events that signal tensions between the mainland and Taiwan are rising. Recently, especially last year, Chinese military activity increased on the island and Beijing is highly reactive to any international behaviour recognizing Taiwan’s sovereignty.

I’m old enough to remember when China banned Canadian canola.

Steyn

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Anyone looking to keep up with Mark Steyn should head on over to his website steynonline.com.

Of particular note is the audio version of the Mark Steyn show which you can listen to here.

Yesterday’s episode is a good one. You can listen to it straight from that page or as I like to do download it to your phone or device so you can listen to it anywhere. Link here.

Fun fact, Steyn regularly looks in on Small Dead Animals to see what’s catching our eye and what we’re saying about it.

Honey Badger Activated

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This is why they want everyone banned.  Frictionless propaganda is just so much more effective.

Note AOC’s technique, she claims the moral high ground and then makes you think past the sale. Saad drags the conversation back to reality.

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Covid Talk

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Dr.Drew and Alex Berenson talk about their latest findings on covid, lockdowns, vaccines, etc. in a recent podcast.

Skip ahead to the 26 minute mark for that. Up until that point they talk about Berenson’s new fiction novel.

Link to podcast.

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The key statement in the interview with Alex Berenson about vaccines is this: “The doctors needed to be perceived to be doing something, rather than nothing”. It is the same with the politicians. Since government wants to be perceived as your friend (which it is not), it has to be seen doing something, whatever it is, logical or illogical, right or wrong, it doesn’t matter – just do something, make some noise.

That is not a rational, measured response – it is self preservation. And the second phase that goes hand in hand with the first is: “Do what everybody else is doing, lest you be perceived as not being part of the narrative.” – the woke herd response. Again, not rational, nor measured.

And the third phase is “When criticized, double down until the crisis passes” lest you have to admit that you were wrong. We are in that phase right now. And it is made worse because the goal all along was dictatorship – total cowing and control of the population.

SNC-Lavalin…Again!

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“Urgency” you keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. was awarded a $150 million federal contract for pandemic field hospitals nobody asked for, according to records. The Department of Public Works five months after signing the sole-sourced contract had not bothered to fix any delivery dates for the mobile health units: “A public call for tenders was not issued due to the urgency.”

How It’s Done

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Some valuable insight.

Mikhaila Peterson: How we built the Jordan Peterson media empire.

In 2016 my dad, Jordan Peterson, went viral. That sudden fame and all the controversy that came with it was incredibly hard on my family, but it also opened up boatloads of opportunity. My dad took advantage of it all. He said yes to everything that came his way, especially podcast invitations, and his family helped him make time for it all. I’ve been the CEO of his company Luminate Enterprises, Ltd., since the beginning of 2018, when he published his book 12 Rules for Life.

A fascinating look behind the curtain. Read the whole thing.

The Abyss of Infinite Lunacy

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The Gadfather has a list…

The rate at which our society is sinking into madness is truly bewildering:

1) It is now racist for a white person to translate the work of a black person

2) It is now homophobic for a straight actor to play a gay character

3) It is now racist for a white therapist to treat a black client

4) It is now racist to have advanced high school programs

5) It is now transphobic for biological females to reject having to compete against trans women (biological males)

There’s lots more.

And a big red pill here.

Update

No Libertarians in a Pandemic

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Facebook makes it difficult to link to or embed things so I’m just putting this whole thing here.

For the “no libertarians in a pandemic” file:

It will be interesting to see how the last year affects those classical liberal/minarchist libertarians who said “well, sure, a pandemic or a public health crisis is one of the few situations where government intervention is justified.” The botched responses at the federal and state levels in the US (and this is about WAY more than Trump) should lead to some reconsideration there.

It shouldn’t have come as a surprise that government would fail at this task for all of the same structural reasons it screws up other tasks. Saying government *should* do X doesn’t mean it will or *can* do X. And if governments couldn’t get right one of the things that even many libertarians agree is one of its proper roles, well what kind of case is there against a whole bunch of other stuff government does, including the small list of other things minarchist types think government should do?

The massive fucking up of the pandemic response can be interpreted as evidence that we should all be *radical libertarians* in a pandemic.
-Steve Horwitz

I forgot to mention that this guy also has a severely compromised immune system due to cancer treatments. As such his words carry more weight than that of the average person. If he gets covid it’s likely a death sentence.

Like a Fine Wine…

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Some tweets age very well. Others not so much.


Make sure to scroll down and read the replies as well.

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