Lockdowns Cost Small and Medium-Sized Businesses $60 Billion in Pandemic’s First Year: StatCan

Canada’s small and medium-sized businesses lost about $60 billion in the first year of pandemic lockdowns, says the country’s national statistical agency.

In a report published on Feb. 18, Statistics Canada said about 47 percent of all small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)—businesses with annual salary expenses of less than $1.5 million—“experienced a drop in gross profit, totalling a loss of nearly $60 billion” from 2019 to 2020.

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‘Experts’ killed trust in vaccines

Politicised agencies and irrational rules alienated parents

Vaccination rates against childhood diseases have been on a downward slide for the past few years in the United States. Nationally, for example, the share of kindergarteners with completed records for the measles vaccine dropped to 93 percent last year, down from 95 percent in 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Polio, whooping cough, and chickenpox vaccination rates have likewise slumped since the pandemic.

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C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins

The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there.

But the agency issued a new assessment this week, with analysts saying they now favor the lab theory.

That shift is based on “the available body of reporting,” although the other theory remains plausible, a spokeswoman for the agency said, adding that the agency will continue to evaluate any available credible new intelligence reporting.

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Trump cuts off security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci had his taxpayer-funded security detail pulled, President Trump confirmed during a press conference Friday.

“I think when you work for government, at some point your security detail comes off, and you know, you can’t have them forever,” Trump told a reporter at a hurricane response briefing in Asheville, NC

h/t XC

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Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America

His Covid cover-up undermined faith in science

In his inauguration speech four years ago, Joe Biden declared his determination to ‘”restore the soul of America”, later insisting that his “galvanising mission” was to show how our democratic system of government, rooted on liberal ideals of freedom and justice, could still deliver for ordinary people in a turbulent world. So how sad and utterly shameful that on his last day in the job, he stained this noble cause by doling out a pre-emptive pardon to a figure who has done so much to destroy faith in both politics and science.

The departed President’s bid to throw a ring of legal protection around Dr Anthony Fauci, his former chief medical adviser, reeks of elitist arrogance, displaying shocking contempt for ordinary citizens. Biden defended this deeply anti-democratic measure — announced only after he entered the Capitol to watch his unwanted successor Donald Trump’s restoration to power — on the grounds he had to protect public servants who were facing “baseless and politically motivated investigations” that might “irreparably damage their reputations and finances”

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The proof that lockdown critics were ‘debanked’ because of their views

PayPal has admitted that a prominent children’s rights campaigner was “debanked” during the pandemic after speaking out against school closures and mandatory vaccines.

The US online payments giant told Molly Kingsley, founder of the parent campaign group UsForThem, that her account had been terminated in September 2022 owing to “the nature of its activities”.

Hers was one of a handful of accounts that were frozen by PayPal, all of which belonged to individuals or organisations that questioned the government’s policies during the pandemic.

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The most powerful, explosive video yet on the trial of @OttawaPolice Detective Helen Grus.

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Lockdown babies ‘can’t talk properly’

Children who were born during lockdown and started school in 2024 are often unable to talk properly, a new report has found.

A survey of teachers in England by four leading charities highlighted major concerns about development levels among children who entered reception in September.

In a joint report shared with The Telegraph, four charities – Save the Children, Child Poverty Action Group, the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, and the Centre for Young Lives – polled more than 350 reception teachers about children born during the pandemic.

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We Can Never Know How Evil These People Were

As those whom the media have protected may finally be exposed for their actions, we might start to get a glimpse of how evil certain people have been both at home and abroad.

Joseph Stalin was a mass murderer. He was also, unfortunately for humanity, a fairly smart guy. He made many observations such as it does not matter who votes but rather who counts the ballots. Or when pressed to get the Pope to come out against the Nazis, he asked how many divisions the Pope had available to fight. One of Stalin’s more famous comments was “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.” There is absolutely no way to know how many people Joe Stalin, Adolph Hitler or Chairman Mao killed. If one searches for the number, he might find quite a broad range, plus or minus a couple million. There is no way to know how evil these people were. We may know a great deal but we will never have a final accounting.

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Dr. Fauci Doubles Down

Former NIAID director now claims that AIDS, like COVID, was “zoonotic.”

On Christmas Eve, Dr. Anthony Fauci celebrated his birthday, but the 84-year-old, a government bureaucrat since 1968 and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2023, shows no sign of slowing down. In his recent paper, “HIV and COVID-19: Shared Lessons From Two Pandemics,” Dr. Fauci raises a question right in the title.

AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) or HIV/AIDS fails to qualify as a pandemic. Dr. Fauci once contended that AIDS could be spread by simple family contact and would ravage the general population. As it turned out, the syndrome never moved beyond male homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and intravenous drug users in any significant measure. As with COVID, the origin of AIDS was a matter of dispute.

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