December 12, 2020.
My first 100 days won’t end COVID-19, but we can slow the spread, save lives, and get back to our lives with our loved ones. pic.twitter.com/nz2YkjhQZa
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 12, 2020
December 27, 2021.
NOW – Biden departs to Delaware beach house after telling governors there is "no federal solution" on COVID and it should be "solved at the state level."pic.twitter.com/Ux9RtPmb8m
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) December 27, 2021
This too.
Canada’s public health agency admits it tracked 33 million mobile devices during lockdown
The Agency is planning to gather track population movement for roughly the next five years, including to address other public health issues, such as “other infectious diseases, chronic disease prevention and mental health,” the spokesperson added.
h/t Ed
At first I thought that this Twitter account must be a parody, but it appears that this particular epidemiologist is absolutely serious. The replies, however, did a lot to restore my confidence in humanity. I particularly liked the one comment about not allowing this dystopian sociopath anywhere near your family.
In public, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins urge Americans to “follow the science.” In private, the two sainted public-health officials schemed to quash dissenting views from top scientists. That’s the troubling but fair conclusion from emails obtained recently via the Freedom of Information Act by the American Institute for Economic Research.
The tale unfolded in October 2020 after the launch of the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement by Harvard’s Martin Kulldorff, Oxford’s Sunetra Gupta and Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya against blanket pandemic lockdowns. They favored a policy of what they called “focused protection” of high-risk populations such as the elderly or those with medical conditions. Thousands of scientists signed the declaration—if they were able to learn about it. We tried to give it some elevation on these pages. […]
These researchers weren’t fringe and neither was their opposition to quarantining society. But in the panic over the virus, these two voices of science used their authority to stigmatize dissenters and crush debate. A week after his email, Dr. Collins spoke to the Washington Post about the Great Barrington Declaration. “This is a fringe component of epidemiology,” he said. “This is not mainstream science. It’s dangerous.” His message spread and the alternative strategy was dismissed in most precincts.
Dr. Fauci replied to Dr. Collins that the takedown was underway. An article in Wired, a tech-news site, denied there was any scientific divide and argued lockdowns were a straw man—they weren’t coming back. If only it were true. The next month cases rose and restrictions returned.
They should refuse.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the Public Health Agency of Canada tracked 33 million mobile devices in Canada to monitor population movements during lockdowns. The agency claims the information can not track individuals, and only gives them information on population trends, but according to a federal contractor’s notice, this type of tracking could become commonplace. Tom Korski with Blacklock’s joins John to share the details, and why this should be concerning news for Canadians.
Those vaccine passport QR code readers, they’d never be used for something like that.
Update: Some have noted in the comments that Trudeau’s remarks here were taken out of context.
Context IS important. The turd was lamenting the fact that including the notwithstanding clause into the constitution was “a political calculation” on the part of his father. This whole discussion was precipitated by the Muslim teacher in Chelsea Quebec being removed because she was wearing a hijab.
I’ll remind everyone that this is the guy drawing up legislation to regulate our speech on the internet, who has forced healthy Canadians into “quarantine” hotels against their will. I don’t think context matters in his case, unless one wants to frame the remarks in the only way one can — as sanctimonious hypocrisy. Read it any way you please. It’s what he believes, notwithstanding clause notwithstanding.
The New Daily- ‘We’ll spend whatever it takes’: Australia scrambles to fill AdBlue shortage
AdBlue is injected into the exhaust systems of modern diesel vehicles and is a legal requirement for trucks in Australia as it helps to reduce emissions. The Australian government and fuel industry are therefore scrambling to secure enough supplies to keep supermarket shelves stocked with essential supplies.
A Senior official urged staff to leave Number 10 through the back door on the night Boris Johnson hosted a Downing Street quiz last Christmas in apparent breach of lockdown rules.
And an email seen by the Mirror shows organisers had planned days in advance for some staff to enjoy the quiz in person, from the office.
The Mirror revealed on Sunday that the Prime Minister had helped host the quiz – and that some staff had spent the evening huddling and conferring around their office computers rather than dialling in from home.
Sources said staff had knocked back fizz, wine and beer – and some stayed in Number 10 socialising and drinking for hours after the quiz finished at 9.30pm.
London was then under Tier 2 regulations banning any social mixing between households.
Official guidance also stated: “You must not have a work Christmas lunch or party, where that is a primarily social activity and is not otherwise permitted by the rules in your tier.”
Number 10 has insisted the event, held on December 15 2020, was a “virtual quiz”, but admitted “those who were in the office for work may have attended virtually from their desks.”
Related: Covid Panic had been a useful political tool. Now it is politically harmful.
As we have all been reminded ad nauseum, Vaxx passports were said to be critical to ending the pandemic. For some reason, these Spanish health care workers did not get that memo.
All of the professionals had been fully vaccinated—including with booster shots.
Sur reported on Monday that the health workers who attended the Christmas meal had all taken an antigen test before the meal.
Having been assured for months that Vaccine Apartheid would allow people (at least those outside the ranks of the unclean) to resume a normal life, maybe the clincher is for people to figure out a way to eat and drink without removing their mask:
“Although I know that those attending the celebration took measures, the virus is still there and you should not lower your guard,” Bueno said. “It is necessary to keep a distance, it is essential to use the mask indoors and it should be used in outdoor spaces where there is an agglomeration of people.”
Back to your basements, you ungrateful hedonists! Don’t make me come down there!
“What you have to do is take measures so that it does not happen again,” he said.
As I remarked a couple of weeks ago, I thought I had done writing about COVID. Surely, I thought, the hysteria is on the wane. Most people are rational. They know that the flimsy porous masks you see everywhere are useless tokens of conformity. They understand that the disease is serious for only a tiny part of the population. They also know staying home and practicing “social distancing” has its own liabilities, not least of which is a diminution in the potency of one’s immune response.
Unfortunately, the people making the rules are not “most people.” They are bureaucrats being advised by public health “experts” like Anthony Fauci who has demonstrated ostentatious incompetence at least since the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. When news of the so-called Omicron variant first surfaced a few weeks back, I assumed the fact that doctors first described it as very contagious but also with symptoms that were “very mild,” meant the “experts” would let us get on with our lives.
Fat chance.
Related: there is no medicine but “the medicine”
The full effect of lingering pandemic-related food supply chain disruptions, high inflation, labour and transportation issues, climate change and extreme weather events on next year’s grocery bills remains to be seen. But according to Canada’s Food Price Report 2022, they will only get higher.
In the latest edition of the annual report, Dalhousie University, University of Guelph, University of Saskatchewan and University of British Columbia researchers forecast a five to seven per cent increase in food prices — the highest in its 12-year history.
A family of four is expected to spend as much as $14,767 in 2022: up to $966 more than 2021, which amounts to an extra $80 a month and $20 a week.
“2022 will likely be a very difficult year for most Canadian families, unfortunately, because prices are going to rise significantly,” says Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, director of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL) and lead author of the report. “Canadians will have to accept the fact that they are going to have to dedicate a greater portion of their overall budget to food.”
History, rhyming: Italy joins Germany, Austria in “lockdown for the unvaccinated”.
h/t Greg Grandy
Howard Springs, Australia’s favorite all inclusive resort is the go to place when you want to just kick back, relax, and just let all your troubles fade away.
Three men have climbed the barbed wire fence to escape the voluntary quarantine camp. pic.twitter.com/YodP776qpd
— I,Hypocrite (@lporiginalg) December 1, 2021
@MichaelPSenger — Exciting news from New Zealand, where PM Jacinda Ardern has given her people permission to use the bathroom inside their friends’ homes.