“China eats weird animals disease”

The first time I heard about ivermectin was from my doctor early on in the Era of Covid-hysteria. The United States still had a functioning President, we had yet to arm the Taliban or give them lists of Americans and Afghan ‘allies’ they might want to execute, and a vaccine against the worst scourge since the Black Death was, if the experts were to be believed, years, maybe decades away.

Of course, the experts weren’t to be believed. Donald Trump’s Manhattan Project approach to getting a vaccine developed in record time bore fruit. Pfizer had the first vaccine ready to go before the 2020 election, but selflessly waited until just after the election to make the announcement. They, and the other drug companies in on Operation Warp Speed, have been playing the opening bars of Pink Floyd’s song ‘Money’ nonstop at corporate headquarters ever since. Everyone must be vaccinated, twice (plus boosters) at government (i.e. taxpayer) expense immediately and forever.

A shocking story claimed that an Oklahoma hospital had to turn away gunshot victims because so many people had overdosed on “horse dewormer” in a bid to treat Covid-19 themselves. The sensation was destroyed by lack of proof.

As it turns out, the story was horse s**t from top to bottom. When podcast host Joe Rogan announced he was treating his own case of Covid-19 with a cocktail of medications including ivermectin, the establishment commentariat went into overdrive, describing the drug – a Nobel Prize-winning anti-parasitic widely used around the world – as a dangerous substance used in the treatment of livestock.

Not the first time a cure has been dismissed by the establishment, recall the Doctors who proved ulcers were caused by bacteria contrary to accepted “science”: Nobel Came After Years of Battling the System

Several hundred people rallied in downtown Toronto on Saturday to voice their opposition to the vaccine mandates rolled out in Ontario this week.

The crowd set off from Queen’s Park and marched through downtown to protest the new proof-of-vaccination certificates announced by Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Sept. 1. People will need to provide proof of vaccination along with photo ID to access non-essential services such as restaurants, bars, gyms, and other indoor facilities starting Sept. 22.

You got this Toronto! Canada’s biggest city out in force demanding freedom! pic.twitter.com/NOhg8B34hN

— Rowan (@canmericanized) July 24, 2021

Denmark, a country whose approach earlier in the Covid pandemic was thought of as the opposite of Sweden, with early border restrictions and school closures, has now overtaken its neighbour as the most restriction-free country in Scandinavia.

Should you trust the legal advice you hear, see or read from legal media pundits?

As the most prolific one myself, with two weekly columns in this paper, two weekly employment law radio talk shows, and a weekly raft of other media appearances, why would I ever raise such a question?

It came to mind while recently watching television news and seeing an ’employment lawyer,’ who I had never even heard of, pontificating in my field. He was asked whether employers could mandate vaccinations and terminate employees for their refusal to comply. His response was that it could not as it would violate human rights, privacy rights and the bodily integrity of the individual in question.