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It Should be Over

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But it’s not.

They got the level of compliance they wanted/needed. If there’s still a problem its not because enough people didn’t “step up” or “buy in” to the vaccines. The same can be said about the masks and the lockdowns. The general public has done more than its fair share to help and not without considerable cost and risk to themselves.  Continuing to gas light, demonize, bully and intimidate them will not improve the competency of the leaders involved, or the efficacy of the injections. Nor will it fix a health care system that we all know has been broken for generations now .


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Coming Soon To A Gym Near You

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Nice business you’ve got there, be a shame if something were to happen to it. 

Friday, September 3rd is the date given by the province in the latest public health orders to start requiring people to be fully immunized to participate in certain activities, gym and fitness centre usage being one of them.

Spence says three shutdowns of his gym over the last 18 months have been wearing on him and his business. “Each time you lose between 15 and 20% of your clientele. And then they brought in the mask mandate, which eliminated quite a few more people. 8 out of 10 people cancelled because they wouldn’t wear masks while working out. And then they brought in the vaccines.”

With current vaccination rates in Steinbach sitting around 61.9% for first-time vaccinations, both Dyck and Spence say that a large portion of the community can no longer access their facilities due to not being fully vaccinated. This frustrates Dyck, “So, 38% of your members are now ineligible to attend your business.” According to Dyck, Anytime Fitness will not be collecting any income from members that cannot come to the gym as “that would be unethical. At the very least, we’ll freeze it indefinitely until these things sort of change, or unless there’s a change of mind or change of heart from the government.”

They won’t kill your business, they’ll just make it impossible for you to live.

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.

An Epidemic of Mandatory

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Richard Fernandez-

The official narrative has shifted from “we can beat the coronavirus” to “we can coexist with it but only if you follow our shifting instructions very carefully.” The pandemic has become endemic, going from something we can beat to “another virus that we’ll have to live with.” As far back as February, an article in Nature asked if we could ever be “coronavirus-free… [by maintaining] heavy restrictions… could the world hope to rid itself of the virus?”

Probably not.

Papers Please

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One man’s journey from the US to Canada. 

How is it relevant to people other than me? I estimate that it took the Canadian government and its contractors at least 25 minutes to deal with 2 people entering Canada. Even if they sped it up substantially, they would get at most 8 people through in an hour.

That doesn’t scale. The border policy for Americans will change later this month. If even 100 North Dakotans wanted to drive up I-29 to Winnipeg in the morning, not close to 100 of them would get through the Emerson border.

And why?

Because of government overkill. I had evidence of both vaccinations and evidence of a negative Covid test in the previous 72 hours. Could I have picked up Covid on one of the 3 airplanes or in the airport? Sure. But the probability was extremely low.

What’s missing from so much of government policy in Canada and the United States is numeracy. Rochelle Walensky, head of the Centers for Disease Control, shows no understanding of simple probability theory, as Jacob Sullum has shown. Whoever put the Canadian policy together shows a lack of numeracy also.

That dog don’t hunt.

Revenge of the Spoilsports

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Douglas Murray-The 2020s will be boring, not roaring

Much has already been said about how underwhelming ‘freedom day’ was, not least because our twice-jabbed Prime Minister gave his great national address from self-isolation. Adding to the feeling of merriment, he then warned that from September anyone over the age of 18 hoping to go into a nightclub or other venue ‘where large crowds gather’ will have to show papers demonstrating they are fully vaccinated. Meanwhile the NHS ‘ping’ app has already closed musicals and other live performances that were finally about to return. The future rolling out before us is one not of greater freedom but of endless pings, masks, boosters and variants.

And yet it is the response of wider society, and not just officialdom, which suggests a problem. Small yet suggestive case studies have hinted that we are keener to put the dampeners on than we are to take them off.

Can you say micromanagement?

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More and more Manitobans must be feeling like Charlie Brown trying to kick Lucy’s football. Unlike the leaders of jurisdictions to the west of us, Brian Pallister firmly believes that his micromanagement of human affairs need not be ended, but merely tweaked. The following is only one example of the bzyantine dance of Covid theater that residents of our province must endure.

Restaurant patrons may only sit together indoors if they are from the same household or if all those 12 and over are fully vaccinated. Outdoor maximum table size remains at eight people, but opening hours will be extended to midnight and the requirement to buy food when ordering alcohol is being scrapped.

 

Move those goalposts!

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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.

Long Haulers

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Matt Ridley looks back for signs of when things might get back to normal.

Three years after the second world war ended, the government was still micromanaging the decisions of consumers. The reluctant withdrawal of the state from rationing (and the even longer persistence of price controls, wage controls, exchange controls and central planning generally) infuriated at least some of the British people, though much of the anger was, as now, directed at cheating rather than the rules.

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Micromanaging the collapse

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With many rural bars in Manitoba on their last legs even before Covid, if this measure doesn’t put them all under, I don’t know what would. Urban bars won’t be far behind either.

“Under the province’s latest loosening of health restrictions, lounges and brewpubs are allowed to reopen but can only serve booze if the customer also orders food.”

One bar owners laments that “There’s no clarification on what a meal actually is…”

No need for clarity when central planners must be seen to be “doing something”. Bankruptcy and mass unemployment are apparently an acceptable policy outcome.

As one bar owner put it, “Even with the new restrictions the hotel isn’t making money. Every day we open the doors, we are losing money,”

Sign of the Times: Karen Culture on Steroids

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The Kansas City Star editorial board has found their inner Woke Karen and smeared on the guilt & fear very heavily:

But this fact is inescapable: Gatherings of almost any size this Thanksgiving are still dangerous and should be avoided.

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is more blunt. “Please, change your plans,” he said. “I’ve had 35 Thanksgiving turkeys in my lifetime. I can wait until next year for turkey 36.”

This isn’t getting through to everyone. An estimated 180,000 people are expected to travel through Kansas City International Airport during the Thanksgiving holiday, a scary number. There is anecdotal evidence that front-porch parties and weekend bar-hopping remain a thing.

But remember: While Thanksgiving is a holiday on the calendar, it’s also an idea. Gratitude and grace will survive a canceled dinner, or a missed slice of pie. There’s always next Thanksgiving, if we take care of ourselves now.

Next year? You honestly think the same voices won’t be screaming the same, or worse, next year? Maybe they won’t have to when the larger state has imposed Communist China like restrictions on everyone who can only travel with a digital vaccination passport. Come to think of it, if Biden & comrades attempt to impose is national lockdown, aided with guns pointed at citizens who don’t comply, then the test against a once free people will come much sooner.

P.S. You’ll notice that this post has been tagged with “Religion of Submission”. This used to exclusively refer to Islamic Terrorism. There’s now a new competitor for this moniker.

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