Coronavirus: what Canadians need to know

How dare we not wear a mask!??

And we who refuse to wear a mask know where that goes. Soon the cross-eyed crazies, the Karens and Teds, come rushing out of their old SUVs like rhinos on reds, screaming: “How dare you??!”

Well, how dare we not wear a mask?  How dare we not wear one when everyone is?  How dare we “kill granny”?? Every question deserves an answer.  When we try to answer, we are here and now stopped.  Ask the CBC, ask the Toronto Star, ask on Facebook, Twitter, ask in public protest, when we begin to answer, what do we hear?  “NO! Shut up! Not here, not now!”

Well, to paraphrase someone who should inspire us all today, MLK, somewhere I read about “freedom of expression”.  Somewhere I read about “freedom of association”.  Somewhere I read about living in a “free and democratic society”.  Hell, we recently murdered millions in the Mideast and Afghanistan for all of that great-sounding stuff. 

Well, sorry: “No, not here, not now.”  What is here, what is now?  When you hear people in power say “Do what I tell you, not what I do.” Or even worse, “Do what you are told and shut up.  Shut up or we will stop you from earning a living, seeing your friends, being with your family, and maybe lock you up.” 

What is here, what is now is pure and simple naked authority talking: pure and simple fascism.  It has arrived not in black boots with swastikas, but dressed in white with stethoscopes.  And they are not addressed as “thugs” or “bullies”, but as “Health Experts”, “Doctors” –Ph.Ds that is, and of course, “government officials.”  All medical Mussolinis. This is fascism masquerading as “good medicine”.  Obey them because it is good for us. And don’t be fooled by their bedside manners, for coming up right behind them, as we see in Australia, as in Quebec, and now in Ontario, the black boots are coming.     

On hearing a question, you’d think an answer is allowed to be heard.  Not now.  Not here.  Two weeks ago, over 3,000 people marched up and down Yonge street in downtown Toronto in protest of this medical martial law.  Not one peep was heard about it on TV, in the papers.  Check it out on CBC News: 8,034 stories about cats, that march: 0.

And what is the answer to “How dare we not wear a mask”? HOW DARE YOU stop us from working.  HOW DARE YOU stop us from living with our friends and family.  HOW DARE YOU NOW fine us, and soon jail us.  HOW DARE YOU try to shame us from the truth?

The deafening silence tells you all about everything they don’t want to hear.  It’s as if they are trying to stop anybody from finding out what everybody knows.

What is that truth?  What is it that they are trying to stop anyone from finding out what everyone knows?  In Canada, here, now, where life expectancy is 83 years, -and there are only 852,000 Canadians out of 38,000,000 over 70, -if, and only if, -you are one of the projected 40% of us to be infected, and you are under 70 years old, you face a death rate -from the virus, not with the virus, -of less than the flu, at just 0.04%.  That’s 4 out of 10,000 infected, or as projected by the Center for Disease Control experts, 1,520 projected fatalities for Canada. 

B-b-b-b-but, but, but, -as the blubbering mask Nazis would bewail, -we have to date in Canada 9,608 reported COVID deaths.  How so? The WHO definition of a COVID death is, -I quote, -“A death due to COVID-19 is defined for surveillance purposes as a death resulting from a clinically compatible illness, in a probable or confirmed COVID-19 case.” If you die from a different illness when you may have COVID, you died from COVID. And so what was once a flu-related or other death is now a COVID death as documented by the current Canada’s FluWatch website statistics: Flu deaths down dramatically, COVID up.

The COVID virus is a reality.  The fact that it is unusually contagious is a fact.  The advertised danger it poses is the hoax.  The conspiracy, the plan, is for control.  The financial corruption of the WHO, the 50% error-ridden tests, the mandatory mask-wearing, the ruinous lockdowns, the fraudulent death reports, and soon, the forced vaccinations, it is all part of the conspiracy to control us, a conspiracy by corporate fascists to impose this medical martial law.  It is designed to prepare us for, and to normalize, a fundamental denial of our basic human rights in the name of “good medicine”.  Medicine meant to cure us of their perceived real disease: freedom.

 And it’s all done in panic for control at the very point they are losing it.  The system is collapsing.  Inverted totalitarianism has arrived.  The world teeters upon a 1% fulcrum.  War is now our “peace”, ignorance is now our “strength”, slavery is now our “freedom”. Rip off your mask, rip off their masks: time to rebel.

[Chorus]

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution

Take a bow for the new revolution

Smile and grin at the change all around

Pick up my guitar and play

Just like yesterday

Then I'll get on my knees and pray

We don't get fooled again

Except as I posted in another thread, there is a chance of reinfection, then the theory of it's burning out flies out the window:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30783-0/fulltext

The WHO's advice has been terrible. They are clearly politically driven. The played down the virus in the beginning .When we should have shut down for a couple of weeks the WHO was saying not too. Had we just stopped air travel for a couple of weeks or maybe a month we could have controlled Covid and been able to fully open up by the end of March at the latest. 

https://ipolitics.ca/2020/10/15/the-pandemic-and-the-perils-of-being-dif...

Quebec also has pursued a “we’re different” approach with catastrophic results, as the province continues to lead the country in cases and deaths by several magnitudes. From the start, Premier François Legault has leaned heavily on the nebulous idea of Quebec solidarity to fight the virus, rather than strict enforcement of rules or effective testing and tracing. 

A fervent nationalist, Legault has used every possible occasion to push the Quebec angle, whether it’s urging people to buy Quebec vegetables or pushing residents of Montreal, long the epicentre of the outbreak, to flood the largely COVID-free rest of the province in tourist season, turning summer vacation into a giant super-spreader event. Places like Quebec City and the Gaspé region are now reporting a surge in cases and deaths, but it must be reassuring to Legault that the spread was homegrown.

Legault & Co. continue to urge relaxation at every opportunity, even as numbers surge. Earlier this week, when daily case numbers dipped below 1,000 for three days, Dr. Horacio Arruda, the effervescent chief of public health, mused about reaching a “plateau” in cases. A day later, the numbers surged again, after the mathematically challenged authorities somehow missed 400 positive cases on those “low” days.

Aristotleded24 wrote:

NDPP wrote:

Mobilize the Working Class Against the EU's 'Herd Immunity' Policies!

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/euro-o17.html

"This week the WHO warned that Europe is facing 'exponential increases' in COVID-19 cases. In just the past 10 days, the continent has recorded over one million new cases, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to over seven million. As Europe emerges as an epicenter of a global resurgence of COVID-19, the EU is pursuing a policy leading to deaths on an unprecedented scale, far surpassing the 200,000 deaths this spring..."

 

Dr John Campbell, Coronavirus Update: 10/18/2020

https://youtu.be/eZt-J6UcTXU

Sunday pandemic update.

There is one country in Europe that is clearly not seeing an exponential increase. That country is Sweden, a country that everyone was criticizing months ago as leading a disasterous response. You'll have a hard time getting the working class to sign up for that idea considering that they are taking to the streets in Europe to protest the lockdowns. Whatever failures happened in Sweden, there is no serious uprising from within that country over its handling of the coronavirus.

(clearing throat)

https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-shifts-away-no-lockdown-strategy-...

September 18th.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-health/which-sweden-do-you-wa...

Take-home message:
- Even though Sweden could not legally enact a lockdown against the coronavirus, it asked its citizens to voluntarily adopt common guidelines in keeping with the World Health Organization’s general recommendations
- The goal of Sweden’s approach was never said to be to achieve herd immunity, and in fact the country is far from having reached this immunity through exposure to the virus according to blood surveys
- The country’s public health agency admitted a failure in adequately protecting care homes for the elderly and its stance on masks, contact tracing and asymptomatic transmission can be criticized.

....The very first month of Sweden’s response to the pandemic saw recommendations familiar to us in Quebec: staying home if sick, frequent hand washing, physical distancing, and avoiding travel unless necessary. Sure, cinemas were briefly open, but attendance was so low their main chain had to close on March 17. Some flights were still operating but mostly to transport essential workers and supplies to remote areas of the country.

Not a single place in the entire world seems to have done what you promote Aristotled.

More tracing problems, this time in Manitoba:

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Three Winnipeg men who have tested positive for COVID-19 say they've lost faith in the province's ability to do contact tracing properly.

The first, who found out he tested positive last Wednesday, says he still hasn't been asked to provide his close contacts and hasn't had any follow up from public health.

"They're not handling it. There has been no contact tracing," Aaron Lund, 46, said in an interview over Zoom Monday.

"With this being at the forefront of everything you see in the news these days, I guess maybe I had an expectation that there was more of a priority to it."  

He said when a public health nurse called him last Wednesday — a day after he got tested — she told him to write down everyone he had been in contact with a week prior and be prepared to share that information in a follow-up call.

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The second man, who got a call on Oct. 13 informing him he had tested positive, said he wasn't asked to provide contact tracing information until Monday — six days after a doctor told him he had the coronavirus.

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Jotham Koslowsky, like the other two men, doesn't know how he got COVID-19.

He said he contacted the public health COVID-19 call centre last Friday because he still didn't have the result of his Oct. 11 test. A nurse told him his file may have been lost, and 45 minutes later he got a call saying he was positive.

Manitoba Health Minister under fire:

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Manitoba's Minister of Health was publicly denounced by two specialists in geriatric medicine over Twitter this week for saying deaths in care homes are "unavoidable."

"There is no jurisdiction in Canada in which there have not been deaths in personal care homes. It is tragic, it is regrettable but it is unavoidable," Cameron Friesen told CBC News, in a live interview on Up to Speed Thursday.

Dr. Nathan Stall, who specializes in geriatrics and internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, disputes Friesen's claim. 

He called the notion that deaths are unavoidable ageist and urged Friesen to reconsider.

Mr. Friesen, the reason we were ordered to turn our lives upside down in the spring was that it was important to slow the spread of the virus to prevent vulnerable people from being infected. That is what many leaders, yourself included, told us. Elderly people are the most vulnerable people to respiratory diseases. If your contention is correct and these deaths could not have been avoided, then what was the point of all of that?

It's bad enough that the care homes had these outbreaks under his watch, but to now shrug them off as what happens? He should be fired from his post as Health Minister and replaced with someone else. Perhaps we should ask Dr. Henry in BC if she has enough time to help us out with a senior care home plan?