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Dr. Andre Corriveau
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Premier Sandy Silver
Loosening of some COVID restrictions planned
Yukoners will be excited to hear there’s a government plan in place to tentatively loosen some of the health restrictions that have smothered recreational activities in the territory for more than a month.
Revised - Yukoners will be excited to hear there’s a government plan in place to tentatively loosen some of the health restrictions that have smothered recreational activities in the territory for more than a month.
They will be less excited to hear that two more deaths have been attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic that’s still hitting hard.
As well, the current state of emergency is going nowhere.
Those were the highlights of the weekly virus briefing Thursday morning hosted by Premier Sandy Silver and Dr. André Corriveau, a last-minute substitute medical official.
A few months ago, Corriveau had filled in as the acting chief medical officer of health for the Yukon. He’s currently filling that position in the Northwest Territories.
He appeared virtually Thursday after Dr. James Talbot, listed as the chief medical officer of health, could not participate for reasons that were left unexplained.
There was no word on the whereabouts of Dr. Catherine Elliott, who is officially the acting chief medical officer of health for theYukon.
No further details were released on the two latest COVID-19 deaths, which bring the Yukon total to 18 since December 2020.
Silver announced a month-long plan that will possibly see the health restrictions on sports, recreation, and gathering eased on a week-to-week basis.
This weekend, team sports activities for youth aged 19 and under will be relaxed slightly.
Up to 25 people, or 50 per cent of capacity, whichever is smaller, will be allowed to play. The perplexing and contentious limitation to two households will be relaxed.
Silver said the government felt it was important for mental health to allow the youth teams to resume as soon as possible.
“We’re really concerned about youth having opportunities,” Silver said.
The following week, the restrictions on adult team sports will be relaxed in an identical fashion.
The week after that, gatherings of 10 people will be allowed without household limits.
By March 1, restaurants and bars will be allowed normal operating hours, and the 10 p.m. operations limit will be history.
All of these changes are subject to the discretion of the government, and the weekly situation for case counts and trends, Silver said.
Four people are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19, but their conditions weren’t discussed.
Cases have been averaging 23 a day over the last four days.
The outbreaks at the two long-term care homes in Whitehorse have been declared over, although the restrictions will remain for a few more weeks as a precautionary measure.
The testing positivity rate is pushing 40 per cent. That means there are far more cases circulating in the community than are being officially recorded.
Still, Corriveau said “there’s good evidence the surge has ended.”
Silver said he knows the situation is wearing on people, especially at this time of year.
He said he’s been hearing the term “languishing” used many times lately.
The government is also extending the state of emergency under the Civil Emergency Measures Act (CEMA) for up to another 90 days. It had been set to expire next Tuesday.
Silver hinted there is some chance it might be cancelled before then, or not extended further.
“These are not normal circumstances,” he said.
The declaration allows the government to respond to the ongoing risk of COVID-19 by implementing and enforcing temporary measures for the health and safety of Yukoners, the government said in a statement. For example, masks remain mandatory for those entering indoor public spaces.
“The state of emergency is an important tool that has allowed the Yukon government to implement measures supporting the health, safety and well- being of Yukoners,” said Community Services Minister Richard Mostyn.
“The spread of the Omicron variant in the territory has led to an extremely high spike in COVID-19 cases, and the state of emergency ensures the government can continue to take necessary steps to limit the spread of COVID-19, protect the health and safety of Yukoners, and prevent our health and social systems from being overwhelmed.”
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A Member of the "fringe" on Feb 12, 2022 at 1:25 pm
The Yukon Minister of Community Services' use of the word "Whereas" in his Emergency Order should include the following....
Should there be any doubt remaining, as to the lack of medical ethics and mendacious character of Anthony Fauci (NIAID), Francis Collins (NIH), Lawrence Tabak (NIH) and others, their attempts to obfuscate facts, discredit respected professionals, such as Sunetra Gupta (Oxford), Martin Kulldorff (Harvard) and Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford) and their smearing of the Great Barrington Declaration, will end all such doubt. In an article titled, Fauci’s War on Science: The Smoking Gun, by Jeffrey A. Tucker, published by the Brownstone Institute, recently disclosed emails circulated between Fauci, Collins and Tabak, clearly describe their shocking, inhumane efforts to propagate the "SARS-CoV-2" scam. (https://brownstone.org/articles/faucis-war-on-science-the-smoking-gun/)
Let us not ignore failure of Canadian governments to disclose scientific and medical evidence, as demanded by Canadian law, supporting "COVID" mandates and refusal to rescind such mandates in light of facts, in violation of Charter rights, representing blatant, willing criminality, collusion and complicity to perpetrate genocide and crimes against humanity (I challenge all elected or appointed officials to disprove any of the following facts):
Whereas, rRT-PCR is not a medical nor viral diagnostic, it is incapable of identifying any virus but, is capable of identifying segments or fragments of RNA or DNA, which are dead, incapable of infection or transmission and whose origins may never be conclusively determined, the Drosten rRT-PCR protocol is fraudulent and has been acknowledged as meaningless.
Whereas, Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize inventor of rRT-PCR, repeatedly stated the technology cannot diagnose viral infection and whereas, the CDC, many months ago, pronounced the rRT-PCR test to be incapable of diagnosing the alleged virus, labelled "SARS-CoV-2", use of the test should have been halted at the moment of pronouncement, not 31 December 2021, as "ordered" by the CDC. Continued use of the test, subsequent to the CDC's pronouncement, is medically unethical, if not criminal.
Whereas, all positive rRT-PCR test results, allegedly confirming "SARS-CoV-2" infections are, therefore, as scientifically fraudulent and meaningless as the test protocol, itself, all such records should be pronounced false, meaningless and without merit, relating to such findings as basis for anti-viral mandates.
Whereas, no government or health institution has isolated and purified the alleged "SARS-CoV-2" virus, without contamination of patient samples using genetic material extraneous to those samples (including but, not limited to, primate kidney (Vero) cells, foetal bovine serum and cancerous human liver tissue), any such isolation and purification must be deemed fraudulent, as the Drosten rRT-PCR protocol has been so acknowledged.
Whereas, in order to receive their "papers" "granting" freedoms and rights, the world's citizens are coerced and extorted into submission of mRNA and Viral Vector injections, which offer no benefit, no prophylactic against infection and no prohibition of transmission of any virus, "vaccine" passports serve no legitimate purpose, other than mass surveillance and authoritarian, dictatorial control of the lives of citizens.
Whereas, all "SARS-CoV-2" measures, imposed by Canadian governments' futile attempts to end the annual "flu season", renamed the "pandemic," are based in pseudo-science and outright fraud, such coercive, extortionist mandates, lacking legislative authority, must immediately be rescinded, thereby restoring rights guaranteed by Canada's Constitution Act, section 52(1) and the Charter of Rights of Freedoms, sections 2, 6, 7 and 15.
Should the preceding statements continue to be ignored by Canadian government officials, such officials must simply be deemed intellectually and morally unfit to serve the citizens of Canada and Yukon.
History does, indeed, repeat itself....
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drum on Feb 9, 2022 at 6:50 pm
What money is available to pay electric, propane, phone bills because the government closed down social and recreational programs for seniors? We still have to pay the bills.
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Juniper Jackson on Feb 9, 2022 at 3:26 pm
Hi "Thedude". Thanks for the reply. The truckers haven't given any medical advice? So not sure what you are referring to. The Convoy is asking for an end to mandates, but only to ensure everyone gets a choice. And that is the reason for the Convoy. Freedom of Choice. The Law says, a person can do what they like with their body. You can kill your body, you can abort a baby in your body, even mentally ill people don't have to take their meds. The Federal and Local government edicts have rescinded that. Your body belongs to the government, and if you don't take the jab, you will be punished big time. THAT is what the Convoy is about. YOUR freedom to choose.
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Hannah A on Feb 9, 2022 at 12:56 pm
When will the mask mandate be dropped for children?
"Other experts believe that the universal mask mandates are almost worthless. Among the reasons: Medical masks are designed for adults, not children, Michael Osterholm, a University of Minnesota epidemiologist, notes. Even masks designed for children slip off their faces. Children take off their masks to eat. Add in Omicron’s intense contagiousness, and the benefits of the current mandates may be tiny."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/briefing/mask-mandates-covid-new-jersey.html
Vaccines are widely available for those who want them. I am seriously worried about misinformation if we are telling Yukoners that their likelihood of severe outcomes from c19 depends on a 5 year old in a cloth mask rather than the vaccine.
The 5 year old doesn't need to learn phonics, right? As long as adults feel safe.
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Al on Feb 8, 2022 at 8:58 pm
@ProScience Greenie
Just so you clearly understand - there is no right, nor wrong side of history - there is just history. It has never been defined otherwise. It is what it is, unless of course you are wanting to rewrite it to fit your own narrative as some are trying to do in this country.
Your little speech is typical of the divisiveness that is percolating in Canada. Thanks to your supreme leader. If, as you say, your family fought for freedoms, as I, and a good number of others that comment here have, then you would understand what it really means. In that you are an admitted pacifist, you see the world through a lens that does not qualify you to make a comment of value that has any merit.
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The Dude Abides on Feb 8, 2022 at 8:17 pm
June
Do you take all you medical advice from truckers? Maybe that’s the source of all your ills you routinely describe on here.
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queries on Feb 8, 2022 at 5:25 pm
"Alberta Premier Ends Covid Vaccine Passport System – Effective Tonight at Midnight"
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/canada-alberta-premier-ends-covid-vaccine-passport-system-effective-tonight-midnight/
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Knobleman on Feb 8, 2022 at 4:31 pm
How many signatures would it take to force a election and take it from there. Isn't that what happened to the N.D.P. when they were forced into a election. Complain all you want but this is the simplest solution.
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queries on Feb 8, 2022 at 2:46 pm
Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize PCR inventor, repeatedly stated the technology is NOT a medical diagnostic; RT-PCR cannot diagnose any pathology.
The Drosten PCR protocol is proven fraud and was "cancelled" by the CDC, 31 December 2021, months after the CDC acknowledged PCR results as medically meaningless.
How does the Yukon medical establishment confirm cases of a virus, which has never been isolated and purified, using a fraudulent test?
"FOIs reveal that health/science institutions around the world (165 and counting!) have no record of SARS-COV-2 isolation/purification, anywhere, ever"
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/fois-reveal-that-health-science-institutions-around-the-world-have-no-record-of-sars-cov-2-isolation-purification/
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Groucho d'North on Feb 8, 2022 at 10:34 am
We are witnessing the inflammation of totalitarianism in our supposedly democratic governance, where leaders decree and we the citizens who pay for all of this are required to fall in step and DO AS YOU’RE TOLD, Don’t question the directions told to you, even if previous examples have been wrong and misguided.
Even if all the COVID restrictions were cancelled next week, Trudeau will not today yield to public protests currently underway as this would diminish his egotistical perception that he is the Supreme Dictator and his word is law, no matter what the cost.
I watched him speaking in the House the other evening (when he decided to finally show up), and his closing comment was about working to unify Canadians. Look out the window dummy, Canadians are unifying, but against the Liberal method of governing.
There are lessons here for Mr. Silver as well.
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ProScience Greenie on Feb 7, 2022 at 6:07 pm
The thing is bonanzajoe, real Canadian patriots do not associate themselves with white supremacists and western separatists like Tamara Lich and Pat King and others whom are the main organizers of the Ottawa Karen Konvoy. They are very open about their ideology and either you've missed it, ignore it on purpose or you support it.
Red Tories, Liberals and NDP, the real majority in this country, have rolled up their sleeves and taken out the fascist trash in the past and we will do it again if need be. My grandpa and other in my family did their part in the elimination of the Axis alliance and came back as pacifists and taught that to us, with the exception that if we saw swastikas being flown by those promoting fascist ideology we were to set aside pacifism and eliminate that threat. Don't be on the wrong side of history bonanzajoe.
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Bill on Feb 7, 2022 at 2:57 pm
@Witch
Ha, ha, ha...you must live in never, never land. It is folks with your thinking that permits our freedoms to be eroded - till we have none.
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bonanzajoe on Feb 7, 2022 at 10:48 am
The Witch on Feb 5: Time to get off you knees dude or dudess. If you don't know what freedom is, you just resigned yourself to tyranny and totalitarianism. Enjoy! And don't join the Patriots when they win.
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Apex Parasite on Feb 7, 2022 at 9:28 am
The funny thing is (maybe funny is the wrong word) with the exception of the masks, most people I know have stopped being worried or threatened by any of this and most view what has happened as an over the top reaction to something that didn't represent much of a threat to start with.
I mean what were the numbers? 99 percent ish survivability? Pretty good odds and obviously the stats get scary depending on the number of people in total get infected but I'm ok with those odds.
Kind of struck by the headline and the irony considering many many people I know have loosened the restrictions all on their own.
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Mr Facts on Feb 7, 2022 at 9:02 am
Hey yabbadabbadue, The only freedom that soldiers have fought for over the last 100 years has been for the bankers who print our money. That unfortunately is a 100% fact.
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YaddaYaddaDo on Feb 7, 2022 at 12:04 am
My with all the BS that is spouting the government should have contest for short stories.
I find it so interesting that all these naysayers hide under this publication to go on and on about nothing,
A bunch of fiction is what it is. You want freedom then put on a uniform and fight for it.
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Shout Out! on Feb 6, 2022 at 8:02 pm
I just want to give a shout out to all the businesses supporting freedom over tyranny. Thank you for advocating to remove all of the oppressive health restrictions and getting back to normal. I'm glad you are with the people and realize the virus is not a serious thing to be concerned out!
Please get out and support the following businesses who have come out opposing the government and restrictions in different but important ways: Dirty Northern, Miners Daughter, Big Bear Donair, Whiskey Jacks, Fountain Tire, Better Bodies gym, Midnight Sun Coffee, Porter Creek Billiards, Grey Management Services, North Star Agriculture, Mercer Contracting, Midnight Sun Drilling, Capital Helicopters and Horizon Helicopters sorry for all the others I probably missed. We see you guys! Keep up the fight against these public health measures!
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North_of_60 on Feb 5, 2022 at 10:40 pm
Government announces plans for new homeless shelters in Whitehorse and Watson Lake, to be called Hanley House.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/government-canada-announces-funding-covid-213000957.html
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Juniper Jackson on Feb 5, 2022 at 8:15 pm
My angry retort aside, there are many excellent, researched, informative, comments here that Sneaky Silver, White, and the cartels would you be wise to pay attention to. There are many people who don't go march, protest, but agree with the Truckers Convoy. Quebec's LeGault is meeting with the convoy reps and has rescinded the proposed tax on unvaccinated people.
My own thought is, we let the Liberals take an inch and institute emergency measures, and today they have taken a mile and have to be stopped. Because Handley was bad at math, he said, keep the safe 6+1, or the "Safe 7". He added a mask. Two years later the Liberals are using force, punishment, financial hardship, taking jobs, with Trudeau resorting to calling the people who do not agree with him " For a sitting prime minister to offensively label fellow Canadians as anti-science, "misogynists", and "racists" and then inferring that they shouldn't be tolerated is unacceptable. Such comments from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be offensive to all of us and deserving of an unequivocal apology."
Where are we going to draw our toe in the sand? This far, NO further. I respect everyone's right to make a choice. The Liberals don't.
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Salt on Feb 5, 2022 at 7:06 pm
The deadly nature of these vaccines is penetrating the media smokescreen. Life insurance providers and funeral home companies reporting a mortality increase of 30-40% in 2021. The US DoD epidemiological database whistleblower leak shows the same along with massive increases in cardiovascular/reproductive/neurological/cancer rates. This is a global disaster of epic proportions. Those responsible, what happens to them?
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At home in the Yukon on Feb 5, 2022 at 5:36 pm
I'm done with COVID!
I don't understand the angry anti-government vitriol that spews out of some. The government has done an excellent job of guiding us through this storm. But the storm is subsiding. Most of us are vaccinated, so are unlikely to get serious disease. Most of the rest have had COVID, so are naturally vaccinated. More variants might come, but with all of the immunity floating around, it won't likely cause a lot of serious illness. In any case, we may have to clamp down again sometime in the future. So what. Let's live between now and that possible future day.
I stand with all those who want COVID restrictions to end -- even if I disagree with some of their views.
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Jim Dandee on Feb 5, 2022 at 2:10 pm
Truth persuades it does not coerce. One of the main issues with institutional distrust in this country is they never admitted uncertainty. Many countries such as Denmark which have lifted sanctions have done better in pandemic cause there was trust and truth in government, institutions and media.
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You People! on Feb 5, 2022 at 2:09 pm
At Mike H - I like your message. The ability to feel something about the possibility of looking stupid requires an ability for reflective insight about one’s choices. Most politicians are spared the discomforts of dissonance through democratic alchemy: They believe they are expressing the will of the people. You hear this defence quite regularly. You hear things like majorities, mandates, visions, the public mood etc. These are self-serving platitudes of poor decision-making and the reason political accountability is difficult to accept and difficult to apply. These are the asinine and injurious precepts that the electorate accepts for the privilege of voting, to forget that they have willfully subjugated themselves to some slavish notion of freedom - A chance vote every so often…
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Jayne W @bonanzajoe on Feb 5, 2022 at 1:04 pm
Your again missing my point, which you fought for. (letting everyone have an opinion, and there is no right or wrong side) Thank you for your service. As a family member of many veterans(Korea, WWII, Afghanistan, Military Police, Cypress, Egypt to name just a few tours), I understand the freedoms that they fought for and for others, thank you for reminding me. (Oh and they are fully vax and follow mandates but that is their choice, as everyone has a choice. My point I am trying to make is tying up the main artery on our streets is not as effective as the gentleman standing in front of the Legislative Building during the week. The target audience for the protest is not even in town on the weekends as they live out of town. I prefer not to have the us VS them attitude but that is what is happening...to each his own and hopefully in the VERY NEAR we can all creep back into our normal lives.
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motive unclear on Feb 5, 2022 at 12:55 pm
Very impressed that the Star is allowing these comments. One of the very last venues for expressing an opinion not so very popular with a certain crowd of empty suits.
Believe i will subscribe and i encourage others to as well. This discussion forum deserves all of our support!
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You People! on Feb 5, 2022 at 11:55 am
Dear Witch - The struggle is not for freedom so much as it is for the notion of freedom. I agree with you on this point. As Tom Petty sings: Everyone has had to fight to be free but you don’t have to live like a refugee…
This is the implicit tension and source of dissonance for all of us at one time or another… For many, many, it is an ongoing dissonance - To abide by, to comply, negotiate with, or not. Freedom is something that needs constant vigilance. In order to maintain one’s freedoms to fullest extent possible one must be on guard against a “collected-will” that attaches with or against the maximization of one’s freedoms - That is freedom.
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motive unclear on Feb 5, 2022 at 11:44 am
I have not taken a cent of cerb and if someone offered me 750k for telling the people of the yukon, who have endured over 2 years of medical bullying on an unprecedented scale, "here, I know you have been suffering. Here, have 2 freedom crumbs" I would not do it. I would refuse on principle alone. Would you?
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Mike H on Feb 5, 2022 at 9:40 am
This government is only as strong as their illusion of force, they rule exclusively on fraud and force, once their fraud is exposed they can only rely on the use of force. They simply don't have the logistics to accomplish any of their goals using force, their actual ability to project any real violence is entirely fabricated and ineffective.
We must also understand that there is no such thing as "government" there are only individuals. If someone says it's just politics it's nothing personal, they are wrong, you need to make it personal. If some individual executes policies that harm you, or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. Get your message across and display for all to see that you are to be taken seriously. If a law is unjust, it is not only your right to disobey it but you are obligated to do so.
If the force of violence is being threatened against you, hiding away in fear does nothing but imprison you at no cost. Cowering in your home, allowing fear to create inaction before someone can "lock you up" then you are already doing somebodies else's work for them. If somebodies goal is to neutralize you, how is neutralizing yourself first a solution? If you conform to their desires out of fear of your lack of conformity being noticed, then I'm afraid that you are still conforming.
Evil may be found in anger, when one is angry more or less than right reason demands but if one is angry in accordance with right reason, than one's anger is deserving of praise. He who is not angry when he has reason to be fosters negligence, and incites not only the wicked but the good to do wrong. If you are not angry when there is cause then you are immoral. Anger looks to the good of justice, if you can live amid injustice without anger then you are both immoral and unjust. I'm afraid that the only way things can be restored here is through the terrible lessons of catastrophe. If we are truly living under a government which imprisons unjustly then the true place for a just man is in prison.
The opinions of those in favour of these totalitarian measures are based on quips and optically sound focus-grouped chants. "Get vaccinated and boosted", "It's safe and effective". They only care about what gives them social clout. They've never actually thought their beliefs through. They'd been told for their entire lives "these are the good guys, those are the bad guys" and find that to be good enough. It gives them social acceptance and a self perception of being on the "right side". Because of this, they don't even notice the totalitarian police state being constructed around them.
Ultimately they are terrified of being seen as stupid. Much of "trust the science" and the glorification of scientists isn't out of a love for science, but for the status of intelligence. Desperate for the crumbs of cerebral validation people glorify science and scientists, worshipping science, and treating people with academic credentials with such veneration because they themselves are utterly terrified of not being aligned with what's considered the smart group, instantly labelling all dissenting views as the out-group of uneducated idiots. An out-group which conveniently allows for them to righteously enact harm in the name of "public health".
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The Witch on Feb 5, 2022 at 8:10 am
Freedom?
Are you born free….? the moment you are born you are registered as a member of the collective empire.
In your childhood, you are in possession of your parents, the school system and social norms.
You get your drivers license you follow the regulations, you work, you pay tax, your civic duty as member of society, you comply with the rules.
You may think your free at this point, then you may marry your self into modern slavery. Bound by relationships, tied to your lovers wishes.
You are bound by social norms, religious norms, cultural norms, you disobey there is a consequence….there is a price to pay for everything.
Your circle of friends… you are bound by their norms, if you change- they abandon you. You think differently, they find new ones like themselves.
Please tell me where you were in the belief before the pandemic, that you were indeed free?
We have been servants of the empire since antiquity. We are earth bound our soul and our bodies are entangled with everything on this earth.
The days of humanity running wild as Neanderthals, are gone. Even Neanderthals had their social norms, acceptable behaviours within the group.
Society is bigger than any one of us. The idealism of freedom is none existent. The Freedom you speak of was lost long, long ago.
Freedom is only in your thoughts.
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Hannah A on Feb 5, 2022 at 7:17 am
We were warned about the hospitals being overwhelmed in 2016:
https://www.yukon-news.com/news/whitehorse-general-hospital-is-in-crisis/
Make masking optional for children. Masking in schools will soon become a case study for public health failure.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tear-down-these-masks-11644019001?st=2zv6upikp9kfe5f&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/1075842341/growing-calls-to-take-masks-off-children-in-school
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/kids-masks-schools-weak-science/621133/
This from 2019:
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-28/protecting-kids-wildfire-smoke-masks-precautions
" While certified “N95” or “P100” masks can filter smoke and ash particles and improve air quality for adults, they are not designed for children.
So what should you do? First, do not buy an adult-sized mask in the hope that it may protect your child. They do not fit properly and can impede breathing,” according to the California Department of Public Health.
Some masks do come in smaller sizes, but they will probably be too large to form a tight enough seal around a small child’s nose and mouth to ensure protection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health does not certify any childrens’ respirator masks."
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Vern Schlimbesser on Feb 5, 2022 at 5:49 am
I forgot to include;
-Prolong the emergency by publicizing and exaggerate every new variant.
-Condone and reward the loyal and obedient co-conspirators
-there will be more...
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Vern Schlimbesser on Feb 5, 2022 at 5:39 am
It is slowing and will end, as I think we knew would happen. What is more scary than COVID now is what the politicians, who we now recognize have called the shots all along, do next. Trudeau and Silver seem to share a super-ego, and they won't admit any mistake. Their long term agenda is now too exposed I think. So, expect;
1/ Scape-goats like Truckers in Ottawa, the un-vaxxed (ignorant) minority,
2/Re-writing history using tax money and media controlled outlets like CBC
3/Justification and issue manipulation through media releases
4/More 'doubling-down' as they recognize their vulnerability
5/Use of "passports" and technology like phone apps to facilitate tracking and population management.
There will be no justifications or apologies because that would require them to admit their mistakes. All these and more?
I also predict that the Canadian public, as with most people in the world, will be so eager to recover mentally and economically we will be willing to let them walk on this. I hope not. History is full of examples where such abuse is conditioning for a next phase.
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iBrian on Feb 5, 2022 at 4:13 am
I am one of the 90% vaccinated. Except it wasn’t voluntary. It was forced. I was forced to choose to provide for my family or not have employment.
I had already had covid in 2020. I have been in contact with 7 confirmed cases. Yet have not contracted Covid again.
5 of those times was before I was vaccinated.
I wish I could have had a choice.
Where I work we have covid cases everyday. We’re locked down, stuck eating alone in our rooms at night. No socializing. What was the point in getting vaccinated to be treated like a criminal?
End this crap now.
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Dean on Feb 5, 2022 at 3:04 am
The hatred, discrimination, division. The breakdown of the social structure, the family unit, friendships, marriages. The economic destruction, destroyed businesses, lost jobs, shattered livelihoods. The emotional and mental turmoil, elevated suicide rates, compounded stress, anxiety, isolation, and fear. The detrimental effects suffered by untold numbers of lives from experimental medicine; a product so "safe and effective" that everyone had to be bribed, coerced, threatened, mocked, ridiculed, bullied, and mandated into taking it.
The terrible weight of impacts on children...on a scale that cannot even be measured. This short description is not exhaustive...not by a long shot. An exhaustive list would have to listen to the story of every single individual who has had their lives torn to shreds. This list, however, is one that gives a short summary of the great success that the forces of evil have been able to achieve in a very short time. As many of the other commenters on here have written, none of this will be forgotten. Ever.
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Joe on Feb 4, 2022 at 6:01 pm
End the vaccine passport. It should have never been implemented. Wear a mask if you want, get a jab if you want, stay home if u want, I'm good with none of them, although I did find some comfort at times wearing a mask around snifffly gross people who should obviously been at home. End the vaccine passport.
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Admiral Ass on Feb 4, 2022 at 5:19 pm
Holy crap, check out the ProScience Bolshevik over there goin off. Funny how he spreads the very hate and anger he so abhorrently pretends to despise. I mean how much MSM do you have to watch and read to actually wish harm upon and group everyone with a different opinion into one big backet of people. Modern public school and government funded higher learning in spectacle right there people. Really I have nothing against normal commies, I mean they can have their beliefs and I don't have to follow or care. Hate spreading, fear mongering, intolerant Bolsheviks however, absolutely need to be pointed out and called out. Go back to your cave sir its going to be all over soon enough.
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bonanzajoe on Feb 4, 2022 at 4:14 pm
Jane, maybe you don't like freedom. Many do, especially me, who served for several years to protect them - yes yours too. Now as for these protestors every Saturday at Shipyard's Park as well as that lone man in front of the legislature almost every day, freezing in the cold, they are brave patriotic "boots on the ground" civilian soldiers, who are doing their duty to bring - yes, that's what I said, "bring" - freedoms back to Canada from the Marxist Liberals. Who by the way, I and millions of other Canadians served to keep out. When we get our freedoms back, I hope you have the decency to thank them.
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motive unclear on Feb 4, 2022 at 2:49 pm
I'm putting this latest pronouncement from our medical overlords down to oxygen deprivation..
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North_of_60 on Feb 4, 2022 at 2:47 pm
We don't need the government to tell us the Plandemic is over.
It's over when WE say it's over.
Halloween was three months ago. Stop wearing masks.
https://youtu.be/Jc_mn8BLDTU
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just taking up space on Feb 4, 2022 at 2:25 pm
"Among Western countries, Italy has been one of those experiencing the most systematic denial of basic civil rights over the past two years. Coalition governments led first by Giuseppe Conte and then by Mario Draghi have empowered an unelected committee of “experts” called the Comitato Tecnico Scientifico, which has in turn empowered the governments by assigning a scientific aura to every decree, every action, and every word coming from the executive. This has resulted in an endless series of lockdown measures that for long periods have erased freedom of movement, the right to work, property rights over businesses and shops, freedom to assemble, freedom to worship, and even the distinction of jurisdictional spheres between church and political authority (with state bureaucrats closing churches and then handing out petty instructions on what rites could be carried out, how liturgies should be curtailed, and how many people if any could be present at masses and funerals). In the meantime, the legislative branch has been humbled, and government by urgent decrees from the executive has become the norm. The very constitutional structure of the country has been bent, and a new concept called “stato di emergenza” (state of emergency) has been invented out of thin air, even though it is nowhere to be found in Italy’s republican constitution.
If we were not living in the age of CNN, fake news, and outrageous subsidies handed out by politicians to newspapers and the media, one could legitimately wonder where the journalists were while all this was going on? In fact, journalists in Italy are among the main culprits of the current dystopian reality, since they have given platforms to “experts” who agreed with lockdowns and other measures that expanded government control over all aspects of life, while at the same time they ferociously mocked and ostracized doctors and scientists who dared to question the logic of outdoor mask mandates and curfews for restaurants. Anybody who dared to point out the disastrous consequences of a prolonged lockdown on mental health and on people suffering from other pathologies, or the link between the economy and public health, was accused of being a “covid denier.” This is a pattern that surely readers recognize, as they have seen it in the US and many other countries over the past two years. The fact that virtually every opinion labelled by the media as “conspiracy theory” has turned out to be true just three or four months later has done nothing to shake the arrogance of the corrupt mass media, who are entrenched in their monopoly over the news cycle, thanks to their access to state funding and political favors."
Sound familiar?
https://mises.org/wire/italys-covid-despotism-just-got-worse
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G on Feb 4, 2022 at 2:06 pm
Languishing? Three more months? What community do our politicians live in..? We are confused and lonely, many are struggling. Three more months seems unbearable.
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DMZ on Feb 4, 2022 at 12:30 pm
Is that sarcasm in the opening paragraph?
Brendan Hanley actually said something very wise in an interview with Dave White. He said they made a mistake at the start not assuring people that the vaccine mandates and suspension of rights was temporary. I'm paraphrasing, because it was last week, but I totally agree with that.
About 75 percent of my anxiety comes from officials not saying anything like that and just letting people project into a future where things are worse, not better, with fears for "public health" some kind of catch-all. John Streiker implied today that they'd been assured there were no human rights involved re the policy for vaccine mandates for government employees. He's going in the wrong direction.
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Fringe Minority with Unacceptable Views on Feb 4, 2022 at 12:00 pm
It saddens me that many still trust the garbage the MSM is spewing out but to each their own (that is literally what the freedom convoy is standing up for, everyone's right to choose what they feel is best for them). If you choose to remain scared and want to keep living life as you are now, you are more than welcome to do so. No one is going to snatch off your mask or force you to go back to normal. However, the rest of us ask that you give us the same ability to choose what we feel is best for ourselves. If we continue to tow the government line and comply, we are going to continue down a dark path all in the name of the "greater good". Mob mentality is dangerous, no matter how good intentioned it is. Let's stop being so divided and learn to be real Canadians again.
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Jayne W on Feb 4, 2022 at 11:51 am
@ Rick, I am confused about the car parade on Saturdays. It is not disrupting the legislative assembly. Most of our MLA's do not even live in Whitehorse on week ends. So do you know what the target audience is? I think the gentleman that stands outside of the assembly daily with his signs has more of an impact. The honking and slowing down roads is more of an annoyance and the message impact is lost. But I do agree with everyone's right to peaceful protest. This hopefully will all be over soon.
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Adam Morrison on Feb 4, 2022 at 11:46 am
I went to the grocery store yesterday, I realized I had forgotten my mask...I have worn it wherever asked to, when in public from the start of the pandemic. Not because I think its mitigating much of the dispersion of particles escaping from my mucas membranes,because it's not, but to avoid a hassel from anyone. I figured that I just need to run in for a second, grab something really quick and be outta there, so I did. First time in two years, I ran into the grocery store without a mask....within 30 seconds I had some virtuous woman yelling "shame on you" from across the produce section. I couldn't believe it, she ruined my day. I'm not sick, She's not sick, I was on the other side of the produce section; soooo many caribou worth of distance between us (science;). What has happened to society?? Complying with this nonsense has turned people into monsters, all I could do was smile and tell her to have a nice day. I can only imagine how much worse her reaction would have been if I told her I was unvaccinated.
My covid reality has progressed like so....fired from my job, socially shamed by friends, family, and media, denied access to employment insurance, and most other available jobs/businesses, came damn close to being banned from grocery stores, guess I'll have to settle for being screamed at by strangers when I shop for food.
All you Virtuous mask wearers and "science" believers have become angry monsters brainwashed to attack me for what? Deciding for myself what gets injected into my body? For quietly minding my own business while I shop for food? I hope one day all you people who think putting that mask on and getting a shot gives you the right to act this way towards strangers are forced into a medical treatment u do not wish to have, which is what you are setting the stage for with your blind compliance, then maybe u will see the light.
I'll finish in saying any business that has required papers, ID, or some kind of human barcode to enter your establishment is on the wrong side of history and should be ashamed. I take note of all your places of business and when this is over I will be posting your businesses online for years to come, to remind people why they should not patronize youR stores, and none of you will ever get another penny of my money. I urge everyone to hold these businesses accountable and choose to not support them.
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ProScience Greenie on Feb 4, 2022 at 11:44 am
Sad that the Karen Convoy in Ottawa was organized by and is being run by white supremacists, neo-fascists and western separatists with significant funding by US far-right dark money. While the Karen Convoy consists of many with good intentions, that they are fueled by misinformation and are led by and associating with such deplorable unpatriotic anti-Canadian people and do nothing about it is unforgivable. Definitively not patriotic and not what our elders gave their lives for fighting fascists in the last world war. Go back home truckers, regroup and give those filthy neo-nazis, separatists and fascists the boot (literally). Then the majority of Canadians will take your concerns seriously. And turn off the Fox News!
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So Fed Up ! on Feb 4, 2022 at 11:23 am
Can someone find a way to send these comments to the Legislature ! I don't think our local politicians read them.....but they should ! It may seem like a small group of people, but more and more are joining in, and I believe it is because "we the people" CARE ! Why doesn't the government care what "we the people" care about ? Once again....."we" elected you to govern......not dictate !
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Rick S on Feb 4, 2022 at 10:35 am
@ Jayne - I don't organize any of these protests. I only started showing up a couple weeks ago. I haven't seen anything disruptive myself, other than some slow traffic. I would fully support disrupting the legislature by filling the roundabout with honking trucks and warm bodies, as long as they stayed off 2nd Ave.
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John on Feb 4, 2022 at 10:07 am
"He (Silver) said he’s been hearing the term “languishing” used many times lately."
Wow, we aren't even in the same Galaxy if that is all you are hearing. Actually I have heard much stronger sentiments (which if I attempted to list, the Star would edit out) that make languish pale in comparison. To put it as succinctly as possible LIFT ALL THE BLOODY RESTRICTIONS RIGHT NOW ! We are fed up, we don't trust you nor the medical community. Quite frankly a lot us think you are full of crap. You lost our trust a long ago - after being fed one lie on top of another.
With regards to Elliott. Considering she is making 750k a year I doubt she would quit, which means she is either ghosting or been canned. Which is it Mr Premier.
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Sheepchaser on Feb 4, 2022 at 7:58 am
Keep on keeping on, Doc. As to the protests, this weekend showed that when it comes to the anti-vaxxers no one cares about their moronic fever dream of a position on the issue beyond that we’re all a bit inconvenienced by the tantrum.
No other protest at our nation’s capital in recent memory has included drinking, dancing and urinating on the Tomb Unknown Soldier. Having placed a poppy on that hallowed ground myself, having lost friends in Canada’s modern conflicts, having served and having taken the jab in part for the protection of all my fellow Canadians, I am done listening to the unhinged fringe.
They have every right to protest and we have every right to ignore it.
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Konrad on Feb 4, 2022 at 7:14 am
"What's necessary is your freedom. What's necessary is getting your life back to normal, and it's time." And maybe time to ask good questions, "reporters"...
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Vlad on Feb 3, 2022 at 8:29 pm
Day late and many dollars short.
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Hannah A on Feb 3, 2022 at 7:31 pm
This is not a "loosening of restrictions".
Are we allowed to have funerals?
Are we allowed to have weddings?
"Important for mental health"...
Can unvaccinated children participate in these recreational activities?
Can 5 year olds experience what kindergarten is like without wearing a mask?
Can the unvaccinated get a haircut or attend a faith based or cultural gathering?
Were the nurses at the beginning of the pandemic lying when they discussed the distress of wearing n95s all day? If not - why would we subject our children to this?
We are the outliers here. Most of the world does not mask their children. Even New Zealand doesn't mask under 12.
Here's a great, balanced example from Norway's Public Health. Voluntary and informed consent:
"A vaccine will be offered to children aged 5–11 if so requested by their parents or guardians. This vaccination is provided on a voluntary basis, and there is no general recommendation to vaccinate all children in this age group. ‘Children rarely become seriously ill, and knowledge is still limited about rare side effects or side effects that may arise at a distant time. There is little individual benefit for most children, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health has not recommended that all children aged 5–11 be vaccinated. However, it has agreed that all parents and guardians may be offered a vaccine for their children; this will be most relevant to only a few groups of children."
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/vaccination-of-children-and-adolescents-against-covid-19/id2895513/
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So Fed UP on Feb 3, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Unbelievable right ! State of Emergency until MAY ! Still government employees on leave without pay.....and many of them suffering ! Does this government not see what's going on in other parts of the world ?? Less restrictions in many cities ten times the size of Whitehorse ! I believe the majority of Yukon would like to take off their masks and go about their business ! I for one am about to do that !
I'm done with this governments dictatorship !
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Marie on Feb 3, 2022 at 7:24 pm
I'd really feel more excited if they just tossed out the mandates and the passports. Now THAT would be exciting. Follow the science folks, https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o102
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Guncache on Feb 3, 2022 at 6:16 pm
How many CMO's have we had? I guess when Sandy finds out they aren't Liberal, he gets rid of them.
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McChicken on Feb 3, 2022 at 5:46 pm
End it. 2 years of lies.
We were told get Vax'd won't contract Covid.. Then oh it won't prevent you from getting it. Well just more lies.
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Josie on Feb 3, 2022 at 5:10 pm
More "covid deaths." We know Hanley and Silver have been lying about covid deaths. You guys think we don't know a handful of these people? They did NOT die of Covid.
If you guys are going to be taking our jobs away from us you have GOT to be A LOT more transparent about these "deaths".
We are now very suspicious on why all the scare tactics? Why the gaslighting? Why are the hero's of yesterday the villains today?
Silver, Hanley, Elliot and Corriveau will definitely be in our history books but I would not want to share that stage with them.
These are Crimes against Humanity right here in the Yukon. The last time innocent people were experimented on Drs and Politicians were hung.
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Sunny on Feb 3, 2022 at 5:08 pm
Dear Government: In a democracy we govern. In a dictatorship we mandate and run without parliament via constant State of Emergency. Once actual politics resume in this territory, the very first thing that needs addressing is the State of Emergency. If it should exist at all, a 2/3 majority of the entire Legislative Assembly should have to pass it with absolutely no way of extending it beyond 2 weeks.
A State of Emergency is essentially a dictatorship to facility fast and needed action. Right now it is being misused for mandating ridiculous rules to free citizens that squash every fiber of a living, breathing network of people resulting in unprecedented health deterioration, suicides, drug overuse, obesity, mental health problems, destruction of our children's lives, of businesses, etc. The costs are way and beyond any illness and death of Covid.
Countries with cities of millions have just or are in the process of suspending ALL Covid measures: Denmark, UK, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway as well as States in the US.
The Supreme Court of Austria has requested solid, scientific facts on hospitalizations, ICU beds, lockdowns, spread, covid passes and so on by Feb 15 of the Austrian government. That government is going down and I do hope so are the Yukon and the Canadian government. Undoing the Charter of Rights of Freedoms for two years when Covid's yearly survival rate for Canada is 99.95% (you divide 15 500 Covid deaths by 38 million for the year 2020) is a lie, a scam, a falsehood, an act of war against citizens.
Those of you who are cowering at home still believing this government are to be pitied and would do well to remember that governments have never been truthful, have never served their people and have started every single war in the history of humanity. People don't start wars but governments do.
I apologize for being incensed but there comes a point when patience is done. And for whoever wants to get back to me with their Health Canada and government 'facts' their 'following the science' and their 'fact checkers' I have one question: Have the measures worked? Because if they haven't, the obvious way for smart people is to change course instead of letting the ship beat against the rocks, smashing it apart.
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Josey Wales on Feb 3, 2022 at 4:51 pm
Hey those absolute globalists wearing red (including the turncoats) brought these measures in very very quickly!
The unlawful ORDERS from PM Blackface, the SS and the Reich of medicrats should go as quick as they came!
Absolutely so full of powerlust these political blowholes are, they will clutch our subjugation in their greedy talons till we break free ourselves.
The rest of you brain dead Kool Aid chugging fools see this yet?
No, then ya never will.
Keep the heat on all these idiots, elected, appointed or just blind admiration. Time for those idiots to isolate themselves from society as the heat will be too too much.
Team blue has lost their mind years back, act more like liberals of the 1970’s ....nah done with all of them.
Polarized? Truck yeah, more than ever...look forward to fireside chats.
My guess is a liberal will not be able to be anywhere near me and my “unacceptable views” as per our Cuck in Chief alleged correct views.
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covidbc on Feb 3, 2022 at 4:39 pm
Two years to late.
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J2 on Feb 3, 2022 at 4:38 pm
If I am downtown this weekend, it will be to get some food.
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Anonymous on Feb 3, 2022 at 4:24 pm
Something very funky is going on relating to vaccinations, hospital protocols regarding respiratory diseases and basic principles of disease control, something extremely coordinated and not "doctor-lead", this is entirely coming down to us and we don't have a choice in the matter, these decisions are made at the administrative level and forced on all of us.
The biggest red flag is the change in narrative related to vaccination induced mutation, basically the ability of viruses to evolve when in contact with ever changing antibodies, it's a recognized and fairly logical risk that was completely uncontroversial up to 2 years ago, bringing up this matter now is an immediate risk as the "consensus" now is that it's GOOD for the virus to mutate, for some reason that changes every 2 days
100% vaccination in the population has never been a feasible nor reasonable nor effective means of preventing disease, yet right now this is ignored (it's the crux of the matter), and I think I know why.
I've seen too many unreasonable decisions taken and too many changes in protocol that make a mockery of my field, as such I've gotten extremely cynical on this whole matter, so let me state this clearly:
I genuinely believe that a group of people working in the highest institutions of medicine and the richest pharmaceutical companies are DELIBERATELY trying to prolong covid as much as possible, destroying everyone and everything in their path to achieve this, for money. They basically want to buy new houses and yachts (that's literally it) and have found an exceptional way to do so, while at the same time patting themselves on the back that they're "saving humanity" so they must deserve these riches, that's what they tell themselves so they can sleep peacefully, they think they are great businessmen/philanthropists. They are deliberately trying to make covid mutate, they KEEP running experiments on it trying to force a mutation (for research) and I periodically see articles of these animal test subjects suffering "incidents" where they are freed/lost and a risk arises of further mutation, sooner or later this is going to actually happen. These experiments keep going on all the time and not just on covid, gain of function research is EVERYWHERE and nobody seems to have the courage to say "why are we doing this?", you're told this is the frontier of science and doubting it makes you a target for sticking your nose in a trillion dollar industry and ruin their little scheme. Most politicians from most countries in the world have open ties to this industry, and the arrangements and contracts between governments and vaccine manufacturers are public, they don't even need to hide.
We had been waiting for a pandemic to come, we were ready and able to contain and resolve it, but AS SOON as covid came all power was removed from the hands of physicians and entirely placed into those of management, they set the new standards and forced everybody to comply, the result is that right now the medical profession is being "purged", look at how many medical licenses were removed in the last 2 years, what's going on is terrifying and disgusting. Just know that most doctors are simply scared to death of even using their brain, they follow protocol and don't question anything. Among those who think, 99% keep it private. The 1% who speaks out are silently removed and their contribution erased, making their sacrifice pointless.
Basically a host of things that happened in the last 2 years don't make any sense as far disease containment and "normal" medical procedures go, this is not a secret and is not controversial, indeed right now many of the standards and protocols valid up to 2020 are being entirely rewritten, and to say that not everyone is on board is an understatement.
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bonanzajoe on Feb 3, 2022 at 4:09 pm
Now, how about getting rid of these filthy rags over our mouths. Face masks are germ breeders. I have seen paper masks on some people that I'm sure haven't changed them in weeks. And how often do people wash the cloth ones? Children need to breath, so shouldn't be forced to wear them all day or at all. They need oxygen to grow healthy. Now these people are trained doctors. They should know the dangers of wearing these masks all day. Especially children and people with pulmonary problems. So, why are they promoting them. Time to take them off and breath fresh clean air for our health.
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Anonymous on Feb 3, 2022 at 4:05 pm
"two more deaths have been attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic that’s still hitting hard."
That means the vaccine is working.
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bonanzajoe on Feb 3, 2022 at 4:00 pm
Premier Silver says, “We’re really concerned about youth having opportunities,” Undoubtedly, he has heard of the success of the Truckers national freedom protest.
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Alberta Bourla, CEO of Phizer on Feb 3, 2022 at 3:50 pm
"The vaccines do not have the safety profile we had hoped"
"MRNA is gene editing. We are editing genes to make humans better"
-January 10th, 2022
link to transcript of the interview
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/10/first-on-cnbc-cnbc-transcript-pfizer-chairman-and-ceo-albert-bourla-speaks-with-cnbcs-squawk-box-today.html
archive of transcript (for when cnbc takes it down):
https://archive.is/vSX5g
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Jayne W on Feb 3, 2022 at 3:36 pm
@Rick, I think this Saturday to the folks drive around in your circles, you need to rethink the strategy of what streets you are doing your honking on. All I thought about last Saturday was how can emergency vehicles get where they need to fast with all this going on the main arteries of town. Or is this Saturday just a stand in park kind of thing.
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Swan on Feb 3, 2022 at 3:32 pm
End the vaccine passports and give people back their jobs. And then apologize for all the hate and division you've caused. Lots of the unvaccinated have recovered from covid and have natural immunity up to six times BETTER than the vaccines. Why are you still discriminating?
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Matthew on Feb 3, 2022 at 3:27 pm
Not sure how much longer this charade can go on for, plenty of main stream articles to pick and choose from. Ranging from entire countries dropping ALL covid related restrictions, from how lockdowns had next to ZERO effect, or simply that natural immunity was best after all..., so glad I didn't trust big pharma and got injected with a brand new unknown concoction! Phew!
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North_of_60 on Feb 3, 2022 at 3:02 pm
Mandates for universal C0vax are just an excuse to require a vax-pass and compulsory QR code on a smartphone to participate in society. The LIBgov wants a Chinese-style social credit system imposed on Canadians. This is what the Freedom Convoy movement wants to stop.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-explained
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Juniper Jackson on Feb 3, 2022 at 2:28 pm
Silver said the government felt it was important for mental health to allow the youth teams to resume as soon as possible.
“We’re really concerned about youth having opportunities,” Silver said.
Silver hinted there is some chance it might be cancelled before then, or not extended further. Bloody damned LIAR
“These are not normal circumstances,” he said. Yes. Your fault.. 100%
Get off your useless *** and put those people you have selected to punish, back to work, end all mandates. Start working for the people..
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Stefan on Feb 3, 2022 at 2:21 pm
You and your friends will be remembered.
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Dan on Feb 3, 2022 at 2:07 pm
2 years in and we have about the same number of deaths for all causes - reclassifying deaths as Covid Is fraudulently supporting the narrative which is meant to promote vaccinations; which everyone knows will lead to QR codes, credit scores and a surveillance society.
End all mandates now.
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DL on Feb 3, 2022 at 1:40 pm
To Sandy Silver and the CMO of the day (curious as to why exactly they're shuffled so often): your lack of providing details has once again tanked your credibility. Most people know by now that those who got the experimental covid jab have gotten sick anyway, and they do spread the virus.
Vax mandates are completely irrational.
You have a duty to provide relevant details to the public, and when you fail to do so most of us conclude that you are covering up the most important facts, to suit your agenda. When you fail to tell us whether or not the ones who died or hospitalized were vaxed, then we're left to conclude that indeed they WERE vaxed, and were old people with pre-existing conditions. And they were categorized as 'covid cases' only because they tested 'positive' by means of the UNreliable PCR test.
There is absolutely NO emergency. We know that by just looking at the reality around us.
END ALL MANDATES NOW!
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Covid deaths on Feb 3, 2022 at 1:38 pm
I am curious as to who is dying exactly? the GOV never says that, just how many have died. Is it young, healthy individuals that are dying directly because of covid? Or are the deaths more just untimely, the catalyst to the deaths of Immunocompromised and the elderly who would be in the hospital for a different reason and/or would perish from a common flu just the same.
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Rick S on Feb 3, 2022 at 1:33 pm
If you're not downtown this weekend you're on the wrong side of history.
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Jeff Bikaboom on Feb 3, 2022 at 1:32 pm
"there’s a government plan in place to tentatively loosen some of the health restrictions that have smothered recreational activities"
But will people find time to go back to their activities. They are very busy with the popular new recreational activity of driving around honking.
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Mr Facts on Feb 3, 2022 at 1:27 pm
Awww, thank you daddy government. Christmas came late this year.
News flash. Your illegal "emergency" powers you keep extending is hurting people and businesses. There are no words to describe my discontent with all the garbage we have had to deal with the last two years.
Oh no , 100 people out of 40k have the sniffles. SHUT IT ALL DOWN.
Newsflash #2. There was never an emergency in the first place and there isn't one now. You people disgust me.