Infidel Dog

Yeah, I heard that one. It doesn't hold up as mattering though: " In a hypothetical scenario where Bernier did not dramatically split from the Conservatives and instead used the last year inspiring the same group of voters to choose the Tories, the Conservatives would narrow their seat difference with the Liberals to 128-151. In the same PPC-less world, the adjusted NDP seat count would be equal to the two main parties’ margin, 23, while the Bloc Québécois’ 32 seats could position them as an enticing potential partner for the second-place Conservatives. However, former Conservative strategist and Summa Strategies vice-chair Tim Powers says it’s far from a guarantee the supporters of the People’s Party would vote for the Tories if it wasn’t for the existence of Bernier’s party." https://ipolitics.ca/2019/10/22/ppc-votes-appear-to-have-cost-the-cpc-some-seats-but-former-tory-strategist-isnt-sure/

Hey, I didn't even know this below was happening and I'm a local. Trudeau got chased out of White Rock.

Totally on board with you. I understand the "you're helping Trudeau" argument but it's meaningless at this point because there's not enough of us to matter. For now, if O'Toole wins and it looks like he might and the country continues to deteriorate like it most certainly will because he's a Trudeau lite progressive we get to say, "Don't blame me. I voted for Max." And there's the chance more people get impressed by that in the future and as things get more desperate they jump on board the Max train.

"As of Thursday morning, the group said it had brought as many as 500 Afghan special operators, assets and enablers and their families into the airport in Kabul overnight, handing them each over to the protective custody of the U.S. military."

" With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the "Pineapple Express" to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety, members of the group told ABC News... https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-special-operations-vets-carry-daring-mission-save/story?id=79670236

Oh man...why did you say that? Now I've gotta do it. I'm not supposed to do it, but I've got to do it. Apparently what I'm going to show you is not a dead on, useful comment on exactly what you're talking about. It's a cartoon and I'm not allowed to show you such a cogent, dead on commentary. Ah, what the Hell...I'm going to show it to you anyway and take my lumps:

Tell you what...while you're waiting here's something you hadn't considered, you can kill a little time considering. August 25, 2021 The Good News—A COVID-19 Update Let’s look at the good news that can calm our fears about COVID-19. There’ll be time at a later date to look at the bad and the ugly of the resolving pandemic. 1) Globally, the survival rate for COVID-19 is 99.8%. Under the age of 70, the survival rate for COVID-19 is 99.97%. This is on par with many influenza seasons. Americans younger than 70 do not have to fear COVID-19 any more than influenza and we know how to protect the elderly. 2) Herd immunity for the alpha strain is here. Sixty-seven percent of the American population have had at least one COVID-19 vaccination. The official number of cases is about 10% of the population, but several antibody studies show that the percentage of those with natural immunity is 4-6 times higher. Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins professor, estimates that 80-85% of the population is immune from natural immunity and vaccination. Those who deny this must explain how cases and deaths started to decline in January way before there was a significant vaccine effort. COVID-19 will not go away. Instead, we are transitioning now from a pandemic to endemic status and, indeed, some eminent virologists say vaccinating in the middle of a pandemic is making herd immunity more difficult to obtain through the creation of variants. 3) The average age of death from COVID is 78. The average life expectancy in America is 78. This is not to say, “Don’t worry, only old people are dying of COVID-19.” However, this fact should direct and inform our policies to protect the elderly especially. Children and those under age 70 are at much lower risk. 4) Early outpatient treatment should be adopted immediately for COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine works. Ivermectin works. It has been estimated 85% of COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented were these medicines used early. America’s Frontline Doctors have an excellent compilation of research. The cost of these treatments is $1/day. A new IV treatment, REGEN-COV, has been approved for early use in COVID-19. Don’t wait to see if you will get sick. Treat early. 5) Children are safe from COVID-19 and don’t spread the virus either. A study in the UK showed that the survival rate in children is 99.995%. In the U.S. 335 children have died since the start of the pandemic. A study done by Johns Hopkins and FAIR Health showed that all of the children that died from April 2020 to August 2020 had immune problems or were chronically ill. In that period not one healthy child died. Children have more chance of dying in a car wreck, unintentional drug overdose, or influenza than from COVID-19. Vaccination for healthy children is not needed. 6) Sweden did not have a lockdown or mask mandate and did better with cases and deaths than many countries. Lockdown did not work and had serious cultural and economic side effects. There is ample literature now to show that masks, as we are using them, do not work. 7) Persons who have had COVID-19 infection have a robust and long-lasting immunity. This immunity also is likely to protect against variants. As evidence continues to accumulate that the new mRNA vaccines are neither as effective nor safe as advertised, I would advise not getting the vaccine on top of your natural immunity if you had the COVID-19 infection. 8) There is very little, if any, spread of COVID-19 from asymptomatic persons. This lie was spread early to maximize fear of this new virus. COVID-19 is like other respiratory viral infections—you catch it from being around someone who has symptoms. Like other viral infections, if you are sick stay home, quarantine yourself, and treat yourself. We do not need to quarantine the asymptomatic healthy. 9) The death rate nationally for COVID-19 has been going down since January. Breathless “news” reporters talk about cases, hospital occupation, and contagiousness but never mention the death decline. There has been a small uptick in deaths in some areas over the last week, but not anywhere close to last winter. (There will be some variations in the death rate as we transition to endemic status) 10) The Delta variant is acting like a typical historical virus variant. Typically, variants happen all the time and are more contagious but less deadly. Initial reports show that this is likely true with Delta. A UK report states the Delta variant is likely 20 times less deadly than the alpha strain, but that more data needs to be collected. The media constantly mentions that delta is more contagious which is also true. Other Greek variants are likely to behave in the same fashion. We do not need to be afraid of COVID-19 anymore. Let’s begin to end the hysteria and fear. The worst is over and we are transitioning to endemic status which means a low level of cases and deaths." https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/the_good_newsa_covid19_update.html

It's 3 days of data right now. Stick around.

Prove it.

So what they've told us about vaccines has been a lie then. Vaccines are not a return to normalcy. Calls for authoritarian controls continue indefinitely. Just want to be sure I understand that correctly. Screw your vaccines. Masks are a joke. Lockdowns are criminal. Therapeutics are the answer.

And you guys still haven't explained the plummeting of death cases since Florida started using the antibody treatment. So me personally, I'm going to hang on with my vaccine hesitancy until even the brainwashed doctors of Canada have to admit therapeutics have some use. Maybe I can get some.

Yes, but they also show a large contingent of the vaccinated and questionably vaccinated or otherwise immune being available to continue the spread. Therefore you must include that into your calculation if you're going to command we inject this questionable "vaccine" into our arms before all the data is in. And 95% is a questionable data point based on insufficient and localized data.

I keep thinking about the naturally immune or immune by previous exposure. How many of them got vaccinated and how is that affecting the stats?

Gotta admit I hadn't computed the difference between Ontario and Florida stats. So let's do that. About 62% of Floridians have received one dose of vaccine and about 51% have received 2 doses. https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/state/florida In Ontario 72% have received one dose and 66% have received 2. https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data So what you were originally puffing yourself up about was the claim there was recent new record of cases in Florida. I'm going to assume what you're so proud of is the idea that the 48% caused that new record of cases that one week. Not sure how the naturally immune, immune by previous covid exposure and Vaccination status unknown would factor into that but it still doesn't add up to me. But you made me look so let's see if Ontario stats really do say we don't need to worry about being infected by the vaccinated. So you've got 395 unvaccinated and 283 fully vaccinated or questionable. We don't know where the now immune fit in. But you want to say it's pretty much all unvaccinated who are responsible for the recent rise when it took both vaccinated and unvaccinated to account for previous similar rises. And yes I'm aware of the recent stats but I don't trust them because they don't add up. It may be a temporary aberration that levels out with a longer sample or it may be somebody messing with the stats again.

That whole article is worth a read for anyone curious what the vaccine hesitant's actual argument actually looks like. Not what true believers of the Politicos, Big Pharma, state and corporate media narrative like Citizen and Argus say it is.

And here's another one contradicting Argus and Citizen's week and a half of Ontario data suggesting the vaccinated are without any responsibility for the resent worldwide spike in cases and deaths. https://chriswaldburger.substack.com/p/bombshell-uk-data-destroys-entire

Were you? Were you really proven right? You're talking about this, right? OK, so previously you were telling us how the tiny percentage of unvaccinated were responsible for the new infection. Does that even make sense? How are they doing that? How are about 5% of the population responsible for records of infection it used to take 100% of the population to make. From the tiny Argus quote we're given to believe they're talking about "total record." So did the unvaccinated all of a sudden get new super infection powers? Your buddy also clipped this quote for the bit you're so proud of: And here Argus did that thing he likes to do where he leaves out key details. Yes there were 9 deaths one day. Two days before that this week there was only 1. But what he's not telling you is that during peak days of daily cases of infection (before the DeSantis policy of antibody therapeutics) the daily deaths went as high as 189. So tell us again what you're strutting around about. How do you think you've been proven right?

Oh wait, I just remembered who I was dealing with. You'll have to run your mouse across that graph to get the daily stats. Enjoy.

Here ya go genius. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/ Why? Are you saying you guys don't want to use worldometer stats when they don't show what you'd like them to? But by all means show me how worldometer is getting stats you claim don't exist. Maybe I can use that the next time you or yours want to claim they show something you, the political left and Big Pharma support.

Yes, Argus and Citizen, I acknowledge that the corporate and political left are afraid of DeSantis as one of the 2 most likely leaders of the Republican party in 2024 and only speak of thim in smears and slurs using corrupted facts and misleading statistics. Now show me how Florida overall stats without lockdowns do not compare favorably overall to Democrat stronghold states like California and New York with lockdowns and mask mandates or show me the math you're using that explains how 9 deaths since Florida started using the antibody therapeutic is not less than the 189 deaths when it wasn't.

Here's an interesting one for Argus who likes to present a week of stats from Ontario and present them as proof of something applicable to the entire world for the end of time and for Citizen who likes to give him digital tongue baths of Kudos for his online creation of pictographs for the week. At the beginning of the month Florida was peaking with between 187 to 189 Daily Deaths. Since that time DeSantis has made the antibody treatment available to Floridians that cured Trump. In the last three days daily deaths have fluctuated between 9 and 1.

You forgot the big one. Those who have had covid and whose antibodies most likely make them more immune than the vaccine would now.

My personal favorite anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist has a compelling argument on why this news the FDA has approved Pfizer shouldn't make you more confident in the efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine. One point is her claim Big Pharma provides 75% of the FDA's drug review budget. She also draws parallels between Pfizer and a killer drug named Rezulin. It's a good story if nothing else.

Fenofibrate could dramatically shorten the treatment time for severe COVID patients. Fourteen out of 15 severe COVID-19 patients who were treated in an investigator-initiated interventional open-label clinical study of the drug TriCor (fenofibrate) didn’t require oxygen support within a week of treatment and were released from the hospital, according to the results of a new Hebrew University of Jerusalem study. Fenofibrate is an FDA-approved oral medication. The results were published on Researchsquare.com and are currently under peer review. Specifically, the team that was led by HU’s Prof. Yaakov Nahmias carried out the study at Israel’s Barzilai Medical Center in coordination with the hospital’s head of the Infectious Disease Unit, Prof. Shlomo Maayan, and with support from Abbott Laboratories. https://www.jpost.com/health-science/15-treatment-gets-covid-patients-off-ventilators-in-under-a-week-study-677479

Time to go all Australia on the streets. Any good placard ideas? "MASKS DON'T WORK" is all I can think of. COVID-19: Mask mandate back in all indoor spaces in B.C., including K-12 schools https://theprovince.com/news/local-news/b-c-officials-to-show-and-tell-on-covid-19-health-and-safety-measures-in-schools/wcm/834cef9b-187e-47c0-8ee5-384bc4e3493a