Draconian COVID measures were a mistake, let’s not repeat them

Almost two years ago, community measures including lockdowns to suppress COVID transmission had widespread support, with a movement (“COVID Zero”) that promoted more draconian measures, hoping to eliminate COVID altogether. Schools, institutions of higher learning and businesses were shuttered. Even playgrounds and outdoor washrooms were closed, and youths simply enjoying outdoor summer parties were vilified. Most of these measures were ineffective, many were harmful. Has anything been learned from these mistakes or will they be repeated the next time case counts go up? We have some thoughts for the future.

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‘The end is in sight’: COVID-19 deaths at lowest levels since March 2020, WHO says

The number of reported deaths worldwide from COVID-19 was the lowest last week since March 2020 – a positive sign that the end of the pandemic that has killed at least six million people is in view, the World Health Organization says.

Globally, the number of new weekly deaths decreased by 22 per cent the week of Sept. 5-11 compared to the previous week, with just under 11,000 fatalities reported, according to WHO data.

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Longtime Canadian journalist calls out mainstream media for pushing spurious COVID narrative

A journalist of over 20 years within Canada’s mainstream media sphere is calling out the industry for pushing a specific narrative during the COVID-19 so-called pandemic.

In an interview with Bright Light News, journalist Rodney Palmer, who spent two decades working for various mainstream outlets, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CTV News, and the Toronto Star among others, called out his fellow media colleagues for “misrepresenting” the story surrounding the COVID pandemic.

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Fauci’s direct line to Zuck proves Facebook COVID censorship was all about power, not public health

The ugly picture of collusion between the feds and social media platforms around COVID just got a whole lot uglier.

Recent filings from a lawsuit by the Louisiana and Missouri attorneys general against the Biden administration reveal that Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg gave Dr. Anthony Fauci his personal phone number shortly before the platform started to crack down on alleged COVID misinformation.

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Investigating the mystery of excess deaths

Science does not operate independently from the realms of politics and culture. This was no more evident than with the coronavirus pandemic: questions of epidemiological modelling, the efficacy of lockdowns, vaccine mandates and social distancing all saw the world split into different camps. And whatever position one took on lockdowns, for example, became convenient shorthand for their politics writ-large.

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Adults Aged 35–44 Died at Twice the Expected Rate Last Summer, Life Insurance Data Suggests

Death claims for working-age adults under group life insurance policies spiked well beyond expected levels last summer and fall, according to data from 20 of the top 21 life insurance companies in the United States.

Death claims for adults aged 35 to 44 were 100 percent higher than expected in July, August, and September 2021, according to a report by the Society of Actuaries, which analyzed 2.3 million death claims submitted to life insurance firms.

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The ideology of lockdown is a menace to society

China’s ongoing brutal lockdowns are a reminder of the insanity of ‘Zero Covid’.

Remember Zero Covid? This was the idea that the only way to deal with Covid-19 was by eliminating it. Only when every trace of the virus had been scrubbed from society would it be safe to let the masses out again, insisted the Zero Covid fanatics. Zero Covid ideologues were everywhere. In the medical establishment, the political elite, the media. In early 2021 the Guardian’s leader writers were telling Boris Johnson that he should ‘[stamp] out the virus with a Zero Covid strategy’. Kill Covid to save society.

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As China Imposes More Covid Lockdowns, ‘Everyone Is Scared’

In the hours before the southern Chinese city of Chengdu entered a coronavirus lockdown, Matthew Chen visited four vegetable markets in an attempt to stock up on fresh food. But seemingly the entire city had the same idea, and by the time he got to each place, most of the shelves had been stripped bare, except for hot peppers and fruit, he said.

Mr. Chen, a white-collar worker in his 30s, managed to scavenge enough cherry tomatoes, meat and greens for about one day, and since then has been ordering grocery deliveries to tide him through the lockdown, which began on Friday. But he worries about whether that supply will remain stable, and how much longer he will have to rely on it.

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Embalmers Have Been Finding Numerous Long, Fibrous Clots That Lack Post-Mortem Characteristics

Several embalmers across the country have been observing many large, and sometimes very long, “fibrous” and rubbery clots inside the corpses they treat, and are speaking out about their findings.

Numerous embalmers from different states confirmed to The Epoch Times that they have been seeing these strange clots, starting from either 2020 or 2021.

h/t Mauser

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Statistics indicate COVID jab is the ‘elephant in the room’ when it comes to excess mortality rates

Emerging statistics on excess mortality rates paint an alarming picture. Far more people died in 2021, after the rollout of the COVID shots, and in 2022, than during the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020. I will review some of those shocking statistics — which are mirrored around the world — in a moment.

But while rational people look at these figures and ask themselves what the most apparent and likely cause behind this sudden rise in deaths of working-age adults and younger people might be, mainstream media are trying to divert your attention from the elephant in the room — mass injection with experimental gene transfer technology — to anything and everything but that.

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Millennials Experienced ‘84 Percent Rise of Excess Mortality’ Into Fall 2021

Edward Dowd, a former portfolio manager for BlackRock and the author of the upcoming book “’Cause Unknown’: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022,” has been analyzing data related to all-cause mortality since March 2021.

Dowd is familiar with predicting trends and observing patterns, and became interested in studying CDC data after he heard many anecdotal accounts of vaccine injury. He found a monumental spike in sudden deaths occurring in the fall of 2021 to early 2022 in the working age cohort, which corresponded to the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates for federal and corporate employees.

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The lab-leak theory isn’t dead

The mother of all Covid conspiracy theories is true

For more than a year after the onset of the pandemic, talking about the possibility that the virus might have been lab-engineered was taboo. Then, as the evidence continued to mount, it suddenly became acceptable to talk about it in “respectable” circles. Today, however, we appear to have gone full-circle: a determined effort is once again underway to dismiss the lab-leak theory for good — even though no new evidence has emerged to disprove it.

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Many Americans still aren’t coming to Trudeau’s Hermit Kingdom of Canada. Is the ArriveCAN app to blame?

Post-pandemic, tourists have returned to Niagara Falls.

But something’s missing — a lot of Americans, even though the popular Ontario tourist destination sits right next to the U.S. border.

“It’s devastating,” said Anna Pierce, vice president of Niagara Helicopters, which offers rides over the falls.

Pierce says bookings are down 35 per cent this summer compared to the summer of 2019, largely due to the lack of American tourists.


RELATED: Two infectious diseases physicians on why Western has got it wrong

Universities mandating masks on campus at this point is silly and mandating vaccine boosters is unethical. Here’s why: Imagine a hypothetic group of five students, discussing the recent mask and booster mandate introduced at Ontario’s Western University.

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Have the Germans proved the link between Covid vaccination and excess deaths?

THE mystery of excess deaths first came to light in January this year when a large US insurance company reported it was seeing ‘the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business’. Furthermore it was not the elderly who were dying but ‘primarily working-age people 18 to 64’. In March one of Germany’s largest statutory health insurance companies, BKK, reported frequency of vaccination complications seven times higher than indicated by the German regulatory body, the Paul Ehrlich Institute. 

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