Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Liberal lawmaker rips Trudeau's covid politics
Finds curbs divisive, confusing, lacking rational basis

You may not like the protest but truckers have a point, he observes

Covid crisis for Trudeau

Paul Wells, writing for the influential Canadian magazine Macleans, said that Joël Lightbound's "sortie today constitutes the most serious threat to Justin Trudeau’s leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada since Jane Philpott quit the federal cabinet."

The Joël Lightbound crisis in the Liberal Party
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-joel-lightbound-crisis-in-the-liberal-party/

New Zealand premier laughs off protesters

Lockdowns worked very poorly, analysts say

An analysis by economists at Johns Hopkins University finds that lockdowns had little effect and were counterproductive in terms of the damage done to economic activity.

Strong criticism of that study comes today from Jerry Davich, a Chicago Tribune columnist and freelance writer, who wrapped up his "analysis" by saying: "My conclusion to 'Johns Hopkins study' about ineffectiveness of lockdowns: It's as scientific as a Joe Rogan rant."

The prolific writer for the left-leaning newspaper has nothing in his various self-descriptions about scientific or economics credentials.

The three scholars found in their study, released earlier this month, that:

Of ... 34 eligible studies, 24 qualified for inclusion in the meta-analysis. They were separated into three groups: lockdown stringency index studies, shelter-in-place order (SIPO) studies, and specific NPI studies. An analysis of each of these three groups support the conclusion that lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average. SIPOs were also ineffective, only reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average. Specific NPI studies also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality.

While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.

A LITERATURE REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
OF THE EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWNS ON
COVID-19 MORTALITY
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

Alaska truckers rally for vax choice

'As long as we comply with these emergency orders, they're going to give us emergency orders, and we're going to continue to lose our freedoms.' -- Driver

Trucker counters Trudeau's version of events

Monday, February 7, 2022

NBC bars lawmaker's ad tying Olympics, genocide

The squelched advertisement observes that powerful U.S. corporations are complicit in genocide by the Chinese communists. Virtually admitting their guilt, no named U.S. corporation would respond at all to NewsNation Now's requests for comment. Apparently these companies had conspired in advance on how to cope with press queries on NBC's pro-communist decision.

The collective non-response of the traitorous corporations carries a penalty: They do not get to present their versions of events -- unless they are planning to have the soft-on-communism legacy media, such as NBC, air whitewashed propaganda reports as "news."

One can understand that the radical leftist NBC would bar such an ad. The network has been giving the Beijing Olympics massive coverage both in its primary newscast and in its daytime programing, though it did permit a few reports on the Uighur atrocities -- apparently in a lame attempt to counter expected criticism of NBC for aiding and abetting Beijing's massive global propaganda onslaught.