'We have to learn to live with' COVID rather than react to numbers: Top public health expert

 

Vivek Goel PHOTO BY FILE PHOTO /Postmedia Network

It’s time to broaden the conversation in Canada around COVID-19 from one focused on just the daily case numbers to one that’s about maximizing the overall health and well-being of society.

That was one of the key messages articulated by Vivek Goel, one of the nation’s top public health experts, in a wide-ranging conversation with Postmedia.

“What we seem to have developed, by and large, is a view that we need to focus on eliminating COVID-19,” says Goel, a member of the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force and a professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. “And we have got people to the point that they’re so scared of COVID-19 that they’re not thinking about all the other consequences.”

The Absurdity of Covid "Cases"

Today’s headlines announced Donald and Melania Trump “tested positive” for covid-19. Another claims nineteen thousand Amazon workers “got” covid-19 on the job. Both of these pseudostories are sure to ignite another absurd media frenzy.

As always, the story keeps changing: Remember ventilators, flatten the curve, the next two weeks are crucial, etc.? Remember Nancy Pelosi in Chinatown back in February, urging everyone to visit? Remember Fauci dismissing masks as useless? Why should we believe anything the political/media complex tells us now?

So what do these headlines really mean? What exactly is a covid “case”?

Conrad Black: Liberals pledge to further oppress the country

 

Canada's Governor General Julie Payette delivers the Throne Speech in the Senate on Sept. 23. PHOTO BY ADRIAN WYLD/POOL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

If the government wanted to say what it said in the throne speech, it has lost its collective mind.

Indeed, the speech explicitly stated that today’s laboriously low-interest rates create an opportunity for massive deficit spending because “there is a global consensus that governments must do more … while blocking the low cost of borrowing. in the coming decades”. There is no such consensus and the financial markets will not be scammed like this indefinitely into allowing the federal government to finance the cumbersome socialist ambition that it described in the speech. If this were indeed the case, it would be better for the government to increase spending only moderately and abolish all forms of taxation that inconvenience the lower half of income earners.

Likewise, the fundamental problem with the official response to the coronavirus in North America is that the Democratic Party in the United States and its media allies, who are in effect running the Democratic campaign in the absence of a feasible presidential candidate from that party, They have focused since March on generating panic and public hysteria over the virus to further the economic recession and embarrass the incumbent president.

Collateral damage

Leslyn Lewis: There is a socialist coup unfolding in Canada, and we taxpayers are funding it

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets a Senator with an elbow-bump prior to the delivery of the throne speech in the Senate on Sept. 23, 2020. PHOTO BY BLAIR GABLE/REUTERS

It is necessary to talk about an issue that could be said to cause a lot of commotion. That said, it has been said that a socialist coup is taking place in Canada, and in fact, it has been exclaimed and disseminated that the taxpayers are financing it. Likewise, it has been indicated that under this socialist revolution, there is no need to confiscate their property, they can simply redistribute their wealth.

Now the question is, is Canada really quietly going through a socialist coup?

Clearly, just a year ago it would have been considered a conspiracy to get used to the idea that this is really happening, however, it is necessary to contemplate the fact that it is a fact after hearing too many Canadians in the last months about what they have seen that it is. happening. Ever since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to grant himself kingly powers at the beginning of the COVID crisis, it has been said that what has been witnessed in Canada is undoubtedly a socialist coup that the taxpayers themselves are funding.

Undoubted evidence

Philip Cross: The myth of a 'she-cession'

 

What is exceptional about this recession is, not that women’s employment fell slightly faster than men’s, but that both fell off a cliff. PHOTO BY CHRIS RATCLIFFE/BLOOMBERG FILES

The recession, the economic equivalent of a thermonuclear device, affected men and women almost equally

Armine Yalnizyan of the Atkinson Foundation has been superspreading the idea that the distinctive feature of the 2020 recession is its disproportionate impact on women. She maintains that, with its devastating hit on service industries, the pandemic has caused greater job losses for women than men, thus creating Canada’s first “she-cession,” in which women have borne the brunt of the downturn. She has also argued that the recovery has been hampered by women not being able to return to the labour force because they have to care for children. Universal daycare, she says, would be a “magic bullet” that would speed up the recovery.

A close examination of the facts reveals major holes in these arguments. To start with, the recession affected men and women almost equally. Between February and August 535,000 men and 562,000 women lost their jobs, as shown in the accompanying graph. Women fared slightly worse during the closing of the economy between February and April (losing 1.536 million jobs versus 1.467 million for men) but they also recovered slightly faster between April and August (with 974,000 women getting jobs versus 932,000 men).

After Last Night, The Failure of Centralized Power Couldn't Be More Obvious

 

Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, United States by Joshua Sukoff is licensed under Unsplash License

By Chris Rossini

Human life, which consists of 7+ billion individually conscious ‘I’s,’ can be described with the words ‘radical decentralization.’

Human life is radically decentralized.

First, there are no carbon copies of the 7+ billion of us. No copies with anyone who lives now, who has lived in the past, or who will show up after us in the future. Even identical twins are one-of-a-kind individuals.

We each perceive, interpret, and uniquely explain the world to ourselves. We each choose what to believe, what we desire, and how to act to achieve those desires.

Radical decentralization.

Opinion: Playing racial favourites is not the best way to fight systemic racism

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveils plans for post-coronavirus recovery for Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurs in Toronto on Sept. 9, 2020. PHOTO BY CARLOS OSORIO/REUTERS

In relation to this, it was expected that possibly many should be delighted with the new liberal government program, however, this is not the case, since it is clear that they are not.

Likewise, it is well known that the Liberal government has announced plans for a Black Entrepreneurship Program that will work with banks and other lending agencies to provide loans and other support to black entrepreneurs. The program is supposed to address the serious obstacles black entrepreneurs encounter when trying to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, grow their businesses, and start new ones. In a way, these obstacles include a lack of access to capital, networks, and mentorship. The reason black entrepreneurs face these challenges more than other entrepreneurs is supposed to be due to “systemic racism”.

A solution that is not well accepted