The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 34)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 34)
February 4, 2022
THE GOOD
WOW! This could be a game changer: Cancer patients ‘cured’ after doctors turbocharge blood’s immune cells.
NO KIDDING, SHERLOCK: Natural immunity ‘gives better protection against Covid delta variant than vaccines alone’.
ALL OF MY FRIENDS, FAMILY MEMBERS, AND COLLEAGUES ARE GETTING COVID—EVERYONE BUT ME! What’s wrong with me? An unexpected emotion arises for some who are catching this wave of Covid: Relief.
IS A “VACCINE” THAT DOESN’T WORK STILL A VACCINE? This is an amusing parody video of the pandemic of the vaccinated:
SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO KNOW WHERE WE COME FROM, AND SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO KNOW WHAT WE’VE LOST: Watch: Mom reunites with daughter 40 years after disappearance
BURN BABY, BURN. Pretty cool (as it were): This Mysterious Fire in Australia Has Been Burning For at Least 6,000 Years.
VERY COOL (if true): Wreck of British explorer James Cook's Endeavour found: researchers
GOOD ON BAD: 7 Ways Absurd Campus COVID Rules Defraud and Abuse Students.
ARE WE GOING TO FOLLOW THE SCIENCE OR NOT? Johns Hopkins Analysis: ‘Lockdowns Should be Rejected Out of Hand.’
I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN CANADA AND NEVER SAW ANYTHING LIKE THIS WHEN I LIVED THERE. I’m particularly impressed with the number of women who are supporting this trucker revolution:
SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN CANADA AND WE SHOULD PAY ATTENTION:
YOU CAN OPPRESS SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME BUT NOT ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME: Canadian Trucker Protests Continue, Aussies Launch ‘Convoy to Canberra.’
TRUCKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! You have nothing to lose but your chains! This will be the first proletarian revolution in modern history opposed by Marxist “intellectuals”: Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it.
A SPECTER IS HAUNTING THE RULING CLASS—THE SPECTER OF FREEDOM: Coronavirus Mandates Start Dropping in Canada as Freedom Convoy Rolls On.
Regional governments in Canada have begun announcing plans to drop onerous civil rights restrictions on their citizens meant to contain the Chinese coronavirus this week following mounting pressure from national protests, most prominently the “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa.
The “Freedom Convoy,” initially led by truckers but now a movement of thousands of people, arrived in the national capital this weekend demanding an end to lockdowns, business restrictions, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and other restrictions in effect as a result of the pandemic. Protesters have vowed to remain in the capital until the government of far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lifts all such restrictions. Trudeau is currently in an undisclosed location recovering from an alleged coronavirus infection but has issued remarks from that location dismissing the protesters as racist, violent “tinfoil hat” wearers.
WE’RE ALL TRUCKERS, NOW! I thought Canadian culture was dead. Not so now. A pictorial essay:
ELON MUSK SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWER!
Solidarność!!! 'We've got COVID': Towing companies in Canada nix official requests to haul away trucks
IT REALLY IS “TRUCKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE.” This thing is spreading: US trucker convoy coming: Joe Biden will ignore protests at his peril.
THE BAD
CANADIAN RULING CLASS GOES FULL AUTHORITARIAN TOTALITARIAN: Ottawa Police Chief Opens Possibility of Using Canadian Military to Remove Freedom Convoy Protest Group.
THE GLOBAL RULING CLASS IS GETTING NERVOUS: GoFundMe freezes Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ page after it raises $10 million.
TELL ANY LIE TO HOLD POWER: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Continues to Denigrate Working Class Protesters.
I detested Pierre Trudeau’s politics, but at least the man was smart and cultured. Junior is not very bright, and he is a buffoon. Canada deserves better: Justin Trudeau is a Bungler and Menace to His Nation.
WELL, WELL, WELL. Does this mean he’s been lying? Fauci Knew About Virus Lab Origin From Secret Teleconference, Pushed Alternate Narrative.
WE’RE ONLY JUST NOW BEGINNING TO SEE THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF THE MANDATES AND LOCKDOWNS: Suicides by drug overdose rising among teens, young adults, seniors.
MASKING CHILDREN IS BOTH STUPID AND IMMORAL: Kids Full of Life, Adults Obsessed with Death.
LATE STAGE SOCIALISM: Crime city: Philadelphia police just published instructional guide on how to survive carjackings.
I THINK THIS IS CALLED SPREADING THE WEALTH AROUND: Bidenomics cost the average worker nearly two paychecks in 2021.
WELCOME BACK, KOTTER. We’re reliving the worst aspects of the 1970s. “At least a dozen cities have set homicide records this year. The scale of the killings is recapitulating the worst moments of the United States’ 20th-century urban crisis.”
AS SOME OF YOU KNOW, I WAS CAUGHT TWO YEARS AGO IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ANARCHO-COMMUNIST RIOT IN SANTIAGO, CHILE. The Chilean Left is rabid and this is bad news for my friends in Chile: Leftist millennial wins election as Chile’s next president
PATHETIC AND DISGRACEFUL: Pelosi Warns Olympic Athletes against Protesting China at Beijing Games.
THE UGLY
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO, “MY BODY, MY CHOICE”: Austria Embraces Communism: 'To Fight a Chinese Virus, We are Introducing the Chinese Social Model' (Video)
Austria’s vaccine mandate law will take effect on February 1, 2022. Despite the evidence that the “vaccine” does not protect people from Covid but increases the chances of infection from Omicron and hospitalization, last week, the Austrian Parliament approved mandating the experimental mRNA gene therapy injections.
From mid-March, the law will see adults (residents aged 18 and older) who refuse the jabs subjected to steep fines and potential prison time. The vaccine order is expected to remain in force until January 2024, with the government investing €1.4bn in measures designed to target the unvaccinated and get them jabbed.
A majority of MPs, including those from the unelected Chancellor, Karl Nehammer’s governing leftist coalition, and the three main parties, backed the bill to mandate the injections by 137 votes to 33.
The only real opposition to the measure was the Austrian Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ). The FPÖ is Austria’s only major political party fighting against compulsory Covid “vaccinations.”
Hours before last week’s vote to mandate the Covid vaccines, FPÖ Leader Herbert Kickl delivered a historic speech on the floor of the Parliament. The leader condemned his colleagues and vowed to continue his fight against their authoritarian actions.
You should watch the speech by Herbert Kickl in the Austrian Parliament. Very powerful. (Fyi: I am not endorsing Kickl or his party.)
THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL—PROMISE: Coming soon: Climate lockdowns?
The past two years have been a checklist for the worst impulses of government and public sentiment. COVID allowed for supposedly temporary measures to morph into two years of “emergency” restrictions. But what if COVID was only the opening act, and another proclaimed crisis is the main event? Implementing significant but partial restrictions, one by one, in the name of the common good can allow for encompassing government control that results in relatively little backlash. Fear over climate change could lead to long-term soft lockdowns, given the precedent of immense growth of government power and significant support for sweeping state actions.
This isn’t a right-wing fever dream. Calls for harsh government measures in the name of saving the environment are already in the parlance of influential organizations and figures. In November 2020, the Red Cross proclaimed that climate change is a bigger threat than COVID and should be confronted with “the same urgency.” Bill Gates recently demanded dramatic measures to prevent climate change, claiming it will be worse than the pandemic. Despite millions of people having died from COVID, former governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney last year predicted that climate deaths will dwarf those of the pandemic. Lockdowns, which significantly reduced carbon emissions during 2020, could be the solution. After all, the EU’s climate service gloated, the first COVID lockdown may have saved 800 lives.
What would climate lockdowns look like? Most likely, cities and states would begin a gradual and discrete ramp-up of restrictions. During the early days of the pandemic, millions of Americans worked from home; this could become the permanent norm if special carbon taxes are put in place. Such taxes could be imposed on companies, limiting driving or air miles, and extend to individual employees. Drive to work in a car? You get hit with the tax. Children could be impacted by climate lockdowns, too. Schools, especially those heavily influenced by teachers’ unions, could impose permanent online-only days. Delhi, India is already using a version of this concept to crack down on smog pollution.
At the same time, either through direct government fiat or due to ineffective green energy policies, some areas of the country could regularly experience California-style rolling blackouts. And as fossil fuels (and nuclear power) go by the wayside, consumers may be prevented from buying new gasoline cars, lawnmowers, or chainsaws.
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