Lord Sumption discussing the police response to coronavirus
Open Prison Canada Diary
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Friday, May 15, 2020
The Welfare State is a Huge Mistake
When I was very young, in the late 50s, early 60s, I was not aware of the welfare system in Canada, mainly because there wasn't much of one at the time. If you didn't work, you didn't eat. In the world I grew up in, adults had jobs and people lived in families.
My father always had a job. All of our family's friends had jobs. It was the normal, natural order of things.
By the time the late 60s, early 70s rolled around, the welfare state had already started to mushroom and many people of my generation adapted quickly to the idea that employment was optional and that other people would be forced to provide them with food, housing, and other amenities if they found the expenditure of effort too high a price to pay for the stuff they wanted. Those who found welfare dependency unpalatable often opted for government jobs, instead. Even marriage became optional for those who had children to provide for.
I opted to straddle both worlds by finding employment as a taxi driver, which allowed me to pay for the stuff I wanted without much expenditure of effort.
Side note: I let capital do the work. Driving a person 1 km. using a machine was a lot easier than carrying that same person on my back. I was "exploiting" capital. I was living "off the backs" of General Motors and Ford, so to speak, by paying them a mere pittance in exchange for the lifestyle they gave me.
For anyone with eyes to see, current events ought to make the failure of welfare statism starkly clear. For everyone else, keep on voting for the Liberals or their clones.
How China Went Back To School
This is what government education looks like. Get 'em young, and the state will own them for life. Judging by the snap-to-attention behavior of most western adults over the last two months, the Communist Chinese education model has already been in play for a long time in the West.
Given that children are barely affected by the Wuhan flu, and tend not to pass it on to others, this exercise in human regimentation can only be seen as a spectacularly successful example of the true objective of the grooming of the defenseless for integration into socialist ant-hill adult life.
That anyone would willingly expose their own children to this type of savagery is chilling.
Remember when Obama said he wanted to create a civilian army?
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
At the time, I thought he was talking about some kind of para-military scheme. It wasn't until I saw the chilling China clip that I realized that Obama already had his civilian national security force. Pupils.
THE RISE OF THE SNITCH STATE
The difference is a difference of degree, not principle.
The difference is a difference of degree, not principle.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Collateral Damage from the Lock-Downs
Update: August 21, 2022
Like many (most?) of you, I found myself in the middle of tense debates with family, life-long friends, and even with random strangers in the Soviet-style store line-ups, grocery aisles, and checkouts from the beginning of the COVID-19 response disaster.
While standing in line at Bulk Barn one afternoon in early 2020, I surprised myself when I made a short speech to everyone present, "If this all turns out to be a massive over-reaction, governments will fall." While replaying that scene in my mind on my way home, I realized I was probably dead wrong. Those chiefly responsible for the carnage, starting with the Junk News media, then the rest would NEVER ADMIT their criminal negligence. It would be denied, spun, or memory-holed.
Despite all of the efforts of the major mental content providers dominating news and information distribution to bamboozle the public, less and less people are buying the bullshit.
Update: July 26, 2022
One of the reasons I adopted libertarianism back in the 1970s was something I had read in the literature. It basically stated,
When politicians act to solve a given problem, they almost always end up making the problem worse.
Having had almost a half a century now to compare that statement with my observations, I am more confident than ever of its truth. Furthermore, I have observed that the problems caused by the first round of government interventions almost always serve as justification for further, and equally destructive interventions. And so on. And so on.
This is why I was able to spot the disaster unfolding in the COVID-19 response from the beginning. With the benefit of a further two years of observation, it ought to be obvious to anyone not restricted by a concretized brain, that the political response to COVID-19 has been a gigantic disaster.
Update: March 9, 2021
The Junk News media are finally starting to report on all of damage that has been done to people's lives by their own panic mongering.
As expected, they are doing their best to cover up their own culpbility for this disaster. Instead of blaming the collateral damage on the Chinese Communist style lockdown response adopted by most politicians, fuelled by their own stoking of the fear, they blame the damage on "the pandemic." That they are able to get away with this in-your-face mendacity is a testament to the gullibility of an intellectually lazy and gullible public.
The Scoreboard
May 7, 2020, 10:43 a.m. EDT
Total Confirmed - 3,852,646
Total Critical - 48,030
Total Deceased - 266,076
Total Active - 2,273,897
Total Recovered - 1,317,109
-- source
No lockdowns in Belarus, population 9,449,773.
Deaths - 116
Ontario was converted into an open prison. Population of Ontario - 14,000,000.
Deaths - 1,560
May 7, 2020
Collateral Damage from the Lock-Downs
This is just a preliminary summary of the damage being done by government policies to flatten the economy and test the propensity of the hoi polloi to submit to blind, unthinking obedience.
As the panic slips into the memory hole, look for the scary headlines that will be coming and note how almost all of them will be blamed on the virus, not the government.
Heart Attack Deaths
"Ontario’s Health Minister Christine Elliott did say about three dozen people were reported to have died because they were unable to have heart surgery due to the pandemic."
No. They were unable to have heart surgery because of the lock-down.
Kidney Disease
'He never got a chance': B.C. man dies after surgery cancelled due to COVID-19
Mental Health Crises
"Recent data shows a surge in depression, anxiety, suicides, and alcohol and drug abuse... all hitting the U.S. like a tsunami."
- So what’s up 1,000% in the last three months?
- Crisis line calls up 1,000%
Domestic Violence
"Pandemics, financial insecurity, stress and uncertainty have lead to increased aggression at home which was seen previously with the global financial crisis in 2009." -- <italics: mine>
WHO reports domestic violence calls are up 60%.
"Billions of people are subject to some form of stay-at-home orders across the globe, and experts say women and children are particularly vulnerable to abuse in lockdown."
Also from that article, "The UN agency for sexual and reproductive health (UNFPA) has estimated that there would be 31 million more cases of domestic violence worldwide if lockdowns continue for another six months."
According to Time,
"For people who are experiencing domestic violence, mandatory lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19 (the disease caused by the new coronavirus) have trapped them in their homes with their abusers, isolated from the people and the resources that could help them."
Also from that article, "an advocate at the National Domestic Violence Hotline wrote in the organization’s log book. “Her partner strangled her tonight. While talking to her, it sounded like she has some really serious injuries. She is scared to go to the ER due to fear around catching COVID-19.” -- <italics: mine>
It seems very likely that the typical government response in most countries, to flatten the economy, an untested "treatment" of COVID-19, will now result in a serious economic depression. With the double blow of stresses from job losses and bankruptcies, millions may now find themselves staying at home long after the virus has dissipated.
Other violence:
Shooting over dining area closure hurts 3 McDonald's workers
Fire Deaths
Another report of the collateral damage from government COVID-19 lockdown orders.
51 FIRE FATALITIES BETWEEN JAN. 1 AND MAY 4, A 65 PER CENT INCREASE OVER THE SAME TIME PERIOD LAST YEAR
"Ontario’s fire marshal says there’s been an increase in fire deaths this year as COVID-19 measures force many people to stay home and do more home cooking.
Jon Pegg says there have been 51 fire fatalities between Jan. 1 and May 4, a 65 per cent increase over the same time period last year. He says 17 Ontarians have died in fires this past March alone."
The Globe and Mail, May 5, 2020
Poisonings
Canadians are accidentally poisoning themselves while cleaning to prevent COVID-19
Staying Home can be Deadly.
New information suggests that by staying home, in accordance with government edicts, you have a much higher chance of requiring hospitalization due to COVID-19.
"Overall, the data of the days analyzed show most new admissions are of people who have mostly been staying home, with 66 percent of new hospitalizations being of individuals who were admitted from their own residences." -- <italics: mine>
Incentives matter. It’s not enough for voters to endorse legislation that has a nice title and promises to do something good. People need to think through the full consequences of a policy, because often it will lead to a cure worse than the disease.
Wait for it. Next, the politicians will be ordering people out of their homes.
UPDATE: May 22, 2020.
Teressa Tam tells people to go outside.
Death by Ventilator
- Flattening the economy did NOTHING.
Karl Denninger has been right all along.
Enough is Enough!
Junk News Report for January 18, 2021
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Updates
May 16, 2020
I note with disdain the persistent, and dishonest, habit by reporters, politicians, and officials to describe the collateral damage as "caused by the coronavirus pandemic," when an uncluttered mind can clearly see it was caused by government's responses.
3rd World lockdowns may kill more than COVID19
Lord Sumption discussing the police response to coronavirus
Monday, May 4, 2020
Be a Yahoo! End the Lockdown Now!
Is it time?
Join the protest.
Saturday, May 9th at 12 PM – 3 PM
Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario
Sign the petition.
Am I Spartacus?
No. I am a Yahoo!
Don't be a Schmoo, be a Yahoo!
This has gone far enough.
The original intent of this North Korea style imposition of a "new normal" was to "flatten the curve." Whether or not that untested treatment was successful will be debated for a long time. The politicians will insist it worked, and their media collaborators will cover for them.
On the other hand, the side-effects of that treatment are blazingly obvious to millions of people in terms of destroyed jobs and businesses. The other side-effects, including premature deaths from failure to get timely treatment for other illnesses, along with the suicides, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse are less obvious and have yet to be tallied.
"The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster."-- Ludwig von Mises
I took these photos of my gym on Friday, May 1, 2020.
It doesn't look like they're planning on re-opening any time soon, if ever.
Can you die from a common cold?
"While the world waits for a vaccine for the common cold, the best thing you can do is take common-sense precautions to keep yourself as healthy as possible. If you do get a cold, take care of yourself and stay away from people that might not get over it as quickly or as easily as you do." <italics: mine> -- [source]
Uhm, yeah! That is very good advice.
Where are the outbreaks?
They are mostly in seniors’ facilities and retirement homes. The virus CAN be deadly for old people and people with comorbidities. Just as the flu and common cold can be.
So by all means, quarantine everybody, put them out of work, and bankrupt businesses!
Forget about "flattening the curve," flatten the people.
Let megalomaniacs, like Justine Trudeau, manage everything.
Yeah! That's just brilliant.
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Keep the schools open. Keep the businesses open. Isolate the immune-compromised.
Keep the schools open. Keep the businesses open. And isolate the immune-compromised.
That is all we had to do.
It's basically the flu.
Okay. If this were something like the Bubonic plague or that movie with Matt Damon, with people foaming at the mouth and breaking out with swollen and painful lymph nodes, yeah, I would really buy into the idea of wearing masks and hiding under my kitchen table. I would even consider painting a white "X" on my front door to keep the postman away.
But this whole scene is a complete joke.
"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -- H. L. Mencken
But Justin is not a demagogue. At best he is a draftee. At worst he is a megalomaniac. A true bubble-boy who has lived a life completely separate from the lives of those he, preposterously, assumes he has the wisdom to manage.
That he can be trotted out by Canada's Liberal-subsidized media as someone who has something important or relevant to say, ought to be dispositive in answering the question about whether the popular vote (median IQ - 100) can be relied upon to pick a competent leader - especially at a time when there is a national crisis, or even worse! When there is a non-crisis, like COVID-19.
Jesus Fucking Christ! Sorry to all you Christians out there. I would say the same thing about Mohammed if it didn't mean I were risking the wrath of pc hell raining down on my head and a registered letter from one of the Canadian "Human Rights" commissions.
It sickens me to have to witness all of the vile and cowardly attacks against Donald Trump when, flawed as he is, he is head and shoulders above Canada's sickest and possibly the most destructive accident in Canada's electoral history.
If Canadians have not figured out by now, what a complete IDIOT they have elected to be their Prime Minister, they never will.
The other day, a rather non-engaged acquaintance of mine surprised me. A light bulb went off in their head. They suddenly asked me, "Where is Trudeau getting all of this money from?" Now, I am not that sophisticated when it comes down to the subject of monetary economics, but I do know one thing for sure... it sure ain't coming out of his pocket. So far, other than the April 1st carbon rip-off, he's not getting it from taxes. He could be borrowing the money but then, who is lending it to him? I wouldn't trust the bastard with $5. Or the bank of Canada could be backing up his courageous actions by creating all of that money out of thin air.
In other words, all of those cheques he's writing are being fraudulently withdrawn from the real value of everyone else's bank accounts.
What a savior. He walks on water! Not.
But none of that matters to him so long as enough people are fooled.
But I repeat myself for the one-thousandth time. I've been calling out the Canadian voter for my whole life. Half of the voters have an IQ less than 100, and a significant number of voters are on the government payroll, one way or another.
Liberals are good at math when it benefits them. They know how to win elections. Sub-100 IQ voters plus those on the government payroll = electoral victory. It's as simple as that. ("This ship will sink. It's a mathematical certainty.")
And I don't totally blame the Canadian voter for their aversion to thinking. I was on a perfect trajectory to become a perfect Canadian when I was in High School. I've been there and done that.
Then I was struck by a weird combination of experiences that led to a 90-degree pivot in my mind.
One of them was Ayn Rand. The other was LSD. (Which, I am most sincerely NOT recommending.)
Not necessarily in that order.
Saturday, May 2, 2020
What the Heck is Going On in Sweden?
One interesting thing about the numbers out of Sweden that I noticed, is that out of of the top twenty-five countries in terms of mortality rates, Sweden is the only country that reports fewer recoveries (1005) than deaths (2653.)
Some quick and dirty spreadsheet work:
| NAME | DECEASED | RECOVERED | Recovered/Deceased |
|---|---|---|---|
| ★United States | 65753 | 161563 | 2.5 |
| ★Italy | 28236 | 78249 | 2.8 |
| ★United Kingdom | 27510 | Unknown | unknown |
| ★Spain | 24824 | 142450 | 5.7 |
| ★France | 24594 | 50212 | 2.0 |
| ★Belgium | 7703 | 11892 | 1.5 |
| ★Germany | 6736 | 126900 | 18.8 |
| ★Brazil | 6410 | 38039 | 5.9 |
| ★Iran | 6091 | 76318 | 12.5 |
| ★Netherlands | 4893 | Unknown | unknown |
| ★China | 4633 | 77685 | 16.8 |
| ★Canada | 3391 | 22751 | 6.7 |
| ★Turkey | 3258 | 53808 | 16.5 |
| ★Sweden | 2653 | 1005 | 0.4 |
| ★Mexico | 1972 | 12377 | 6.3 |
| ★Switzerland | 1754 | 23900 | 13.6 |
| ★Ireland | 1265 | 13386 | 10.6 |
| ★India | 1223 | 10007 | 8.2 |
| ★Russia | 1169 | 13220 | 11.3 |
| ★Peru | 1124 | 11129 | 9.9 |
| ★Ecuador | 1063 | 1913 | 1.8 |
| ★Portugal | 1007 | 1647 | 1.6 |
| ★Indonesia | 800 | 1591 | 2.0 |
| ★Romania | 744 | 4328 | 5.8 |
| ★Poland | 651 | 3491 | 5.4 |
source: ncov2019 dot live (May, 1, ~10:30 P.M.)
This apparent anomaly adds credence to the Angry Foreigner's claim that in socialist Sweden, many of the sick are just being left to die, as was the practice in some primitive hunter-gatherer societies where capitalist greed was allegedly unknown.
Also, Sweden is taking a lot of heat for its refusal to destroy its economy over COVID-19. Sweden has recorded a proportionately higher number of deaths, 2,653, than its Scandinavian neighbors. 2,653 out of about 10 million people represents .027% of its entire population so far.
To the extent that this information is reliable, the death count is ball-parking at a much lower sum than the numbers of deaths originally predicted - 2.2 million dead people in the United States (0.65%) and 500,000 in the U.K. (0.79%) from COVID-19 if no action were taken to slow the virus and flatten the economy. In other words, assuming a similar mortality rate for Sweden of 0.65%, we should have expected about 65,000 deaths in Sweden.
Using the Swedish data to date, of a 0.027% mortality rate without flattening the economy, the corresponding death count for the U.S. could be expected to have been in the neighborhood of 91,000 instead of 2.2 million. This puts the U.S. fatality rate in the same ballpark as the 2017/2018 flu season in the U.S. which had a reported 80,000 deaths.
If the numerous claims about the falsification of death certificates in the U.S. turn out to have any merit, the COVID-19 mortality rate could indeed put it in the ballpark of a severe seasonal flu, or even lower.
If an accounting of the number of deaths caused by the media-driven panic, the closure of businesses, and the failure of people to get timely help for other serious medical conditions is ever to be made, well who knows? The cure might indeed turn out to have been worse than the disease.
More CBC dishonesty.
These CBC reporters are either totally dishonest or completely clueless.
Brazil's share of population of South America 212,000,000 / 430,121,065 X 100 = 49.3 %.
Brazil has a share of "confirmed" cases proportionate to its share of the population of the continent.
Notice there are no comments allowed below the CBC "report."
Also:
Brazil reports 6,750 deaths, so far, attributed to COVID-19. If Canada currently had the same proportional death rate, it would equal 37/212 X 6,750 = 1,178 deaths. The current death rate in Canada is 3,564 with measures in place to flatten the economy. That is more than TRIPLE Brazil's death rate.
The Focus on COVID-19 Is Hurting Other Patients: Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer
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