We’re publishing a new postcard today, our first in a while. This one is a postcard from Toronto, which has been in lockdown in one form or another since last November. The Ontario Premier Doug Ford hit the “emergency brake” in April, ramping up restrictions, and it hasn’t been released yet. Our correspondent, Catherine Brennan, is more than a little fed up. In the following extract, she writes about attending her first anti-lockdown protest a couple of weeks ago:
I have to admit, I felt somewhat nervous about going to the rally. Would I be arrested? What would these protesters be like? An unruly mob, frothing at the mouth with questionable personal hygiene? One left-leaning politician (and in Canada we’re all rather left-leaning – so this guy is practically falling over), warned that these rallies were full of white supremacists. While I am white, and no amount of self-tan can disguise my Irish legs, I struggled to find anyone to fit that description so cruelly slurred by the noticeably absent MP. How did he know who attended when he himself wasn’t there? So I asked my friend, she of Russian-Jewish parents who fled the pogroms living in barns for two years – was she secretly a white supremacist? I asked the lovely black couple who, very sensibly, set up lawn chairs to enjoy the convivial atmosphere. Why are you here, I asked. They answered, like so many other people I spoke with, that they were worried for their kids, whose lives have been on hold. They too had called their local politicians only to hear canned responses. Like me, they wondered whether a better balance might be struck between absolute risk and relative risk. They were disturbed by the political deafness on how lockdowns have affected kids’ welfare. These were not anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers or any other of the ad hominem name-calling around dissent these days. They were there to show support in a time of great isolation.
Worth reading in full.
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Various work colleagues and (now ex-) friends variously compared me to Hitler, called me a conspiracy theorist, a eugenicist (that’s ironic) and someone who doesn’t care about other people.
The censorship, ‘fact’ checking, silencing and in essence defamation of genuine experts in a particular field does indeed require a great deal more scrutiny than we have seen thus far.
However, this was not a matter of big tech ‘adjudicating’ complex scientific debate. It was a matter of big tech removing any fact or argument that could be used to point out government overreach and unlawful control as well as breach of fundamental rights. Above all, it was a matter of big tech removing any content that might harm the bottom line and amazing profitability of corona ‘measures’ for big business, ranging from multinational companies being allowed/enabled to operate to the detriment of SMEs, to PPE profits made by buddies of government officials to, obviously, big pharma raking in eye-watering profits not only for the vaxxes, but also for other useless drugs such as remdesivir and pfaxlovid, not to mention the huge profits they will be making on the drugs needed to try to fix the illnesses and poor health caused by the vaxxes, starting with blood regulating and heart medications.
Big Tech, Big Business and Big Government worked together to make Big Profits. They are now moving on to Big War and Big Climate to continue doing the same.
Excellent article about the realities of censorship at a personal level, and the inherently tyrannical nature of the whole Covid agenda.
I particularly liked
‘Somehow Big Tech firms felt they were in position to adjudicate complex scientific debates. This would be like two scientists having an argument at speaker’s corner in Hyde Park, but the groundskeeper keeps blasting an airhorn every time one of the speaks.’
Sums up the ludicrous (but also highly dangerous) nature of this sort of interference in the free speech of highly qualified individuals.
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It’s fascinating how “name calling, fact checking and censorship” are only needed to support lies and propaganda
I am suffering from FOMO. Despite being a sceptic , or at best an agnostic, most of my messages, blogs, letters, emails and tweets have vanished into a black hole. How nice it would have been to find that someone somewhere had attacked me! At least I would not have been under the radar. And I too have been mostly right.
It’s worth reading “The Real Anthony Fauci” to get an understanding of how Fauci has driven the corruption of medical research and the vilification and cancellation of dissenting scientists. Various commentators, including Robert Malone recently interviewed with JJ Couey and others by RFKJr on CHD website discuss the deep state bioweapons angle. The behaviour of Big Tech platforms is nowhere near the root of the problem.