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Government Covidians Doubled Down On Stupidity

COVID-19 Truth of Government Panic FINALLY Laid Bare


By Judi McLeod ——--January 26, 2023

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COVID-19 Truth of Government Panic FINALLY Laid Bare

UNVARNISHED COVID-19 TRUTH at last: Governments actually doubled down on lockdowns—even after evidence proved they were ineffective.

“A newly released essay by Douglas Allen, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University, examines why governments repeatedly used lockdowns during COVID-19 even after it became clear lockdowns were ineffective and “failed to isolate the virus and stop it from spreading.”

Lockdowns were sustained with political support, suggests Allen, and lockdowns had “many winners.” (Epoch Times, Jan. 24, 2023)

How’s THAT for what panicked governments can do to the people they were elected to serve?!

“He says for the “laptop class,” the lockdown was “the great vacation,” the “great excuse,” and the “great opportunity.” Lockdowns, said Allen, transferred wealth to this group. (Epoch Times) "Meanwhile, he says, public health campaigns repeatedly told citizens that “death was ‘at the door,'” ‘now is not the time to let our guard down,’ ‘we are all in this together,’” and ‘let’s not lose what we have gained so far.’ “People came to believe in “the absurd goal of ‘zero-COVID,’” despite suffering from government lockdown policies, Allen says. As such, a fearful segment of citizens “supported the policies and actually helped enforce state regulations through social stigma and shaming of those who objected.” “Ultimately, the negative effects of lockdowns fell “disproportionately on the young, the poor, people of colour, those with health problems other than COVID-19, the least educated, blue collar workers, single parents, and many others at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder.”

How’s THAT for what panicked governments can do to the people they were elected to serve?!

Government hacks could still keep their personal services intact, being coiffed and pampered, their scare tactics being delivered throughout by a complicit media—even showing up masks when making televised statements.


Within months of the initial panic, it was clear the models were wrong

“Allen said there were two reasons government officials panicked. (Epoch Times) “First, many mistakenly thought that COVID-19 could be eradicated using a comprehensive track/trace/isolate strategy in the way SARS had been dealt with in 2004,” he wrote. “Second, groups of applied mathematicians immediately called for lockdowns, and their apocalyptic predictions heavily influenced policymakers,” he said. “Yet, there was no “immediate massive death toll” as predicted, even after five waves, said Allen. Within months of the initial panic, it was clear the models were wrong. “It was also apparent COVID could not be contained and affected only a select portion of the population, largely the elderly, and those with four comorbidities, on average, were most likely to die. It was also clear that lockdown restrictions had detrimental consequences on commercial activity, mental health, and educational opportunities, and had other health consequences. “But still, said Allen, governments persisted and enforcement became harsher, even after it was found that the mortality risk from COVID depended on age.

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It was clear by April 2020 that death counts “were going to be only three to six percent of what had been predicted

“In other words, wrote Allen, COVID “was never a serious threat for healthy people under 60.”(Epoch Times) "All of these factors should have led to a change in approach by governments, said Allen. Instead, enforcement was ramped up. “B.C. still restricted gatherings in homes late into the Omicron wave, and both Alberta and B.C. required vaccine passports to attend church, go to restaurants, visit movie theatres, or do any other activity the government deemed non-essential. “Other provinces, noted Allen, enforced curfews and “threatened to withhold health services to the unvaccinated.” "Allen suggests it was clear by April 2020 that death counts “were going to be only three to six percent of what had been predicted, while the fiscal costs of lockdowns were already enormous.” “To admit such a mistake would be exceptionally costly to a government, and this led to a bad ‘double down’ political equilibrium across most of the globe,” he said.

Ford left Ontario all but bankrupt in COVID’s aftermath

"Soon, “two weeks to ‘bend the curve’ became a string of ‘circuit breakers’ and other insidious euphemisms for curtailed liberties,” wrote Allen. Most restrictions continued for two years in Canada.”(Epoch Times) “Other provinces”, Professor Allen included Ontario, Canada’s largest, where ‘Conservative’ Premier Doug Ford’s pandemic panic saw the province media described as among “the most draconian in the world”.

Incredibly, Ford who left Ontario all but bankrupt in COVID’s aftermath was reelected on June 2, 2022. Justin trudeau had already won his reelection on September 20, 2021

Here’s what millions of Canadians suffered at the hands of their own governments:

“Initially people in favor of lockdown argued that the costs were just lost GDP [gross domestic product]. This was absurd. The vast amount of costs came in the form of deaths of despair, deaths from missed appointments, lost livelihood,” Allen told The Epoch Times. (Epoch Times) “Given that all viruses “reach a biological endemic stat eventually,” concluded Allen, all that governments had to do was “double down” on lockdowns and claim victory for defeating COVID-19.”

And that, by God is exactly what Canadian government leaders Ford and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did and are still trying to do!

“China was the first country to put a lockdown in place on Jan. 23, 2020, and by April, half of the world’s population was under lockdown, the essay said. (Epoch Times) “From Jan. 5, 2021, Canada had stronger lockdowns than the United States, noted the essay. Lockdowns began in March 2020, with closures and restrictions of borders, Parliament, social gatherings, schools, restaurants, playgrounds, salons, spas, fitness centres, and daycare facilities.

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This was the first time that lockdowns were enforced on healthy and non-symptomatic people

“This was the first time that lockdowns were enforced on healthy and non-symptomatic people.(Epoch Times) “Some lockdown measures remained in place until late spring 2022, despite the fact it was not part of any existing World Health Organization or Centre for Disease Control recommendations for dealing with a pandemic.”

When patriotic, hard-working truckers in the Freedom Convoy stood up for Canadian people with a world-admired Ottawa protest last February, PM Trudeau froze the bank accounts of them and their supporters, enacted Emergency Measures, and Premier Ford stole the Convoy’s crowd-funding accounts.

Thank You, Professor Allen for making so many of us believe that it is not us but the government that are crackers.

The writer of this article who moved 1,100 miles cross country to be far away from Ford and Trudeau, still attends churches where parishioners hide faces behind useless masks, and still sees drivers alone in their vehicles wearing face masks.

Drop the masks, fellow Canadians and get a good whiff of the healthy Winter air!

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Judi McLeod—— -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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